Staggering Beauty
WARNING: CONTAINS FLASHING IMAGES
Psychedelic Domain Coloring
Courtesy of Konrad Polthier and Konstantin Poelke, Free University of Berlin
"Complex functions are important in many areas of mathematics, physics and engineering. A complex function is one in which both variables are complex numbers. The picture shows the visualization of a complex function using a specifically designed color scheme.
Following a technique called 'domain coloring,' the color scheme assigns a certain color to every complex number, inducing a coloring of the function domain according to its values at every point. So using this picture, you can explore properties of the function by easily spotting zeroes (black spots) or singularities (white spots). Contour lines indicate how the function deforms the complex plan."
via popsci.com
Allison Schulnik Pushes Claymation To Its Psychedelic Limit
Hobo With Bird (2009)
What Awaits You (2006)
"Clay animation can be a magical medium when the material is allowed to be itself and not dressed up to look like something else. This is something that animators like Bruce Bickford and David Daniels understood, as does CalArts Experimental grad Allison Schulnik. The pulsating figures in her new short Mound are reminiscent of an earlier Grizzly Bear music video of hers..., but there’s also some fun new visual concepts, particularly the sequence that begins at the two-minute mark. “Mound” by Allison Schulnik "
via thecreatorsproject.com
Ira Cohen : Psychedelic Photography Master
"Jimi Hendrix photographed in Ira Cohen's Jefferson Street loft, from Mylar Chamber, New York, late 1960s. Ira recalled that Hendrix was rather shy and quiet. Hendrix said of Cohen’s Mylar Chamber images: 'Looking at your pictures is like looking through butterfly wings' ""
Ira Cohen (February 3, 1935 – April 25, 2011) was an American poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker. Cohen lived in Morocco and in New York City in the 1960s, he was in Kathmandu in the 1970s and traveled the world in the 1980s, before returning to New York, where he spent the rest of his life. Cohen died of renal failure on April 25th, 2011.[1]
via guardian.co.uk
Dreams and Travels – The Art of Masha Falkov
"I was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, but my family immigrated to New York when I was just a baby. Nonetheless, I speak fluent Russian and inherited all the sense of wonder at living in a country with so much abundance and so many possibilities. Growing up in New York was a never-ending sea of color and sound. The sheer diversity of the city’s inhabitants, architecture, and technology was the kind of sensory overload that provided constant inspiration for me."
Naoto Hattori
The Garden of the Noosphere
Via Naoto Hattori
"I try to express something from my inner mind. I like to see what’s really going on in my head, and then find something from the stream of consciousness and paint it. Sometimes it comes out very weird and twisted, but I like to paint exactly what I see with no compromises. That way I can explore my feelings and find something that I really want to paint."