Salvador Dali’s Technique for Creative Thinking (Guide)

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In art history, one can easily argue that Salvador Dali is the father of surrealism. Surrealism is the art of writing or painting unreal or unpredictable works of art using the images or words from an imaginary world. Dali’s art is the definition of surrealism.

Surrealism is the stressing of subconscious or irrational significance of imagery, or in more simplistic terms, the use of dreamlike imagery. Dali’s absurd imagination has him painting pictures of figures no person would even dream of creating.

How was Salvador Dali able to conjure up these extraordinary images from his subconscious that he used in his surrealistic paintings?

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Dali was intrigued with the images which occur at the boundary between sleeping and waking. They can occur when people are falling asleep, or when they are starting to wake up, and they tend to be extremely vivid, colorful and bizarre. He experimented with various ways of generating and capturing these fantastical images.

Salvador Dali’s Creative Thinking Technique

His favorite technique is that he would put a tin plate on the floor and then sit by a chair beside it, holding a spoon over the plate. He would then totally relax his body; sometimes he would begin to fall asleep.

The moment that he began to doze the spoon would slip from his fingers and clang on the plate, immediately waking him to capture the surreal images.

The extraordinary images seem to appear from nowhere, but there is a logic. The unconscious is a living, moving stream of energy from which thoughts gradually rise to the conscious level and take on a definite form. Your unconscious is like a hydrant in the yard while your consciousness is like a faucet upstairs in the house. Once you know how to turn on the hydrant, a constant supply of images can flow freely from the faucet. These forms give rise to new thoughts as you interpret the strange conjunctions and chance combinations.

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Following is a blueprint for the technique:

• Think about your challenge. Consider your progress, your obstacles, your alternatives, and so on. Then push it away and relax.

• Totally relax your body. Sit on a chair. Hold a spoon loosely in one of your hands over a plate. Try to achieve the deepest muscle relaxation you can.

• Quiet your mind. Do not think of what went on during the day or your challenges and problems. Clear your mind of chatter.

• Quiet your eyes. You cannot look for these images. Be passive. You need to achieve a total absence of any kind of voluntary attention. Become helpless and involuntary and directionless. You can enter the hypnogogic state this way, and, should you begin to fall asleep, you will drop the spoon and awaken in time to capture the images.

• Record your experiences immediately after they occur. The images will be mixed and unexpected and will recede rapidly. They could be patterns, clouds of colors, or objects.

• Look for the associative link. Write down the first things that occur to you after your experience. Look for links and connections to your challenge.

Ask questions such as:

What puzzles me?
Is there any relationship to the challenge?
Any new insights? Messages?
What’s out of place?
What disturbs me?
What do the images remind me of?
What are the similarities?
What analogies can I make?
What associations can I make?
How do the images represent the solution to the problem?

 

A restaurant owner used this technique to inspire new promotion ideas. When the noise awakened him, he kept seeing giant neon images of different foods: neon ice cream, neon pickles, neon chips, neon coffee, and so on. The associative link he saw between the various foods and his challenge was to somehow to use the food itself as a promotion.

The idea: He offers various free food items according to the day of week, the time of day, and the season. For instance, he might offer free pickles on Monday, free ice cream between 2 and 4 P.M. on Tuesdays, free coffee on Wednesday nights, free sweet rolls on Friday mornings, free salads between 6 and 8 P.M. on Saturdays and so on. He advertises the free food items with neon signs, but you never know what food items are being offered free until you go into the restaurant. The sheer variety of free items and the intriguing way in which they are offered has made his restaurant a popular place to eat.

Another promotion he created as a result of seeing images of different foods is a frequent-eater program. Anyone who hosts five meals in a calendar month gets $30 worth of free meals. The minimum bill is $20 but he says the average is $30 a head. These two promotions have made him a success.

The images you summon up with this technique have an individual structure that may indicate an underlying idea or theme. Your unconscious mind is trying to communicate something specific to you, though it may not be immediately comprehensible. The images can be used as armatures on which to hang new relationships and associations.

In another example, the owner of a fourth-generation funeral home tried Dali’s technique and he conjured up images of coffee, people gathering over coffee and general stores. These reminded him of his great-grandfather who owned a general store where people would gather and drink coffee. The great grand-father later converted part of the general store into a funeral home and started the family business.

The images inspired the idea of adding a “Coffee Corner” to the funeral home. The facilities now include business offices, viewing rooms, a chapel and now a coffee corner where a Starbucks operates in a special wing off to the side. The owner describes it as simply one more service for people to choose, but certainly one that’s not mandatory. The funeral home Starbucks will also be open to the public not just to those attending services. Only Dali’s technique could conjure up a Starbucks funeral home.

