I am going to start holding café gatherings in wireless locations so some workshop leaders can learn how to use Wordpress and find easy access to RSS feeds. One of them, our very own Simon King, the butterfly man Phil Harris, just sent me this for you.
‘I took some students to Loe Bar with Keith […]

Dates for the diary…
DATE: Sunday 14th June
TIME: 10.00am to 1.00pm
EVENT: theirwork: Butterfly Recording Day
DESCRIPTION: theirwork is a pilot community online mapping project based on Loe Pool. The project maps all types of data. The goal of this day is to see and record some butterflies, compare data to data recorded last year and to find […]

Thirty people eagerly arrived for theirwork’s Star Gazing night, which was led by Brian Sheen, Director of The Roseland Observatory.
Brian arranged for everyone to meet at 8.00pm so that there was a chance to see his Star Gazing tools whilst the night sky rose. It also gave us the opportunity to have tea and biscuits […]

I ran home from Helston on Friday, around the lake. I am trying to radically cut down on petrol. I left my car in for repairs and decided not to even take the bus back. Needless to say, I didn’t geo-code as I went, but I looked fast for what I knew and clasped onto […]

from geological time, laid bare at the crumbly cliffs on each side,
to the (modern time) myths as a succession of strangers come and go home,
and tell of unexpected and unforgettable encounters with the sublime.
rare bugs - crawl through - rare flora - beneath - rare trees
- but perhaps it is the Bar itself that is […]

Dr. Tony Stebbing, who helped me with very early research, described that “Cornwall is like the bow of a ship. This part of Britain is heading south due to climate change”. He and Sarah Myles of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust both said that this part of Britain was an important area for people to map […]

As a neogeographist, and perhaps some would say a pyschogeographist, next year I am going to present three projects that map elements of the physical and virtual world. Each project is linked not just by mapping but also by the fact that they ask indirectly for people to take action about the environment in which […]

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Steve and Mary, originally uploaded by theirwork.

Steve’s comin’ to blog here soon. He’s a great artist and dog lover. Here he is with Mary on our last butterfly walk - it was meant to be […]

Emmet and I are currently preparing our second article for publication. Pretty ace. Here’s part of the abstract -

theirwork is a living mapmaking project, which by its nature rejects a top-down system of classification, or taxonomy, and adopts instead a system of labelling, or what has been dubbed “folksonomy”. Working from a conscious standpoint, which […]

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grey gurnard, originally uploaded by theirwork.

The theirwork sea mapping adventure. More to come!