Get funky!

I thought I'd revisit some fun and odd looking 'art' generated by Deep Dream Generator. It has been argued that it is NOT art as it uses Artificial Intelligence to merge a pattern into your photo.

At first I had no clue of what I was doing. Some of the generations turned out simply awful and made no sense. 

Then as I experimented and looked at what others were doing and how they were using patterns,...it started to slightly click...just a bit.

Still.

You can end up with nonsense or something quite beautiful.

Original [actually I added a texture in DxOElite with this photo]

Um. Teddy Bear run through a painting texture and then another colorful texture then combined into this final image.

Original:

Next some just for fun. I don't recall what the originals were.

I really do enjoy doing this as a wonderful distraction to all the other things going on.

I posted an album of these on Facebook and it was shared --- another person asked where I 'sold' them.

Nah, I don't sell them. Selling items are so much work!

However, I will probably put them in an 'art' book in print just to keep around and page through occasionally. I have an idea or two also that I might see if I can print this following image to hang on the wall. I think it is so uplifting.

It feels so happy!

I think I will finally get serious on finishing up my photo book I was going to call The Creek. I've been photographing it for a few years to sort of see how it changed through the seasons and with flash floods.

It will be like my other two self made books 

The Enchanted Forest

and...

The Sleeping Forest

I have quite a few files to back up now and save along with some thoughts to get written down.

I'm thinking of creating a few designs with winter scenes for Christmas Cards.

It appears that with being so Isolated, it may be a good thing to sit down and write out many cards?

At least I could have fun designing them.

Get Funky.

Have a good week and stay well.

Fractal Fun and Art?

Are Fractals really Art?

I'm pretty sure it is.  I've been looking around and finding some incredibly beautiful images by 'Fractal Artists'.  
devianArt.com has some incredible artists that work in 3d.  While beautiful does it please you?
Does it make you want to hang it on your wall?
Or do you believe that anything generated via computer is not Art?

One of my favorite deviants is Len1, go ahead and check his gallery out.  He not only creates beautiful Mandelbulb 3d art, but works in other forms of fractals also.
He post edits some of his work which I think sometimes is essential to get the wow effect.

I recently read a review of an artists work.  The reviewer said something like this.  
"The colors are pretty.  But what does it mean?  What emotion is it meant to cause for me?"

I thought about that comment a lot.  The reviewer has a good point.  The above fractal is interesting.  But seriously I doubt it will be found any time soon on someone's living room wall, or in a waiting room.

I sometimes try to 'create' a scene or just let my imagination run wild.

 

I made this 'piece' out of the above fractal and then added some figures, layers of clouds, it is a composite of sorts.

Mandelbulb 3d for backround image.
Dragon lower right side: [link]
Dragon upper left side:[link]
Fire:[link]
Overlay of my own cloud texture.

So is this considered my own art?  Or just a pretty creation.  Of course, I'll let you the reader decide that.

What is the allure of fractal art?
To me, it is about creation of beauty.  Sometimes it only has to please me and no one else.
I find myself working on this as much as my photography lately.

Partly because Spring has forgotten to arrive, I think.
However I can see some of my art [Zenfolio link] plastering my living room walls with colors, it may not please my husband, but it sure would please me.

Does fractal art have a place in the Art World?  I think it does right along side digital painting and other photographic wild manipulations.