Phillip Stearns investigates the effects of high voltage and household cleaning products on instant pull apart color film. The results remind me of synapses and blood vessels.
There’s a video at the end of the post to reveal the technique.
Philip Kirkland
The Psychedelic Textbook Solution
Back in the early 1970s, Phil Kirkland created surreal textbook illustrations, mostly for psychology and health books.
Steve Axford
Fungi, the recyclers
Steve Axford does what he likes most. It’s taking pictures and exploring the living world that unfolds evermore interconnectedness to him.
Stanisław Szukalski
Behold! The Fall of Man
Stanisław Szukalski’s strong nationalistic affinity, coupled with a megalomaniac self-image made him the priest of a nation, that was to hail him the greatest of living artists.
Spencer Tunick
Body Mass Index
Spencer Tunick photographs individuals en masse, without their clothing, grouped together.
Isamu Noguchi
Playscapes
Noguchi fought for the reintegration of the arts toward some purposeful and social end, and nowhere was this more apparent than in its playground designs.
Mars
A photographic exploration
This book is the best reminder that a computer screen can’t replace the printing quality of a well produced book. The nuances of black are outstanding…
Frédéric Fontenoy
Métamorphose
Métamorphose is a project by French photographer Frédéric Fontenoy that consists of slit-scan self portraits created in outdoor locations.
Viviane Sassen
Unfortunately Fashion
This is as fashion as it gets on DOP. But Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen‘s work is extraordinary and transcends the common.
Richard Feynman
The pleasure of finding things out
Richard Feynman is one of those rare scientists who win you over with more than their titles and awards.
Kohei Yoshiyuki
The Park
I hesitated to make this post because what it reveals is a rather weird presentation of human desire. But ultimately…
Daehyun Kim
Moonassi
Daehyun Kim’s Moonassi series is his life-time project. He draws to meditate on himself and others. And the others again can use the drawings to contemplate as well.
Rick Doblin
Myths About Psychedelic Drugs
Rick Doblin is the the founder of MAPS and one of the most prominent fighters for opening our culture to the healing power of psychedelics.
Hans-Peter Dürr
Wirklichkeit
Hans-Peter Dürr — a luminous figure of science today. Such academic knowledge and reputation rarely come with wisdom and openness. I wish more scientists would be like him.
Jill Bolte Taylor
My Stroke of Insight
This account from lalaland is beautifully bridging the gap between science and spirituality to open up our perception of the world.
Anna Halprin
Breath Made Visible
Dance is not something you do for an audience to entertain, it’s a very real experience. It can heal you.
Philippe Caza
Hydrogenesis
Drawings from Philippe Caza‘s Hydrogenesis.
Tintin
Coming of Age
I grew up with Tintin and I just realized how formative Hergé’s ‘ligne claire’ was for me. His distinct visual…
Dying to Know
The Mystical World
This book is leading you on travels in a mysterious and visionary world.
Terence McKenna
Search For The Original Tree Of Knowledge
This is a 10 hour weekend workshop given by Terence McKenna in Boulder, Colorado May 29-31, 1992.
David S. Goodsell
The Machinery of Life
Beneath our everyday world there is a miniature universe of cells, trillions of tiny worlds, unseen and beautiful. This is the machinery of life and it never rests!
