I created these social distance Christmas cards this year after realising the best thing for me to do was to stay at home for the holidays and keep a loving distance from my friends and family. To stay put in my Brooklyn apartment and forgo my annual UK Christmas visit.

I sold some physical and digital versions of these cards with all profits going to Mental Heath Charity: Made Of Millions.

In the wild: Finland.

2022 Hollywood Gold Awards | US | Honourable Mention

2021 Filmfest Bremen | DE

2021 Jelly Fest L.A. | USA | Finalist

2021 Flickfair | L.A. | USA

2021 Ouchy Awards Lausanne | CH

2020 New Media Festival | USA | Winner Best AI

2020 Night of Comedy Shorts | USA | Semi-Finalist

2020 London Worldwide Comedy Film Festival | UK | Honourable Mention

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Private viewing @ Screen On The Green Angel, Islington, London 2017

Premiered at Algoshorts 2018

Publicly released on Valentines Day, Feb 14th 2019

Screened at the 11th New Media Festival, LA 2021

We asked a machine “What is love?”

Written by an AI raised on Romanic Comedies, a couple embark on an awkward 2nd date after their first ended in disaster.

The film introduces us to ZenMan, an AI with dreams of becoming a screenwriter. In its writing debut, we meet an unnamed man and woman who are preparing for a dinner date in a quiet London restaurant. The date is an awkward affair, not helped by the actions of Mike, their waitress. While they bicker, it emerges that this is not the couple's first meeting; and while they attempt to repair the damage caused by their disastrous first date, they realise that their love for each other will conquer anything - even storms of flying fruit.

Director: Klaas Diersman

Creators(Producers/Writer/Art Director): Laura Osborne

Co-Creator: Matt Longstaff

Writer/Artificial Intelligence/Neural Network: ZenMan

Technical Director: Alexis Kirke

DoP: Ben Bailey

Art Department: Lucy Diersman

We shared our first rough cut at Screen On The Green, Islington, London.

TEASER

ZenMan’s script…

This German Alpine chalet is folkart device that indicates the weather outside via a hygrometer.

Growing up we had one of these on our kitchen windowsill. I was obsessed with the magic of the man and woman advancing and retreating.

Then in my twenties I would frequent Berlin and I heard someone say they could tell what the weather was by just looking out the window to see how the girls dressed in the red light district.

I thought it would be fun to adapt the figures to create a bespoke Berlin Weatherhouse.

Fog Series

I grew up close to the moors in North England where we hated the fog because it stopped us easily getting from A to B, we would often inch for hours from my grandparents house in Manchester back over to our home in Huddersfield. Since I left home I see the fog differently, I love the beauty in the obscured and unobscured. You never quite know what the fog will bring out.

This is a series of photographs I took in Lisbon, Hong Kong and California.

Portals Series

The Twins

The quirky. The creepy. The uncanny.

Chicken Mandala

How much closer we can get when we put our phones away.

A snapshot of my sketchbook.

RIP Bowie

Illustrations for Giving Tuesday at Meta. The idea was to get people to donate for Giving Tuesday what they would pay for their lunch (given lunches on-site were free as an employee benefit).

They were posters on-site along with a url to donate.

A BBH brief for reinterpreting their logo.