2 min 3

I walked with Warhol

  • Tim
  • 4 September, 2006
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…
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6 min 1

Mandelbrot Among the Gypsies

Mandelbrot Among the Gypsies (2001) Gaston Julia, recovering from injuries caused by a hospital, was named king of the gypsies in 1917. He had darned some socks for corpses and driven a hawthorn stake through…
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3 min 3

uscomic.8bf

  • Tim
  • 28 August, 2006
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…
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3 min 2

Probe This!!

Neptune Probe (1998) Ganymede Probe (1998) These heavenly bodies are still in good standing after astronomers recently convened to decide who would be voted off the cosmic island. Everyone held its slot in space, and…
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4 min 1

The other machine

  • Tim
  • 21 August, 2006
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…
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9 min 13

Fractal Politics

Portrait of George W. Bush (2004) Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.—Theodor Adorno A poem that calls us from the other side of a situation of extremity cannot be judged by simplistic notions of “accuracy”…
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1 min 0

Tugando: the dancing fractal bear

  • Tim
  • 15 August, 2006
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…
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4 min 15

Eye of the Beholder?

It may now be said that an object becomes, or fails to become, a work of art in direct response to the inclination of the perceiver to assume an appreciative role.—Victor Burgin, “Situational Aesthetics” Who…
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3 min 1

Art with Fractals

  • Tim
  • 8 August, 2006
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…
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6 min 2

Morning Walk

Writing a blog post is not unlike beginning work on a new image. How does one even start to fill a blank screen? When I first started blogging, I thought I had to write a…
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3 min 3

Who am I and what is this?

  • Tim
  • 31 July, 2006
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…
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6 min 1

The Passion of R2D2

The Passion of R2D2 (2006) I know what you’re thinking. Why does the Stars Wars droid who burps in squelches deserve a passion? Passions are reserved for gods and geniuses. Christ. Van Gogh — or,…
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