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Subtext by EssG
This is the conclusion of a series that began with a review of an article on deviantART entitled “People who’s [sic] Fractals SUCKED!!!”  The series focuses on responding to criticisms raised by some of the DA fractal art “masters” to my initial review and hones in on some poor rhetorical strategies of …

For those of you young-er folks who have grown up with computers and the internet and consider all that technology and online media to be normal, you don’t know how really dull and boring things were before home computing came along.
My biggest technological thrill when I was growing up back in the early 70’s was …

“I know you are but what am I?”
Photograph seen on SodaHead.
This is part of a continuing series that began with a review of an article on deviantART entitled “People who’s [sic] Fractals SUCKED!!!”  The series focuses on responding to criticisms raised by some of the DA fractal art “masters” to the review, and focuses …

Bad ol’ weviewer! You fwighten me! You make my widdle heart quiver!
Image by James Cauty.  Seen on Uncertain Times.
Well, I certainly started a buzz with my last post.  I feel like I kicked a beehive after poking the queen bee in the eye with a white-hot branding iron.
I guess that’s what happens when the …

We by silwenka
Happy Valentine’s Day.  By the way, as fractal art, this piece, allegedly, sucks.
There’s an oddly fascinating feature currently on display on deviantART called “People Who’s [sic] Fractals SUCKED!”  I’ll let the author, =Fiery-Fire, self-proclaimed “Fractal Gangsta’,” explain the general idea:
In fractal ‘world’ we have a lot of names which are well known, established, …

Now, we all know that it’s our DNA that controls our physical characteristics.  DNA contains the information which determines how we develop from fertilized egg to adult.  DNA, in turn, is literally coded instructions similar to binary computer code.
DNA is encoded using sequences of four different amino acids grouped into pairs.  The arrangement of those …

I don’t like slick computer art but I like Daniel Eaton’s Incendia gallery. The more polished and “professional” computer art gets the more it reminds me of advertising and other kinds of soulless, slithering graphical lifeforms. But Daniel Eaton (aka “Apophysitis”) has somehow managed to construct creative and appealing imagery with a program …

Lightning Fields 128 by Hiroshi Sugimoto
I learned to capture the lightning shock…
–Roger McGuinn, “Lover of the Bayou”
The fractal properties of lightning have long been evident in dramatic photographs of self-similar jagged bolts caught in a split-second of illumination.  But few have pursued lightning so deeply “to its hiding place,” as Victor Frankenstein once put it, …

Allow me to play Film Class Professor.  Before we dim the lights and roll the film I will give a short lecture which hopefully will enlighten our understanding of these short animations posted below, or, at the very least, become the price of admission you will pay to sit in a comfortable seat and watch …

A few years back I was excited about the possibilities of fractal animation.  Fractal animation, as I saw it, would be literally living and moving fractals.  Fractal artists were about to become fractal film makers and the art form would take on a whole new dimension.  And after seeing a couple of very exciting algorithmic …

The well-known fractal artist Janet Parke recently stopped teaching her highly popular Ultra Fractal courses at the online  Visual Arts Academy.  But just this week she has released them in downloadable ebook form for self-study.  You can read all about them here on her website.  The ebooks contain the text of the courses and are …

[Photograph seen on Manshion.]
Here are some selected shorts. Apparently, I have no grand vision to impart to start the New Year.
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Orbit Trap has published several recent posts exploring the nature of fractal art, and Tim explicated an image by Guido Cavalcante and analyzed its artistic expression.  In response, several commenters wondered why we haven’t …