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> Dali’s Thinking Technique | Creativity Post

Pictures of Earth from Space (Photo Gallery)

Pictures of Earth from Space (Photo Gallery) | Third Monk image 4

We all necessarily have a pinpoint focus on what matters to us in the present, but sometimes it is beneficial to take a step back and marvel at things not yet understood.

It’s easy to get lost in the day-to-day grind and forget just how large the universe that we live in is.

Pictures of the Earth from Space give us a view into our world seen through a distant lens. Humbling us to our supposed importance, while simultaneously revealing the undeniable beauty of our Mother Earth.

Tiny Blue Dot

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On July 19, NASA’s robotic probe turned its gaze toward Saturn’s majestic rings and a tiny pale-blue dot—a planet called Earth nearly 900 million miles (1.5 billion kilometers) away.

The Cassini orbiter snapped this historic image of its distant home world while on the far side of the giant ringed planet.

No surface features are visible since Earth takes up only a scant few pixels—however, its unique blue tinge caused by sunlight reflecting off our planet’s oceans clearly shines through.

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Swinging onto the night side of Saturn in 2006, the Cassini spacecraft snapped this stunning back-lit view of the gas giant’s rings along with Earth—a tiny speck of light nearly lost just above and to the left of the bright main rings.

This panoramic view of the Saturn system with the Earth represents only the second time our planet has been photographed from deep space.

Back in 1990 the Voyager probe heading out of the solar system snapped the first view of our water-rich world looking like a pale-blue dot from a distance of four billion miles.

Space Beacon

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Earth shines like a bright starlike beacon at the center of this image, with the moon just underneath.

This raw snapshot taken on July 19 by Cassini spacecraft’s narrow-angle camera shows that from a distance of 898,410,414 miles (1,445,851,410 kilometers), Earth looks like nothing more than a bright stellar object floating among a backdrop of fainter stars.

Earth From Mars

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Earth appears as a tiny speck caught up in a Martian sunrise in the first photo of its kind taken from the surface of another planet beyond the moon.

This historic image was captured by the Mars rover Spirit in 2004. Another rover named Mars Pathfinder tried to take a similar photo of Earth in 1997, but its view was obstructed by clouds.

Earth Rising

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Like a cosmic blue marble, Earth appears to hang in the space above the lunar surface in this historic portrait taken by Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders in December 1968. Before this mission, no person had ever seen or photographed Earth from deep space, and this famous “Earthrise” view helped inspire an entire generation of environmentalists.

Earth in Detail

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This classic blue marble view of Earth represents the most detailed true-color image of our entire planet to date.

Most of the images were seamlessly stitched together to create this mosaic view—snapped by NASA’s Terra environmental satellite from 435 miles (700 kilometers) above.

Light Show

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What look like sparkling jewels scattered across the night side of Earth are in fact the telltale signs of the expansion of people worldwide. The light pollution from cities and towns, mostly across darkened North America and Europe, dominate this satellite image.

This global view of Earth’s night lights was acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite over 21 days in 2012, taking 312 orbits and collecting 2.5 terabytes of data to cover the entire surface of Earth.

> Stunning Pictures | National Geographic

Rare and Unusual Animals (Photo Gallery)

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These unusual animals look like they originated on an alien planet. The uniqueness of each creature stimulates the imagination.

Amazonian Royal Flycatcher

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Amazonian Royal Flycatchers are found in the Amazon. They are about 6 inches and they mostly eat insects.

Lamprey

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Lampreys are jaw less fish that suck the blood of fish, or humans, and their body hasn’t changed since 300 million years ago.

Markhor

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Markhors are large species of wild goats that are found in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They are classified as endangered species by the IUCN since there are only 2,500 mature markhors in existence.

Tanuki

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Tanuki, aka raccoon dog, are found in East Asia. They are not actually a type of raccoon, but they climb trees regularly.

Maned Wolf

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Maned Wolves are found in South America. They live mostly in grasslands.

Tufted Deer

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Tufted deer are a small species of deer that are found in China. They are mainly solitary creatures, sometimes found in pairs, and they are very shy.

Gerenuk

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Gerenuks are long-necked species of antelopes found in Eastern Africa. They stand up to graze for food.

Star Nosed Mole

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Star nosed moles are small moles found in eastern Canada and United States along wet and low areas.

Patagonian Mara

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Patagonian Maras are large rodents found in parts of Argentina. They are herbivores.

Southern Right Whale Dolphins

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Southern right whale dolphins are small species found in cool waters far south. They have no visible teeth or dorsal fin but they still leap out of the water gorgeously.

