The Fredösphere

As I posted last Friday's image, a shudder of self-loathing passed through me.  Another cheap attention-getting device, I thought to myself.  But hey!  It turns out that cheap, attention-getting devices have their reward!  A big welcome to Alex Ross fans.

Last week an old friend came into town and I took the chance to catch up with him.  Dave is something of a polymath; part scientist, part inventor, and part artist.  Lately he's been experimenting with infrared photography and he's achieving some strange and eye-catching effects by playing with the colors.  He's having fun selling prints of his work in cafes.  You can see examples of his work at his website.

Dave's previous creative foray was writing fiction.  He completed a novel and gave a try at web-based publication.  Unfortunately, because his genre was techno-thriller, the details of the plot became dated fairly quickly.  (It was a story of a serial rapist stalking his prey anonymously online.)  The novel was remarkable; it contained perhaps the most shocking violence of any techno-thriller written by a Mormon.