I’ve been spending alot of time in my garbage can lately.
Never before has it been such a delight to retieve stuff I thought was worthless, even the things stuck to the bottom of the can. I feed them into the uscomic.8bf machine and out comes instant Strange Tales and Journey into Mystery 1960’s vintage …
Neptune Probe (1998)
Ganymede Probe (1998)
These heavenly bodies are still in good standing after astronomers recently convened to decide who would be voted off the cosmic island.
Everyone held its slot in space, and even Xena kicked some Van Allen Butt Belt — everyone except poor elliptical Pluto. Alas, we hardly knew ye. From …
It sits there, quietly. Unused but waiting.
Sometimes while working on the fractal machine, I look over at it. Our eyes meet. I say nothing and return to the fractal machine.
Before I discovered fractals my hobby was making seamless background tiles and web graphics in my graphics progam.
I made thousands, maybe ten thousand …
Portrait of George W. Bush (2004)
Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.–Theodor Adorno
A poem that calls us from the other side of a situation of extremity cannot be judged by simplistic notions of “accuracy” or “truth to life.” It will have to be judged, as Ludwig Wittgenstein said of confession, by its consequences, …
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Where is the music? What is the music?
It must be jumpy and fast; look at the way he’s dancing.
Check out the shoes: He’s a stylish fellow.
And that strange flowing white stripe, like a flame, a scarf unfurling from his brain.
Hey, he’s got two heads.
Cool.
In another place,in another plane,he would not be …
It may now be said that an object becomes, or fails to become, a work of art in direct response to the inclination of the perceiver to assume an appreciative role.–Victor Burgin, “Situational Aesthetics”
Who among us hasn’t wondered why fractal art cannot seem to crack the glass ceiling of broader cultural recognition and gain entry …
I’ve been thinking about fractals and art and that’s what I came up with.
Like the world’s shortest email message, I have put everything into the subject line and now there’s no need to add any message.
Fractal art is commonly labelled “Fractal Art,” which at first glance makes sense, but in a way, I think it’s …
Writing a blog post is not unlike beginning work on a new image. How does one even start to fill a blank screen?
When I first started blogging, I thought I had to write a certain way to fulfill (I realize now) self-determined expectations. I had to be as political or as confessional as many of …
