ABlipinTime

Years ago, when I joined DeviantArt, it was an entirely different place, a different attitude, a central place of art where amateurs and pros mingled. I was excited to join. I discovered tons of artwork that interested me. But when your captivated in the moment, the truth can be hard to see. Many people have noted the changes in DA and have already exhaustively listed those reasons, so there's no need to rant on those. However, my tale is a bit different. When I said "captivated in the moment", I'm referring to that era of mine where I was both an artist and virtually inhaling art. I looked at thousands of images, collecting a few hundred, and taking only seconds to enjoy each one before moving on to the next. I couldn't see enough. I became starved for more. This went on endlessly. I became jealous of other's works and wanted to make equally interesting art. Then a couple things happened. First, I stopped going to DA. I was, in a sense, cut off from the source of fractal art that

It feels like a decade ago I started making fractals, but I only began roughly in '09 toying around with Apo... Oh wait, that was 10 years ago. I stopped making fractals entirely by last year, and coming back to DA brought back a bit of nostalgia mixed with disinterest. I was once fascinated by these images of light, color, and shadow, and now they just seem rather repetitive and boring. It's true that I've moved on to other interests, but it's hard to believe the allure has gone. Maybe I just haven't seen something genuinely NEW lately, even though it used to be that I would look at hundreds if not thousands of fractals a week once upon a ti

I know this guy was on the front page of DA, so he's already been in the limelight, but just in case you missed him, here's some more of his work. If you like outer space and aliens that resemble 6-legged deer-like duck-billed platypus, this is your guy.