Rudolph Agonistes

Rudolph Agonistes (2009)

Red nose
my ass. It was
budget cuts. The haunts

of Christmas Town are shut
by drifts. Santa even took out
the candy stripe pole.

Incomplete toys
pile up on the workshop floor
like unread Milton

or water from former glaciers
or war
on earth not peace.

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Image initially made with Fractal Zplot. Post-processed until it "led all the rest." Text is a Google poem collaged from search strings of rudolph agonistes.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, found poetry, google poem, rudolph agonistes, too big to fail too poor for sales, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Football Drill

Football Drill (2009)

Make the most of your practice time:

like conditioning those who oppose you,
like making that catch on the edge of the world,
like a routine of agility,
like two-minute explosiveness,
like battle tested snaps and cheers,
like Draconian concussive choices,
like bass runs by black Steelers,
like rushing the spirit of good shuffles,
like a category for the quickness of flags,
like cervical cord injuries with common themes.

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Image initially made with QuaSZ. Post-processed until it had carried in the last dummy. Text is a Google poem collaged from search strings of football drill.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, football drill, found poetry, google poem, faster harder, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Catholic Hangover

Catholic Hangover (2009)

[Click on the image above to see the view with binoculars.]

Chanting freestyle witchcraft.
Feasting on The One
at banquets advertising guy comedies.

The beauty of the church
I decry.

Diocesian sacrifice.

The church forbids marriage
if either party is infertile and I do
I think Madonna is the only fit Catholic

to pass
the ball for St Michael's.

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Image initially made with Fractal Zplot. Post-processed until it felt guilty enough.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, found poetry, google poems, view with binoculars, catholic hangover, madonna takes no sacks, cruelaninal, blog with a view

Low Cut

Low Cut (2009)

Image initially made with Sterling-ware 2. Post-processed until it had revealed enough.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, low cut, why are you staring at my image while i'm blogging with you, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Gollum Leads the Way

Gollum Leads the Way (2009)

"It's the only way. Go back, or go in."
--Gollum

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Image initially made with Sterling-ware 2. Post-processed until it became my precious.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, gollum, gollum leads the way, lord of the rings, my precious, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Peter Rabbit Sells His Soul

Peter Rabbit Sells His Soul (2009)

[Click on the image above to see the view with binoculars.]

A new view to look over. No text today.

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Image inititally made with Sterling-ware 2. Post-processed until it developed a hankering for the Lake District.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, peter rabbit sells his soul, view with binoculars, fungi watercolors rock, cruelanimal, blog with a view

The Natives Are Restless

The Natives Are Restless (2009)

Whether Hawaii style or swimming
the swamps of south Florida no one cares
what you see through your telescope. If you invest
wisely in the skirmish between the Theatre of the Vampires
and Darkest England you won't wind up
in stew. Unusual drum music
and other exotica like carbon paper
and flutes may be downloaded, and Mexican
complaints whip out faster than meat
shaken by belly dancing. I sense you're not
particularly interested in me. You might
hang a snap of my loin cloth on Flickr
and think differently after spinal taps by spear
and a sloppily shrunken head.

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Image initially made with Fractal Zplot. Post-processed until the revolving spit malfunctioned. Text is a Google poem collaged from search strings of the natives are restless.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, found poetry, google poem, the natives are restless, bwana a go go, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Water Lilies

Water Lilies (2009)

French films, newly sexualized by critics,
synonyms for hybrids, light floaters
better planted in a framed bayou

by Monet. I burst out of green sleeves,
my hands like koi under a pond's sheen,
a prop in Bardot's backdrop.

Something breaks the surface
Someone bends the design

until synopsis is like awful wallpaper.
The lotus is jealous of all splashing
giving rise to a new new wave.

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Update: I corrected a wrong word typo.

Image originally made with Fractal Zplot. Post-processed until it could no longer change the filter. Text is a Google poem collaged from search strings of water lilies.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, computer art, water lilies, google poem, found poem, i'm not your stepping stone, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Werewolf Syndrome

Werewolf Syndrome (2009)

[Click on the image above to see the view with binoculars.]

Image initially made with QuaSZ. Post-processed until Phish wrote a song about it.

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Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, computer art, werewolf syndrome, view with binoculars, lon faked it, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Nefertiti

Nefertiti (2009)

[Click on the image above to see the view with binoculars.]

Image initially made with QuaSZ. Post-processed until it changed from polytheistic to henotheistic.

