Homage to Alexander Calder (1999)
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there’s no such thing as perfect.–Alexander Calder
From the National Gallery of Art:
Alexander Calder revolutionized the art of sculpture by making movement one of its main components. Yet his invention of the “mobile” — a word coined in 1931 by artist …
Homage to Niels Bohr (2004)
From Nobelprize.org:
In the autumn of 1911 [Bohr] made a stay at Cambridge, where he profited by following the experimental work going on in the Cavendish Laboratory under Sir J.J. Thomson’s guidance, at the same time as he pursued own theoretical studies. In the spring of 1912 he …
You know, post-processing can really mangle a decent, law-abiding fractal image and make it an almost unrecognizable, but strangely delightful, wreck. Some will never walk straight again.
But when you start with an image that is almost entirely a product of the program’s filtering effect, and not quite a “fractal” image to start with, the …
Would you expect this from someone named “Ilyich the Toad”?
Once again, I’ve dug up a new and amazing Photoshop filter and I want to share the wonder…
But it’s got a dirty name.
I tried renaming it, but you can’t do that with Photoshop filters. Or at least I don’t know how. But everytime I …
What is art?
There’s an old black and white movie that spends two hours depicting a jury sitting around a table in a room, deliberating the verdict of a murder trial.
Now I could also be wrong about this too, but I think it all starts when Jimmy Stewart, who’s the only one of the twelve jurors …
Life is not for the rich and famousfor the successful applicant and the olympic fewLife is in the eye and the mind and the handIt needs no permission,or conditionsto be.
We can all be like Sindbadand set off on voyages with nothing but todayWe do not need to own the oceanit is enough that we are …
