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Laser Fractal Space Wizard

@complicatedreality.com

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I'm Yamen, it rhymes with ramen. I make fractal art, write poems and stories, and create games and puzzles. See more of my work at complicatedreality.com

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Laser Fractal Space Wizard @complicatedreality.com · Feb 28

"Beam Swarm"
Old flam3 fractal

Be the light that casts the shadow forward if you can.
Backwards-facing shadows only help them with their plan.
Tomorrow may be darker, if the bastards get their way
but that's an insufficient reason to let them have today.

$This fractal design is comprised of tightly packed columns in fiery colors, all swarming in a neat pattern towards a tilted horizon, from above and below. Each column is lead by a curled orange ribbon that burns bright yellow at the tip then fades through orange to a smokey black and midnight blue. There's a recursive pattern to the columns, making a kind of city skyline effect as they cluster towards the horizon. It feels busy, but coordinated.$

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Laser Fractal Space Wizard @complicatedreality.com · 5h

Seattle Sports Fan Experience speedrun, new WR by Beefy in the No Championship category.

Laser Fractal Space Wizard @complicatedreality.com · 5h

You can criticize whoever you want on your own threads. No one owes anyone a debate or an argument.

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Laser Fractal Space Wizard @complicatedreality.com · 6h

The idea that every social space must be open to argument at all times is preposterous.

Laser Fractal Space Wizard @complicatedreality.com · 8h

If moderation feels like censorship to you, that says a lot about the way you participate on social media.

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Laser Fractal Space Wizard @complicatedreality.com · 9h

If you start a thread, and someone responds in a bothersome way, you can hide their reply without deleting it or blocking them. To them, it looks like their comment gets no engagement, to everyone else the reply doesn't show. It's a nice way to shut down derailments.

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Laser Fractal Space Wizard @complicatedreality.com · 2d

"Wiggy" is a word that means "I'm feeling weird, but I know it's because of the substance I've consumed", and implies "I need to change my setting, but communicating is difficult". It's an alternative to attaching those feelings to more important things, and a reminder that the discomfort will fade.

An engraved brass coin with a mushroom design. A mushroom patch shape is tiled such that the negative spaces also forms the same shape, like an MC Escher drawing.

The reverse side of the same brass coin, engraved with the words "Wiggy Wanes".

Laser Fractal Space Wizard @complicatedreality.com · 3d

This is so much fun!

An engraved brass coin with the words "Wisdom Recycled Multiplies" engraved on one side.

A brass coin with the words "Truth Divided Illuminates" engraved on it.

Laser Fractal Space Wizard @complicatedreality.com · 4d

AI chatbots are like masturbation. Kinda fun on your own, but please don't make us watch you do it.

Laser Fractal Space Wizard @complicatedreality.com · 4d

Here's the flip side, showing the other half of the emotional pairs.

Laser Fractal Space Wizard @complicatedreality.com · 4d

I found the feature that changes the angle of the laser's approach each pass.. Whoops, I mean Geno learned Geno Whirl!

This coin is a map of how I see emotions. Each emotional state has its counterpart on the back. We oscillate between each pair (and others), and the combined result is our "now".

An engraved brass coin. A kaleidoscopic pattern in the middle has 6 almost identical sections projecting out from the vertices of a central hexagon. Each section has a jellyfish-shaped creature with one eye floating above an abstract shape like a carrot with a pineapple's leaves. Around the central pattern, 6 words are arranged, each one centered above a jellyfish. Love, Express, Wonder, Excite, Create, Explore. Further out from that, a geodesic pattern of arcs and dots make a pleasant border.

The back side of the coin isn't shown, but since you took the time to read this far, it has the same design, but the words are changed to Fear, Absorb, Expect, Soothe, Consume, Secure.

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Laser Fractal Space Wizard @complicatedreality.com · 5d

Laser Fractal Space Wizard isn't just a silly title. It's also a map of my creative phases. In Laser phases, I'm chasing a specific result. In Fractal phases, I'm exploring possibilities. In Space phases, I'm creating big ideas. In Wizard phases, I'm performing. Phases often overlap.

Laser Fractal Space Wizard @complicatedreality.com · 7d

Hello, laser!
I think it needs a name. Probably something with a prominent G, inherited from its model. Geordi? Gali? Oh! How about Geno? Inspired by my own personal childhood Boba Fett, ♡♪!?.

Hello, Geno!

