Rooms with a View -- Reviews

Reviews and Comments:

from IEEE Computer Graphics, "Fractal Fracus" by Gary Singh, May-June, 2005:

When it comes to the creative process, [Wright] says he works strictly by serendipity and his process is much like spelunking. "I crawl around the confined space of the fractal, sometimes contorting violently and thrashing about the image, until I find my way out the cave when I finally see something that pleases me. Although I believe in the Muse, I don't place much stock in inspiration -- an unreliable, intangible thing and far too hit and miss. I work regularly at both my art and writing. As Woody Allen once noted, 'Eighty percent of success is showing up'."

from John Reimer at computer.org via email (used with permission):

If you hadn't pursued your writing I don't think your visual art would be the same. It's not just your titling, which is artful on its own, but your pieces really do tell stories. It's "easy" for a traditional painting to tell a story, even a still life of a grapefruit is telling you the story that there's a grapefruit "there", and where is "there" placed? It allows for a trail of thought to unfold a story. Abstract (if I may use the term, I hate it though) art usually is less about story than feeling, at least from my perspective. But your work, and the movement that seems be embodied in it (even more so than most fractalists), has narrative qualities. At least for the pieces I've looked at, it allows for an "experience" with the piece, not just a "reaction" to the piece.

from USA Today, Hot Sites, 12-17-03:

From the mind of artist Terry Wright to your desktop comes a trippy online gallery filled with cool computer-generated fractals — lots of them! Terry's fractal fun continues one level up at www.eclectasy.com. There you will find more artwork and information as well as links to a freeware fractal generator.

from Netsurfer Digest, Volume 07, Issue 31:

There's a whole lotta fractal pages out there, but Terry Wright's offers something a little different than the usual run of the fractal mill. We really like his fractal poem rooms, which contain around 200 fractal art and poetry fusions; the fractal images are much more striking than most offerings and, rarer still, so are the poems. Often passionate, occasionally piercing, always interesting, the poems are apt to include zingers such as the intro to "Plutonium 3": "I'm a goin fission/Mama's goin fission/and Baby's goin fission too" and, in "Pushing Trinity's Envelope": "Oppenheimer's got a point. I am become MTV, the destroyer of child safety and good taste." Detect a theme here? Ah, well -- that's artists for you.

from The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter, #281

Turn off the lights and settle down to your computer screen to visit Rooms with a View, a gallery of original digital and fractal art and illustrated poetry, most of it by Terry Wright and best viewed with 800x600 screen resolution in a dark room.

Fractal Art is mathematical art, created as the visual expression of equations created on a computer with specially written fractal programs. The images reveal more detail the more they are magnified; a fractal program finds the answer to a specific equation at each point in the picture based on the numbers the user inserts into the equation, and assigns a color to each point. The result is an image that may be symmetrical at some points and random at others. Explore nearly a hundred galleries and rooms and a small selection of illustrated poetry.

from JHR's Journal, Septemter 20, 2001:

Gallery after gallery of stunningly beautiful and unusual fractal images, plus some interesting poetry. Helped take my mind off the world, while I escaped to Terry Wright's world. A good place to relax.

from Evan Edwards via email (used with permission) :

I wanted to let you know that I was lucky enough to stumble upon one of your works, Flower Girl, while using the "StumbleUpon" toolbar which takes users to random websites...

...I just love it! I haven't seen anything I like so much in years. I've shown it to everyone I know; I guess I'm pretty excited about it even a week after first discovering it.

I have a few friends who are artists and I visit galleries fairly frequently and see many things I like, but nothing has knocked my socks off like Flower Girl has for about a decade or more. All I can say is WOW!

from a poem about Phoenix Trophy by Lee Patterson from the blog Anonimo Key:

but what of this depiction? An unaccustomed blue
for the deathless bird is cast about it with silver filigree:
the life-fertile Phoenix displayed ice-like, frozen in
black and lethean cobalt. The waves bare her up or drag her
inward, or she is statuary, resolute to the taught-pulling tides--
Ileuthyeria in a trophy on the sea-floor.

from Utilities:

Fractal wallpapers. Real trippy stuff.

from The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter, #162

With titles like the outrageous "Tinkerbell Steps Out" and peaceful "Chernobyl Pears," the images are varied and surprising, looking like oils and watercolors but created with various fractal generators rather than with paint on canvas.

from Jim Lee -- remarks made in the alt.fractals.pictures newsgroup in July, 2001:

Terry's [art is] very depressing and (pardon the use of the word) ugly.

from Judy Tallman -- remarks made in the alt.fractals.pictures newsgroup in July, 2001:

[Terry Wright's] words as well as his fractals exude negative energy -- which I, for one, do not enjoy.

from madbrit in 2004 on 4peeps.com:

Not to my taste, seem to be closely linked to Dali/Modern Art...

from Sean Dean -- remarks made November, 2001, in the Peapod Graphics Gab discussion forum:

...is this the most negative, repressed psychopath expressionism you have ever seen?…this Wright-psycho posts dark images with negative and often violent titles…he is talentless fractal hack… and his fractal art, if it can be called that, looks like mud after someone vomits on it… and I am also proud to say, my fractal art is much better than his (I never compare myself to other fractal artists) and that any functionally illiterate mule could write better poetry than this sorry excuse for a human being...