Transcendental Meditation Helps Reduce Violent Crimes (Study)

Transcendental Meditation Helps Reduce Violent Crimes (Study) | Third Monk image 5

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The Maharishi Effect is a phase transition to a more orderly and harmonious state of life in society as measured by decreased crime, violence, accidents, and illness, and improvements in economic conditions and other sociological indicators. Named in honor of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who predicted it thirty years ago.

Maharishi had predicted that when a critical sub-population of individuals – 1% – experienced and stimulated the field of pure consciousness through the Transcendental Meditation Program, a type of macroscopic field effect of coherence would occur in the society and the quality of life would improve. This would manifest in more orderly and harmonious individual behaviour and a measurable improvement in the various social indices which characterise the quality of life in society.

Scientific Research on the Maharishi Effect

During the past 25 years over 500 scientific studies have been conducted on Transcendental Meditation and Yogic Flying showing the wide-ranging benefits for all aspects of life. 42 of these studies have shown that when 1% of the population of any town or country practises Transcendental Meditation, or when the square root of 1% practise TM-Sidhi Yogic Flying in a group, there are dramatic positive improvements in the entire society.

One such study was held in June-July 1993 in Washington D.C.

This National Demonstration Project to Reduce Violent Crime and Improve Governmental Effectiveness brought approximately 4,000 participants in the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs to the United States national capital from June 7 to July 30, 1993. A 27-member independent Project Review Board consisting of sociologists and criminologists from leading universities, representatives from the police department and government of the District of Columbia, and civic leaders approved in advance the research protocol for the project and monitored its progress.

The dependent variable in the research was weekly violent crime, as measured by the Uniform Crime Report program of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; violent crimes include homicide, rape, aggravated assault, and robbery. This data was obtained from the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department for 1993 as well as for the preceding five years (1988-1992). Additional data used for control purposes included weather variables (temperature, precipitation, humidity), daylight hours, changes in police and community anti-crime activities, prior crime trends in the District of Columbia, and concurrent crime trends in neighboring cities. Average weekly temperature was significantly correlated with homicides, rapes and assaults (HRA crimes), as has also been found in previous research; therefore temperature was used as a control variable in the main analysis of HRA crimes. Using time series analysis, violent crimes were analyzed separately in terms of HRA crimes (crimes against the person) and robbery (monetary crimes), as well as together.

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Analysis of 1993 data, controlling for temperature, revealed that there was a highly significant decrease in HRA crimes associated with increases in the size of the group during the Demonstration Project. The maximum decrease was 23.3% when the size of the group was largest during the final week of the project. The statistical probability that this result could reflect chance variation in crime levels was less than 2 in 1 billion (p < .000000002). When a longer baseline is used (1988-1993 data), the maximum decrease was 24.6% during this period (p < .00003). When analyzed as a separate variable, robberies did not decrease significantly, but a joint analysis of both HRA crimes and robberies indicated that violent crimes as a whole decreased significantly to a maximum amount of 15.6% during the final week of the project (p = .0008).

Analysis of 1993 data, controlling for temperature, revealed that there was a highly significant decrease in HRA crimes associated with increases in the size of the group during the Demonstration Project.

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Based on the results of the study, the steady state gain (long-term effect) associated with a permanent group of 4,000 participants in the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs was calculated as a 48% reduction in HRA crimes in the District of Columbia.

Given the strength of these results, their consistency with the positive results of previous research, the grave human and financial costs of violent crime, and the lack of other effective and scientific methods to reduce crime, policy makers are urged to apply this approach on a large scale for the benefit of society.

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Scientific proof of meditations far-reaching beneficial effects are wonderful to read about, I have no doubt we will reach that 1% threshold soon.

thirdmonk certainly wants to help, if you’re interested in joining a weekly meditation with us, please email us or leave a comment below and we’ll send you the details. 

> Maharishi Effect | Dubrovnik Peace Project

> Crime Prevention | ISTPP.org

Beautiful Treehouses From Around the World (Photo Gallery, Video)

Beautiful Treehouses From Around the World (Photo Gallery, Video) | Third Monk image 13

If you’ve been lucky enough to spend time in a treehouse, you know just how relaxing and peaceful it is.

Treehouses are generally considered a children’s play-thing. However these beautiful constructions from around the world speak to the universal appeal houses high atop the trees hold.

