Trippy Fruit Slices – Psychedelic MRI Art Gallery

Trippy Fruit Slices - Psychedelic MRI Art Gallery | Third Monk image 5

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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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Strawberries

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Lettuce

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 Corn

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 Celery

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Garlic (Coronal)

Garlic coronal> Andy Ellison | Inside Insides

Drawing Advice From Leonardo da Vinci

Drawing Advice From Leonardo da Vinci | Third Monk image 1

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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)

Destino by Salvador Dali and Disney (Short Animated Film) | Third Monk image 2

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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Impermanence – Surreal Portraits Made With Fungus, Art Gallery

Impermanence - Surreal Portraits Made With Fungus, Art Gallery | Third Monk image 4

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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Psychedelic Vintage Collage Art by Eugenia Loli (Gallery)

Psychedelic Vintage Collage Art by Eugenia Loli (Gallery) | Third Monk image 5

Collage artist Eugenia Loli uses photography scanned from vintage magazines and science publications to create psychedelic visual narratives that borrow from aspects of pop art and traditional surrealism.
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Loli gives much of her work away as high-resolution files which you can download and print directly from her Flickr account for personal usage. She also has a collection of official, signed art prints available here.

Neuroscientist Paints Sumi-e Style Brain Art (Gallery)

Neuroscientist Paints Sumi-e Style Brain Art (Gallery) | Third Monk image 1

Neuroscientist Greg Dunn decided to trade in his microscope to become a professional artist. 

He still uses a microscope in his art though. Meta much? What gives! Greg is an interesting dude, and his brain art offers deep food for thought when it comes to interconnectivity and the fractal nature of the universe.

The patterns of branching neurons he saw through the microscope reminded him of the aesthetic principles in Sumi-e art, which he admires. Dunn realized neurons could be painted in this sumi-e (minimalist ink wash painting) style to wonderful effect.

The microscopic world belongs in the world of Asian art. There’s no distinction between painting a landscape of a forest and a landscape of the brain. – Greg Dunn

Enjoy his beautiful creations!

 Sumi-e Style: Brain Art

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It’s almost a zen quality to the branching pattern of a neuron that I was interested in capturing initially. – Greg Dunn

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Electron Micrograph of Micro-etching

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Brainbow Hippocampus in Blue

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The image above was inspired by the Brainbow process, a neuroscience technique for coloring neighboring neurons by combining colored fluorescent proteins.

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Spinal Cord

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 Art has the power to capture people’s emotions and inspire awe [in a way] that a lot of charts and graphs don’t have. – Greg Dunn

Dazzling Images of the Brain Created by Neuroscientist-Artist | Live Science

Poetry in Motion, Animated Street Art Gallery

Poetry in Motion, Animated Street Art Gallery | Third Monk image 1

Spanish photographer A.L. Crego adds life to his favorite pieces of street art murals by turning them into trippy animated street art GIFs. The street art can stand on it’s own but the messages are given an extra boost with motion.

Umbrella Only Stops the Rain, Not the Storm by Sr. X

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Fear of Thinking by Escif

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Dust in The Future, Present, Past by Pejac

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Mars Will Not Attack by Hunt Rodriguez

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Red Hole by Liqen

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Demineur by Levalet

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Sleep is the Cousin of Death by Artestenciva

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Day and Night by Sr. X

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Artist Draws Psychedelic Self-Portraits While On Different Drugs (Gallery)

Artist Draws Psychedelic Self-Portraits While On Different Drugs (Gallery) | Third Monk image 17

Bryan Lewis Saunders likes to take drugs, both legal and illegal, and then draw pictures of himself. The results are strikingly different from drug to drug, and they vary from beautiful to grotesque, abstract and just plain bizarre.

[I’m most interested in] things that are still a mystery to us all. – Bryan Lewis Saunders

Bryan devised an experiment in which every day he took a different drug and drew himself under the influence. These psychedelic self-portraits are a window into Bryan’s different states of mind.