from Roger L. Bagula commenting in June, 2007, on the art of Thomas Briggs in a blog on Wired:

We in the fractals community would like to know who you consult about what is "fractal art"? I ran into a site by a Terry Wright who claims to be a fractal artist too. In both cases the result is doubtful.

from Damien M. Jones in July, 2007, on Orbit Trap:

You're speaking out of your ass on this one.

from USM Upper School Cool Sites:

Great fractal images.

from Terry W. Gintz -- remarks made in the sci.fractals newsgroup in August, 1999:

Art is composition, inspiration, dedication and revolutionary. Insomuch as a fractal can be now be produced with no click at all with my program Fractal ViZion, that can hardly be called art. Though there are some that will post this stuff, and I'm happy to see it, since it indicates newbies are still discovering fractals. When you go to the trouble to reframe, rezoom and recolor, and maybe apply a startling filter to your fractal in PSP, then you're engaging in an artistic endeavor. That fits three of the critiria for art. Is this revolutionary also? Well, judging from some of the pictures Terry Wright has posted, there's enough brain zap possible to make Iowa sizzle.

from Pandora's Toybox on Adult Backwash:

Poetry set upon beautiful fractal images, both by Terry Wright. This page contains some of his more adult-oriented poetry. I love fractal art and combined with Terry's poetry, I simply can't say enough good things about it. MANY more galleries at his home page.

from Doug Harrington's "Fractal Sightings" at Amazing Seattle Fractals:

Terry Wright's fractals are an amalgamation of techniques. Using fractals and a variety of graphic tools he creates very unique fractal compositions. Terry's extensive site features his writings as well as fractals. Be sure to check out his site for a break from the ordinary!

from the Suspicions2 YahooGroup:

...be ready to say "WOW!"

from laopinion.com:

Do not be confused by the URL. Rooms with a View is an example of fractal art -- the expression of the era of the computer [translated from the Spanish].

from heute.org surf tips:

As the name already says, Terry makes WRIGHT art with the computer. On his site are innumerable digitally stellar pictures. It's fascinating that the mathematics behind these works of art stands [translated from the German].

from Marc Fraser's Fractal Visions newsletter, 1-04:

Many of the images are 'sombre' in mood, and wonderfully expressive. One thing I particularly like about many of them is that they have an unusual 'hand-painted' look about them. All are unique in style. All in all, I think you will want to bookmark this site. You cannot possibly see all it has to offer in one surfing session, and I'm pretty sure you will want to see more.

from NetGuideWeb, Issue 70:

Digital Art -- [Rooms with a View] may cause you to give it a go yourself.

from CreativePro.com newletter, #312

Check out these edgy fractals.

from ellensplace.net:

Beautiful fractal art and poetry (don't miss this one!).

from Dick Kling's Some Fun Web Surfing -- June 2004 edition:

Turn off the lights and settle down to your computer screen to visit Rooms with a View, a gallery of original digital and fractal art and illustrated poetry, most of it by Terry Wright.

from an unknown audience member after a poetry reading:

"Your brain is wired differently, isn't it?"

Still Better Than Staying Home

Comments about Blog with a View:

from Idyllopus:

Terry Wright at Blog with a view does art based on fractals, and comes up with the most incredible names for the pieces.

It would be impossible for me to select a work that I liked best. There are too many. But here are some favorites (links to the galleries because Terry’s too damned prolific for me to hunt through the posts for them):

Another Day in Catholic School
Enough Nature for Today
Wonderland
Death of Chumley

Death of Chumley. That’s just genius. So is Another Day in Catholic School.

I didn’t care for fractal art before being introduced to Terry Wright’s works through a Heretik link. And Terry amazes me on a consistent basis.

from mousemusings:

Visit (and add to your blogroll) Blog With a View. Wonderful art, including fractals, and, if you dig back into the archives, you'll find some delightful cut-up compositions.

from Family, Friends, and Then There's Me:

Blog with a View is the most visual blog that I came across in my search for art blogs. I have always been passionate about art. I scrawl on notebooks, paint on canvas, and photograph almost anything, which is why I wanted to connect with a blog that I thought relayed enough passion for art...

...I was very impressed with the content of the blog. The author shares opinions on different artists and specific artwork; and dissects it into a blocks that build up the piece or the person. I learned a lot about art just by viewing different postings and his chosen links on the sidebar. I will be viewing this blog while I have my morning coffee.

from Rayjo

I'm fed up with people jumping on politcal bandwagons and then just posting "art" to look cool. Anyone can make that [art] with a fractal programme...A real artist is red in tooth and claw. They have to be. If you were the subject of a real-life crit, you'd curl up in the corner cringing and sobbing and sitting in a hopeless pool of your own waste, as yellow as your own urine!

from Idyllopus:

I have greatly enjoyed Blog With a View for his art and the titles he gives his art. His commentary as well, but his art has a way, given the opportunity, of carving out niches in the brain in a different way. It feels for way the sleepy, taken-for-granted idea roots lie and by simply marking them out begins to effect a transplant. Very peculiar.

from Shakespeare's Sister:

Blog with a View, which is a truly unique and interesting blog, not always political, a visual diary with entries accompanied by original art and poetry.

Baby Monster