French artist, Miguel Chevalier is known internationally as one of the pioneers of virtual and digital art. Currently, he has an interesting fractal installation which can be experienced at Wood Street Galleries in Pittsburgh, PA. Motion detectors allow the viewer to interact with the growth of the fractal "plants" which simulate nature. There are 8 varieties, ranging from flowering vegetation to cacti. Some say it's like walking through a living jungle because each plant seems to have a life of it's own.

I sure wish I could go see it but it ends December 31st and my schedule/pocketbook will not make allowances for traveling.

Also check out his monumental sculpture, Fractal Cloud that serves as an astronomical clock at night. This guy is sheer genius.

Weeee! Have fun playing with these 3D fractals. The Curlicue Fractal, and the Moving Fractal Tree are Java applets that let the user move the fractal around. Aws!

I love this site and everything in it. www.setpixel.com - I've blogged about the Interactive Waterfall before, but this time, I was particularly taken by the simplicity of Charles Forman's statement, "the tools that the artist uses are always the least important part of their creative process." Charles uses processing to make his art interactive and magical. You can see some of his genius at work in this video, I Love Water.

The entire site is completely entrancing so don't be surprised to find they've sucked you in with their genuis, creativity and smooth design... it's both eye and brain candy!

Haha, it reminded me of this post (which has far more comments than any other post on this blog, btw) that my husband made a little over a year ago. We think the loser just now figured out how to Google search his own name.

I have always thought that my Aunt Ki made the best pecan pie on the planet... that is until I saw this beauty over at Instructables!

Ugh! I want fractal pie for Thanksgivinnnnnng tooooo! Wonder if it tastes as good as it looks!

Jim Bumgardner of KrazyDad.com has been playing with the ideas of experimental film pioneer, John Whitney, using both graphics and audio in these Flash demonstrations. They are musical realizations of the motion graphics Whitney described in his book Digital Harmony.

This one just might be my favorite of all the variations!

Read more about the project here!

This animated CGI is a MUST SEE! Isfahan is a beautiful 3D rendering inspired by Persian architecture. Visit Cristóbal Vila's animation studio, Etérea for more eye candy!

I was asked to speak to an Art Appreciation class at Oakland College last Wednesday about fractal art and I talked about how you could keep zooming in to a fractal for an infinity and the patterns would never be the same, even if it were the size of the universe. This animation shows that theory in practice, by diving into the Mandelbrot set until finally, if the frame were the size of your screen, the full set would be larger than the known universe.



(Aside, if you would like to see the presentation I delivered to the class, you can find it here. Of course, you'll not be able to hear the lecture and the portions I elaborated on as there is not any sound attached.)

It's like I've died and gone to heaven.

And how!

Went to Lansing, MI last night to see a premier showing of this indy film in which my friend Jon played the part of Boyd. It's totally a movie for us geeks. Think comic convention, ren fest, ping pong, ninjas, storm troopers, Bud Bundy, a set of triplets and Brett Spiner (Data from Star Trek). And that's just for starters... there even a gratuitous Tucows logo appearance on a t-shirt in the party scene! How's that for geeky?

Jon was hilarious. I bet his fan club in Ohio will love his role in this movie. Oh yeah, Mike and I were extras. Our backs are in the movie for like a split second. My back will be famous. It will be sexier than that one Justin Timberlake is always talking 'bout.

You know you want to see the trailer... click--->   more »

Every day there is a new challenge at 256 Pixels. The challenge is to create a favicon (you know, those little images associated with a website that show up in the browser's URL bar, in the bookmarks, and the window tab) that represents the word of the day in a 16 x 16 pixel square.

Typorganism is a great interactive website dealing with type and presenting it as a living organizm that evolves.

Check it out.

Here's a fun little Araknoid type game for ya's - Plastic Balls

Free online games = Hip hip hooray!

Yes, it's true, fractal cross stitch patterns do exist! Some are being sold here at Nordic Needle along with other artistic cross stitch patterns like the Mona Lisa and Starry Night.

You can see one blogger's progress with her lovely fractal design here!