Ascii Art History
The Buddhabrot Fractal, Mandelbrot Set, and The Logistic Map
The Buddhabrot is a fractal rendering technique related to the Mandelbrot set. Its name reflects its pareidolic resemblance to classical depictions of Gautama Buddha, seated in a meditation pose with a forehead mark (tikka) and traditional topknot (ushnisha).…
The Mass Imprisonment of American Women Believed to be Sexually Immoral
For much of the 20th century in America, a little-known but widespread government program locked [women] up without trials simply for having sexually transmitted infections—and then forced them to undergo…
PP Arnold’s Lost Masterpiece “The Turning Tide”
Patricia Ann Cole, known professionally as PP Arnold, is an American soul singer who enjoyed considerable success in the United Kingdom from the 1960s onwards. Raised in the African-American Watts ghetto of Los Angeles,…
How To Run High Use Apps During Off-Peak Hours
Most electricity utilities charge higher rates during “peak” hours, times and/or days of the week during which the public typically uses a lot of energy. If you run energy intensive…
Us vs Them, Manufactured Revenge Porn & Democracy
I follow Fareed Zakaria, the Indian-American journalist, political scientist, and author. He is the host of CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post. I find Zakaria’s reports to be…
Kikagaku Moyo at Fernwood Tavern in Big Sur 3/10/2019
Kikagaku Moyo (Japanese: 幾何学模様 Hepburn: Kikagaku Moyō) are a Japanese psychedelic band from Tokyo. The band’s name translates to “geometric patterns.” A friend invited me to accompany her to the March 10, 2019 show at Fernwood Tavern in…
Santa Cruz Surfer Monument
This is a digitally modified photograph I took of the Surfer Monument that stands near Lighthouse Point on West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz, California. The monument is an 18…
Big Lyapunov Exponent Bug
Fractal visually depicting the Lyapunov exponents of an iterated map of the plane. Generated with a fractal software laboratory written by Dr. Ronald Joe Record. I find it interesting that,…
Life and Death in Art
A series of digitally modified photographs of a composition containing moss, air plants, and skulls. I took these photos on my front deck and digitally modified them using the Visionist…