Champion Graveyard Sound
Macro photography and fractals have a lot in common. I don’t know what that is, but I just sense that they have a “family resemblance”. Imagine you’re trying to put together a jig-saw puzzle but someone has accidentally thrown in another puzzle with it. While looking for the pieces that match up with the ones [...]
Be Very Very Quiet
My blogging slows down in the summer when other projects get moved to the front burner. But I’m still lurking around. The 2009 Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest exhibition begins in a little over a week in Hyderabad, India, at the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians, although (so far) publicity for the event has been [...]
Frames, drains and hurricanes
Many people have a favorite sport. Some follow soccer, others american football or hockey, basketball, baseball, cricket… I follow hurricanes, the tropical storms or cyclones that form in the Carribean during summer and fall of every year. There’s never a players strike and you can follow all the action over the internet. In fact, you [...]
Surf’s up
I’ve been surfing. From the noisey beaches of Deviant Art to the silent shores of guano islands. Every one here’s a gem to me. Each one gleamed in its own way when I saw it.
Art imitates Nintendo
I don’t play video games much; just an hour every day of Star Wars Battlefront (original one). I have friends in Mos Eisley and although they always lose –horribly– they’re always asking me to come out and “play”. My nephew loaned us his old GameCube and while I’ve never used it because all we have [...]
Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine
There’s actually a lot of goldmines out there in the outer reaches of our computer system. None of us have been to all of them, but we’ve all been to some of them. I don’t know where exactly this one is, but you can find all the scenes from it here. This is what’s written [...]
FUC Redux
I’ve been reiterated from the undead. [Image seen on Amazon.com.] The Fractal Universe Calendar (FUC) returns with a makeover. Previously put out by Avalanche Publishing, it is now under the aegis of Mosely Road Publishers which describes it as full of the most visually arresting fractals. Let’s see if you agree. Here’s a sneak peak: [...]
Bow the Knee to Blob!
Such simple rendering and yet, such powerful rendering. Remember, most of MC Escher’s great drawings were done in pencil, so there’s no reason why a grayscale or monotone image has to be dull. Just look at the detail in blob’s image, how it’s all over the place in every nook and cranny and has such [...]
Diaries
Dear Diary, I’ve been thinking recently about the creative explosion of Mandelbulbs and Mandelboxes. Sometimes, I think they represent the latest new wave in fractal art. Other times, I wonder if they are just the latest it iteration. After a few thousand bulbs and boxes replete the gallery coffers of Fractalbook, will these once novel [...]
7Up: The Un-Cola
What exactly does it mean to be un-Cola? Cola drinks, like Coca-Cola, are dark-colored and contain caffeine. The opposite would be light-colored without caffeine? But both of them are sugary, carbonated drinks sold on the same shelf and dropping out of the same vending machine, or at least side by side vending machines (7Up is [...]
Fractal America
I’ve been looking at some mash-ups lately on Flickr ….and I was browsing around on Samuel Monnier’s site ….and July 4th, Independence Day in the States is coming up, …which is similar to Canada’s own national holiday on July 1st called Canada Day … I thought, “America Day” …and here’s two images of that great [...]
Photoblog 1
I don’t dislike everything. The OT faithful probably know from past posts that I often see fractal art works I find interesting. When Tim and I were first forming Orbit Trap and discussing its possibilities, one idea we knocked around was to post an occasional fractal art photoblog — that is, allow the blog to [...]