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.
The Whole Earth Catalog
Access to Tools
The Whole Earth Catalog, first published in 1968, can be considered the bible of counterculture in the 60s and 70s. It compiles tools that can empower the individual within the global community.
Atlas of Clouds and of States of the Sky
A cloud atlas is a visual representation of various cloud types, including their classification and naming conventions.
Hasui Kawase
The Quality of Light
Especially the persistent interest in depicting light characterizes the dreamlike atmosphere in the woodblock prints of Hasui Kawase
Keith Rankin
Half child Half ancient
Keith Rankin is responsible for the sublime artwork of Orange Milk Records.
Hirō Isono
Into the Depths of the Sacred Forest
There is a small group of painters who are able to invoke nature’s serene magic. Isono is one of them and his love for the forest is very tangible.
Hans Silvester
Natural Fashion
I try to put down a marker against the fashion mumbo-jumbo of our consumer culture, that only reinforces disempowerment and…
Agnes Pelton
Desert Visionary
Agnes Lawrence Pelton (1881–1961) was a member of the Transcendental Painting Group, dedicated to the principles of creating and promoting a pure abstract painting style imbued with spiritual intent.
Terence McKenna
An Ocean of Ideas
In this lecture Terence unfolds an ocean of ideas, a metaphor for the psychedelic dimension you are sailing out onto to cast the net of the human imagination to retrieve novel ideas out of the chaos.
Daniel Stier
Ways Of Knowing
A personal project exploring the real world of scientific research. Not the stainless steel surfaces bathed in purple light, but real people in their basements working on selfbuilt contraptions
Lieke Romeijn
Always Coming Home
Her heartfelt portraits of mothers and children are imbued with an almost utopian serenity. This same raw, earthy beauty flows through all her creations, whether it’s her vibrant cakes or her drawings made with natural pigments.
Terence McKenna
Final Earthbound Interview
This video from 1998 is one of the last interviews before Terence passed away in April 2000.
Heinz Edelmann
My psychedelic childhood
Heinz Edelmann‘s illustrations really made a lasting impression on me as a child. His distinct style seemed all-around and I remember one picture book in particular.
Hans Bellmer
Degenerate Art
Hans Bellmer was a photographer, sculptor, printmaker, painter and writer.
Sebastião Salgado
Amazônia
Photojournalist Sebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon for six years to document the unfathomable wonder of this last frontier. The forest, the rivers, the mountains, and the people who live there.
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.
Taylor Camp
Paradise Lost
I am fascinated by people who make the bold step into alternative ways of living. If none of the given choices seem to fit you, create your own!
Jimmy Nelson
Before They Pass Away
The photographer Jimmy Nelson visited 31 secluded and visually unique tribes around the world. The result is huge — in extend and significance.
Yoga
Made in GDR
A practice of self-enquiry like yoga isn’t on the agenda of a system of control and conformity. But even in East Germany people pursued this path, despite the risk of arousing suspicion.
Rajni Perera
(M)otherworlds
Rajni Perera paints a vibrant sci-fi universe ruled by hybrid deities, demons, and powerful black heroines.
Ama
Women of the Sea
The term Ama literally means ‘women of the sea’, as women were always the preferred divers in Japan.
