Projection installation by Treat Studios.
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The Temples of Damanhur
19 Sep
Just by a small Italian village stands a typical-looking house. But unlike it’s exterior, under it is a secret entrance to a hidden complex of rich and imaginative architecture, the Temples of Humankind of Damanhur.
Built by a small group of devoted people with only hand tools, the halls and corridors of the temples are ornately decorated with so many details the sight of viewing it is almost like a trip through imagination, an open book recording and exhibiting human creativity. This all was inspired by the claimed supernatural visions that the group’s leader, Oberto Airaudi, recieved from a previous life at the age of ten.
For more details and information this article is recommended:
uvAntam aka Ubar Tmar
6 SepJapanese uvAntam is known not only for his crazy brand of psytrance, but also his love for sacred geometry and mathematics, which the above visual pieces illustrate perfectly. Consider for example his 2002 album Macrometasomakosmos:
The arrangement/rhythm of musical elements on this CD is based on Penrose tiles (aperiodic tiling). It is broken into tracks all either 34 or 55 seconds long, for a total of 89 tracks (that is, 55 tracks plus 34 tracks), in accordance with the Golden Mean.
34, 55, 89 are successive terms in the Fibonacci Series – a sequence of numbers in which each term is the sum of the two previous terms. As the terms grow larger and larger the ratio of a term and its immediate predecessor approaches the Golden Mean, which is (1+√5)/2 or approximately 1.618.
(reference: Discogs.com)
Painting Reality
1 SepThis is how Psychedelic Guerrilla should look like.
Dance, Paint, Juggle in the streets, they are ours.
The dark side of psychedelia… Brought to you by Andy Warhol
15 Aug
The pop artist Andy Warhol created in the mid-Sixties the “Exploding Plastic Inevitable”, a series of multimedia shows featuring his experimental films, dancers (and actors) from his Factory, and performances by the band The Velvet Underground, who were managed by him.
The show, as it was seen live, must have been a very trippy, freaky experience. This did fit the experimental attitude of The Velvet Underground who, in an age of the “flower power” and “Peace & Love”, touched darker and edgier subjects in their lyrics and avant-garde sounds in their music.
Blue Lunar Monkey (Imix Jaguar)
28 JulA few weeks ago I came across the visual work of Imix Jaguar. He creates beautiful mystical visuals with a lot of Mayan signs in them. I’m sure I’ll feature more videos by him in the future.
Artificial – A Short Trip Through Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall
12 Jul
Lasse Gjertsen makes a bunch of artworks come alive and boy does it look trippy! You might remember Lasse from the 2006 viral hit Hyperactive.
Malcolm Sutherland: The Forming Game (2008)
28 JunCanadian Malcolm Sutherland commands forms in this short animation.
Advanced Beauty
21 Jun1 of 18 by Robert Seidel
14 of 18 by Tom Scholefield
Advanced Beauty is an ongoing art project with a large number of collaborators. Their first release was a collection of 18 synesthetic sound sculptures. There are no news about any upcoming releases as far as I can tell.
LiquiDance
9 JunDance is one of the most beautiful ways of self expression. David Bernal takes dance into the realm of liquid, at times defying the laws of physics.
I just remembered this video and had to add it too…
“People can fly, anything can happen…”
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