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As I've said in the last few recent posts, I decided to bring some of my older works forward and publish them for my audience here at Bubblews. "A Tear in the Space Time Continuum" is another example of an image that I created using the fractal generator software, Vchira, with post work in Photoshop. Just after creating it, I sat back, gazed at it, and the first thing that came to my mind was that it looked like a tear in the space/time continuum, so without any further thought, I decided to simply give it that title, "A Tear in the Space Time Continuum". Sometimes the titles I give my abstract pieces are almost like Rorschach tests. The first thing that I see in it becomes the title. If any of them were to be interested, psychologists would probably have a field day deconstructing my titles.

Enjoy the fun of tagging, without trashing anybody else's property or getting arrested. Use simulated spraypaint, rollers, brushes and a paintball cannon on a simulated white wall, save your masterpiece and compare it with the virtual vandalism of others. While I haven't seen anything measuring up to the quality of one of the murals under the Illinois Central Gulf / Metra Electric tracks on the South Side, yet, I also haven't heard of anybody getting rolled over by the El after slipping while using this program, so there is that. People seem to love it. Now, if only we could find ways for them to get virtually stoned, virtually burn down buildings and get into virtual fights, while settling for the use of virtual weapons and virtual gasoline before going to their virtual homes to make virtual babies before they virtually turn 13, Mom's old neighborhood would be a lot more pleasant on the weekends. Not that any ambivalence about the concept of this page, or suggestion that it makes light of a practice that is intimately connected with gang territoriality (with its impressive body count), should be read into that. Pshah. Englewood is lovely this time of year. We are where we are, and I suppose that's what we get to laugh about, for better or worse, even if an eyebrow or two has to go up along the way.

Just because the federal authorities are wrong, that doesn't mean that they're wrong. Story about an artist whose media includes the use of harmless microorganisms (bacteria are not invariably pathogenic, contrary to some seem to imagine) who, having been mistaken for a bioterrorist by a few emergency medical technicians and FBI agents who had seen one too many episodes of 24, found that the agency's response to discovering that it was wrong was to try to find some charge, any charge that it could trump up, in order to cover its posterior.

At the time of the original writing of this piece It was December 21, 2012, and at that time, as well as now, the world continued and even still continues to exist. I knew it would. In order to commemorate the fact that the world continues to exist on December 21, 2012 and beyond, I created a special work of art on that very day, December 21, 2012. I created it using the KPT fractal generator filter, FraxPlorer, one of my favorite tools for creating my fractal abstract art; that and a few other filters, layering and color enhancement effects. At first, I gave it the temporary title, Abstract Image 1043, but quickly renamed it "A New Day Shines", for this commemoration. It is presented here, complete with the digitally embossed Bill M. Tracer Studio logo signature seal, small as not to distract from the design, while decidedly present, showing authenticity.

Amazingly, this one is nudity free, or at least seemed so during a careful 9 minute and 53 minute examination that I repeated just to be careful, so I should be able to link to it. Again, we see the sculptural effects on the fire that consumes one of the temporary structures destroyed at the end of Burning Man, but we also see a little of the personal relationship some of the participants have with the event. I think that they might later regret destroying momentos of those they've lost, but at the time, they seem to view this as being a healing act. Why that would be, we're left to guess.

Right click, holding the click draw the cursor across the screen, and the software creates a little rounded wedge shape. Release the click, and the wedge shape, formed, is instantly reflected along a few different lines to create the beginning of a snowflake like figure. Insert a few more strokes, and you can quickly and easily create a nice looking stylized snowflake that you can set to rotate in two or three simulated dimensions, in a mannermanner that is surprisingly attractive , given how little work you just did. One flaw is that if you'd like to save that moving image you just created, there's no way to do so; right clicking on the image, you don't save the snowflake, you save the .swf file you used to create the moving snowflake.

Do you remember that poster on Mulder's office wall on the X-Files television show? It showed a flying saucer photograph, and the caption that read, "I Want To Believe"? Actually more than one of these posters was used over the course of that show. The images used in these posters appear to have been derived from, or at least based on, one or more of the photographs of Billy Meier, which is fairly ironic in relation to the issue of believing. For there is considerable controversy regarding the question of the authenticity of Billy Meier's photographs. Among the professional researchers on this topic, some believe his photographs are the real thing, while others do not believe in the genuineness of his photographic work. Regardless of that issue, whether I believe in the work of Billy Meier, or not, I find that personally, just believing is simply not enough for me. No, I want more than just to believe. I want to know! So I created this poster with my own original work of art that is my answer to that "I Want To Believe" poster. As it says, "Belief Is Not Enough I Want To Know".

As is often the case, I started with the KPT filter, "FraxPlorer". With that and other tools, like the KPT "Texture Explorer", I created this image using a variety of filtering, layering, and color enhancement effects, all in Photoshop. The end result was this postmodern contemporary fractal abstract work of art, which I first saved among my Abstract Images as Abstract Image 1252. When trying to figure out what I should give it as a final specific name, I noted that it reminded me of a spiral galaxy in its overall shape. Also the little globular forms brought living cells to mind. All of that led me to come up with the final name for this piece simply as, "Cellular Spiral". Cellular Spiral is now presented here a Bubblews in this square aspect ratio, complete with the digitally embossed Bill M. Tracer Studio logo signature seal, small as not to distract from the design, while decidedly present, showing authenticity.

