The Shift-Time Blogging Project

Sue Tortoise has uploaded some photos of the Primordial Soup sculptures that will be on display along the river bank in Quarry Park next weekend. Here’s a slideshow:

Shropshire-based artist Martin Smith is in Holland meeting Theo Jansen prior to him coming to Shrewsbury to build Umerus next Thursday. He’s blogging his progress and experimenting with livblogging from from the beach. I’ve embedded the live blog below - scroll down for the most recent entries. If you have a question for Theo stick it in the box at the bottom!

Wren Miller, half of Wren and Ray, has been posting photos on her Facebook chronicling the development of The Remembrance Path, a participatory art exhibition in the Quarry Park that’ll be open over the weekend of the 4th and 5th.

She starts with the sketches:

Moves to their “workshop” in the Darwin Shopping Centre…

And finally the construction of the piece itself.

Most of the photos have detailed captions and following them through gives a great sense of what they’re trying to do here. Go check them out.

I was on the phone today to my new best buddy Dick Strawbridge of ‘Its’ Not Easy Being Green’ fame. He’s speaking in Shrewsbury on Sunday night as part of the Darwin Science & Adventure Lecture series. His talk is all about the Evolution of Engineering so I mentioned Quantum Leap, our own engineering miracle that’s taking shape on the banks of the River Severn opposite Shrewsbury Theatre Severn where his lecture is being staged. Check out the cage that’s been constructed to support the structure whilst it’s being built. It looks seriously industrial but the arch itself will be surprisingly elegant once it’s finished.

The design is inspiring but it’s also the kind of engineering challenge Dick would appreciate. There have been moments of serious head-scratching I can tell you but it’s coming together and I’m very excited.

Sam Moore’s Eyeful of Sound blog documents the development of her animated documentary about audio-visual synaesthesia which as well as promoting her work has helped her get in touch with synesthetes from around the world. It’s a nice example of talking about your work online can help develop the work itself.

She’s also involved in Shift-Life which will be on display in the Quarry Park over the weekend of July 4-5th and has shared one of the beasties on her blog:

Awwww…