That's so great that you have been so good over all the years keeping your archive of files stored. I'm a digital hoarder myself. But my files from the mid to late 90s are sorely lacking. Thankfully I do have some of my files. Like my first Geocities website where I first learned how to code in HTML. I reposted the files onto my spudart site at https://www.spudart.org/geocities/SoHo/Studios/9365/
The homepage has an animated gif of a spinning potato, which is somewhat like your spinning SKI gif. Although yours is much smoother than mine. I just slapped a potato on a scanner and kept scanning all the sides of the spud.
Man, I'd love to see you post more of your crazy old images, and what they are about. That's what brings them back to life. In your head they mean something to you. You hang onto them, because they each trigger a different memory, a various winding interest during a time of your life, and how that interest flowed into another interest. All that makes you who you are. When you explain the various backgrounds behind crazy old images, people can see and understand the sources of who you are.
Left alone on a hard drive, those crazy old images only serve yourself--and if that's completely fine if you want to keep them that way. But if you open up your desk's junk drawer and start talking about all the stuff in that drawer--then we get to see who you are. When I visit a friend's house, I always love it when they open a drawer, and I get to peek at the brief moment of what's inside there. Because when you peek into the depths of that drawer, you peek into who that person is.
Quite frankly, Phil, if you have never spoken to anyone who found fractal images as cool as you did, you must never have met anyone who has seen one while on acid. Or, alternatively, maybe the acid you were on was better than theirs…? Either way, I’m confident you can still find some who will share your enthusiasm.
That's so great that you have been so good over all the years keeping your archive of files stored. I'm a digital hoarder myself. But my files from the mid to late 90s are sorely lacking. Thankfully I do have some of my files. Like my first Geocities website where I first learned how to code in HTML. I reposted the files onto my spudart site at https://www.spudart.org/geocities/SoHo/Studios/9365/
The homepage has an animated gif of a spinning potato, which is somewhat like your spinning SKI gif. Although yours is much smoother than mine. I just slapped a potato on a scanner and kept scanning all the sides of the spud.
Man, I'd love to see you post more of your crazy old images, and what they are about. That's what brings them back to life. In your head they mean something to you. You hang onto them, because they each trigger a different memory, a various winding interest during a time of your life, and how that interest flowed into another interest. All that makes you who you are. When you explain the various backgrounds behind crazy old images, people can see and understand the sources of who you are.
Left alone on a hard drive, those crazy old images only serve yourself--and if that's completely fine if you want to keep them that way. But if you open up your desk's junk drawer and start talking about all the stuff in that drawer--then we get to see who you are. When I visit a friend's house, I always love it when they open a drawer, and I get to peek at the brief moment of what's inside there. Because when you peek into the depths of that drawer, you peek into who that person is.
Quite frankly, Phil, if you have never spoken to anyone who found fractal images as cool as you did, you must never have met anyone who has seen one while on acid. Or, alternatively, maybe the acid you were on was better than theirs…? Either way, I’m confident you can still find some who will share your enthusiasm.