Ever since I started working with toasters I have been thinking a lot about toast. Following on from my washing machine obsession I had been keen to continue exploring the material and metaphorical opportunities represented in the transformative functions of everyday devices. The opportunity subsequently presented to me in the form of a toasting oven [...]

I’ve been busy developing on the phone idea in the last month. It has shifted somewhat and I’m currently putting together a number of fast food prototypes for a book called ‘Fast Phones’. I’m sheltering them from the limelight until I get them just right but here are some pictures of ideas that didn’t quite [...]

I have been expanding on the edible phone work that was initially exhibited as part of Alchemy for a Global Economy. Seeing as we consume electronics at such a rapid pace in the developed world, my suggestion for a solution to e-waste and the global food crisis is that we make them edible. Toasted Cheese [...]

A long month of sorting has come to an end (well that’s if you don’t count the digital mess that awaits attention on all five of my hard drives). Everything has been given away, thrown away, sold, left, or boxed neatly in storage and I have temporarily relocated to the other side of the country. [...]

I finally got a chance to return to my urea distillation project this morning. I have had the halfway product, a crystalline mass of evaporated urine, sitting in my fridge for over a month now… The next step: “Pour at different times upon this mass four times its weight of alcohol, and apply a gentle [...]

I have been flat out these last few weeks working on a big collaborative performance installation project that took place on Sunday. (More details soon). Coming down on the other side both my house and my office look like they have been hit by a bomb and I feel like I have just participated in [...]

I am currently reading Milan Kundera’s ‘The Art of the Novel’. For a book first published before the end of the Cold War, in 1986, it is disturbingly prescient. In Part Two Kundera discusses the changing nature of the novel’s engagement with “the enigma of the self”. Early novelists were concerned with actions because “It [...]

Hmmm its not turning out like it should. The instructions say: “Evaporate by a gentle heat a quantity of human urine, voided six or eight hours after a meal, till it is reduced to the consistence of a thick syrup. In this state, when put to cool, it concretes into a crystalline mass.” Maybe I [...]

It is such a beautiful morning I just have to share. The city is dense with fog and everything is muted and still like the day has been packed in cotton wool. Webcam shot of Melbourne city at 11am – you can only just make out the CBD towers. I spent the early morning boiling [...]