I can't believe it....

I would never have thought I would find him on My Space!



Miles Davis

Official Space

Here you can listen to this wonderful master of Jazz:
Miles Davis Official Website

"Don't play what's there, play what's not there"
(Miles Davis)

What the Bleep does this have to do with Fractals?

Yahoo: October 1996; Google: December 1996; Google Beta: January 1997......

In exactly five days, it's been eleven years on the Internet for me... with some gaps in between... I still remember that I mainly used email and listservers because the search engines were still a mistery to me, long series of numbered sites without even a hint about the contents... we've indeed come a long way!

This reminded me of the recurrence concept and brought me to the fractal recurrence in hypertime (that's the Bleep!) from which I took this quote which I find interwoven into the above picture... (ok, I admit that I have a very weird file system running up there... but I'm Pisces so it explains all?)

Fractal Recurrence in Hypertime

As the information released by undoing complex knots can cause other knots to spontaneously do themselves up (for a time), the knots that get done up again can either be repetitions of simple knots, or sometimes, the whole re-appearance of centre-wards structures. In these cases, the trajectories of the photons that make up the re-appeared structures must be constrained to allow it to happen.

The chances of getting a complex structure a long way from the centre, that is not composed of elements that were authentically together near the centre, gets less and less the more complex the structure is. As one looks from the "edge" to the centre, one sees some simple early structures that are composed of bits of many centre-wards structures, and complex early structures that are authentic orbital reconstructions of single upline structures.

This phenomenon of the reemergence of fractal structure is well known, for instance on the periphery of the Mandelbrot set, tiny Mandelbrot sets can be found hidden within the main one, at all scale levels.

You can find this and other interesting articles at The Reciprocality Project

I love their main page quote...
"Have you discovered then the beginning, that you look for the end?"

Indeed... and in fact it wasn't exactly the beginning... but the Web Archive with its Wayback Machine starts around October 1996... too bad I don't remember much of the sites that were online at that time, and either way the past is behind... but it was kind of an adventure to surf the Web with a 2400Kbps dial-up faxmodem whooahhh! 6 hours to download one megabyte... at the time of the pictured pages, I had upgraded to a whopping 18600Kbps card, though.

I made many friends, and a few are still around despite the long periods when I was disconnected... and even one of them has managed to keep one of my (and his) first Internet musings alive (was a joint website about Internet addiction... seems there's no cure after all!! haha):

Ser Virtual

It's in Spanish but if you follow the links down the page to his menu page and manage to sort out all the broken links, you might have the pleasure to take the Internet Addiction Test (can't believe it's still there! the only one alive...) or visit my friend's home and family in Sweden...

Indeed, 11 years it's a bunch, and allows to be (a little) nostalgic...

Back to reality now!

Silence...

In the silence
the wind sings a lullaby
in the silence
you may hear more
silence is what silence is not
silence is awareness
silence is loud.

Mahfooz Ali
(28 October 1976 / Gorakhpur (U.P.) , INDIA)

En el silencio
el viento canta una canción de cuna
en el silencio
puedes escuchar más
silencio es lo que el silencio no es
el silencio es consciencia
el silencio es ruidoso.

Optical Illusions

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Fractal Dreams

Original images by Caroline Carlin composed with Vchira.

Fractales que Cobran Vida !!

Hoy me he topado con un artista que ha producido unas animaciones de fractales literalmente espectaculares. Se trata de Jock Cooper, realmente hay que verlo, es para quedarse abismado...



ENGLISH
Today I stumbled upon an artist who has produced some really amazing fractal animations. His name is Jock Cooper, really worth seeing...

22 Meditaciones - 20 al 22

22 Meditaciones - 17 al 19

22 Meditaciones - 14 al 16

22 Meditaciones - 10 al 13

22 Meditaciones - 07 al 09

22 Meditaciones - 04 al 06

22 Meditaciones - 01 al 03

The "22 meditaciones" series has been intended as a Zen-like meditation tool using image, sound and words: watching the image, reflecting upon the words and listening to the looping sound. I have grouped them in sets of three however, as a less static, "fast" meditation set-up.

Each image has is own track and phrase.
Phrases are worded in English, Spanish and French.
Original sound loops from Caroline Carlin (doblece).



ESPAÑOL
La serie "22 meditaciones" ha tenido por objeto servir de herramienta de meditación al estilo Zen usando la imagen, el sonido y las palabras: mirando la imagen, reflexionando sobre las palabras y escuchando el sonido en forma repetitiva. Los he agrupado aquí en lotes de tres sin embargo, como estructura menos estática, para una meditación "rápida".

Cada imagen tiene su propia pista de sonido y frase correspondiente.
Las frases están en Inglés, Español y Francés.
Loops de sonido originales de Caroline Carlin (doblece).

Sacred Spaces - Espacios Sagrados

Crystals, rocks, forms without form, organic, stone and earth, flesh and spirit, living cells, moon, sun and planetary landscapes, jungles, forests, lonely caves, peaceful lakes, waterfalls sprouting from other spaces... light sparks arising magically from the void, leaves dispersing into the wind, shadows in the night of timeless times... It is not poetry, neither a conceptual experiment... these sacred spaces for meditation are deeply rooted visual sounds, melodies and chords sprinkling each page with different tones, harmonics or even dissonances...



The first 22 meditations are mostly centered on life cells and the inner pulse of life, each of them has a related meditation sound which you can listen to.

The 105 additional meditations are inspired on outer sacred spaces, mountains, rivers, caves, lakes, jungles, forests, waterfalls, starscapes, planets... which also act as reflection of our inner worlds and most secret surroundings...



I sincerely hope you will enjoy this adventure of the mind and wish you all the best in your spiritual journey. Many blessings of Love, Light and Consciousness.

Fractal Music Track "A Hint of the Future" composed by Caroline Carlin with Raymond Lull's Ars Magna Software.

ESPAÑOL
Cristales, rocas, formas sin forma, orgánicas, piedra y tierra, carne y espíritu, células vivientes, luna, sol y paisajes planetarios, junglas, bosques, cavernas solitarias, lagos pacíficos, cascadas que desbordan desde otros espacios... relámpagos de luz que salen mágicamente del vacío, hojas dispersándose al viento, sombras en la noche de los tiempos sin tiempo... No es poesía, ni tampoco un experimento conceptual... estos espacios sagrados para la meditación están profundamente enraizados en sonidos visuales, melodías y acordes que salpican cada página con notas diferentes, armónicos o aún disonancias...

Las primeras 22 meditaciones están centradas mayormente en las células vitales y el pulso interior de la vida, cada una de ellas tiene un sonido relacionado de meditación el cual pueden escuchar.
Las 105 meditaciones adicionales están inspiradas en los espacios sagrados externos, montañas, ríos, cavernas, lagos, junglas, bosques, cascadas, paisajes de estrellas, planetas... que también actuán como reflejo de nuestros mundos internos y entornos más secretos...

Espero de todo corazón que disfruten esta aventura de la mente y les deseo lo mejor en su jornada espiritual. Muchas bendiciones de Amor, Luz y Consciencia.

Pista de Música Fractal Music "A Hint of the Future" ("Un Atisbo del Futuro") compuesta por Caroline Carlin con el Software de la Ars Magna de Raymond Lull.

Fractal 01

"Fractal 01" música y gráficas originales de Caroline Carlin.
Música fractal compuesta con Musinum de Lars Kindermann