Monthly Archives: October 2006

Fractal Trick or Treat?

The Familiar (1999)

I’ve always been more interested in using fractals to push ideas rather than to serve as decorations

Still Life with Dracula (2002)
and this approach has sometimes proven very handy at Halloween to illustrate horror themes

Back to the Blair Witch (2000)
because although fractals can treat

"Better" than Pollock?

Back twenty years ago in high school English class I read or studied, or something, Julius Caesar by George Bernard Shaw.
Shaw, as he is called by those who are familiar with him, was something new for us high school students. We were quite familiar with Shakespeare as the school curriculum included one of his

Jar Jar Agonistes

Jar Jar Agonistes (2006)
Gollum is way better.I evoke birthday blight and snakesto haul home. I stoke vitrioland hollow men to guess the price
of my money pit. Sad to bepitied more than Lieberman orother juggling carpetbaggers. I seema nasty senator, a recycling
smattering of acting and idiotclowning. Executable. Embeddedface down in a chemical treatment plantto erase

The Robot’s Renaissance

Although most labels in the art world have a number of interpretations, I define algorithmic art as artwork made with algorithms. An algorithm is a series of instructions.
Usually these instructions are computer commands and algorithmic art is made with computers. But it’s the “mechanical” component that makes algorithmic art special and the machine

India Ink-194.8bf

Download parameter file “bug05.ink”

I’ve found a new toy.
It makes everything look like it was ripped out of an old book, so to speak.
Costs money. $15 US. Fully functional demo download.
Just like uscomic.8bf, it often takes uninteresting images and transforms them, lifting them to higher quanta.
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