Cyriak, master of psychedelic, fractal animal animations, returns today with Chimpnology, a celebration of the titular furry primates. What starts as a relatively straightforward video of a bunch of monkeys dancing in suits quickly becomes characteristically grotesque, a apes sprout extra limbs upon limbs and eyes become mouths become eyes. Its all set to a […]
There’s a spectre hanging over hallucinogens, the spectre of 25I-NBOMe. It’s a substituted phenethylamine hallucinogenic and entactogenic stimulant. Chemically, it’s the N-benzyl derivative of the hallucinogen 2C-I. The addition of the 2-methyoxybenzyl made it an exceptionally potent 5-HT(2A) receptor agonist. They’re sold as “N-Bombs”, “2C-I-NBOMe”, “Smiles” or “25I”. I’m sure new and exciting street names […]
To no one’s surprise, two of the world’s only “art malls” are found in China. They’re called the K11 art malls, and they are (of course) part of a brand. The owner is a certain Mr. Adrian Cheng — corporate executive, art lover, and already one of the richest men in the world. The first […]
From kaleidoscopic Rorschach tests to fractal persian rugs, Google Maps has its nifty artsy uses. This might be the greatest one yet: Google Street View Hyperlapse, aka your favorite new time-sucker. Created by Canadian digital studio Teehan + Lax, the program stitches together thousands of images from Google Street View to create gorgeous, dizzying animated films that […]
Artist Angelo Musco invites models to his Chelsea studio, about a dozen at a time, to pose for him in the nude, in various kinetic arrangements against green backgrounds. The final results are photographic murals made up of upwards of 2 million of adult nudes floating like overgrown, spindly cherubs in a boundless ether, spiraling […]
HTML5, the language that’s helped usher in the web’s current incarnation–with its infinite scrolling, emphasis on interactivity, and beautiful custom page layouts–is still a relatively new technology. It’s already spawned some classics (and might I humbly submit this for consideration?), but by and large, its full potential has yet to be seen. Designer and developer Jongmin […]
You are looking at a most exquisite pairing of lit city grids photographed from the International Space Station and neural networks imaged with fluorescence microscopy. The colossal, the minuscule the electric, the organic. They are the same. Something about fractals? Mind… blown. The duos assembled by Infinity Imagined should give you feelings, deep feelings of being one of a whole and […]
I know it’s unscience-like to gush over how trippy the Moon looks like in this visualisation of its gravitational field, measured by NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL). I’ve been informed that only stoned teenagers giggle at the psychedelic visual coolness of fractals, so I can’t get too excited about this map of the most […]
Fractals are only still exciting if you’re a stoned teenager, says Bruce Sterling — cyberpunk hero, sci-fi novelist and active new media commentator. Watch his digital image spike with garish clashes of color as he explains that what you found “mind-blowing and psychedelic” back in the day — because it’s “spiky” with “garish clashes of color” — has […]
