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

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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

Making Smiles Through Street Art in Urban Environments by Oakoak

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Oakoak uses his humourous street art to make his hometown, St. Etienne, France, less “grey”. Humor is the most important element in Oakoak’s creative process, and he sprinkles it liberally whenever he has the chance.

My main interest is giving importance to places and objects that people don’t notice anymore. I walk a lot every day and that’s how I get to find new attractive places with urban elements such as broken walls.

When I see something interesting during my walks, I measure it and study it, and I come back later to make the collage. – Oakoak, Bulkka

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The Artist’s Role in Society – Abby Martin (Video)

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Abby Martin‘s speech about the artist’s task in society mixed with awesome music by Explosions in the Sky and a selection of artworks by visionary artists. (Editor’s Note: Unfortunately the video was deleted by the author. Please check out the visionary art resources below.)

All art is a question mark, but only you know the answer to. In the broader picture, the warped value system in which we live has conditioned us to consider art as something unattainable, something unapproachable, as a rich man’s hobby.

Because the “powers that be” know that only through artistic expression and imagination we can envision a better world and work to create one. – Abby Martin

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Abby Martin Full Speech – Zeitgeist Media Festival 2013

Street Art promoting social awareness from Mear One:

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Phenakistoscope – The Psychedelic Birth of Animation, Art Gallery

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Nearly 155 years before CompuServe debuted the first animated gif in 1987, Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau unveiled an invention called the Phenakistoscope, a device that is largely considered to be the first mechanism for true animation.

The simple gadget relied on the persistence of vision principle to display the illusion of images in motion.

The phenakistoscope used a spinning disc attached vertically to a handle. Arrayed around the disc’s center were a series of drawings showing phases of the animation, and cut through it were a series of equally spaced radial slits.

The user would spin the disc and look through the moving slits at the disc’s reflection in a mirror. The scanning of the slits across the reflected images kept them from simply blurring together, so that the user would see a rapid succession of images that appeared to be a single moving picture. – Juxtapoz

So what kinds of things did people want to see animated as they peered into these curious motion devices? Lions eating people. Women morphing into witches. And some other pretty wild and psychedelic imagery, not unlike animated gifs today. 

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155 Years Before the First Animated Gif, Joseph Plateau’s Phenakistoscope | Colossal

Artist Creates Psychedelic Scenes in Art Studio Without Photoshop (Photo Gallery)

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Korean artist Jee Young Lee’s beautiful dreamscapes are living proof that you don’t need Photoshop or even a large studio space to create  psychedelic imagery.

She creates all of these scenes by hand in a room that is only 3.6 x 4.1 x 2.4 meters and then inserts herself into the pictures. Some of these self portraits represent her own experiences, dreams and memories, while others represent traditional Korean folk tales and legends.

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Rabbit Hole

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Psychedelic Fractals Formed By Bacteria Colonies, Art Gallery

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Each bacterium divides every 20 minutes, ultimately forming large colonies consisting of billions of microorganisms.

“The entire colony can be thought of as a big brain, a super brain, that receives signals, processes information and then makes decisions about where to send bacteria and where to continue to expand,” says Ben-Jacob, biological physicist

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In his lab, Ben-Jacob grew the bacteria in petri dishes and exposed them to different conditions—like temperature swings, for instance—in an attempt to imitate some of the variability in the natural environments where the bacteria grow.  The physicist could see how the colony responded to the stress of different variables.

“The idea was very simple,” he explains.”If you want to see their capabilities, you have to expose them to some challenges.”

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The bacteria, it turned out, communicated with one another in response to these stressors; they secreted lubricants, allowing them to move, and formed elaborate patterns with dots and vine-like branches.

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From the first instant he saw a colony, Ben-Jacob called it bacteria art.

”Without knowing anything, you’ll feel the sense that there is drama going on,” he says.

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The bacteria are naturally colorless. To make them visible, Ben-Jacob uses a stain called Coomassie blue to dye the microorganisms. The bacteria take on different shades of blue depending on each individual bacterium’s density. Then, working with photographs of the colonies in Photoshop, the scientist translates the blues into a spectrum of any color of his choosing.

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The images have helped him see how bacteria cooperate to meet challenges—bacteria in one part of a colony can sense something in the local environment and send messages to bacteria in other parts of the colony. The bacteria might encounter food, for example, and manage to communicate to other members of the colony that it is present, so that it can be digested.

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The patterns in Ben-Jacob’s bacteria art are eye-catching and evocative—without knowing how they formed, the brain leaps to the familiar seaweeds, corals, sphagnum moss, feathers—fractal displays that border on the psychedelic. 

The bacteria have to maintain order, but they also have to maintain flexibility, so that when conditions change they can better adapt to the environment,” says Ben-Jacob.

We have an affinity for things that have the combination of the two, order and disorder. If you analyze classical music, it is the same thing. The things that we really like and are captivated by are things that have this mixture.”

Colonies of Growing Bacteria Make Psychedelic Art | Smithsonian

Tadanori Yokoo, Psychedelic Japanese Art Compilation (Photo Gallery, Video)

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Perhaps best known for his psychedelic ’70s album covers for The Beatles and Earth, Wind, & Fire, Tadanori Yokoo is arguably the most influential Japanese graphic designer of the 20th Century.

He got his start working with avant-garde theatre and has occasionally been called Japan’s Andy Warhol. Their interest in process appears similar, using iconic imagery and vivid collages to convey complex or thought provoking ideas.

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Tadanori Yokoo Genka Series

In 1975, Tadanori Yokoo produced hundreds of pen and ink drawings for Genka (“Illusory Flowers”), a historical novel by Harumi Setouchi that recounts the struggles of Tomiko Hino, the wife of shogun Yoshimasa Ashikaga (1435-1490). The illustrations, were published along with the novel in a long series of installments in the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper.

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Tadanori Yokoo Music and Film Posters

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Tadanori Yokoo “Tokuten Eizou Anthology No. 1” (1964) Psychedelic Animation


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