Mandlebrot Set by Jonathan Coulton video by Pisut Wisessing made in Film 324

  I found this gem on the Reality Carnival the blog of Cliff Pickover
A music video for Jonathan Coulton's song Mandelbrot Set by Pisut Wisessing made in Film 324: Cornell Summer Animation Workshop, taught by animator Lynn Tomlinson every summer for Cornell's summer session, in the department of Theatre, Film & Dance. -summerkitchenstudio

BoxoZ2

BoxoZ2
Originally uploaded by jamesleese

This piece was recently completed for a series which is intended to be made into a calendar which means I've got to hurry but check back in a week or two if your interested in owning a copy
Update: The Calender is now ready for purchase check the most recent posts for the link. James

Carl Sagan Inspired Sunrise

Spla2
Originally uploaded by jamesleese

Here's a old one inspired by the sunrises envisioned by Carl Sagan
There is a video out on Youtube right now which has kind of gone geek viral which uses the same monolouge from Cosmos to create a truely infectious song created by Melody Sheep here's a link to the video on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc

or watch it here

I found an Official site for the amazing work of Dr Desmond Paul Henry a pioneer in generative design

I have never seen so much of his work in one place before and it was awesome please check out his highly informative website and beautiful images. One of the giants whose shoulders we all ride there is hardly a area of design which hasn’t been influenced by Dr Desmond Paul Henry http://www.desmondhenry.com/

BoxoW21

BoxoW21
Originally uploaded by jamesleese

I was asked why no new posts today, the answer. I've been drawing for two day's straight, right back to the Prismacolors. Which is good, I really like getting to the end of a pencil and I've been there five times in the last two days. The only thing bad about getting done with a drawing spell is the math spell that follows. The math part is where I stare at my sketches and try to describe them as algebra this can take a long time and can sometimes be a path to nowhere at all. Only recently have I begun to go back to those failures and tried the all new approach of instead of wondering why the math has failed me, to look back on the drawings and find where I failed the math in the beginning. This has been kind of a victory, but only due to a very limited form of time travel called revision.

Supersized Saturn Ring

Massive and I mean Astronomically Massive Ring Discovered around Saturn

A ring large enough to fit a 1,000,000,000 Earths was discovered around Saturn. I found this on cnn.com of all places  CNN New Saturn Ring
The article doesn't say anything about the electric universe hypothesis but I'm sure the folks at the Thunderblog will have for us a better explanation than gravitational theory on how this is even possible. I have some ideas but I would love to have their informed though contested (often irationally) opinions on this subject. I have a feeling the answer to this phenomenon is an electrical one. They can be found @ Thunderblog

All of Spring

All of Spring
Originally uploaded by jamesleese

So if I were to put out an edition of Keats work this is the piece I've often thought would be best. JL

THE REASON FOR THE NAME

The Inspiration for the name of the blog is this Poem by the writer John Keats. Who in my opinion was the single greatest writer the world has produced. His entire body of work was created in just about four years and his life was ended at the young age of twenty-five. This poem of his is my single favorite piece of writing ever put down on paper (the pre-Bush US Constitution was pretty awesome too) and If your interested in the lives of artists, his is a fascinating story. For a long time this poem was believed erroneously to be his last sonnet. When an autopsy was conducted immediately upon his death the doctor presiding said his organs were jelly and that he should have been dead three months earlier. The romantic notion was of him living purely of his own will for his last days and only finally succumbing to his illness,TB, when the last words were written, with Keats then victoriously meeting death on his own terms. This is not what the facts seem to imply but I still like the story. To people who read his work it was easy imagine someone who so forcefully and determinedly sought out the themes with which he created his writing could just as easily force liquefied internal organs to keep going in order to finish the following piece. James Leese


BRIGHT STAR, WOULD I WERE STEDFAST AS THOU ART

By John Keats

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art---
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors---
No---yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever---or else swoon in death.

