Fractals Under Glass, a fractalicious Philip Glass-infused slideshow video

It's groovy! It's smoovy! Check out this five-minute musical slideshow of six dozen of my new fractals set to Philip Glass' 'Metamorphosis' as played by Mark Thomas. This is the first time I've used OSX app Photos (formerly iPhoto) to make a slideshow and it was surprisingly intuitive, easy and fun.

Posted by Dennis Wilen on Friday, October 16, 2015

 

It's groovy! It's smoovy! Check out this five-minute musical slideshow of six dozen of my new fractals set to Philip Glass' Metamorphosis as played by Mark Thomas.

This is the first time I've used OSX app Photos (formerly iPhoto) to make a slideshow and it was surprisingly intuitive, easy and fun.

I'm back in the fractal again

An old friend recently inquired if I'd be interested in creating some fractal images for a video project. I was flattered, of course, but didn't know how to respond since I hadn't made/discovered any new fractals for at least 10 years. But I was intrigued enough to first download the old shareware I used when I was a fractalmaniac, Fractal Domains, enter ye olde serial number, and see if I still had any feel for the medium. I liked what I came up with enough to search for newer faster shinier software and I grabbed the freeware version of Chaotica. Here's the first image I generated.

Diego Rivera’s Wife Frida Kahlo ‘Gleefully Dabbles’ in Works of Art

In the early 1930s, Frida Kahlo joined her (at the time) much more famous husband Diego Rivera in Detroit, Michigan, where he was prepping murals. The Detroit News caught up with the couple and the resulting feature story is in a new exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Art.

“Senora Diego Rivera,” as she’s called in the article, didn’t let Diego hog the limelight, even though she was dressed in a “foolish little ruffled apron.”

“Of course he [Diego] does pretty well for a little boy,” she told reporter Florence Davies, “but it is I who am the big artist.”