Well, it’s actually just one, but with such power, such awesome, earth-quaking power.
Ilyich the Toad’s multi-crystal.8bf is a fairly standard distortion, multi-faceted, lens filter. We’ve all seen variations of this all over the place.
I’ve always thought stuff like this was just more cheap digital tricks, and for a while I was beginning to think …
Vader on Vacation (2007)
This year Tonya will party downat Helm’s Deep. After car rentals, tummytucks at the Salem Witch Museum,she plans for a better security
video. Carrying all that bionic gear makes the whole Lord Vader thing look silly. Our travel agent left bad maps to the Death Star Bed …
Some filters make mountains, and some filters make dust. More about Illyich the Toad’s multicrystal.8bf.
I start with a fractal, and then smash it up. I smash some more. Not much fractal left now. If I smash further? Less fractal stuff right?
No. This is where the filter gets pretty weird. …
Orwellian, 1984, Mouthpiece of Baal, Howling Telescreen. My latest fractal Rorshach test.
It looks a bit like an old “Victrola”. They were one of the earliest record players, before electricity was widely available, and relied on a hand-cranked mechanism that turned the record after it was wound up. The sound was amplified mechanically …
What’s in a name? that which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet;–William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
I do like naming images. While it’s true that viewers will stubbornly resist an artist’s prompt and make their own meanings from images, I still enjoy suggesting places to start. Since many fractals are highly …
I dislike the “artist” label. Maybe it dislikes me, too.
Original from Tierazon 2.7
To me, the word, “artist” conjures up the image of someone who works hard and approaches their “work” with discipline and dedication. They are the subject of biographies and documentaries; art emanates from them. That doesn’t describe me.
I’m more of …
Enemy Combatant 1 (2007)
“Put it all together, and last week’s passage of the Military Commissions Act is ominous for those in the US. As Bruce Ackerman noted recently in The Los Angeles Times, the legislation ‘authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the …
