Monthly Archives: August 2007

Fiends without a Face

Fiends without a Face (2007)
Weird for the sake of weird… Moe Szyslak, The Simpsons
We know fractals are said to be supposedly infinite, highly recursive, and sometimes interpreted through aesthetics. But can the exaggeration and irony of camp be one of those aesthetic crash dives?
The critters in this image reminded

Scratchy

If you’ve ever driven on a highway in a snowstorm you probably know that the best way to stay on the road is to drive with one wheel just off the edge of it. I think that’s a good technique when it comes to creative activities: stay half off the road. It’s slower,

Three Cheers For Jock!

Browsing fractal sites usually leaves me with a feeling best described by the fancy term, “Ennui“. There just isn’t much originality. I don’t know why. Maybe most fractal artists makes fractal art for reasons other than creative expression or any of the usual motives that lead people to produce artwork. There’s

Ant Works

It’s always amazed me how careful and disciplined insects can be. One of the many wonders I saw when visiting the tropical Gulf coast of Mexico were leaf-cutter ants. Up here in Canada (Toronto), ants don’t do much except crawl around and occasionally make an anthill. Leaf cutters make Canadian ants look

Who Dissected Roger Rabbit

Who Dissected Roger Rabbit (2007)
The function of art is to disturb. Science reassures.–Georges Braque
Andrea Yates believed that cartoon characters told her she was a bad mother who fed her children too much candy…–Court TV News
For some reason, disembowelment and bloodshed is a helluva lot funnier when it’s animated. We have no idea

showFoto 0.5.0: Doorway to the 6th Dimension!

Made from the original, below, using Block Wave with default settings on a resized (enlarged) version
I wonder how many of us, capable of doing so many things, would be reduced to only one single, useful, function if the people we live or work with could custom configure us? That’s the way I’ve come to