It feels like there's been a particular surge lately of quality digital art hyperlinks, which make the cut over on my twitter/delicious feeds but I don't quite have time to blog about. To save them from the abyss of social network ephemerality, here's a digest of the highlights.

• The Mandelbulb, breathtaking renderings of 3D fractal forms - frightening in their organicness. Eerily reminiscent of the Romanesco cauliflower.
• Jonathan Zawada is an Australian designer and illustrator, incorporating influences both psychedelic and mathematical. He also makes the masterly move of explicitly acknowledging these influences in his "cliffnotes" sidebar. Win!
• Osmos is a really, really sexy-looking ambient game based on particle interactions. Soundtracked by Loscil, Gas, Biosphere and more.
• When naming the mascot for their much-vaunted Go language, Google obviously weren't aware of 1980s UK kids TV. Compare: Gordon the Gopher vs Gordon the Gopher. Oops.
• The parallax-glitch interface to Daniel Leyva's portfolio needs to be experienced. Great concept, and executed with no use of Flash whatsoever.
• Continuing the psychedelia note, Fred Tomaselli creates explosions of colour and multiplicity which threaten to do strange things to your consciousness. Really want to see these paintaings in the flesh.

There's been a veritable blizzard of bookmarks swarming through my browser tabs over the past few days — convenient, as I'm enjoying the relative lull after the hectic weeks around Futuresonic.

For example,
this wall-bound bestiary;
this tongue-tripping delight;
this Gallic trove;
this subaquatic cartography;
this delving profile;
and
this bit-pop artistry.

I'm intending to post some photos and video of the Futuresonic work in the next few days. In the meantime, please enjoy this image of a bird in wellingtons, sent to me by my brother.