Our Bond With the Universe, A Movie Mashup Tribute (Video)

Video Editor Max Shishkin combined the soundtrack of Intersellar, the voice of Anthony Hopkins reading “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas, and footage from 35 space films to make this amazing mashup.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, dir. Stanley Kubrick)

Alien (1979, dir. Ridley Scott)

Aliens (1986, dir. James Cameron)

Armageddon (1998, dir. Michael Bay)

Avatar (2009, dir. James Cameron)

Battleship (2012, dir. Peter Berg)

Cargo (2009, dir. Ivan Engler, Ralph Etter)

Elysium (2013, dir. Neill Blomkamp)

Europa Report (2013, dir. Sebastián Cordero)

Event Horizon (1997, dir. Paul Anderson)

Gravity (2013, dir. Alfonso Cuarón)

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014, dir. James Gunn)

Interstellar (2014, dir. Christopher Nolan)

Lockout (2012, dir. James Mather, Stephen St. Leger)

Lost in Space (1998, dir. Stephen Hopkins)

Man of Steel (2013, dir. Zack Snyder)

Mission to Mars (2000, dir. Brian De Palma)

Moon (2009, dir. Duncan Jones)

Oblivion (2013, dir. Joseph Kosinski)

Pandorum (2009, dir. Christian Alvart)

Prometheus (2012, dir. Ridley Scott)

Solaris (1972, dir. Andrey Tarkovskiy)

Solaris (2002, dir. Steven Soderbergh)

Star Trek (2009, dir. J.J. Abrams)

Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013, dir. J.J. Abrams)

Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977, dir. George Lucas)

Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983, dir.Richard Marquand)

Starship Troopers (1997, dir. Paul Verhoeven)

Sunshine (2007, dir. Danny Boyle)

The Fountain (2006, dir. Darren Aronofsky)

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005, dir. Garth Jennings)

The Last Days on Mars (2013, dir. Ruairi Robinson)

The Signal (2014, dir. William Eubank)

Thor: The Dark World (2013, dir. Alan Taylor)

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011, dir. Michael Bay)

John Lennon – My First LSD Trip, Animation (Video)

It was spring 1965. Lennon and his wife, Cynthia, and Harrison and his wife, Pattie Boyd, were attending a dinner at the London home of dentist John Riley and his girlfriend, Cyndy Bury. Before the foursome left, Riley asked them to stay for coffee, then urged them to finish their cups. Shortly after, he told Lennon he had placed sugar cubes containing LSD in the coffee.

Beatles’ Acid Test: How LSD Opened the Door to ‘Revolver’ | Rolling Stone

Trippy Fruit Slices – Psychedelic MRI Art Gallery

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging allows us to see some awesome stuff! Andy Ellison has taken it a step farther by taking images of fruit to create MRI Art.

MRI’s allow the viewer to visually experience these 3-D images of fruit in slices, which creates a pulsating psychedelic effect that is hypnotic and beautiful.

The image Above is Garlic, the view is Axial. Enjoy the other Images Below along with a link to Andy Ellison’s page. Peace.

MRI Art – Fruit Imaging

Pomegranate

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Strawberries

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Pineapple

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Peach

Peach

 Onion

Onion

Tomato

MRI Art

Lettuce

MRI Art - Lettuce

 Corn

Corn

 Celery

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Banana

Banana

Garlic (Coronal)

Garlic coronal> Andy Ellison | Inside Insides

How Animals See The World (Video)

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As a human being that needs glasses to see the accepted norm of 20/20, I’ve always been interested in how our visual perspective of the world varies so greatly. Even among humans there are color discrepancies and a difference in our ability to focus.

Animals extend this question further by being able to see things that are not even perceivable to the human eye. After a new study, scientist have found that  cats, dogs and many other mammals may see in ultraviolet light.

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I love thinking about how animals see the world and all the things our human eyes aren’t able to perceive. Our ingenuity through science and technology leads to gadgets that give us the ability to comprehend what it looks like to see these wavelengths.

Using that information it is possible to hypothesize the reasons for these unique animal abilities.

Check out this sweet infographic below, peace.

How Animals See The World Infographic

How Animals See The World Infographic

Drawing Advice From Leonardo da Vinci

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When we practice a skill, an insulator-like substance called myelin thickens around our neural circuitry, which in turn makes us more talented.

The type of practice one engages in is the determinant of how quickly our myelin sheaths thicken around our neural circuits.

Good practice must test us and stretch our abilities right up to the edge of frustration. Talent without the motivation to ceaselessly improve will never lead to mastery.

Leonardo Da Vinci himself and his students used the following sketching techniques repeatedly. They are meant to challenge you and stretch your drawing capabilities.

1. Be a Student of Movement

Because we cannot depict every detail of the world around us, good drawings, one could argue, are simply the result of a series of decisions made by the artist about what to include, and what to leave out.

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary,” Picasso famously said.

There is no better way of training yourself to eliminate the unnecessary and notice the most important elements of a particular object, than by drawing it while it’s on the move.

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Do as Leonardo instructs. Go to a bustling place and make quick notes of the people going about their business. Go to a park and draw the birds or the ripples of a lake. Watch a gymnast or a wrestler on YouTube – without pressing pause. Draw moving objects.

2. Copy From The Master

Leonardo was an assistant artist to Andrea Del Verrocchio for roughly 10 years.  It was quite common for assistants to learn their trade by painting small sections of their master’s paintings such as shrubbery or sky and work their way up.

The artist ought first to exercise his hand by copying drawings from the hand of a good master.

