Six weeks ago I’d resolved to do SOMETHING that moved me forward creatively every day. I’ve almost kept that up, with just a few missed days during vacation travel. For me, a little bit over a long time is the only way to get ahead. My life is so crowded with stuff that it’s improbable […]

Although I’ve been using UltraFractal for several years, I’m not particularly good at it. I came across a class taught by the fractal artist that inspired me to get back into fractals, Janet Parke. Her fractals blew my mind when I saw them: they had subtlety which most fractal art lacks. Her art led me […]

I’ve got this big box of cassettes full of my music from high school and college — it’s been up in the attic for 15 years, roasting in the summer, freezing in the winter, and narrowly avoiding being eaten by an infestation of norwegian roof rats in my first house.
With some trepidation, I’m going to […]

I have made significant progress over the past two weeks on getting my studio setup going. I want to write detailed articles about each aspect, but a quick synopsis is all I’ve got time for:

Set up MacPro — install 4GB memory, install 4×320GB=1.2 TB Raid 0 stripe. (Wow, is this machine wicked fast!!)
Clean […]

WordPress turned out to be ridiculously simple to install — 15 minutes start to finish, including setting up a subdomain on my name server and adding in a virtual host redirect in Apache. tar -xvf, vim 4 lines in the conf, create the database and user in mysql, and boom! It Just Worked.
I like technologies […]