Author: Tim

I saw a documentary on Middle Eastern wells. A well is a big deal there. Everything happens because of water. Some of them are quite old, even supposedly dating back to the days of Abraham.…

We worked as a team. A huge team of scientists and builders like me. No one had built a star before. We were going to be the first. How many angels can dance on the…

I read somewhere, or heard from someone, that study carrols were invented in monasteries. A study carrol (did I spell it wrong?) is a one-person table that is walled on all sides except the one…

The first Radio Satelite. 1957, or around then. Whatever happened to Sputnik? No longer a celebrity, and not too shiny anymore, he slides through space, without destination or purpose. His simple senseless beeping, once the…

Sasquatch, UFO’s, Bermuda Triangle, and now –Space Heads. What am I talking about? Imagine that outer space is something like the ocean: mostly empty but “infected” with life. We don’t expect to find something. We…

It’s never been my intention to talk about war and depressing stuff like that, but I like this image and all I can think of when I look at it is the B-29 fire-bombing campaign…

Forest of Knives I remember back during the last few years of the Vietnam war, in the early 70s, reading an article in the magazine that came with the weekend edition of the newspaper, about…

Smashing with style Digital Dynamite Filter of Frenzy Ripped-off beyond recognition and left for dead “No, your Honour; I didn’t do anything. I just took the dog for a walk until it was dead.” Together,…

You know, post-processing can really mangle a decent, law-abiding fractal image and make it an almost unrecognizable, but strangely delightful, wreck. Some will never walk straight again. But when you start with an image that…

Would you expect this from someone named “Ilyich the Toad”? Once again, I’ve dug up a new and amazing Photoshop filter and I want to share the wonder… But it’s got a dirty name. I…

What is art? There’s an old black and white movie that spends two hours depicting a jury sitting around a table in a room, deliberating the verdict of a murder trial. Now I could also…

Life is not for the rich and famousfor the successful applicant and the olympic fewLife is in the eye and the mind and the handIt needs no permission,or conditionsto be. We can all be like…

Back twenty years ago in high school English class I read or studied, or something, Julius Caesar by George Bernard Shaw. Shaw, as he is called by those who are familiar with him, was something…

Although most labels in the art world have a number of interpretations, I define algorithmic art as artwork made with algorithms. An algorithm is a series of instructions. Usually these instructions are computer commands and…

Download parameter file “bug05.ink” I’ve found a new toy. It makes everything look like it was ripped out of an old book, so to speak. Costs money. $15 US. Fully functional demo download. Just like…

Who would have thought this humble pest would someday take a seat beside the likes of David Copperfield or Martin Chuzzlewit, as The King of the Microbes. One of the most startling events for fans…

He played the Balalaika… then ate it! I wasn’t quite sure what to do, so I clapped. He wasn’t finished yet. Everyone in the alien dinner theater scowled at me while he started again, from…

It’s been ages now since ants took over the Earth, but they still enjoy reliving the old battles. “One small step for an ant, one giant leap for all insects.” Conquering the humans was the…

Hey, how about it? Is this the Campbell Soup Cans of fractals or what? Anyhow, Andy told me, and no one else knows this, that he’s taken all his talent and everything he’s ever learned…

I’ve been spending alot of time in my garbage can lately. Never before has it been such a delight to retieve stuff I thought was worthless, even the things stuck to the bottom of the…

It sits there, quietly. Unused but waiting. Sometimes while working on the fractal machine, I look over at it. Our eyes meet. I say nothing and return to the fractal machine. Before I discovered fractals…

parameter file “bear01.loo” Where is the music? What is the music? It must be jumpy and fast; look at the way he’s dancing. Check out the shoes: He’s a stylish fellow. And that strange flowing…

I’ve been thinking about fractals and art and that’s what I came up with. Like the world’s shortest email message, I have put everything into the subject line and now there’s no need to add…

Everybody knows Terry, but what about me, Igor. I like fractals. I like words and pictures. Like Dick and Perry, together they form a third personality. Illustrated, illuminated, an alloy. I like machines that make…