Category: Digital art
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The Gary Matthews Anagrams
Wordsmith.org quotes a supposed sage as saying, “All the life’s wisdom can be found in anagrams. Anagrams never lie.” Is this so? Can we really learn hidden truth by rearranging the letters of a name or phrase? I had to find out! For me, a natural place to start was with my dear departed mom. Her…
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Hoth’s Deadly Crystal Lattice Creature
If you’re a fan of Star Wars VÂ (The Empire Strikes Back), you’ll remember two featured creatures: the tauntaun, a snow lizard ridden by Luke Skywalker; and the wampa, a white-furred predator of amazing stealth and power. Both are denizens of the ice planet Hoth, a one-time Rebel outpost. You probably won’t remember the crystal lattice…
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The SAE Anagrams
Let’s see — how many words and phrases can we find in “Sigma Alpha Epsilon”? It’s a timely question, now that this national college fraternity (SAE for short) is back in the news: It’s taking heat for running its parties on a “White Girls Only” basis. This won’t help it recover from last March’s viral video…
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Revisiting the Higgs Boson
Itâs hard to believe my report on the elusive Higgs particle is nearly a year old. If youâre reading these blog posts by email, you may have missed it: My âNotes from Stonehavenâ email newsletter was in recess last September. But the article is still evergreen. Catch it here: http://garymatthews.com/2014/09/still-chasing-god-particle/ Youâve almost certainly heard of…
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One Word: Disinterested
Disinterested is a word I find most interesting. Not á´É´ĘĘ because itâs so often misused. (Although it is — like âcompriseâ and so many more.) No, âdisinterestedâ fascinates me because it expresses a subtle, absolutely indispensable concept about which we need to think and talk. And because I canât think of any equivalent word we…
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Making My Post Into a Movie?
Did Hollywood make a movie from one of my blog posts? Not really. (Sigh!) In fact, the movie predated my article by two years. But I didn’t know! When I wrote recently about Words and Pictures, I hadn’t heard of the film. Yet there it is, starring Juliette Binoche and Clive Owen, and directed by…
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One Word: Worth a Thousand Pictures
Does anyone else feel oppressed by the âtyranny of picturesâ? I do, and Iâm fighting back with a new series of posts about words I love. Words that interest, fascinate, and delight me; words that (for me) carry depths of meaning mere pictures canât duplicate. One article per word — posted á´ĄÉŞá´Ęá´á´á´ á´ÉŞá´á´á´Ęá´s. Hereâs why…
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Lubuntu: Linux Even Leaner!
Recently I wrote that desktop Linux is now a practical alternative to Windows. Especially Windows XP, for which Microsoft has discontinued support and security updates. I based this suggestion on my delightful experience with Ubuntu Linux — the most popular of many Linux variants. (It has so many because itâs open-source freeware. Anyone can customize…
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Desktop Linux: Ready for Prime Time!
Linux, the free, open-source operating computer operating system, is ready for everyday desktop computing. Desktop Linux has been a long time coming. But at last, you can ditch Microsoft Windows. Or you can run it side by side with Linux, if you aren’t ready to cut the cord. Either way, you no longer are a…
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May Your Days Be Merry and Bright!
Happy Holidays from GaryMatthews.com and my digital-art associate, Fractal Fran! More background details here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GaryMatthews/posts/PTfX1bk2mQg
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A Place With Four Suns!
“There is a place with four suns in the sky â red, white, blue and yellow; two of them are so close together that they touch, and starstuff flows between them. I know of a world with a million moons. I know of a sun the size of the Earth â and made of diamond…
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Introducing Fractal Fran
Say hello to Fractal Fran, my new digital art assistant and avatar. She’ll be your guide to spellbinding digital designs and fractal art (plus, perhaps, occasional photography of a more traditional nature). Large, soulful eyes. Neon turban. Green whiskers. Small, pursed lips. These and other traits mark Fran as an emissary from the Vardax home-world. Vardax…