For more of Bryan’s self-portraits make sure to check out his website. Enjoy!

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Psilocybin mushrooms (2 caps onset)

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1 sm glass of “real” absinthe (not the fake crap)

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10mg Adderall

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10mg Ambien

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15mg Buspar (snorted)

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Butane honey oil (cannabis)

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1/2 gram cocaine

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1 “bump” of crystal meth

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1 shot of Dilaudid/3 shots of morphine (in the ER with kidney stones)

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DMT (during and after)

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Heroin (snorted)

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7.5mg Hydrocodone/7.5mgOxycodone/3mg Xanax

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Morphine IV (dosage unknown)

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Nicotine gum (after quitting smoking for two months)

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20mg Valium

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Nitrous Oxide / Valium I.V. (doseage unknown in hospital)

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After experiencing drastic changes in my environment, I looked for other experiences that might profoundly affect my perception of self. – Bryan Lewis Saunders

30 Self-Portraits Drawn While the Artist Was Under the Influence of 30 Drugs | Alter Net

This is What Happens When an Artist Suffers Cancer of the Pineal Gland

This is What Happens When an Artist Suffers Cancer of the Pineal Gland | Third Monk image 7

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The tiny, pea sized pineal gland located in the center of the human brain has for ages been thought to be the seat of the soul. Prone to calcification from fluoridated water and other toxins in our food supply, many people are actively interested in detoxifying and de-calcifying their pineal glandThe rush of cosmic energy that is available when the mind’s eye is wide open, there is no other spiritual experience that compares to it.

What happens to a person who loses this gland to disease or some kind of accident?

Shawn Thorton, who, while studying art in school developed an illuminated painting style that baffles the rational mind. Experiencing severe illness, and often having manic and visionary episodes which revealed the contents of his extraordinary paintings, Shawn was learning to paint while, yet unbeknownst to him, he was suffering from brain cancer and had a tumor forming right where his pineal gland sits.

The over-arching style is reminiscent of an alien technology, laden with intricacies, schematics, and winding connections, a sort of motherboard of madness. Much like the human brain, his paintings show a complexity that is not easily understood.

Was his pineal gland releasing DMT, the spirit molecule in elevated levels while battling cancer?

I suffered from a slow growing cancer in my pineal gland while I attended art school and during subsequent years while my paintings developed with an underlined mythology that alluded directly to the pineal years before I even know of its existence.

I think I’d work myself into a frenzy for a while and yes, when I would fall lie down in bed I’d have something like a manic episode that was very lucid and visionary. That still applies to this day, but I try to control it better so I don’t get sick again.

I’ve had a lot of truly mystical and otherworldly experiences as a result of my history and battle with brain cancer and I’m really drawn to things that resonate with a certain powerful energy, and I’m always honing in on that more and more. whether consciously or subconsciously.

I treat depression with mushrooms. Haven’t done DMT ‘intentionally’. Man made chemicals are a thing of the past for me, as I’m really sensitive. –Reddit

Shawn Thornton Art Gallery

Semiotics of the Alchemical Forest

Semiotics of the Alchemical Forest

Black Pyramid Meditation

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Mother Brain Decoding the Psychonautical Device

Mother-Brain Decoding the Psychonautical Device

Deaths Head Seals

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The Beast in the Solar Disc

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The Serpent’s Egg in the Seat of Consciousness

The Serpent’s Egg in the Seat of Consciousness

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Click here for more of Shawn’s amazing art.

Painting, for me, is largely an attempt to decrypt the mechanisms of illness through a disciplined medium. I feel, on some deep internal level, that through my painting practice I’m engaged in a psychic process to illuminate the intricate vessels and cogs of an insidious physic current that stems, in part, from having had a serious illness, and all the subtle and profound ways I was altered by this experience.