1819

Boxbl12

This recent work in rectilinear forms is actually an old obsession and not a new one as it may seem. The recent spate is all due to some recent insights into memory storage and the concept of the holographic mind which would seem to reduce our thoughts to a collection of energy fields generated from the data stored in our neurons. Now the thing I'm wondering is what that information looks like in its flat pregenerated form, granted this would be a constantly changing image based upon our present thoughts. The straight line from one thought to another as it's traveled will necessarily lead you thought the intermediary thoughts which occupy that space the only reason this is not obvious seems to be the very fact that each thought we have changes the entire map though subtlety but the implications of a model like this becomes profound when the constantly changing map allows you to make brand new associations and find new patterns in old data. This is the only way we really learn anything anyway. In some small way every discovery and thought has the potential to change us and allow us to grow. To be better prepared for reality as it is. I'm still looking for the map. James Leese

Boxbloom6

Boxbloom6
Originally uploaded by jamesleese

So here's the piece which I had originally planned on posting today. This is one of two meant to share the same wall, a big wall. James Leese

Boxbloom10

Boxbloom10
Originally uploaded by jamesleese

I've gotten some comments which I am sad to say have far exceeded my own contributions to the world of comments and I am probably due to make a deposit in that particular karmic pool. A good example of this is a short poem I found attached to this image. It’s from a flickr user who goes by the name of Die Brucke and here it goes

sharp
edged
line
that turns
that
rotates
round and round
tonally
the colour
and colours
make it sure
of cause
yet you
have
with
total
congratulations
with total success
As
the painting
IS THERE
YET
IT
ISNT.
A significant
point
or
point of fact.
I hope I’ve communicated with interesting sincerity.
Yet Again I repeat
THE DESIGN ,or painting IS THERE ,BUT ,It isn’t.
HARMONIZES
beautiful
.
thank you
jason
Australia
Bathurst
Nsw

Thank you, Jason for the kind words. James Leese

b3g1

I really like deep rich blues, I dont have a lot to say about this one but I do hope you enjoy it James Leese
Prints are here

Excelterror3

Excelterror3
Originally uploaded by jamesleese

I don't usually post twice in a day but I got a comment on this one. Its one single comment which I thought was a cool example of coincidence and nomenclature, here's the quote "A good variant of Sierpinski's Triangle - interesting work!" now the cool part is that this comment came from one AJPenrose. Of course a Penrose is going to recognize a Sierpinski. Awesome. James Leese

Darksun6

Flow Flow Flow! It is quickly becoming a valid and fascinating area of study both in Physics and Psychology. Which each have theories based in the concept of flow, which in physics is an extrapolation of the "paths of least resistance" while in Psychology it based on a dynamic which for some reason amounts to a sense of contentment, I see this a s a contentment of "things going smoothly". Either way it describes a system in flux. The major difference between the two is that one describes external systems and the other includes you in the system and in fact is almost purely an internal mechanism working inside our minds. There is no preclusive reason to believe that these two theories could not at some point be combined so that they unify into one theory which encompasses both Psycology and Physical systems. Or is this just wishful thinking?  The prints are available here. James Leese

BW15B.1

At some point I need to come up with a title for this one which is one of my favorite graphic compositions. It started as a way to find curves for a font I have been working on and took on a life of its own and inspired a number of subsequent explorations. Prints are found here

dotrings2

dotrings2
Originally uploaded by jamesleese

I love Patterns they just make sense. But to me a pattern only really holds the attention when there is a variation contained within it. This was well understood by the Genius of Penrose and Mandelbrot who each created systems which we continue to learn from. Today I look to the mind of Steven Wolfram for inspiration on patterns and their capacity to contain information which is a concept which drives my work. James Leese

BW81

BW81
Originally uploaded by jamesleese

Math Is Sexy

Just Beautiful

This one has a few things which set it apart from the rest of my work. First it’s the closest thing to a traditional landscape which I've done and just about the most representational piece and one of my most colorful pieces to date. In many ways I look at it as a very successful combination of the processes I've spent much of my time developing. After its design and development which took me a solid week, I had to wait another sixty hours for the programs to fully render it out, but time which I feel was well spent. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Get a print here -James Leese

Curl 3

Curl 3
Originally uploaded by jamesleese

I usually try to stay away from forms and structures which are overtly fractal in nature but there’s something beautiful about a nice curl or spiral that I can't avoid for long.

