Solar & battery / Real readings
A little sunshine, saved.
A day in every ray. Explore the electricity we use at home, what we share with the grid, and the footprint it leaves.
Illustrated preview · real readings inside
Follow the energyExperiments
Thinking through making
Some ideas only make sense once you can play with them. This is where I follow those ideas, build something, and see what happens.
Come and try a few things.
19 experiments · Everything
Physical → digital / A live experimentChecking the lamp…
The workbench lamp.
A press on my LaMetric desk device switches this lamp on or off for everyone watching. Keep this page open: when I press it, the light changes here too.
Connecting live updates…
One shared state, carried from a physical button to your browser by Laravel Pennant, Valkey and Reverb. No refresh and no polling.
A journey with Storyus
Hillfort to Hillfort.
From Blewburton to Wittenham Clumps. Follow a walk through photographs gathered in Storyus, with a map that moves as you read.
Walk the story
Photo365 / 2013 / With Storyus
The everyday, seen again.
A photograph is a reason to pause. To notice the light, the familiar, and the small things that might otherwise pass us by.
Look a little closerPanorama with Storyus
Pano above our Italian cottage
Surrounded by the vineyards near Nieve
Look aroundConnections / 2006–2026
People leave patterns.
Explore the shape of twenty years of connections.
4,358 connections
Explore my networkAround the table
Stay a little longer.
Questions for travel, gratitude, imagination—and each other.
Family conversation questionsPlaces / Family memories
Places we carry with us.
A few journeys, a few photographs. Find the memories behind the pins.
Unfold the travel mapMotion / A small solar system
A little perspective.
Pause, speed up and spend a moment with our planetary neighbours.
Explore the orreryGenerative poetry
Thinking in three lines.
Give a haiku a starting point and see where it goes.
Try a thought
Saved artwork & sonnet
A different view of Earth.
An early experiment bringing together art, language and a view from space.
See the original workGeography & weather
What’s on the other side?
Meet the weather at your antipode. You might need a boat.
The other side of the worldAn archive of the everyday
Small posts. A longer story.
Photographs, conversations and things I was learning. Browse the years or follow a remembered word.
Explore my Twitter archiveAn AI introduction
Meet BenBot.
Ask about my public work, projects and ideas, and follow a thread that interests you.
Talk to BenBotObservation / Weather data
Weather, wherever.
A forecast for a place you care about. Look ahead to the next few hours and days.
Find a forecastPlaying with images
One turtle. Many possibilities.
Change the colours, lift away the background, or find an illustration inside a photograph.
Try an image transformation
Words + place
A thought from Oxford.
Pair a few words with a familiar skyline. Make a little image to keep.
Make an Oxford cardA note from somewhere
Wish you were here.
A walk by the sea, a handwritten thought, and a postcard of your own.
Make a postcard