Author: Tim

It’s not often I click on fractal videos these days.  Video is just tricky with fractals, especially when you’re trying to combine it with music or some sort of meaningful sound. But when I saw…

Or: Why the Offline Promotion of Fractal Art is a Waste of Time Here are 6 reasons: There is no such thing as “Great” Fractal Art This is the key problem, really.  I didn’t understand…

And another thing… If you’ve only got one or two judges then there’s nothing that really needs to be explained.  But when you’ve got 12… one would naturally wonder how a much more complicated scenario…

If they’re going to… not consider a second artwork by any artist rearrange the judging results to include a “wider range” of styles declare in the rules they don’t want “garish” art let the Honorary…

In case you haven’t seen them, the winning images are all here.  Of the 25 winning images which will make up the entire exhibit shown sometime within the next year, there’s only really one good…

By looking at all these weird fish images my hope is that you’ll stop seeing them as fish and start seeing them simply as objects of shape and color. ~Click on images to view full…

It had to happen sometime.  Fractalforums.com is a wide-open, free access forum that allows image uploads.  And many fractal artists subscribe to the old belief that if you throw enough “stuff” at the wall eventually…

If you’ve been following my recent revolutionary thoughts about fractal art you may have noticed a few comments posted by readers here and in other venues relating to emotional experiences and feelings triggered by fractal…

Why do people make fractal art? Well, actually they don't make it so much as they find it... steal it... dig it out of the dirt. Some of the best pieces of fractal art are…

I think I’ve found a better way to explain what makes fractal art so different than other art forms.  The differences are there simply because fractals themselves are a different medium to work with.  Fractals…

~Click on images to view full size on original site~ Mayan Trickster by reallybigname was a great piece of design but this one here by Jesse Dierks is what I would call a great landscape…

The only place I ever go on a regular basis to see fractal art is Fractalforums.com. I don't pay much attention to the names only the artwork. So when a name like "reallybigname" becomes familiar…

While it may not be as well known today as it has been in the past, The Fractal Art Manifesto, written back in 1999 by Kerry Mitchell, is one of the very few attempts to…

What fractals fail to do… You can’t make art with them.  And we all need our heads examined for thinking we could in the first place. I should be a bit more specific when I…

What is Fractal Art Missing? I look at da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and I see something.  I look at just about any piece of fractal art and I don’t see that thing.  What’s fractal art…

I just think it’s great.  It’s a strange, surreal place, nice composition, not oversaturated with detail and has nice, subdued but engaging color.  Check out the artist’s little story about the image: Description: This is…

Dave Makin tacked the word, “International” onto the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest 2011 in his announcement of this year’s contest at FractalForums.com.  And while the contest could be said to span the globe, the…

Responses at Fractal Forums.com to the recent announcement of the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest 2011 suggest to me that a lot of things have changed in the fractal art world since the BMFAC was…

Gero Wortmann, hailing from Munich, Germany may not be as old as me but some of the stuff he makes I really like. ~ Click images to view full size on original website ~ They…

I’ve been trying to reconcile two conflicting things:  Firstly, that there’s something exciting about fractal programs, and secondly, that there’s something quite disappointing about fractal art today. I don’t need to explain why I’m enthused…

Something happens to fractals when they start to resemble real things.  It’s sad, in a way, but I think fractal art is limited in its appeal to a wider audience simply because it’s “fractal.” Fractals…

Just when I was beginning to think the 3D fractal scene was plateauing and running out of interesting themes to explore... along comes something sharp.

From time to time I revisit places and I was pleasantly surprised to see that Mr. Velocipede, a long time fractal artist, has reinvented herself and started an new blog with new enthusiasm entitled, “Oh…

Generative Art is simply a machine whose output has artistic qualities. The Wikipedia page defines Generative Art as: Generative art is a system oriented art practice where the common denominator is the use of systems…

Still so sure it’s a better place to introduce people to fractal art than the (now old-fashioned) information highway –the internet? The recently released photos of the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest Exhibition really underline…

I’m sorry, but I can’t give out too many details about the actual recipient because the prize winning  journalist has been keeping  a very low profile in order to avoid “the haters” of the fractal…

Although it's probably been a perennial theme in fractal art from the beginning, the recent 3D fractal explosion has greatly increased the number of images whose main impression is that of The Strange Place. Because…

Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. biblegateway.com The most recent…

Well, the Ultra Fractal Mailing List is at it again. Last time it was opera, but this time it’s bongos, coffee houses and poetry readings. I’ve reformatted the original excerpts to give them that “je…

The Mona Lisa is the most popular artwork in the Louvre, the most famous art collection in the world.  It measures 77 x 53 cm (30 x 21 in).  That’s the size of a high-end…

~ Click on any image to view full-size on the original site ~ He has a Deviant Art Gallery too with more examples of “steampunk” mandelboxes.  On DA he goes by Hal Tenny which sounds…