“I’ve been somewhat disappointed with my creative output as of late. So, with a day off of client work, I set out this morning to make something interesting before the end of the day.”
So begins Jer Thorp’s entry over at blprnt introducing his latest personal Flash project, Plumage which takes a Flickr tag and creates a set of feathers from the colour data in the image. Very cool.

I would suspect that there are few people out there who would proudly post the entire laundry list of their Google search queries on any given day. Sometimes the wee midnight hours can inspire some twisted cyber journeys. Being on the receiving end of such quests can be quite amusing. I use tracksy to check this site’s traffic records and every so often I get a very enlightening glimpse into the stranger habits of some of my visitors. For example, I take great pride in the fact that broome:ideas and …

Sometimes it really does pay to look in the complete opposite direction to find what you are looking for. Case in point: after a solid half day of typing in search queries like “mathematical models” and “processing genetic animations”, I took a break and followed a link from 3 Quarks Daily to Seed Magazine to read an article about Science and the Simpsons. In doing so, I discovered this flash experiment called Phylotaxis by Jonathan Harris, which is pretty much exactly what I was searching for in …

SIGGRAPH hosted a talk this evening called Art by Number:Generating Dynamic Art with Flash with presenters Jeremy Thorp of Blprnt.com and Gary Stasiuk of Liquidjourney.com. I am a hack coder at best so I should let the work speak for itself, although I do suggest checking out Jer’s DarwInstrument which essentially applies a combination of genetic theory, selection of the fittest and mutant variables to the evolution of a more pleasing musical sound — yeah, exactly.
I won’t pretend that I know what I’m talking about here but I do love …

I’ve been searching for a decent link to photographer Dave Maisel’s series “Oblivion” —brilliant and terrifying aerial photos of the LA sprawl—ever since I fist saw it featured in the September issue of Dwell Magazine. On his subject, Maisel writes:
“In his book “Warped Space,” the architectural theorist Anthony Vidler speaks of the ‘paranoiac space of modernism,’ a space which is ‘mutated into a realm of panic, where all limits and boundaries become blurred…’ These words come to mind when considering the urban aerial images of Los Angeles and its periphery …

Beautiful, stark, organic and complex algorithmic artwork at complexification.net. Via blprnt.blg.