I usually listen to music while I work on art. Here's a shuffle of what's been playing in "the studio" lately:

1. "Mannequin" (Live) by Firehose
2. "Anti-Orgasm" by Sonic Youth
3. "Man with Golden Helmet" by Radio Birdman
4. "Don't Let Me Down" (from Let It Be -- Naked) by The Beatles
5. "Lo Batt" (Peel Session) by Man or Astroman
6. "Words" (long version from Archives Box Set) by Neil Young
7. "Tension Makes a Tangle" (from Secrets of the I Ching) by 10,000 Maniacs
8. "Said the People" by Dinosaur Jr.
9. "My City Was Gone" (Live at the Fillmore) by The Pretenders
10. "Nancy Reagan's Head" by Mission of Burma

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Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, computer art, nefertiti, view with binoculars, egypt a go go, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Neck Problems

Neck Problems (2009)

[Click on the image above to see the view with binoculars.]

Image initially made with QuaSZ. Post-processed until it became a pain...in the...well...you know.

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Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, computer art, view with binoculars, neck problems, pass the ben-gay, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Cliffside

Cliffside (2009)

[Click on the image above to see the view with binoculars.]

Going back into photoblog mode for a spell. Enjoy a few new pieces in binoculars view.

Image initially made with QuaSZ. Post-processed until I used that mudslide filter.

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Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, computer art, cliffside, view with binoculars, i can see for miles, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Shields Up

Shields Up (2009)

The daily handlers of Congress feel more vulnerable.

Your un-numbered patch enhances journalist's rights.

Your global cooperative explodes like twin stars.

Back in the real world malware is everywhere.

Websites that scan your drives kill Facebook friends.

Please clean up whatever HDTV mess you made first.

Your energy barrier still somehow lets Twitter through.

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Image initially made with QuaSZ. Post-processed until she can't take much more, Captain. Text is a Google poem collaged from search strings of the phrase shields up.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, computer art, found poetry, google poem, shields up, im givin her all shes got, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Who Invited the Crows?

Who Invited the Crows? (2009)

I invited your friends

but not you. I met a lot of people like me

on reservations with nothing who said

Oh, king, I am so grateful for scraps, you said.

Eat the pindas, you said. Invoke a full moon,

you said. Do you think I am responsible

for history, you said. Make a hundred dresses,

you said. Spook me with your cawing,

you said. My feathers are much darker,

you said. Twines His Tail told me, you said.

Plymouth hurt my head, you said, and who ever said

I want to pick through your leavings anyway, you said.

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Image initially made with QuaSZ. Post-processed until fully scavenged. Text is a Google poem collaged from search strings of the phrase who invited the crows.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, computer art, who invited the crows, are you going to eat that, cruelanimal, blog with a view

The Sun Gets in Your Eyes

The Sun Gets in Your Eyes (2009)

[Click on the image above to see the view with binoculars.]

Sunglasses filter your radar.
Slather sunscreen over
your dark lenses
because you don't know what

love is. Expose
all storms not burned away
to me. So what
clouds left burn off like rice

paper. I write
to you about a sun upside
down until images
fill your brain with fire.

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Something else new. Image initially made with Sterling-ware 2. Post-processed until appropriately supermassive. Text is a Google poem collaged from search strings of the phrase the sun gets in your eyes.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, found poetry, the sun gets in your eyes, and now you are peeling, view with binoculars, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Gumby Doppelganger

Gumby Doppelganger (2009)

I look like stop-motion
photography but

my rubber tail is
a square,

hard lines. I live
briefly

to ascertain,
to massacre.

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Image initially made with Sterling-ware 2. Post-processed until it became plasticine. Text is a Google poem collaged from search strings of the phrase: gumby doppelganger.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, found poetry, gumby doppelganger, but got no pokey, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Cyclops

Cyclops (2009)

As Cyclops, Scott Summers became deputy leader of the X-Men. While he was a skilled tactician, his social skills were lacking. Scott had fallen in love with his teammate Jean Grey, but his reserved demeanor prevented him from expressing his feelings for her for years.
--Marvel Database

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Something new. Image initially made with Sterling-ware 2. Post-processed until totally optically blasted.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, cyclops, x-men, scott summers, you're a dick, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Who Buzzed Roger Rabbit?

Who Buzzed Roger Rabbit? (2009)

All our animated talk. For what?
You loved how we fixed our mix up. You said
Come in . Slam it. No more. Get out.
I think you were being ironic or were you
being laconic? You know what
people are saying? You twit-
ter better than you think and Jessica
is no Jolie but she tweets more
sweetly. You slink around
my head like cheap wallpaper turned
inside out. I'm stuck, stuck
to the wrong side of you.

