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Digital Picture Frames

Frames? Digital Pictures! They really ought to be called something like, “Digital Display Frame” since the “frame” isn’t really digital, is it? It’s the picture that’s digital. But I think it’s an example of how…
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You think Nuclear Weapons are easy to make?

No way. Think again, brainiac. Or go check out the articles in the Wikipedia regarding Nuclear Weapons. The hard part seems to be getting the fuel. You need Uranium or Plutonium, even if you want…
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Sub-terranean

Inkblot Kaos Parameter File Getting through the winter seems to be so complicated and expensive for us humans. On the other hand, in the tropics houses are simple. All you really need is a roof…
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5 min 1

When Art is Useful

Inkblot Kaos Parameter File From time to time I become curious about something and I start reading about it. A month ago it was hibernation, and in particular, the winter homes of animals. Lately it’s…
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4 min 1

Termites

Termites (2007) Termites are morphologically uncomplicated insects, in contrast with their astonishingly complex social behavior. –Robert L. Smith, Termites Several weeks ago, while commuting to work, I was listening to Dana Gioia, director of the…
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I Feel Corporate and Inspirational Too!

While doing some serious research on calendars recently, I stumbled on a gallery where:Big Black Framesand Short Inspirational TitlesIn Glowing White TextSeparated by a White LineWith Snappy Quotation Subtitles BelowWere The House Specialty They looked…
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Desert Roads and Mountain Lakes

Desert Roads Back several month ago, I posted about a program called Fyre. As is often the case with new programs and new forms of algorithmic art, I quickly reached what I thought were its…
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The Fractal Alternate Universe Calendar 2008

“For some folks I write a profound, richly articulated blog posting, and for others I just draw a picture.” Here’s my latest commentary on the Fractal Universe Calendar: The Fractal Alternate Universe Calendar. I made…
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4 min 1

Test-Tube Art

Inkblot Kaos parameter file Back to fractals. I think I did something to the other machine. It’s leaking oil, or something. I smell something “electrical”, too. My seven year-old daughter was recently invited to a…
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Summer in Malibu

Summer in Malibu (1999) Nine campers view photos of longboarders and swells of smoke. Hot Hub said industry crosstalk. Click the link to flame on and off premises. Dry weather, a tourist, checks in and…
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Peter and Alice visit Santa

Santa’s Bunker Peter and Alice were still a long way off, but stopped to take another look through the telescope. “I can see it!’ said Peter, “It has to be Santa’s home. But it looks…
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12 min 2

The Price of Professionalism

Naysayer (2007) The price of professionalism is no more costly than the mistakes of amateurs.–Slogan for MonkeyIT The fractal contest fracases refuse to “go gentle into that good night.” After much sound and fury (signifying…
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The Wind Stole My Piano

Made with vernissage.8bf, a couple of Andrew’s filters, India Ink, some hue adjustment, and the cold November wind. technorati tags: digital art | wind | picture-writing | illustration | half-poem | piano | music lessons…
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Spider Writing

Block-waving is all about lines. If there’s no lines, then you just end up with a pile of block-waved mush. I was looking through an old book on my computer. It was a series of…
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9 min 14

Damien, Inc.

A Crash Course in Reaganomics (2000) The medium is the message…—Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media Marshall McLuhan was concerned with the observation that we tend to focus on the obvious. In doing so, we largely miss…
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Columbus

(from the journal of Columbus) Whereas, Most Christian, High, Excellent, and Powerful Princes, King and Queen of Spain and of the Islands of the Sea… …this present year 1492, after your Highnesses had terminated the…
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Meet the New Masters

Large Bank with TreeJust as some people admire the traditional artform of painting because of the skill and effort that goes into making it, I’ve come to realize that I have the same sort of…
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Fresh-made Rothko

These days, you could find yourself travelling half-way around the world in a few hours. And in the world of art: a couple clicks and you could find yourself in the Louvre. That’s the reality…
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Stone of Mystery!

Look at it. Stare into it. Learn it’s mysteries –if you dare! Stop! Stop!Your mind is in its icy grip!Run, you fool!The Stone of Mystery will DESTROY YOU!!!Your puny brain can not survive its thunderous…
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The Dead CEO Watches His Back

The Dead CEO Watches His Back (2007) Your decisions passed on cancer. A memo meant as a joke killsquicker than all layoffs. Death won’t get you a bye. Workers lean from chemo and fleeced pensions…
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5 min 5

I’ve been reviewed

I deleted lycium’s (Thomas Ludwig’s) original comment to my posting about Fractal Art isn’t Rocket Science. But his expansion on the theme expressed in his original Orbit Trap comment grew to become an interesting work…
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Timbuktu

Technorati Tags: timbuktu block wave filter photoshop filters digital art fractal art join the mirage
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Party Guys

Party Guys (2007) I need my head examinedI need my eyes excitedI’d like to join the partyBut I was not invited—Elvis Costello, “Two Little Hitlers” At first look, tonight’s image seems to show a “couple…
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Click-ism: a Manifesto

I’ve been reading a book about various “-isms” in the art world. Eagerly wanting to follow in the footsteps of those great, outspoken artists of the past and to contribute something new and personal to…
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8 min 0

Evening Stroll

As an art lover, one thing I enjoy about the Internet is that I am always only a few mouse clicks away from a museum. When Orbit Trap first began, I wrote a post called…
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a little water

Technorati Tags: vernissage digital art poetry photoshop filters apartment building suburban decay
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Mourning Becomes Fractalus — Act II

Mourning Becomes Fractalus Act II ~/~ …with more apologies to Eugene O’Neill. Made with an early version of Comic Book Creator. Fractal images used are my own. Text is a mashup of my own writing…
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Mourning Becomes Fractalus — Act I

Mourning Becomes Fractalus Act I ~/~ …with apologies to Eugene O’Neill. Made with an early version of Comic Book Creator. Fractal images used are my own. Text is a mashup of my own writing collaged…
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star of arabia 2

somewherein the worldthere is a cave and the eye that looks from itsees the star of arabia years have passedthe eye, unblinkinglooks from it pale, dark, written with redsees the star of arabia the wind…
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Artists and Craftsmen

Here’s another theory in the rough; something that I think is relevant to Fractal Art, and probably all artforms: There are “Artists” and there are “Craftsmen”. An artist is… I don’t know what an artist…
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Fractal Art isn’t Rocket Science

The Fractal Art world is an odd place. The strange combination of technical people (mathematicians, engineers, programmers) and artsy, creative people is curious and could almost be the setting for a mystery novel. My wife…
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Orbit Trap’s Change of Format

Orbit Trap has abandoned the goal of becoming a group fractal blog due to lack of interest. Continuing to present Orbit Trap as a group blog is confusing to readers and misrepresents it’s actual content.…
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Placing the Blame

Soma (2001) It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you place the blame.—Oscar Wilde Why is it that people who question the improprieties of the BMFAC contest are repeatedly told they must “get…
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Cowards of Us All

Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all.–William Shakespeare, Hamlet I know it is sometimes difficult to speak out. There can be consequences. One might be embarrassed — attacked — even punished. So far, only…
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