Greales7

Greales7
Originally uploaded by jamesleese

I finished this one yesterday, these all got started with a desire to break plaid, and althought this is'nt the epitome that goal, I have to say I would love a tie with this pattern.

Contrasting Array

Feathersbw1
Originally uploaded by jamesleese

Delving deeper into some previously created logarithms but with newly created gradient and subtractive filters

Ripple9

Well I'm Kind of stuck on waves right now.

Part of the idea behind this piece has to do with how complexity and order can arise out of some very simple parameters. This piece started as points, each point carries a value which describes the distance between the rings and the final width of the ripple. The value of each intersection of ripple is the sum of the starting point value. Each of these intersections would in the next iteration be the value which then would decide the size and order of the next set of rings and starting points. As you can see this quickly turns into a dense and complex landscape of points and rings. I stopped before that point so that I could illustrate what for me is the more fascinating side effect of this process which is the order which develops along the rings themselves which is a fairly basic example of a interference array. What we find along each ring is another layer of order that being the spaces and gaps which break up the rings. Now if your as geeky as me you can start to see the opportunities that exist here for packing information here and with just a few starting points and values in the right context can create an unbelievably rich mathematical landscape, which is all anything else is really. So now you can see why when asked I am tempted to say "I'm kind of stuck on waves" and leave it at that.
The prints can be had here -James Leese

Giant Gummi Bears

Giant Gummies

Freak Of Nature Climbs Out Of Lake; Kids Kill It With Rocks

"A slimy, glob-like creature dubbed Gollum has terrified children after it slithered out of a lake and clambered over the rocks towards them.
The young teenagers were playing by the waterfront in a Panama lake near Cerro Azul when the bald beast emerged from a cave behind a waterfall. They started screaming as it shuffled out "as if to attack them""


http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Gollum-like_monster_emerges_from_lake&in_article_id=739578&in_page_id=2

Smoke I

SmokeB1
Originally uploaded by jamesleese

Yet Another In The Series

Plaid

Here's the next piece I will be making available in my personal POD (print on demand) experiment. Prints can be found here. -James Leese

CC experiment (Creative Commons)

Hello, I recently decided to offer a few of my pieces under a creative commons license, but I still haven’t decided which ones I’d like to choose for this experiment. So I’m asking your help in figuring it out. If you’re looking for an image for one of your projects and feel something in my stream is appropriate let me know which one you’re interested in and I just may be convinced to let you at it, it all depends on the particular images legal situation if its not licensed already chances are we can work something out. There’s a link to my photo stream to the right on this page and I’ll keep blogging on the process, its been interesting so far.
-James Leese

Curl

Here is Curl the first of what will be many unlimited editions to be self published. The prints can be found here enjoy James Leese

Dead Tired

Even dead I'm glad to be in San Francisco. Its the first place in the nation where non-violent dead were and are still afforded some slim measure of civil rights, for those of us who can still provide some productive role in society. This usually meant a janitorial or menial labor job. The guy handing out samples at the store, he's usually a zombie by now, as are most car park attendants, ticket takers at movie theaters, but even though they make great toll takers at the bridges our military still has to be there just incase something or a former someone tries to run, or even as remote as the possibility is, to drive across. All this employment doesn’t go without some risk, a zombie even a good zombie, is a lot like a dog, and I’m talking a good dog here; when driven by fear, abuse or loyalty, a dog or zombie can, and will bite, I’m no exception.

A new blog

So here we are at the begining of what is to be the central hub of my creative work. Starting out small and growing as fast as I can make it happen I hope you enjoy the work you find here and return frequently The first posting is an exerpt from a story I have been working on for the last year or so, I hope you like Zombies and Art. James Leese