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Orbit Trap: The Road Stops at Digital
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Monday, September 21, 2009. The Road Stops at Digital. Is the entire digital art medium just too new and different for the art gallery world? Has the art world, that great destroyer of cultural norms and traditions, found a free-flowing, anarchic, internet-based digital medium too. Traditional to dive into? Is it because digital art can't be cornered by track lighting and nailed to the wall? Do they see digital art as free for all and good for nothing? Did I mention they can't make a buck off it? They ha...
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Orbit Trap: Conflicts of Interest in the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest
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Thursday, August 13, 2009. Conflicts of Interest in the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest. Don't you trust us? I am starting this post with a premise. Either the organizers and sponsors of the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest know absolutely nothing about how to run an art contest, or they have chosen to deliberately disregard established safeguards and universally accepted standards and practices. But it's not just OT who believes that art competitions should be run using established and agreed...
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Orbit Trap: Keith Mackay's Revisionist History
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Monday, October 26, 2009. Keith Mackay's Revisionist History. It was already dead, so I didn't see any point in keeping it around.". One of the few extant group blogs on fractal art got its plug pulled recently. This was no surprise since the wedream(ed)incolor blog. Run by Keith Mackay, had been on life support for some time. In fact, Tim wrote an OT post. About its terminal condition not long before Mackay decided to play Dr. Kevorkian. With it. In an October 10th post on his personal blog. And he clai...
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Orbit Trap: Winners First. Contest Later.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009. Winners First. Contest Later. Verdict first. Trial later. I showed in my last post. What OT found: a winners page for the 2009 Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest. That displayed current contest entrants placed into three categories: exhibition winner, alternate, and honorable mention. How could some entrants already have won when the contest does not close until October 10th? I asked a few more questions but mostly left you to draw your own conclusions. We put up a link t...
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Orbit Trap: Odds and Ends #2
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Monday, May 04, 2009. Odds and Ends #2. Fractalus: Too Big to Fail? Photograph seen on guardian.co.uk. Have you been keeping up with fractal art current events. Damien M. Jones, Fractalus. Overlord and co-director of the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest (BMFAC), emerges from his cyber-cave to clarify why various sites and pages (like two BMFAC repositories) hosted by his server have recently gone missing. Here, from the Ultra Fractal Mailing List. From Fractalus to a server in the Netherlands? After...
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Orbit Trap: The Damien M. Jones Fractal Art Contest
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Monday, September 28, 2009. The Damien M. Jones Fractal Art Contest. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The recent revelatory leak. That a pre-sorted "winners page". Was being built by the director of the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest. The Damien M. Jones Fractal Art Contest. After all, that's what it truly is. It wasn't enough to load the judging panel with Ultra Fractal. Produce and to hold up their style as rigorously judged, if not the epitome of our art form.
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Orbit Trap: Phase Two: A Real Fractal Art Exhibition
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Thursday, September 17, 2009. Phase Two: A Real Fractal Art Exhibition. I think Tim's recent observations that fractal art is about to undergo into a new Phase Two paradigm shift. Are on target. Fractal art will never evolve beyond a curious, trippy, decorative craft until it moves away from being defined by software and instead starts thinking and acting like a legitimate form of expression within the broader parameters of the fine arts. The Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest. Working with glass scul...
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Orbit Trap: July 2006
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Monday, July 31, 2006. Who am I and what is this? Everybody knows Terry, but what about me, Igor. I like words and pictures. Like Dick and Perry, together they form a third personality. Illustrated, illuminated, an alloy. I like machines that make pictures. Preferably ones with fewer buttons that enslave the computer, harnessing clever algorithms and making them do all the work, like some computerized Rumplestiltskin turning digital straw into digital gold, which I then write my name on. Fractal art star...
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Orbit Trap: Dan Wills: Fractal Columbus
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009. Dan Wills: Fractal Columbus. Click for larger view-. Like a needle in a haystack, or a glowing. Needle in a fractal formula, is the rumor of a continent over the horizon or the possibility of some new and intriguing fractal artwork out there, somewhere. On the internet. My impression after browsing over Dan Wills' Picasa web gallery. Is that he's someone who excels in searching out new kinds of fractal imagery. Click for larger view-. Well, let's continue our voyage. The hazy...
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Orbit Trap: Sailing into the Horror
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Monday, October 26, 2009. Sailing into the Horror. Click on the image above to see a large-scale version.]. This is a guest posting by Guido Cavalcante. His image was made using Ultra Fractal. Excerpts in this post were taken from "Our Oceans Are Turning into Plastic.Are We? By Susan Casey. For more information about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, please see this post. The current print edition of. The facts happened twelve years ago. His 50-foot aluminum-hulled catamaran, sliced through the sea. Moore...
