Beautiful and mind-bending animation!
Check it out! You’ll be delighted.
Here is the homepage.
[thank you, Arjan!]
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A Slower Speed of Light
18 NovA Slower Speed of Light is a game developed by the MIT Game Lab and it aims to make the crazy world of special relativity relatable to everyday experience. You can experience the Doppler effect, the searchlight effect, time dilation, Lorentz transformation and the runtime effect all rendered in realtime. And all of this in the familiar setting of a first person platform game with loads of colorful, vibrant giant mushrooms.
You can download the game for free here and study physics all night long.
(Btw, the game is open-source and the code will be released soon. so if you would like to develope a game with an engine that renders relativistic physics in real time…)
[many thanks to Karo]
Acid Mothers Temple
11 NovTonight I will have to choose between seeing legendary ecstatic noise hippies Acid Mothers Temple live here in cologne or visiting the philharmonic hall for a concert in memoriam H. W. Henze, the radical composer who died just a few weeks ago.
Somebody got a working time machine, maybe?
Update: Hey time machine people, I don’t know how you did it, but you are awesome! I saw both (while everywhere else in cologne the beginning of the carnival season was raging)!
“Particle of Light” by Carice van Houten (ft. Antony)
4 NovThe video for “Particle of Light” by Carice van Houten is actually just a sparkler burning down in slow motion. But it works. See for yourself.
[Once again, thanks to Karo]
TOMUTONTTU
28 OctTOMUTONTTU is Jan Anderzen of Avarus and Kemialliset Ystävät fame (check out the website! it is a whole trip in itself). The video above seems to be a little teaser for the release of an outtakes collection. But the one below is a really nice video of Anderzen performing at the annual Colorscape Arts Festival in Turku, Finland (filmed by Sami Sänpäkkilä).
Hey, have a nice sunday!
“Perth” by Bon Iver
21 OctThis one starts so modest and while clinging to its simple means it gets beautifully crazy over time.
Now get some shrooms and book a flight on google earth airlines.
[and once again: thank you, Karo!]
Efterklang – Doppelganger (by Matt Brown)
14 OctFor your psychedelic pleasure! The video by Matt Brown uses subtle manipulations to great effect. You never know if it is the dazzling beauty of nature or the way he arranges the footage what causes this feeling of heightened sensitivity.
A friend of my parents had a photograph of a mountain view as a wallpaper in his livingroom. When I was a child I used to sit in front of it, overwhelmed by this strange hyperrealistic impression of nature holding its breath. When I saw the video I somehow remembered that wallpaper and the feeling of awe and calm it gave me.
And if you don’t want that magical calm to end, you can check out some other videos by Matt Brown.
[lots of thanks to Karo]
“Thanatos” by Soap&Skin
7 OctThe video to Thanatos by Soap&Skin uses the theme of decay to a beautiful dark psychedelic effect. Check it out and enjoy!
“Reality Is Tearing Itself Asunder… And I Must Race”
30 SepAwesome video/quote by Kazz.
Also: Check out that psych-fuzz-soundtrack of the game.
Taken together with the following video of Nitronic Rush (both found on kazztawdal’s youtube channel), you should have a good time comparing aesthetic qualities to the famous “Stargate”-sequence in 2001 – A Space Odyssey.
Don’t laugh! I am more than half serious about this…
(jump to 1:45 if you want to save the “nitronic loading screen” and some nitronic option screens for later)
You can download Nitronic Rush here.
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