There’s nothing like a few months of quiet (and perhaps a few too many “me, me, me” posts prior to that) to get rid of about a third of your RSS subscribers, so to those of you still reading – thanks for sticking around. I’ve been keeping the good stuff back until now, especially for you.

The last few months have been mostly spent gathering nuts in time for the new addition to the family. But while I haven’t done much writing in this period I’ve been doing a LOT of generative art. Too much really.

My proposed resolution of a new generative art experiment every week for my abandonedart.org site has already proved it’s concept beyond my ambitions. At the time of writing I have cued up 39 of my intended 100, which works out at more than double the intended rate, and the traffic has been increasing steadily. I also spoke at Flash Brighton on the subject of GenArt last month, which forced me to evaluate and conceptualise the work I had been doing, in order to present it to a room full of very intelligent folks. This might, if I were even just a tad more pretentious, have lead me to start taking myself and my work a bit more seriously, but I still think I am more likely to win the Eurovision Song Contest than that ever happening.

As well as the 100 Abandoned Artworks I have also been producing some higher resolution static imagery that doesn’t quite fit the “live” nature of the AbArt site. So I’m going to start posting some of these images here instead. This is the problem with generative art, you hit one good algorithm and you end up with artwork coming out your ears.

This means, in case you had cause to doubt it, zenbullets.com, my address for almost ten years and blog for the last three, is still alive. It will continue to be the main cistern for all my brain defecates out upon the world. And, from this post forward, it will likely start to form a coagulated mass of both words AND pictures. I will endevour to rely more on my art and less on Google Image Search to make things look pretty.

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