All throughout my early adulthood, I struggled from the mental and physical effects of a slow growing tumor in my brain, the symptoms of which were repeatedly misdiagnosed by my doctors as purely psychological in origin, and it ultimately took over half a decade to get a proper diagnosis and treatment to shrink the tumor. I suffered immeasurably during this period from having repeatedly undergone a host of treatments meant to treat the symptoms of mental illness, and paradoxically, from a mental illness that ultimately could not be contained. The tumor was in the very center of my brain, in a small, mysterious organ at the top of the spinal column, the pineal gland. I didn’t have any prior reason to consider the actual material existence of the pineal before this.

As for its spiritually ominous and physically precarious location at epicenter of my being, my ability to conceptualize these facts seemed utterly unreal, ethereal, like nothing short of a sordid space exploration, as it had been making its presence known to me for so long and now there were surgeons probing into my head – into my consciousness. As I further researched my illness directly after being released from the hospital, and after having had undergone emergency brain surgery a few days earlier, I quickly became very quizzical by what I was finding. What had been developing in my art, half unconsciously, over the previous several years in which I had been very ill and labored to keep painting, all of a sudden became very clear. Elements in the paintings seemed to correlate directly to the pineal gland and to many of its mystical and biological functions that have puzzled humankind for centuries.

All throughout the history of human sciences, religions, and philosophies, of different civilizations and cultures all over the world, people have contemplated and researched the pineal because of its mysterious location at the center of our brain. For me, most notable, was its purposed role in the production of endogenous DMT in humans, and its proximity in our brains to the Ajna chakra, or third eye. I also found it intriguing that the pineal gland regulates biorhythms in humans through the production of the hormone melatonin. This brought to mind images of medical charts; of archetypal schematics and universal symbols.-Shawn Thornton

> Strange Story Artist Pineal Cancer | Waking Times

Vinchen: Social Commentary From Ohio’s Best Street Artist (Art Gallery)

Vinchen: Social Commentary From Ohio's Best Street Artist (Art Gallery) | Third Monk image 21

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Vinchen’s street art offers simple insights into supposed complex social issues. It causes us to question the notion of their complexity altogether, leaving you to wonder why we are plagued by social inequities at all.

Asking questions incidently leads to answers, and Vinchen’s street art places the onus back on those looking back. 

Vinchen – Social Commentary Street Art Gallery

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Cosmic Flower Unfolding – Psychedelic Animation on Abstract Connections (Video)

Cosmic Flower Unfolding - Psychedelic Animation on Abstract Connections (Video) | Third Monk image 1

Cosmic Flower Unfolding is a psychedelic animation on the constant flow of emerging and dissolving oceanic, futuristic, and mandala forms. It is a tribute to abstraction, its connection to the inner space we inhabit and how it can be externalized.

My abstract animations investigate the metaphysical features of reality. They are designed to stimulate archetypal associations and invite the viewer to make personal connections to the visual and auditory experience without any reliance on narrative or spoken language.

My work is abstract by nature and uses non narrative film making techniques. The undercurrents of my work point to themes centered around time, cycles, the concept of infinity, and the similarities between artificial and natural systems. In a world where technology and artificial systems are becoming more prevalent, my films are a reminder that they are both a product of nature. –  Ben Ridgway, Animator

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Natural Creations: Artist Arranges Rocks and Leaves into Beautiful Geometric Land Art (Gallery)

Natural Creations: Artist Arranges Rocks and Leaves into Beautiful Geometric Land Art (Gallery) | Third Monk image 2

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Dietmar Voorwold, a German artist based in Scotland, creates beautiful and temporary works of natural land art by arranging rocks, leaves and other natural materials into simple, but beautiful geometric shapes and patterns.

Most of his art is created with materials found on-site, so almost anyone can try their hand at land art.

Voorwold leaves his geometric artworks behind, so all that’s eventually left of them are photographs and his memories.

It is just for the moment. This is a very therapeutic aspect of my way of creating art. – Voorwold

A strong believer in the therapeutic value of art, Voorwold also holds art therapy classes for people, teaching them to create their own land art.

 Beautiful Geometric Land Art

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> Artist Arranges Rocks and Leaves into Beautiful Natural Geometry | Bored Panda