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