Channelled Fractal 5: Jack the Ripper (2001)
One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the twentieth century.
--Jack the Ripper
The last post from the series of channelled fractals.
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Image initially made with Sterling-ware. Post-processed until it became a bogey man.
For corresponding chills, here's a live version of "Jack the Ripper" performed by The White Stripes:
Channelled Fractal 9: Vincent Price (2001)
We exponents of horror do much better than those method actors. We make the unbelievable believable. More often than not, they make the believable unbelievable.
--Vincent Price
Another in the astral plane beamed back channelled fractal series.
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Image initially made with Fractal Vizion. Post-processed until it was the last image on earth.
Today's video accompaniment is a black and white tribute:
Channelled Fractal 4: Gregor Mendel (2001)
When two plants, constantly different in one or several traits, are crossed, the traits they have in common are transmitted unchanged to the hybrids and their progeny, as numerous experiments have proven; a pair of differing traits, on the other hand, are united in the hybrid to form a new trait, which usually is subject to changes in the hybrids' progeny.
--Gregor Mendel, Experiments in Plant Hybrids (1865)
Gregor Mendel, who is known as the "father of modern genetics," was inspired by both his professors at university and his colleagues at the monastery to study variation in plants, and he conducted his study in the monastery's garden.
--Machines Like Us
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Image Initially made with Sterling-ware. Post-processed until the dominant traits became recessive.
For musical cross-pollination, here's a song about selective breeding-- "Racehorse" by Wild Flag -- live in Philadelphia in March of 2011:
Channelled Fractal 17: Jacques-Yves Cousteau (2002)
The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
--Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Yet another "channelled fractal" sent via psychic sonar.
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Initially made with Vchira. Post-processed until it reached crush depth.
For complementary viewing, here's a short video featuring Cousteau's major accomplishments and created last year to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Channelled Fractal 11: Judy Garland (2001)
Behind every cloud is another cloud.
--Judy Garland
Another entry in the "channelled fractal" expo from beyond the grave.
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Image initially made with Fractal Vizion. Post-processed until film executives took over and altered its appearance.
For your supplemental viewing pleasure, a 20/20 report featuring both audio tapes and entries from an unpublished autobiography from Garland.
Chanelled Fractal 20: Marilyn Monroe (2001)
It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.
--Marilyn Monroe
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Another in the series of psychically received images from the other side.
Image initially made with Sterling-ware. Post-processed until everyone thought they knew it but no one ever did.
Today's supplemental viewing experience is part of a TV documentary featuring audio clips from an interview Monroe granted just weeks before her death.
Channelled Fractal 15: George Harrison (2001)
America has everything. Why should they want us?
--George Harrison
The selected series of "channelled fractals" continues.
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Image initially made with Vchira. Post-processed until it lived in the material world.
For today's viewing accompaniment, here's George Harrison performing "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the Prince's Trust Concert in 1987.
Out of concern that my art was becoming "depressing" and a desire to reacquaint myself with my more spiritual inner child, I have begun channeling fractals from others who have crossed over fractal-less into the Great Beyond. The process is simple. I close my eyes, turn on a generator, place crystals atop my monitor, burn peppermint incense, tie-dye some work clothes, and chant in a phony Jamaican accent. Soon, through intense meditation and lots of Fox Television programming, I slip into a beta state while leaving my fingers gently on my mouse -- which soon begins moving spasmodically on its pad much like a planchette. According to witnesses, there is the acrid smell of ectoplasm in the room as blood trickles down my monitor and eerily spells out the name of my troubled collaborator. When I awaken from my fugue state, the fractal is finished. However, I can take little credit for these works; after all, I am merely the vessel of a higher power.
Snowbound 7 (2011)
Danny Torrance: What was the Donner Party?
Jack Torrance: They were a party of settlers in covered-wagon times. They got snowbound one winter in the mountains. They had to resort to cannibalism in order to stay alive.
Danny Torrance: You mean they ate each other up?
Jack Torrance: They had to, in order to survive.
Wendy Torrance: Jack...
Danny Torrance: Dont worry, Mom. I know all about cannibalism. I saw it on TV.
Jack Torrance: See, it's OK. He saw it on the television.
--from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
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This is part of a new series that I've been making (as Frost said) while watching my woods fill up with snow.
Image initially made with Quasz. Post-processed until the image had to follow the rope strung between the house and the barn.
I'm sorry for the long intermission. Several writing projects monopolized my time. I hope to begin updating again with some semi-regularity.
While you're waiting for the St. Bernard to arrive, here's some music to enhance your viewing enjoyment.
Enjoy Russian Circles live in 2007 at Wicker Park Fest:
