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laramide-orogeny In reply to Maggie-Bones [2005-12-11 05:21:41 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for your comments; I appreciate them greatly.

I'll be running, too.

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laramide-orogeny In reply to Ryotgrrl [2005-12-02 15:54:44 +0000 UTC]

That's just process, not results. There's no difference in the final piece between taking three or four days of stumbling around or whipping it out in five minutes. It is what it is and you're quite right to judge it that way. It's good to be reminded of that occasionally.

Thank you for your kind words.

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laramide-orogeny In reply to Thelma1 [2005-12-02 01:16:26 +0000 UTC]

There's a joke embedded in this label that a lot of people won't get. There was a bandleader named Lawrence Welk who eventually had a weekly TV show in the US back in the '50s through maybe the '70s or '80s. His music, which wasn't at all bad if you like that style, was "The Champagne Music of Lawrence Welk" (as opposed to the beer music or something) and they'd occasionally run a bubble machine to evoke the bubbles in champagne.

Someone did a take-off on the show (Welk had an accent, so this was easy) that involved a run-away bubble machine and Welk imploring someone to "Turn off the bubble machine".

I looked at all those bubbles and that was the first thing that popped into my mind.

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Thelma1 In reply to laramide-orogeny [2005-12-03 12:00:02 +0000 UTC]

Heehee, I can just imagine that take-off scene with the run-away bubble machine. Thanks for the explanation, it made me smile, and you are truly welcome

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laramide-orogeny In reply to Thelma1 [2005-12-03 20:29:59 +0000 UTC]

More mundane, but also funny, is when someone on a sitcom, not familiar with dishwashers, uses dishwashING detergent instead of dishwashER detergent. Dishwasher detergent doesn't bubble but dishwashing detergent does. Enthusiastically. All the bubbles come boiling out of the dishwasher all over everything and the mess is incredible and very nearly unstoppable. These bubbles don't float through the air, though.

Run for the hills! The bubbles are out to get us!

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Thelma1 In reply to laramide-orogeny [2005-12-04 10:48:04 +0000 UTC]

Heehee, I'm running already

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laramide-orogeny In reply to zoom98 [2005-11-29 06:11:51 +0000 UTC]

I made a momentous discovery on this fractal Don't laugh, but I didn't know you could rotate, zoom, and translate layers independently with Ultra Fractal. I'd always had them all linked together, so that all the layers did the same thing. Somehow I got the layers disconnected on this fractal, so spreading the bubbles all over the image wasn't the desperate act of cropping and zooming that it would have been otherwise. That was an amazing and empowering discovery, I tell you.

And on another fractal I created today, Ruffles, I actually used my very first mask, so that I could put texture into the black spaces without messing up my primary elements. I'm so proud of myself and so embarassed that it took me so long to figure these things out.

I think the little Mandelbrot inkblots are kind of cute, offering a tiny clue to the origin of the fractal. It's all just the standard Mandelbrot with Carlson Tangent Circles for the outside coloring and independent rotations. I fiddled around with inside coloring to hide the inkblots, but decided I liked them and put them back to black.

You're right that this looks as if you could have done it. I think we have very similar tastes. I see this every time I look at your gallery.

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