As is often the case, I started with the KPT filter, "FraxPlorer". With that and other tools, like the KPT "Gradient Lab", I created this image using a variety of filtering, layering, and color enhancement effects, all in Photoshop. The end result was this postmodern contemporary fractal abstract work of art, which I first saved among my Abstract Images as Abstract Image 1139. When I first looked at it, I thought it almost looked like a sort of insignia. Also, the fact that it has a three sided nature that seems divided into lobe like components; it led me to come up with the final name for this piece specifically, "Tri-Lobular Insignia". Tri-Lobular Insignia is presented here, complete with the digitally embossed Bill M. Tracer Studio logo signature seal, small as not to distract from the design, while decidedly present, showing authenticity.

Using the KPT fractal generator filter "FraxPlorer", I created the base image from which this work of art was derived. I then followed up by putting that base image through a combination of additional filtering, layering, and color enhancement effects in Photoshop. Spiraling Ascensions Variation 3 was the result. This work of postmodern contemporary fractal abstract art is one of a seven piece series of image variations that follow along the same general theme. This is Variation 3 of this series that I am now presenting here at Bubblews in the square aspect ratio, complete with the digitally embossed Bill M. Tracer Studio logo signature seal, small as not to distract from the design, while decidedly present, showing authenticity.

Another interactive art piece. Holding down a right or left click, one finds that a ribbon of whiteness is left against the black background. "Don't you mean a white ribbon, Joseph?" Not exactly - the whitness, itself, is treated as a kind of liquid, that flows according to rules one is left to decipher. There seems to be some sort of extrapolation from what one draws - quick movement narrowing the ribbon, slow movement broadening it - as if the cursor were a brush that a white liquid was flowing off of - to what is seen as one releases the click, and the whiteness left behind starts to move of its own accord. Close forms seem to move to new locations more slowly than open ones, which snake across a screen on which opposite sites are identified - go off the top edge, and you come in from the bottom edge of the black box where the ribbons move.

The pieces that this site is perhaps most notable for are the mirrors, sometimes made of things that are not naturally reflective. For example: the wooden mirror, which, taking the image from a videoacamera, activates selected actuators, causing some of the wooden panels on a display to tilt downward. Those panels, appearing darker because they are now in shadow, create the darkened region of a mechanically created, pixelated moving image of the person standing before the "mirror". In the artist's own words, "Rozin creates installations and sculptures that have the unique ability to change and respond to the presence and point of view of the viewer". Videos and photos of some of his work are included.

Using the KPT fractal generator filter "FraxPlorer", I created the base image from which this work of art was derived. I then followed up by putting that base image through a combination of additional filtering, layering, and color enhancement effects in Photoshop. Abstract Image 906 was the result, which I later renamed Third Eye Opening Variation 6. This work of art is one of an eight piece series of image variations that follow along the same general dark and brooding theme. The differences between the variants of this series may be subtle, but they are definitely present. Variation 6 of this series is now available as a poster print in several sizes all the way up to the extra-large 40" by 40" size, complete with the digitally embossed Bill M. Tracer Studio logo signature seal, small as not to distract from the design, while decidedly present, showing authenticity.

Using the KPT fractal generator filter "FraxPlorer", I created the base image from which this work of art was derived. I then followed up by putting that base image through a combination of additional filtering, layering, and color enhancement effects in Photoshop. Abstract Image 907 was the result, which I later renamed Third Eye Opening Variation 7. This work of art is one of an eight piece series of image variations that follow along the same general dark and brooding theme. The differences between the variants of this series may be subtle, but they are definitely present. Variation 7 of this series is now presented here at Bubblews in the square aspect ratio, complete with the digitally embossed Bill M. Tracer Studio logo signature seal, small as not to distract from the design, while decidedly present, showing authenticity.

Using the KPT fractal generator filter "FraxPlorer", I created the base image from which this work of art was derived. I then followed up by putting that base image through a combination of additional filtering, layering, and color enhancement effects in Photoshop. Abstract Image 908 was the result, which I later renamed Third Eye Opening Variation 8. This work of art is one of an eight piece series of image variations that follow along the same general dark and brooding theme. The differences between the variants of this series may be subtle, but they are definitely present. Variation 8 of this series is now presented here at Bubblews in the square aspect ratio, complete with the digitally embossed Bill M. Tracer Studio logo signature seal, small as not to distract from the design, while decidedly present, showing authenticity.

This image is a color variant of "A New Day Shines", which I originally created in order to commemorate the fact that the world continued to exist on December 21, 2012 and beyond into 2013. I created that original special work of art on the very day of December 21, 2012. I created it using the KPT fractal generator filter, FraxPlorer, plus a few other filters, layering and color enhancement effects. Initially titled, Abstract Image 1043, I then renamed it "A New Day Shines", for this commemoration. Afterwards, using further color enhancement tools, I created this variant called "A New Day Dawns". It is presented here in this square aspect ratio, complete with the digitally embossed Bill M. Tracer Studio logo signature seal, small as not to distract from the design, while decidedly present, showing authenticity.