tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12229254.post113417003333262610..comments2023-10-01T11:09:42.394-04:00Comments on Blog with a View: Robot Dream of Lovecruelanimalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08045809979308725755noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12229254.post-1134586680283834932005-12-14T13:58:00.000-05:002005-12-14T13:58:00.000-05:00I've always enjoyed naming images -- just as I tak...I've always enjoyed naming images -- just as I take pleasure in naming poems. I want titles to be suggestive and to enhance the interpretive possibilities of a work.<BR/><BR/>As I said, some fractal artists use numerical titles. Generally, these are fractal "purists" -- meaning they do not "post-process" fractals but prefer images to remain unaltered once generated.<BR/><BR/>Trust me. Much ink-blood has been spilled on the pros/cons of this debate. I think of myself on the far left. I post-process with wild abandon -- often disrupting and destroying the fractal forms in my artistic process. But if you stripped away all the graphic layers of my images, you'd end up with the original fractal made with the original parameter file.<BR/><BR/>I make fractal-based art -- not fractals per se. Still, if you visit my web site and explore my early galleries, you will see plenty of non-processed fractals.<BR/><BR/>I am not interested in bending math to discover what images I can produce. My passion is to use math to kick start a digital painting.<BR/><BR/>That said, I respect and admire many artists working hard to produce a more "pure" (and I dislike these unworkable terms) fractal art using mathematics to shape imagery. I get annoyed, though, when some fractalists (like Joseph Trotsky) condemn me for "vandalizing" and "polluting" the general state of fractal art. Them's fightin' words and just spur me to pile on more Photoshop dynamite to blow up my fractals real good.<BR/><BR/>I once argued that making art is like a knife fight. There are no rules. You do whatever you can to get your art to be born and to survive -- even if sometimes you fail and your art is slashed and dies in the course of the struggle.<BR/><BR/>And I have no problem if math-based artists want to name their work after numbers. Maybe they feel it's a tribute to the triggering formulae -- or, perhaps, they don't want to overly bias a viewer's interpretation. Emily Dickinson's poems have no titles, and they still take the top of my head off.<BR/><BR/>But numerical titles always seemed a little too Racterized for me -- too impersonal. Besides, I love the act of titling. It brings closure, since it's usually the last step I take before feeling an image is finished. Moreover, titles nudge readers and viewers into new ways of seeing. If I spy The Hulk or Chumley in a fractal-crunched image, why not poke you in that direction? The wondrous thing about art is that you'll still personalize any given work. Like Racter's poetry, you make your own meanings and emotional connections.<BR/><BR/>Once I display an image in this blog, it's no longer mine to interpret -- in spite of my sometimes rambling, babbling annotations. <BR/><BR/>Any art comes alive only when it's seen or heard or read.<BR/><BR/>I see things in my head. I try to recreate what I envision using a computer. But I don't get to decide if my pictures are art.<BR/><BR/>You do.cruelanimalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08045809979308725755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12229254.post-1134575008862688952005-12-14T10:43:00.000-05:002005-12-14T10:43:00.000-05:00Artists using NUMBERS for titles? I have this rob...Artists using NUMBERS for titles? I have this robust picture in my head, a typical workday in Eden and Adam pointing to sexy wisps of vegetation, narrowing his eyes a bit and shouting, "You are fortyfourthouseandsixhundredthirtyone!"<BR/><BR/>Appalling. <BR/><BR/>I see a fabulous blog topic emerging on the act of naming. I'd write it myself, but I'm busy grading mediocre Comp I papers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12229254.post-1134558977299731662005-12-14T06:16:00.000-05:002005-12-14T06:16:00.000-05:00Oh, by the way, I'm glad you title them. You come...Oh, by the way, I'm glad you title them. You come up with the greatest titles.idyllopushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06499970885405514498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12229254.post-1134558435107191352005-12-14T06:07:00.000-05:002005-12-14T06:07:00.000-05:00Depends. But I rarely have the titles first. Alm...Depends. But I rarely have the titles first. Almost never. Straightforward things like "Salome" yes. Or a series idea which consists of one word. But I tend to hate having to think up titles for individual paintings. Has always been a chore for me.idyllopushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06499970885405514498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12229254.post-1134499457922515632005-12-13T13:44:00.000-05:002005-12-13T13:44:00.000-05:00I almost always come up with the image first and t...I almost always come up with the image first and then the title. Sometimes, though, when working on an image, a title will come to me. When that happens, I consciously try to shape the image to better fit with the title.<BR/><BR/>Some fractal artists dislike titles and instead prefer numerical designations for their images.<BR/><BR/>How about you and your art? Which comes first for you?cruelanimalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08045809979308725755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12229254.post-1134492674274289702005-12-13T11:51:00.000-05:002005-12-13T11:51:00.000-05:00I'm curious whether you came up with the image the...I'm curious whether you came up with the image then title, the title then the image, or were they born together.idyllopushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06499970885405514498noreply@blogger.com