Fractalzzzzzzz

One thing that I love about Fractals, besides how serious their makers take them, is the music. It never ceases to amaze me how RETARDED it is! Check out this clip posted by "Fractal God" entitled CHAOS. The music is so incredibly nerdy. It's like mixing all genres of awful/awesome. At one point it sounds like "One-Winged Dove" but then segways into a wood-nymph journey of discovery.




Fractal videos seem to be split between trance music and classical music. I suppose this is the creator's attempt to situate their work within an elevated classical canon, and to emphasize the tie between math/science and high art.
[Here, I was going to post a video called, "Odyssey" demonstrating this point, but it seems that the user disabled the embedding function, which further proves my point of how serious some of these people are about fractals.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOfTrePsPX8&feature=related


Fractal Journey:



Arthur Clark on Fractals:
This is amazing. A veritable who's who in Math.




I want to remind everyone that fractals basically have no use in terms of applicability; they can be used to described geometric shapes and icons with infinite precision, but have little if any correlation to reality. They are empty icons that have been appropriated as a visual language that somehow signify universal truths about how the world works, because they involve the Mandlebrot set, an infinitely quantifiable mathematic equation that can be visualized and infinitely expanded, while maintaining a similar pattern. In the documentary, they go so far as to claim that the Mandlebrot set is the "thumb-print of god."


to be continued...