Behind the Burlesque (2011)
[Click on the image above to see the view with binoculars.]
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
--I. F. Stone
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Image initially made with Quasz. Post-processed until it had taken most of it all off.
From One Horse to Another (2011)
[Click on the image above to see the view with binoculars.]
After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.
--Black Elk
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Image initially made with Quasz. Post-processed but never broken.
Bless You (2011)
[Click on the image above to see the view with binoculars.]
In which I have lived like a foot
For thirty years, poor and white,
Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.
--Sylvia Plath, "Daddy"
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Image initially made with Quasz. Post-processed until it asked for a Kleenix.
Cyclops BFF (2011)
Female cyclopes are not mentioned in any classical sources.
--Wikipedia entry on cyclops.
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Image initially made with Quasz. Post-processed right up to the logjam.
Spill (2000)
From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented.
--Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, May 2010
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Image probably initially made with Fractal Zplot. Post-processed until the landscape was slickly altered.
Feather Tigers (2000)
Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
--Gene Wolfe
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This piece is inspired by Wolfe's story "Feather Tigers." Initial image probably made in Sterling-ware. Post-processed until it joined The People of the Yellow Leaves.
Gene Splicing the Saints (2001)
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
--St. Thomas Aquinas
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Image initially made with Dofo-Zon Elite. Post-processed until the required miracle occurred.
And to supplement your viewing pleasure: "Eight Miles High" by Husker Du.
The Past (2002)
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
--William Faulkner
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Image initially made with Sterling-ware. Post-processed until it became the future.
To supplement your viewing enjoyment: "Eight Miles High" by Leo Kottke:
Drug War Burning Bush (1999)
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Seneca, 65 A.D.
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Initially created with Vchira. Post-processed until the drug-sniffing dog checked the trunk.
Fractal art can sometimes be trippy, so I think the next few posts should be enhanced with music and video.
"Eight Miles High" by the Byrds:
The Saw Is Family (2010)
You have one choice, boy: sex or the saw. Sex is, well, nobody knows. But the saw, the saw is family.
Drayton, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
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Sorry for my last mopefest post. What was that all about?
I'll just put up stuff that has already been out or that never goes out anyway.
This blog always has been an exercise in rummaging around in my attic.
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Image initially made with Quasz. Post-processed until it danced in the middle of the road at the end.
