Chaos Monkey investigates Strange Phenomena
So the magician and chaos monkey made peace, but what now? It seems that monkey is opening the magician's eyes so they can see all the strangeness in reality they had previously been ignoring or ignorant of. Strangeness such as Fortean phenomena, UFOs and angelic visitations.
But this image doesn't stop there. No. It hints at an information based reality. Nothing could be simpler than binary bits as the lowest desciptor of reality, as hinted at in Johnstone's Paradox. The problem then would be explaining how those bits were processed.
I am quite proud of the hand drawn Mandlebrot fractal in this one. Everyone kept telling me it couldn't be done. It was painstaking, but even a computer rendering of a fractal takes only goes to a finite iteration, so it isn't an infinite drawing as some imagine. It is used here to highlight the fractal patterns expressed in nature, and bridge that idea with the binary information model of reality.
Mind blown!! You have managed to bring 2 topics I enjoy together into one great picture. It looks very much like the cover of a bizarre out of print sci-fi book that I found in some long lost back corner of a second hand store.
Thanks! I'm glad you like it. I think this is one of my favourite drawings from the chaos monkey series. I think it should be fiction. A sort of cross between Harry Potter and the Matrix.