Rough Immortality

In memory of Benoit Mandelbrot (20/11/1924 - 14/10/2010). His work made mine possible. Today's Gratitude Item: We *finally* have a worm farm for getting rid of kitchen scraps and so…

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Woven Rose

The Takahe is wondering if this particular rose is good to eat. Usually Takahe eat tussock grass, but this image is anything but "usual". Today's Gratitude Item: Finally having time…

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Art of Magic

This one has more to do with luck than skill. Today's Gratitude Item: A free haircut. I've been getting my hair cut at the same place for a while and…

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Fortunate Reversal

The title refers to the act of reversing the gradient in this image and getting a pleasing result. Today's Gratitude Item: That starting next month all of the libraries around…

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Action

I really liked the quotation. Its short and accurate and something that I wish my students would understand. Today's Gratitude Item: That my 8th grade math class are going on…

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Prime Purpose

Not sure if I've already created a wallpaper with this quotation. If I have, its not the end of the word as it is worth repeating. Today's Gratitude Item: Getting…

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Gold Flowers

Both forms of the proverb are good - possibly in different circumstances. Today's Gratitude Item: A successful gamble. I gave a student a detention on Friday for lunch time today…

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True Thinking

It took a while to choose these colours. Hopefully the effort was not wasted. Today's Gratitude Item: Fractal inspiration from an old friend! He showed me some cool final transforms…

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Shining Obligations

For something so simple, this one took a long time to create. Lets just say that using Illustrator to create the wallpaper did not work - which in retrospect is…

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Psychedelic Dreaming

Here's how it happened this time round. Psychedelic colours and flower implied hippies and the sixties music scene which implied John Lennon. Finding the quote was easy :) Today's Gratitude…

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