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UNEVEN Projects: words / images / objects Lens-based artist exploring the conflict between the industrial, social & natural worlds (b. 324.62 ppm). More: https://robmiller.org
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Feeling Hopper-ish today … #photography

Generative artificial so-called intelligence - otherwise known as plagiarism on a giant scale www.thetimes.com/uk/arts/arti...

As part of The Institute of Tourist Research : new (potential) project - travel guide to Stains & Slough: hidden sights and off the beaten track gems .... :)

“As every enterprise seeks efficiencies, the system loses its redundancy ... “

Deciphering an early-Renaissance painting ~ in this Annunciation by Petrus Christus (1445), the artist’s botanical precision enables us to identity of 12 varieties of plant, and their religious/social significance ~ see detailed key at R www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-o...

Tree: deconstructed (winter works, in progress … )

Out walking, a saturated day …

Today’s cinnamon buns …

When Jean-Paul Sartre Had a Bad Mescaline Trip and Then Hallucinated That He Was Being Followed by Crabs

Great to have a photograph in the Glasgow Gallery of Photography, “Stories” exhibition, capturing moments and emotions through the lens ... tinyurl.com/mrjvry4c

Fabulous exhibition of Letizia Battaglia’s work at the Photographers Gallery, London … such recent times ! #photographyexhibitions

As happened in the 1920s and 1950s, the UK is once again heading into a period of public debate about pylons being built through rural areas. The Science Museum has a great archive of those earlier public information campaigns collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/documents/aa...

Today’s sensor dust pic …

Over 100 years ago, this photograph of two painters on a hazy Dordogne riverbank was created by the Autochrome process ~ it produced dream-like, light-filled colour images without artificial colourising, & was the main colour process until the 1930s (Gervais-Courtellemont)

Outer hedge (with sensor dust) …

Early light before heavy cloud …

February’s job - cleaning out the bat attic! We have breeding Brown long-eared bats, and they return very early spring to breed. Usually there is a lot more droppings, so last year was not a good year from them :( #batconservation

What enormous damage the marketisation of universities has done, to staff, the debt-laden students, to the generation of knowledge. One more #Financialisation www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Reflecting on the lifeless expanse of the polo pitch, and the idea 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢 of ‘landscape’ - when even the clouds appear to conspire in this conceit (trying a bit too hard) ... #landscape

Utmost happiest / alone / walking / listening / absorbing …

Just received this book by Peter Szendy, pulished: @versobooks.bsky.social Highly recommend !! "So what then becomes of the shadow in this belated and outlandish rewrite of the Plinian scene of the potter and his daughter" (Szendy, 2025, p.22)

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Continuing with a bit of hard noir, early light cresting the tree line … #monochrome

Today’s winter works …

“Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.” - Emil Cioran

Season two …

Two early sunrises (time before work, time to go) …

Today’s winter works ….

"For all of our alarms, excursions and moral panics about artificial intelligence, we have devoted surprisingly little time to thinking about the possible personhood of the new entities this century will bring us." https://closertotruth.com/news/the-line-ai-and-the-future-of-personhood/

“There’s more water carried along the roads in lorries than is running in our streams,” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

We need to talk about plastic: five everyday items choking the planet

Another year, another year of being on the UWL screen saver :)

Modern life is make-believe …. a making made by others.

Up in town, in and around the Barbican (taken on my slowing aging iPhone 13 with a Reeflex telephoto lens)…

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #419,167!

Final series of images from this extraordinary event. Social democracy as performance theatre! #photography

“Statistics prior to Covid-19 indicated that there were more than three billion images circulating each day on social media. This is equal to hundreds of thousands of images during the time it took you to read this sentence.” Photographs in the Anthropocene: On the ecology of images Peter Szendy

From the Extinction Rebellion protest at Windsor Castle - an intense & passionate demonstration of democracy in action. #photography

From the #extinctionrebellion protest at Windsor castle - amazing three days of action, discussion and reaction!

From a recent trip to Deal in Kent - fabulous light against blues & sea greens #nephology