Tag: Creativity

Things Come to Life (Metaphors always get out of hand.)

When I tested Procreate (my iPad drawing software) initially, I had a drawing practice I called A Thing a Day – drawing something I saw right now, or a detail from a photo I took myself. Now I have been throwing a few of these things together to create a surreal collage! A collage of…
Repetitive!

I told you: It will be repetitive, it will be boring, and it will maybe be weird…. my art blogging, that is! I have opted out of scraping for AI training. Maybe my articles will gradually also fade away in search engines’ indices – when search engines and AI will have become one. Again, I…
Blogging Anniversary: Art, Not Cyber

Looking at my blog statistics, I see that that post is trending again. The last article on cyber security, written end of March 2023. There is a bunch of older tech blogs that seem to have become evergreens. I cannot do anything against it, sorry. But this has been an art blog for more than…
Centennial Light. Paper to Leather.

I have drawn the Centennial Bulb, and I turned paper to leather, sort of. In a warped sense, the texture of the image made sense though! ~ I am using Centennial Light. Paper to Leather. as a seed for Google poetry: Search for this phrase in a private window, click on the search results, one…
An Impossible, Wormhole-Facilitated Collaboration

I created my ribbons of diffraction two years ago. No, I do not need a wormhole to go back to 2022! But I used one, back then – connecting to the 17th century. My ribbons are flapping and flopping in dark empty space. I needed space probes to inspect them: I found those in an…
Timid Violet Ripples Morphing into Distorted Waves of Red

I am finding poetry again – Constructing the Labyrinth from Which I Plan to Escape! Again, my visual art should give me the title for the poem! The title shall also be the seed I feed to Google. These artworks are from the era when I did not name them. This is just number 2…
On the Fringes of Colours

I am turning Thomas Young’s sparkling language into poetry! Raw material: The Bakerian Lecture, Experiments and Calculations relative to Physical Optics, 1803. It’s really Colours, not Colors in this case! I am picking a single line from the first page of this historical article, two lines from each other page. No editing and rearranging allowed!…
Creative Process. An Accidental Post!

This has been an old draft that I have accidentally published today :-) I have taken it offline quickly because it seemed outdated, and maybe too long-winded. I did not publish it when I wrote it in January 2022; at that time I did not want to overdo art posts, in comparison with pure science…
After the Encounter

Aeons ago I was an aspiring junior manager attending a workshop that should prepare me for the challenges of leadership. With other tech experts soon-to-be-turned managers, I did a warm-up exercise: Crafting a short story. Each sentence had to start with a letter of my full name. This might have been the earliest trace of…
Solid and Ethereal. Reality and Imagination.

. Leaning on each other. Cutting through each other. Two towers are floating through empty space. Infinitely elongated bells. Delicate metal tubes. Tubular Bells. Forming rings. Ethereal, yet solid. . . I am crafting virtual sculptures: with code, I draw structures based on mathematical functions. I got to know these functions when I was learning…
$Stargate of Diffraction. Escaping the Labyrinth of Colorful Wires.$

Stargate of Diffraction. Escaping the Labyrinth of Colorful Wires.

This blog has been many things. Experimental poetry playground, notes from the field by a small business owner, popular science and tech blog, compilation of dry research reports, self-referential musing of a web developer. The only intersection between all of this has been me being interested & invested in it. I had tech-blogged myself into…
The Origin of Darkness

Where does it come from? Why and when did my physics/math/engineering art decide to only dwell on black backgrounds? I am sure there are proper theories in the history of art. I can come up with some armchair psychologist’s explanations – blaming popular culture, clichés, a collage of archetypical memories. I am a hacker. We…
Plural Form

Take a figure of a historical patent, meticulously drawn before there was software. It’s a Plural Grating Spectrograph. Wonder about the appeal of antique technical drawings. So modest, so sublime. Copy it, multiply it. Slowly rotate the color wheel, until the purples meet the reds again. This is an impossible spectrum. There are no purples…
Found Prose: Retrospective 2012-2022

You will not want to read this. Nobody does, me included. But creating it has been an interesting experiment. I have been scouring this blog for sentences, one from each blog post. In chronological order, starting in 2012. I had permitted myself to re-order sentences, but I have rarely used that option. The fountain pen…
Familiar Wave. Come to Rescue.

A poem from text snippets of my last three posts, interlaced with a metamorphosis of my last drawing. ~~~~~~ The familiar wave is in the middle, oblique. accessible to intuitive interpretation. To tame it, sort of, come to rescue Or are they? Going from up to down you only care about directions What does this…
Elliptical Poetry

look at these towers Using the map creating a distorted image projected up to the sphere All connecting rays follow this rule Imaginary number i makes an appearance that borders on the poetic It’s nothing more than a whisper construct the proof for yourself something of a dying art avoid thinking about anything there has…
Construct the Labyrinth from Which You Plan to Escape

Found Poetry found me. I started this website as a science blog, but then I saw poetry in mundane texts – just as you see faces in things. I created poems from spam comments, from search terms, from physics textbooks, from book spines, from error messages, from Facebooks ads, from any text anywhere in the…
Secure Poetry: “I have been quite confident”

A poem from snippets of two postings on cybersecurity. Trying to carve words out of jargon. Details on the creative process at the bottom of the post. I have been quite confident I have been inspired In this simple way to find both options take note of an extra stealth factor I hardly ever visited…