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Image initially made with QuaSZ. Post-processed until it wasn't bad but just drawn that way. Text is a Google poem collaged from search strings of who buzzed roger rabbit.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, computer art, found poetry, google poem, who buzzed roger rabbit, you make my eyes pop out like daggers, cruelanimal, blog with a view

You Better Notice the New Carpet

You Better Notice the New Carpet (2009)

[Click on the image above to see the view with binoculars.]

Here's your to-do list:
Create a traffic problem.
Dump some fuzz balls.
Never ever use a vacuum.
Shed.

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Image initially made with Sterling-ware 2. Post-processed into a deep stain. Text is a found "Google poem" collaged from search strings of you better notice the new carpet.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, found poetry, you better notice the new carpet, steam clean that sucker, view with binoculars, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Bucky Katt

Bucky Katt (2009)

Do not go gentle into that cold bath!
--Darby Conley, Bucky Katt's Big Book of Fun

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Image originally made with QuaSZ. Post-processed until it wanted a tuna smoothie.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, computer art, bucky katt, darby conley, a bad writer is just a good writer with writers block, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Angry Sawhorse

Angry Sawhorse (2009)

Can't you
protect me from masculinity? One

knotty eye on
a headless stick body
is no throne. That no-brains

Jack Pumpkinhead burns me.
I need to make a stand
with orange cones so angry men
swearing,
gesticulating are
tricked into seeing me
as a royal carriage.

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Image initially made with QuaSZ. Post-processed until I fell off. Text is a "Google poem" collaged together from search stings of angry sawhorse.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, found poetry, google poem, angry sawhorse, please come back marius daniel urzica, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Sinister Riptide

Sinister Riptide (2009)

[Click on the image above to see the view with binoculars.]

This is the end result of another image I worked on while "going live" last weekend, an experience I talked about in my last post.

The image was begun in a local restaurant during Art Week 09, part of which includes placing artists in various venues around Little Rock and North Little Rock. Artists were supposed to work on pieces and show their process. My wife and I set up in Sticky Fingerz in Little Rock's River Market district. I'd spent days before assembling a traveling digital studio on my laptop, so we packed up laptop, projector, screen, mike, stands, cords, and karaoke machine, and off we went. I worked on fractal/digital art for four hours and talked to many interesting and interested people, including several graphic designers, a mathematician, and other artists.

The set-up at Sticky Fingerz.

I worked on four pieces live and considered none of them done. I posted the last live "draft" of one image named (by the crowd) Sticky Lucky Cat to show what had been done live. That image is still being worked over at my home studio where it will one day appear as Lucky Cat, that is, the final image. Sinister Riptide began live and then was beat severely around the pixels in the comforts of home.

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Image initially made with Sterling-ware 2 and processed live at Sticky Fingerz on May 9th. The crowd provided the title. Later further post-processed until it finally went out.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, sinister riptide, sticky lucky cat, art week 09, sticky fingerz, little rock, little rock arts, iterating live, view with binoculars, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Sticky Lucky Cat

Sticky Lucky Cat (2009)

[Click on the image above to see the view with binoculors.]

Last night, I participated in Art Week 09.

One aim of the festivities was to place visual artists in various locales around the cities of Little Rock and North Little Rock. I received a call from one of the coordinators asking me if I'd like to participate. He had visited my web site and had liked my "paintings." I had to explain that I made digital art. Although every other participating artist was either painting or creating mixed media constructions, I said I could take a laptop and projector and demonstrate how I make my art. He agreed and put me on the schedule. I spent several days doing the best I could to build a portable digital art studio on my laptop.

So, come Saturday afternoon, Cindy (my wife) and I packed up: laptop, projector, stands, portable screen, mike, karaoke machine (for sound), and a few prints (for show).

We set up at Sticky Fingerz, a restaurant and music venue, in Little Rock's River Market, and I made art for four hours while we talked to the crowd, showed off prints, and handed out business cards. I worked on five images -- explaining my process as I went and taking suggestions from the audience as to what should be kept or undone. Some friends dropped by, and I talked to a number of cool people, including a mathematician and several graphic designers. One guy even wanted me to teach him Photoshop.

It was a good time, and I hope the Art Week organizers ask me to participate again next year.

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Sticky Lucky Cat was created live at Sticky Fingerz on Saturday, May 9th. The title was suggested by someone in the crowd. Image initially made with QuaSZ and post-processed until the audience agreed it was done.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, art week 09, sticky fingerz, little rock, little rock river market, sticky lucky cat, iterating live, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Bush Retires to His Ranch

Bush Retires to His Ranch (2009)

[Click on the image above to see the view with binoculars.]

