Dark Planetoid

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Friday, December 30, 2005

"Find your music in the computational universe"

WolframTones uses cellular automata to create musical compositions.

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Extraordinary Flowers

New York City artist Katinka Matson uses a scanner and Photoshop to create "surreally real" images of flowers.

"New technologies equal new perceptions. We create tools and then mould ourselves through our use of them."

"Images created by scanning direct-to-CCD cut away layers, and go to a deeper place in us than our ordinary seeing and vision."

Blind Shrike

I just read Richard Kadrey's great novel Blind Shrike that is available for free online at The Infinite Matrix.

With the help of a blind swordswoman, tattooed Spyder begins a gleefully dark journey from the alleys of San Francisco to the depths of Hell, from the Bardo Lounge to the Bardo Realm....