Monthly Archives: October 2007

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 of our tiny, modern world: technology takes our little feet and straps jet engines on them.
Unfortunately, there are

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 torrent of KNOWLEDGE!!!(sung to the tune of, “Here Comes Santa Claus”)

Could this be the innocent precursor of… The Stone of Mystery?
I

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 speak of you to lawyers.
Your investing and gilded chute fold up in wind like a bum umbrella.

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 of art and well worth reading. It was posted in the fractalforums.com site, where I recently found it.

Timbuktu

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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 of wild and crazy guys.” But is there something darker around the edges?
Elvis Costello initially wanted to call

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 the exciting pursuit of labels and the ever teetering tower of human achievements, I propose… Clickism.
First rule is: Mouse

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 Morning Walk where I wandered into a few fractal galleries and reflected on what I saw. I’d like to take up

a little water

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Mourning Becomes Fractalus — Act III

Mourning Becomes Fractalus
Act III

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…with still 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 collaged with comments made on this blog.
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