Year: 2012

DorianoArt has a real talent for mixing fractals with photography and doing it with style.  It’s not the typical marriage between earthy fractals and leafy scenery.  It’s more like an extraterrestrial romance between mother earth…

Back, several postings ago, when I reviewed the latest Fractalforums.com calendar, I heaped abuse on Pauldelbrot’s image from his Mandelbrot Safari series calling it retro and not cutting-edge.  The owner of Fractalforums.com and publisher of…

There’s a theme that binds all these images together but I can’t seem to find the right words for it.  Freaky; harmonic; other worldly; sacred symbols; journey into mystery: they all fit for some but…

Welcome back, readers, once again to the home edition of the Fractalbook Network’s much idolized game show: Name! That! Comment! Tonight, due to the panic of sweeps week and the fear of ratings slippage, we’ve…

Like the elegant orchids and other surface-dwelling plant species called epiphytes, image comments can have a richness and uniqueness that is surprising when one considers their tiny size and extremely casual origin. And also like…

Death from Above [Click on images to view at higher resolution on source sites.]   "New aesthetic" visionary James Bridle‘s latest project is Dronestagram –an Instagram feed that posts satellite images tied to U.S. drone…

  Such perfect fractal clouds are too perfect to be real. Photograph by Rüdiger Nehmzow [Click on images to view at higher resolution on source sites.]   I wrote recently about Google opening their data…

Arvinder Bawa recently had a showing of his fractal artworks in Laredo, Cantabria, Spain at the Sala Ruas gallery.  The poster explains it best: ~Click on images to view full-size on original site~ Arvinder has…

~Click on images to view full-size on original site~ Just a neon sign, cloudy sky and moon, but what a transformation.  A number of 3d fractalists refer to having an “architectural style” and here you…

Hurricane Sandy’s Fractalscape Renders   But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen: —T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" A pervasive side effect of working…

Fractalforums.com’s owner, Christian Kleinhuis (aka Trifox) is attempting to put out another fractal art calendar this year.  I reviewed last year’s and called it, “The Best Fractal Calendar Ever!“. I hope that review scored me…

Inside a Google Data Center [Click on images to view at higher resolution on source sites.]   They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something…

Does it seem that no one has any interest in the old, 2D fractal images anymore?  And furthermore, does it seem that since the advent of the 3D fractal craze that there are more fractal…

I found his gallery on Flickr during a routine search of the word, “fractal”.  I clicked on a couple of unusual looking thumbnails and quickly headed straight to his main gallery page. ~ Click on…

Hey!  Wasn’t Orbit Trap supposed to be closed down?  Wasn’t Orbit Trap supposed to be finished with and over and all that sort of thing? Well, let me explain.  In short, I got tired of…

Orbit Trap is closing down.  This is the last and final post you will be reading here. No, this is not a joke. After almost 6 years of continuous weekly and sometimes daily (hourly?) publishing,…

Surfing Squirrel by Maria K. Lemming   I Know What I Like — Or Do I? Part Three: I may not always know why I like a given work of art, but I can usually…

FaeryRing by Jennifer Stewart [Click on images to view full-size.]   I Know What I Like — Or Do I? Part Two: I began recent entries in this series outlining with some certainty why I…

Fly Me to the Moon by Tina Oloyede   I Know What I Like — Or Do I? Part One: Last time, I was on surer footing as I attempted to explain why I know…

The Listening Heaven by Elizabeth Mansco   I Know What I Like My aesthetic sensibilities apparently run counter to the prevailing grain when it comes to my personal taste in fractal art. Photography, especially the…

Three Gravity Stools by Jólan van der Wiel [Click on images to view full size.]   Tim’s third eye opened (again) and recently puzzled out the mysteries of fractal art’s Phase Three. But I’m still…