Benoit Paillé Rainbow Gatherings — DOP

Benoit Paillé
Rainbow Gatherings

November 9 2013

Rainbow Gatherings are temporary intentional communities, typically held in outdoor settings, and espousing and practicing ideals of peace, love, harmony, freedom and community, as a consciously expressed alternative to mainstream popular culture, consumerism, capitalism and mass media.

Lately I also rediscovered the wholesome experience of being with with a group of strangers who share an intention of love & growth.

Benoit Paillé takes pictures of his family for more than three years now. See more of his work here: Flickr / Behance

All Watched Over by
Machines of Loving Grace

A series of films about how humans have been colonized by the machines we have built. Although we don’t realize it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers.

Marjorie Cameron
Songs for the Witch Woman

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Jonathan McCabe
Generative Flow

I never liked generative art. Until I found Jonathan McCabe. He changed that in an instant.

Híbridos
The Spirits of Brazil

A poetic and cinematic research into spirituality and its music in Brazil by Priscilla Telmon & Vincent Moon.

Erich Fromm
The Art Of Loving

The presentation of love as as a skill that can be taught and developed is all the more important for modern humans alienated from each other and from nature.

Rebecca Reeve
Portals into the wilderness

Rebecca Reeve creates portals from the domestic into the wilderness with a bit of household drapery.

Pedro Friedeberg
Architect of Patterns

Pedro Friedeberg and Frida Kahlo were the only two Mexican artists recognized by Andre Breton as part of the Surrealist movement.

Hannsjörg Voth
Landscape as Canvas

I’m totally fascinated by Hannsjörg Voth‘s structures in the Moroccan desert. There is a beautiful book called Stadt des Orion…

Terence McKenna
Seeking The Stone

This talk is great and Terence is in a particularly good mood. Enjoy.

Jacob Kirkegaard
Nagaras

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Utopian Visionaries
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These two visionary tales are written hundred years apart, under very different conditions by very different authors yet they make a great match.

Microcosmos
Le peuple de l’herbe

This documentary from 1996 is a celebration of life.

Friedrich
Schröder Sonnenstern
Lunatic or Artist

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Boris Bućan
Reimagining Folk Art

Visually arresting and conceptually rigorous, the graphic design of Boris Bućan has recently experienced renewed international interest.

Kohei Yoshiyuki
The Park

I hesitated to make this post because what it reveals is a rather weird presentation of human desire. But ultimately…

Jean Delville
The Age Of Splendor

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Tintin
Coming of Age

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Saskia Olde-Wolbers
Drowned Worlds in Slow Motion

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Hasui Kawase
The Quality of Light

Especially the persistent interest in depicting light characterizes the dreamlike atmosphere in the woodblock prints of Hasui Kawase

Synchrodogs
Woman Nature Technology

Their latest exploration into generative AI seems like a natural evolution of their practice.