Most weekends
more tourists bloom
in Crawford
dumbly. Loafing,
swimming
in a pool scooped over
dead pigs
and brush killed off
he thinks of friends in Dubai
and prays
Please
have mercy on me
Madame Biographer
Please
preserve my legacy of murder-

ing
everything.

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Update: I misunderestimated the poem and edited it slightly.

Image initially made with QuaSZ. Post-processed 183 times in one month. Text is a Google poem collaged from search strings for "bush retires to his ranch."

Tags: fractal. fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, found poetry, bush retires to his ranch, no it was only 83 times, cruelanimal, blog with a view

The Direct Approach

The Direct Approach (2009)

I think I'll just let this one do its own talking.

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Image initially made with QuaSZ. Post-processed until its interface got in my face.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, the direct approach, you yeah you what are you looking at, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Picnic or Death

Picnic or Death (2009)

Ants and savages put strangers to death.
--Betrand Russell

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Image initially made with QuaSZ. Post-processed until the corn on the cob was carried off.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, picnic or death, take that thomas hardy, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Shark Hunting Down Under

Shark Hunting Down Under (2009)

The Great White downloaded
spam that
hung upside down.

On the bottom
of the food chain
was an obit and silver cage

sleek as seal skin.
Aussies in the belly suggest
bad house-hunting.

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Image initially made with QuaSZ. Post-processed until it became my chum. Text is a "Google poem" collaged together from search strings of shark hunting down under.

Tags:fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, found poetry, shark hunting down under, chomp, jawbone of an ass like mad max, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Erik

Erik (2009)

~Erik~
Born during the Boulevard Massacre.
Self educated musician and master of Black Art.
Exiled to Devil's Island for criminal insane.

Escaped--
Now At Large.
--An intertitle card from the 1925 silent version of The Phantom of the Opera

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Image initially made with QuaSZ. Post-processed until it called out in an angelic voice to Christine from beyond a wall.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, erik, phantom of the opera, man of 1000 fractals, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Intense Gamer

Intense Gamer (2009)

I hang around my house
on after burner making sure to get
the last shot. Pushing my buttons causes
a newly identified skin disorder.

You decide, Digerati

if my slight anger problem
pushes my skills or just tilts your Halo.
I smash my keyboard with mecha force
into my soon famous forehead.

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Image initially made with QuaSZ. Post-processed until painful lesions started to appear on its palms. Text is a Google poem collaged from search strings of intense gamer.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, found poetry ,google poem intense gamer, digerati, on a cheeto run, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Stations of the Cross

Stations of the Cross (2001)

Initially made with Fractal Zplot. Post-processed until Mel Gibson hijacked my computer.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, stations of the cross, mel gibson, lent happens, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Archaic Torso of Apollo

Archaic Torso of Apollo (1998)

Image initially made in Tiera-Zon. Post-processed until Rilke swore off statues.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, archaic torso of apollo, you must change your life, ultimate tanning bed, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Monsoon Shelter

Monsoon Shelter (1998)

Image initially made with Tiera-Zon. Post-processed until it blew over.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, monsoon shelter, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Waxwings

Waxwings (1999)

Image initially made with Tiera-Zon. Post-processed until the image died after eating fermented fruit.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, waxwings, drinking and migration, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Pesticide Rush

Pesticide Rush (1999)

Image initially made with Tiera-Zon. Post-processed until it leached into groundwater.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, fractal based digital art, pesticide rush, advantages of a third eye, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Limeaide as an Alternate Energy Source

Limeaide as an Alternate Energy Source (2002)

Image initially made with Dofo-Zon Elite. Post-processed until I soured on it.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, limeaide as an alternate energy source, sour power, cruelanimal, blog with a view

His Boy Elroy

His Boy Elroy (2001)

Image initially made with QuaSZ. Post-processed until it made the move from Flintstones to Jetsons.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, his boy elroy, stop this crazy thing, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Still Blue

Still Blue (1999)

Initially made with Sterling-ware. Post-processed until the image became even more melancholy.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, still blue, cruelanimal, blog with a view

Backwash

Backwash (2000)

Blog with a View, on some level, has always been a photoblog for my digital and fractal art and was designed in part to function like a virtual gallery. And so, I'd like to start the new year by posting some earlier work without comment.

Tags: fractal, fractals, fractal art, fractal blog, digital art, backwash, cruelanimal, blog with a view