So it Goes.

shjnam: First Impression Oil on Wood Panel 11x14

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:40:47 -0400

First Impression

Oil on Wood Panel 11x14

adsertoris: Dreamachine - The dreamachine (or dream machine) is...

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:44:21 -0400

Dreamachine

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The dreamachine (or dream machine) is a stroboscopic flicker device that produces visual stimuli. Artist Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs’s “systems adviser” Ian Sommerville created the dreamachine after reading William Grey Walter’s book, The Living Brain.

History

In its original form, a dreamachine is made from a cylinder with slits cut in the sides. The cylinder is placed on a record turntable and rotated at 78 or 45 revolutions per minute. A light bulb is suspended in the center of the cylinder and the rotation speed allows the light to come out from the holes at a constant frequency of between 8 and 13 pulses per second. This frequency range corresponds to alpha waves, electrical oscillations normally present in the human brain while relaxing.

Use

A dreamachine is “viewed” with the eyes closed: the pulsating light stimulates the optical nerve and alters the brain’s electrical oscillations. The user experiences increasingly bright, complex patterns of color behind their closed eyelids. The patterns become shapes and symbols, swirling around, until the user feels surrounded by colors. It is claimed that using a dreamachine allows one to enter a hypnagogic state. This experience may sometimes be quite intense, but to escape from it, one needs only to open one’s eyes.

Dreamachine exhibition at Cabaret Voltaire (birthplace of Dada), Zürich

Dreamachine exhibition at Freud’s Dreams Museum, St. Petersburg (Russia)

Subtleart Dr.Benways Simulacrum, Dreamachine Replica, Audiovisual installation, Collaborative project: Subtleart, New World Revolution and Kito, 2009

(French) Interzone: Dreamachine - Machine à rêver

FLicKeR Film Review

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JavaScript Dreamachine

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Thu, 16 May 2013 22:28:55 -0400

itscolossal: A new illustration by Imarginal, three months in...

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:21:36 -0400

itscolossal:

A new illustration by Imarginal, three months in the making.

Photo

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:13:47 -0400

iheartmyart: Erik Jones / City / Watercolor, Pencil, Acrylic,...

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:21:13 -0400

iheartmyart:

Erik Jones / City / Watercolor, Pencil, Acrylic, Wax Pastel, Oil / 2013, erikjonesart blog

Incredible new piece, “City,” by Erik Jones (*theirison)!

(via deviantart)

kateoplis: Jenni Sparks’ Hand Drawn New York

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:18:49 -0400

kateoplis:

Jenni Sparks’ Hand Drawn New York

kateoplis: Forget it This will be so cruel and so good...

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:20:06 -0400

kateoplis:

Forget it

This will be so cruel and so good i’m sure.

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Tue, 14 May 2013 18:40:05 -0400

erinkilkenny: 17 year Cicada emergence .gif, because I had to...

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:31:07 -0400

erinkilkenny:

17 year Cicada emergence .gif, because I had to see it animate.

This is going to be most disgustingly loud summer of our lives.

thepeoplesrecord: http://www.mamasday.org/ Strong Families is...

Mon, 13 May 2013 23:18:16 -0400

thepeoplesrecord:

http://www.mamasday.org/

Strong Families is a home for the 4 out of 5 people living in the US who do not live behind the picket fence—whose lives fall outside outdated notions of family, with a mom at home and a dad at work. While that life has never been the reality for most of our families, too many of the policies that affect us are based on this fantasy. From a lack of affordable childcare and afterschool programs, to immigration policy and marriage equality, the way we make policy and allocate resources needs to catch up to the way we live.

We see the trend of families defining themselves beyond the picket fence—across generation, race, gender, immigration status, and sexuality—as a powerful and promising development for the US, and we want to help policy makers catch up.

Our vision is that every family have the rights, recognition and resources it needs to thrive. We are engaging hundreds of organizations and thousands of individuals in our work to get there.

Amaryllis Moleski, A fellow artist from my residency, made one of these beautiful mother’s day cards about strong families. So proud!

Wayne White knows the biz

Mon, 13 May 2013 23:10:09 -0400

Wayne White knows the biz

chaboneobaiarroyoallende: Parton and Wagoner

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:11:05 -0400

chaboneobaiarroyoallende:

Parton and Wagoner

shenaniganswillensue: gium tio.

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:27:43 -0400

shenaniganswillensue:

gium tio.

slowartday: CFM Van De Ven

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:27:15 -0400

slowartday:

CFM Van De Ven

slone: Detail of the piece I am currently working on. Lovely

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:21:55 -0400

slone:

Detail of the piece I am currently working on.

Lovely

darksilenceinsuburbia: Golucho. Website

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:29:40 -0400

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Golucho.

Website

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Mon, 13 May 2013 00:09:28 -0400

iheartmyart: Echolilia: A Father’s Photographic Conversation...

Sun, 12 May 2013 14:04:45 -0400

iheartmyart:

Echolilia: A Father’s Photographic Conversation with His Autistic Son. Timothy Archibald uses his camera to find an emotional bridge to his son Photographs and text from the book Echolilia: Sometimes I Wonder

My eldest son was born in 2001. He was always a kid who went to the beat of his own drummer. When he was 5, we began making photographs collaboratively as a way to find some common ground and attempt to understand each other. Soon after we began the project, Elijah was diagnosed on the autistic spectrum. Though the diagnosis gave me the words and history to understand my son better, it didn’t take away the mystery and the need to try to find an emotional bridge to him.”Echolilia” is an alternate spelling of a more common term, “echolalia,” used in the autistic community to refer to the habit of verbal repetition and copying that is commonly found in autistic kids’ behavior. I liked the idea of it: photography is a form of copying. Kids are a form of repetition. And looking at my kid with photography allowed me to see myself a new

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iheartmyart: CG Toki, Organ Installation, 2013

Sun, 12 May 2013 14:01:25 -0400

iheartmyart:

CG Toki, Organ Installation, 2013