And having acquired that practice, under the criticism of his master, he should next practise drawing objects in relief of a good style, following the rules which will presently be given. – Leonardo da Vinci

3. Draw Both The Beautiful And The Ugly

While we now think of Da Vinci’s work as things of divine beauty, a few centuries ago, they were infamous for the exact opposite reason.

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In the Victorian era all around Europe, these ‘grotesque’ heads, as they came to be known, were Leonardo’s most reproduced pieces of art.

Da Vinci provides a hint at his reasons for producing these drawings in his notebooks.

The painter should aim at universality, because there is a great want of self-respect in doing one thing well and another badly, as many do who study only the [rules of] measure and proportion in the nude figure and do not seek after variety; for a man may be well proportioned, or he may be fat and short, or tall and thin, or medium.

And a painter who takes no account of these varieties always makes his figures on one pattern so that they might all be taken for brothers; and this is a defect that demands stern reprehension. – Leonardo da Vinci

Draw obese people; slim people; muscular people; landscapes; strange animals; things you are not accustomed to drawing. It will make you better at drawing the things you wish to excel at.

4. Draw The Same Thing From Multiple Angles

Da Vinci, understood that a good artist doesn’t just copy.

A good artist simplifies, deconstructs, reinterprets, and understands his subject matter.

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All our eyes see is raw jumbled light. Our brain takes this light and sorts it out into objects with form and texture.

Sketching things from multiple angles makes our brains better interpreters of light.

Children draw what they think something looks like; amateur artists copy what they see; master artists draw what they understand.

Sketch a person from multiple angles. Imagine you need to make a record of how they look but you have no camera at hand. Even though you’re using different viewpoints, there should be a basic likeness between them all.

5. Draw A Story

Leonardo wasn’t just an artist who could shade well and draw clean lines. He placed just as much emphasis on the composition and content of his art as he did it’s technical rendering.

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The triangular composition, the eye lines, and the curved centreline which extends into a finger pointing to the heavens, were all carefully chosen by Leonardo to tell a story.

Our minds are natural hallucinators. When we lack external sensory input our brains manufacture their own. This phenomenon can be seen in full effect with the use of sensory deprivation chambers.

For inspiration deprive your mind of interesting stimulation so it comes up with it’s own. Stare at a stained wall, the clouds, into space or close your eyes and let your mind wander. Design a composition with the results of this exercise.

Sketching Techniques Leonardo da Vinci Used To Achieve Artistic Mastery | High Existence

Destino by Salvador Dali and Disney (Short Animated Film)

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Surrealist painter Salvador Dali and Disney began their collaboration on Destino (Destiny) in 1945. The animated short was painted for 8 months until the second world war ended the project.

In 1999, Roy E. Disney (nephew of Walt Disney) decided to revive the forgotten project while working on Fantasia 2000. Disney combined traditional (hand-drawn) animation and computer graphics to bring Dali’s surreal vision to life.

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Riding Light Through The Universe (Video)

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This video is fun for anyone who ever wanted to ride through space at the speed of light! The above video is a sped up version of the original in case you don’t have the time to take a 45 minute ride through the universe.

At first I was like, “45 minutes!!”, but then I realized that it was 45 minutes to get through the whole universe and that tripped me out even more.

Peppered with little tidbits of information throughout this interstellar journey, riding light is a fun trip through our universe! You can check out the original video below.

Godspeed!!!

Riding Light Through The Universe

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Coma – Waking Up to Find Legal Cannabis (Video)

Coma - Waking Up to Find Legal Cannabis (Video) | Third Monk

A man wakes up from a five-year coma surrounded by his wife and doctor. As he deals with the blight of his new reality, including the surprise of an amputated leg and five years of his life down the tube, his doctor offers to write him a prescription for Vicodin, morphine or … marijuana.

The man in the hospital bed looks at the doctor with disbelief when he says, “Marijuana is legal now.”

“Coma” was created by IFC’s comedy sketch troupe Women

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Nujabes – Remembering The Master of Jazzy Hip Hop (Video)

Nujabes - Remembering The Master of Jazzy Hip Hop (Video) | Third Monk

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Nujabes, aka Seba Jun, is a Japanese DJ and Hip Hop producer that mastered the combination of classic hip hop sound infused with a jazzy melody to create some of the most chill tunes known to mankind.

His library is extensive and it’s all dope. When going through his collection, it is not uncommon to fall in love with one song and play it out until you are forced to move on to the next jam only to fall in love all over again, which results in hours of great listening.

I first came upon his work through Samurai Champloo and I’ve been hooked ever since.

He passed away at the age of 36 in a car accident, but has already reached a level of immortality through his music.

The first video is a mix of tracks, untouched from various Nujabes albums. The next two is a mix I found on the Cookie Monster Galaxy podcast which takes a lot of his work and adds a lil bit of flavor, still the main beats and melodies are there, but its nice to get a fresh sound from some sweet sounding Nujabes classics.

If you’re feeling the beats, let me know in the comments section and I’ll post more work from Nujabes.

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Tribute Mix Off of Cookie Monster Galaxy Podcast

Impermanence – Surreal Portraits Made With Fungus, Art Gallery

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The symbiosis between film matter and organic matter resulted in this conceptual body of trippy art.

In his series Impermanence, South Korean artist Seung-Hwan Oh creates surreal distorted photographic portraits by growing emulsion-eating fungus on his film.

Oh first allows the fungus to partially destroy the developed film in a process that takes months or even years. He then digitally prints the distorted images (the film is too fragile to print in an analog process).

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