Jac Depczyk : cyberartist

today, one year has passed since i made my last Free Exchange illustration for The Economist in London and my thirty odd years of regular work for that great newspaper thus came to an end. one year that i decided to take off - to...

taken by ambulance with "non life threatening injuries", then put in a coma from which he never recovered. the man was my close friend and good neighbour Roger Kitsis. "amigos es la familia que se elige" say the Spanish. Roge...

i dutifully keep a page on my site dedicated to my old friend Tomkowski and he was inspired by this to write something in English! i only helped choosing the right word here and there - a good opportunity to improve my Polish, as...

my old friend Tomkowski sent me a dedicated copy of his latest novel - Jesień (Autumn). this has accompanied me on a long drive from London to Marbella. it was strange to read a book again, especially one written by a friend, aft...

i am updating the site and the NetCells code -- most of the work has been done now but there are still minor problems -- i will come back to those next week. most importantly the Blog Images section is working -- although that ...

yes, the best use of images is via a database but that is slow and new just images keep coming - in 100s and 1000s. besides, which images to publish? when people are involved it gets complicated. i have now added a new tool to m...

every web site needs regular updating, i would even say, that's the definition of a web site, or you are missing the point. now attending to mines again - over 60 new (and old) images added, totally re-written search function - mo...

human relations were always rooted in Reciprocity. until now. the new Internet-based economy enables massive, global-scale delivery of goods, information, functionality - advertised and widely accepted as "free". but, there i...

taking photos is great fun but dealing with them later is very time consuming and that time is hard to find. some years ago i built a simple web application to manage my photos of people, i improve it whenever i find time, althoug...

what would life be without friends ? the answer: impossible. we do need friends, ok, but of what kind ? how many can we handle ? the supposed biological limit, known as the Dunbar's number is about 150-250, derived from studies of...

this morning i received a printed copy of Aldiri architectural magazine with my interview, done in June. it is all in Euskara (Basque) language, `eskuz ala makinaz´ means `manually or mechanically (automatically)´. the cover - ...

while learning Spanish i was occasionally meeting people for language practice exchange and often had to tell them this: hombre, one or two years is plenty to get fluent in a language, if you are not speaking it after 5 years you ...

Working with formidable ›Jessica, amazing body and a great ability. More pictures coming in due course... ...

During las Fallas i worked with a bubbly little star Mar - great talent, natural joy and spontaneity - we hope she stays like this! Paqui lived up to her role of a Fallera Mayor. ...

When Javier turned to growing his oranges organically his chemical-spraying neighbours considered him a "loco". But today his products are well-known, they sell well and are very tasty. All they need is love - he says. ...

Spoke to my old friend Janek in Poland for 1 hour today, he tells me, in his literary/academic circles work published on the Internet does not count for mucho -- it's got to come, by truck, as paper covered with the printer's ink ...

I was looking forward to be talking with people but loud music throughout has made it a struggle. Anyhow, i managed to have a rant with Satoshi on the dying art of print media illustration (or art of illustration for dying print m...

On 17th of August 2011 i made my ›500th illustration for The Economist's Economics Focus column, or EcFoc, as it is known in the editorial circles - on the suitably big topic of the "eurobonds". To celebrate this event a specia...

In a small village of Lliria i photographed a young English writer, whom i can only call Alaska, as she wishes to remain anonymous for now (Alaska is not her real name, you understand, but it goes well with Lliria, doesn't it ?...

While in Valencia i worked with Serbian princesa Jelena. We were studying Spanish there. She is now gone home to Belgrade for a while - must keep a job in these hard times... I love the image above, you can see it processed, pl...

My old friend Wolfgang died on Sunday, 19th June 2011. We met in Sweden, in Cold War era, Europa was quite a different place then - split in two, full of spite and paranoia, it seemed inconceivable that would ever change. We ca...

It is always a pleasure to work with my friend William - a forgetful genius and a witch doctor. Alas, we never made any money, so far... the world will be sorry for that....

In May 2010 Craig Venter succeeded in "booting up" man-made DNA, thus creating the first entirely artificial organism - a bacterium with its own web address, 46 credits for the team members and 3 quotations embedded in its genetic...

Bloody and Lili found me on facebook and flown over from France to make images in my London studio. This has gone very well, we also made pictures for Krystina of Ectomorph, she has some on her ›blog. More on my web site...

in September, after a hot spell in Italy, i covered some large distances in Spain, with Deborah, a writer - she wrote a few words about this in her blog. it was a very memorable time in that great country, which i have not vis...

The shot of my friend Nick running in a underground passage in Normandie, 2006, became a hit, thanks to Getty Images - Nick found himself on London Underground posters and when he went home to Scotland he saw himself again - o...

The Report is entitled "Data, data everywhere" and looks at the fundamental shift in business practices and our very concepts of information, knowledge, wisdom and reality, resulting from the deludge of data of all kinds and sourc...

This ›man and comedian is currently the record holder for my longest photo session - we worked pretty much continuously for 11 hours, not counting the time he spent getting his pizza... He will go far....

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr...

I worked with Justin to produce the impossible illustration on light-bending materials, which will make large objects invisible, just like in Harry Potter, within the next few years....

Having crashed my car i decided to punish myself by not having a car for a year, and then reward myself for doing so by spending the money saved on round the world trip. The trip was great and i gained a day of my life by crossing...

The survey by Tom Standage, entitled "Going hybrid", looks at the changes in Japanese business practices - labour market, entrepreneurs, innovation, globalisation and adopting elements of the Anglo-Saxon model of capitalism. I h...

Big sale on Getty Images, for a German radio station - shot of young ›Miko, running with his iPod on the Millennium Bridge in London....

I worked with Steven Black on 6 images for the Darwin special issue of The Natural History magazine in New York. Very interesting series of articles by Richard Dawkins and others give an update on the current model of evolutiona...