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Google Artificial Neural Networks – A collection

19 Oct

A few months ago the internet was raging about the new psychedelic videos released by Google. Apparently, when you take Google’s artificial neural networks (ANN) which recognize patterns in images and cause them to reiterate in loops, highly psychedelic patterns emerge, which caused many to ponder the ways in which these ANN’s can teach us about the psychedelic nature of reality and our consciousness. While Samy has already dedicated a great post to this issue,  it seems like a good time for a retrospective of the Google ANN phenomena. So here are some of those psychedelic mind boggling courtesy of Google’s Deep Dream algorithm.

First some explanation of how these images are created:

 

A 38 minute slideshow of images as seen by Google Deep Dream

Inside an artificial brain

A grocery trip, coursey of Pouff

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STREAM – Explore The Unseen – Roman de Guili

16 Oct

Roman de Guili stages tiny universes which exist for miniscule periods of time on a glass plate, he then augments them and exposes the rich life within these spaces, invisible to the naked eye. 70 hours of shooting to create “an organic, non-generated character, establishing a truly reliable cosmos.” No color corrections, no composition, no CGI. Nothing but the breathtaking beauty which naturally emerges from the mixture of water, oil and color.

Purusha – Chih-han Lin (Hannah)

12 Oct

“Chih Han (Hannah) Lin’s Purusha (2015) is a 2.5D animation about a biomorphic character of the same name, who wishes to be beautiful. She lives in a world with other creatures whose elaborate patterns she envies and seeks to steal for her own use. Purusha’s use of experimental colors and patterns in a watercolor-like painting style evokes a mysterious imaginary world that conveys the important message of loving oneself as one is.”

Days of High Adventure by Open Source

9 Oct

Spectacular fractalic imagery with some kicking psytrance in this video to a track by Open Source.

Alma Zohar – Psychedelia for babies and children

5 Oct

Israeli singer Alma Zohar recently released two exceptionally beautiful psychedelic music clips from her children’s album “Pele” (Wonder). Filled with delicious indigenous imagery, these videos are just the right thing to show your psychedelic babies and kids, and if you have more suggestions for psychedelic videos for babies and children, please let us know, because there is a host of psychedelic parents searching for such materials for their kids.

(Link: Galia. Thanks!)

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The Banana Bender – Arik Einstein (1977)

2 Oct

In 1977 the Arnei Lipsei and Dudu Shalita from the Ein Gedi studios in Israel created this rare video for the classic 1968 song “Mekofef Habananot” (The Banana Bender) by Israeli singer Arik Einstein. The topic of the song is a mysterious creature that lives in the trees and that is responsible for bending bananas and giving them their curved shape, as well as adding cracks and holes to the various fruits and vegetables.

This was the first colored animation video produced in Israel, and the style reminds one of classic 1970s psychedelic animation. Hope you enjoy it.

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Night Soil / Fake Paradise Trailer

28 Sep

Brooklyn artist and film maker Melanie Bonajo speaks about ayahuasca in a trailer to her film “Night Soil / Fake Paradise”.

 

From 0 to 100 years in Dutch and Hebrew

25 Sep

There is something distinctly psychedelic about these people counting the years from 0-100. Watching these many people advance with age is like watching life go by – collective life. It’s like those videos of people getting older, but this time around involving a collective of people. What I like about these videos is that they show an amazing portrait of society at large and it’s many faces. Watching this made me like these people and feel like we are all part of something greater.

So, first off here the original version as far as I can tell, done in Amsterdam in 2011: O-100 in Dutch.

And here is my favorite, in my own language. 0-100 in Hebrew:

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Granularity (video edit) – Redhoot

21 Sep

BRNS – Many Chances (Official Music Video)

18 Sep
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