Orbit Trap

“I know you are but what am I?” Photograph seen on SodaHead. This is part of a continuing series that began with a review of an article on deviantART entitled “People who’s [sic] Fractals SUCKED!!!” …

Bad ol’ weviewer! You fwighten me! You make my widdle heart quiver! Image by James Cauty.  Seen on Uncertain Times. Well, I certainly started a buzz with my last post.  I feel like I kicked…

We by silwenka Happy Valentine’s Day.  By the way, as fractal art, this piece, allegedly, sucks. There’s an oddly fascinating feature currently on display on deviantART called “People Who’s [sic] Fractals SUCKED!”  I’ll let the…

Now, we all know that it’s our DNA that controls our physical characteristics.  DNA contains the information which determines how we develop from fertilized egg to adult.  DNA, in turn, is literally coded instructions similar…

I don’t like slick computer art but I like Daniel Eaton’s Incendia gallery. The more polished and “professional” computer art gets the more it reminds me of advertising and other kinds of soulless, slithering graphical…

Lightning Fields 128 by Hiroshi Sugimoto I learned to capture the lightning shock… —Roger McGuinn, “Lover of the Bayou” The fractal properties of lightning have long been evident in dramatic photographs of self-similar jagged bolts…

The well-known fractal artist Janet Parke recently stopped teaching her highly popular Ultra Fractal courses at the online  Visual Arts Academy.  But just this week she has released them in downloadable ebook form for self-study. …

[Photograph seen on Manshion.] Here are some selected shorts. Apparently, I have no grand vision to impart to start the New Year. ~/~ Orbit Trap has published several recent posts exploring the nature of fractal…

Here at Orbit Trap we’ve been accused by some of being too “preachy”.  Maybe it’s true.  Consider this:  A recent reader and veteran fractal artist, Marcos Napier, has credited Orbit Trap with helping him to…

I was reading a very erudite New York City art blog a few months ago. One of its postings came up in the results of a Google search I made. As is often the case…

Good evening, and welcome to This Week In Opera.  Tonight’s special offering comes from the world of fractal art, an email list for the fractal program, Ultra Fractal.  What makes this opera so avante garde…

A framed print of To the Joust.  My cat studies its intricacies for hours. I’d like to talk about my experience with making prints.  Let me begin by making clear that I’m not claiming to…

“Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of the colour blue…” –Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy What could…

La Pietà (1499) by Michelangelo Michelango’s statue is beautiful and well-crafted.  But it is also a widely recognized example of representational art. It can also be interpreted as meaningful.  Even Wikipedia gets it: The Madonna is…

Art and photograph by adak’76 Repeat viewings of the 2009 Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest winners consistently leave a bitter aftertaste. I’m convinced, especially after reading Tim’s latest OT series on the distinctions between art…

I think the recent image by Guido Cavalcante, made in Ultra Fractal and used in a posting to illustrate the oceanic garbage dump phenomenon, is a good example of the contrast between art and craft,…

Have we got a deal not for you… Photograph: The Scam Truck by jepoirrier I know how exciting it is when someone contacts you and wants to purchase your work. Who among us doesn’t want…

Ups and Downs.  Design by Roller Coaster Tycoon. The 2009 Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest results have been announced.  If you’re a regular OT reader, you already got this news.  We announced it on Thursday…

“It was already dead, so I didn’t see any point in keeping it around.” One of the few extant group blogs on fractal art got its plug pulled recently. This was no surprise since the…

The Garbage Path by Guido Cavalcante [Click on the image above to see a large-scale version.] Editor’s Note: This is a guest posting by Guido Cavalcante. His image was made using Ultra Fractal. Excerpts in…

“I’m the decider!” Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.—Lord Acton The recent revelatory leak that a pre-sorted “winners page” was being built by the director of the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest…