I recently realized that the two site I've been reading regularly are opposites. The two site that I've take a particular interest to are John Maeda's Simplicity and Jarred Tarbell's Complexification . Even though both sites are opposites by tile, they both have more in common than one might think.

While at FITC earlier this month I attended Jarred Tarbell's presentation and was lucky enough to win a substrate print. I guessed Phi to the third decimal. Nerd. I took a particular interest in Tarbell's work not only because its amazing to look at and play with, but, more so because Tarbell uses simple rules to solve complex problems. Simplicity has been the focus of Maede's writing, on his website at least. Maeda too attempts to simplify the complex through the reduction of noise and by attempting to use simple rules repeatedly to create complex results.

Why I've found my self attracted to these two artists work, I'm still not sure, but, I've been realizing that the dichotomy in life is powerful and can provide insight into how we might approach problems for another direction.