$A hand holding a small card which has been laser etched with a fractal design ("Solar Regulation" from a Complicated Reality)$ $A hand holding a small card which has been laser etched with a fractal design ("Daylight" from a Complicated Reality)$

Laser Fractal Space Wizard @complicatedreality.com · 11d

MC Fontalot

Laser Fractal Space Wizard @complicatedreality.com · 12d

Laser upgrade!

It took a lot of fractals and a lot of Plotboxes, but I finally saved up enough to get a 30w fiber laser setup I've been eyeing. Soon, even the finest metals will be subject to my photonic ablations through the power of Ytterbium-doped silca fiber. (And a hefty HEPA filter!)

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 19d

Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog.

Patients with brain fog may have disrupted AMPA receptor (AMPAR) expression—key molecules for memory and learning. Imaging of Long COVID patients showed elevated AMPAR density tied to more severe cognitive impairment.

Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog

Researchers employed a specialized brain imaging technique to identify a potential biomarker and therapeutic target for Long COVID. More than four years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, scien...

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Laser Fractal Space Wizard @complicatedreality.com · 21d

"Night Cats"
Flam3 fractal + poetry

$This fractal design has a rippling cloud texture which outlines the abstract silhouettes of three cats in dusky blues and oranges. There are three verses written on the design, tucked into the fractal folds. The poem reads: At dawning moon and fading glow four-footed phantoms sneaking low, head to places most can't go, with flickered lights and long shadows. Some bring shoestrings. Some bring twine. Some bring feathers, always nine. Stacking treasures, purring rhyme The static crackles, hairs align. Then it happens, just like that, all who've gathered scatter back. Magic, but to be exact? Don't ask a wizard, ask a cat.$

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Laser Fractal Space Wizard @complicatedreality.com · 22d

OG Computer Nerds: I need a dedicated key that prevents the console from scrolling so I don't miss a single letter of information. Every computer should come with this by default.

Modern computer users: Ugh I have to actually scroll all the way to the bottom to accept this legally binding contract?

Laser Fractal Space Wizard @complicatedreality.com · 23d

"Snug"
Flam3 fractal

I've updated my website gallery with a bunch of highlights from this year. It's a great place to grab a new wallpaper image. www.complicatedreality.com/fractal-art

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Market for the Strange @market4thestrange.bsky.social · 24d

Night of the Living Dead, Oct 4th @ The Grand, Salem OR.
We're going all out to kick off haunted season. Tickets and details at marketforthestrange.com

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Laser Fractal Space Wizard @complicatedreality.com · 27d

Some products create value through convenience. A spork, for example. Let's come up with silly opposites of that. Fusion products that aren't any more convenient than their constituent products. Like Diaper + Firework, Bicycle Pump + Protractor, or Toothbrush + Dog Collar.

Laser Fractal Space Wizard @complicatedreality.com · Sep 19

"Structured" fractal art hits this same feeling too. I incorporate structure in my works, but I don't bind myself to strict conformality and I rarely calculate any parameter values. It's a cool skill, but most who do it lose interest in unstructured work. That's not a cost I want to pay.

Laser Fractal Space Wizard @complicatedreality.com · Sep 19

I feel this way about music pretty often. I hear so many amazing songs that make me feel unique ways. A part of me craves that kind of expression, and perhaps someday I'll give in. But there's a kind of enjoyable innocence that comes with being unequipped to critique.

Laser Fractal Space Wizard @complicatedreality.com · Sep 19

Ever get that feeling where you encounter a work of art, music, performance, or whatever, and it's so captivating and wonderful that you don't want to learn anything about how it's made because you don't want to be able to see the flaws that people learn to focus on when they're taught how to do it?

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Laser Fractal Space Wizard @complicatedreality.com · Sep 18

After 20+ years of listening to it, I noticed that the first two tracks on the album Signs by Badmarsh and Shri have opposite perspectives. The first implores "You gotta make up your mind to face reality all the time". The second starts with "Run. Free. Reject reality!" Great album regardless.

Laser Fractal Space Wizard @complicatedreality.com · Sep 13

Ill Fated Tattoos does flash at most Market for the Strange events. He finally got me to sit down for this rad frog wizard. If you're around Albany, Oregon, come see us at the Linn County Expo Hall from 11-6.

A photograph of a new tattoo on Yamen's arm. It's a grumpy frog wearing a wizard hat, in black line work with shading.