Beautiful Treehouses From Around the World

Trillium Treehouse

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Safe Arbor in Switzerland

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The Enchanted Forest

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Three Story Treehouse in British Columbia, Canada

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Mirror Tree House in Sweden

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The Bird’s Nest Tree House in Sweden

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The HemLoft Treehouse in Whistler, Canada (Image Credit: Joel Allen)

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Treehouse in Muskoka in Ontario, Canada

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Treehouse for Birds and People

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Senior Center Turned Treehouse in Ghent, Belgium

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Minister’s Treehouse in Crossville, Tennessee, USA

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Yellow Treehouse Restaurant

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 UFO Treehouse in Sweden

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Teahouse Tetsu

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 The Hemloft Treehouse

Bicycle Powered Tree House Elevator

For more on Treehouses definitely check out: 

Inhabitat & WebUrbanist

> Dream Treehouses | Sheepy Me

> High Atop the Trees | Visual News

Thomas Barbèy, Surreal Psychedelic Art Gallery

Thomas Barbèy, Surreal Psychedelic Art Gallery | Third Monk image 1

Thomas Barbèy’s unique talent to take colorless photo montages and transform them into surreal fine art is astounding. 

Some of his techniques include putting negatives together and then photographing them from above, along with traditional retouching and photoshopping. The result is a powerful collection of imaginative works that tantalize the eye.

Thomas Barbèy – Surreal Psychedelic Art Gallery

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> Astounding Surrealism | Web Designer Depot

John Lennon Quotes – Thoughts From A Psychedelic Mind

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John Lennon quotes get to the heart of the matter like an arrow from Apollo’s bow; precise and piercing, provoking the inner depths of our minds into expansion.

Time

John-Lennon-quotes-enjoyDo what you love and you will love your life.

Summing Up Life

John-Lennon-quotes-count-friendsFocus on what’s positive in your life.

Love

John-Lennon-quotes_5Let your love flow freely.

Lost in Translation

LennonDo not use God to divide the masses. United God smiles upon us all.

Happiness

Lennon_3Happiness is a choice. Choose to be happy and your life will align with that choice.

Honesty

Lennon_7Be true to yourself.

Peace

John Lennon - Quote 9Get in touch with your inner most desires and move towards them.

God and Pain

John Lennon - Quote 8When you speak to and seek out God, focus on what you’re searching for; you’ll find all the answers are inside waiting for you.

What a World…

John Lennon - QuoteLive, laugh and love openly.

The End

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Incredible Living Paintings, Alexa Meade Art Gallery

Incredible Living Paintings, Alexa Meade Art Gallery | Third Monk image 2

Alexa Meade is creating fascinating art, and she’s just getting started. Without any formal artistic training (and a bachelors in poli-sci to boot), Alexa has taught herself how to paint through innovating a new technique. 

Her unique style of painting “living portraits”, confounds our sense of space which allows the subject to completely collapse within the photographs of her work. 

“In some ways, artist Alexa Meade is a traditional figure painter. But she works on an unusual canvas: the actual human body. And she takes a classical concept — trompe l’oeil, the art of making a two-dimensional representation look three-dimensional — and turns it on its head. Her aim is to do the opposite, to collapse depth and make her living models into flat pictures.” -PBS

Artist Alexa Meade’s Canvas Is the Human Body

 

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Self-Satisfied

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 Art on the Streets

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 Risen

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I paint representational portraits directly on top of the people I am representing. The models are transformed into embodiments of the artist’s interpretation of their essence. When captured on film, the living, breathing people underneath the paint disappear, overshadowed by the masks of themselves. – Alexa Meade

Alexa Meade’s exhibit at Postmaster’s Gallery

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Alexa Meade Talks TED

The Best 3D Street Art (Photo Gallery, Video)

3D street art is taking street art to the next level. Using 2 Dimensional drawings to form 3 Dimensional optical illusions (depending on the viewing angle) creates stunning imagery. It’s hard to believe that these artistic creations were drawn right there on the streets of the world.

These photos are selected from the most distinguished artists currently producing 3 Dimensional Street Art. Enjoy these breath-taking photos of 3D Street Art!

Hot river (via Edgar Mueller)

Hot River

Reflection (via Kurt Wenner)

Reflection

Raft (via Edgar Mueller)

Raft

Muses (via Kurt Wenner)

Muses

Relaxing giant (via Kurt Wenner)

Relaxing Giant

Office stress (via Kurt Wenner)

Office Stress

Crazy river (via Julian Beever)

Crazy River

 

EasyJet – Edinburg (via Manfred Stader)

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Hot bath (via Manfred Stader)

Hot Bath

3D Shark. (via Manfred Stader)

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Alice In Wonderland (via Manfred Stader)

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The World’s Biggest fly (via Julian Beever)

The World's Largest Fly

Water Waste (via Julian Beever)

Water Waste

Eiffel Tower Sand-Sculpture (via Julian Beever)

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Self-portrait of artist with liquid refreshment (via Julian Beever)

Self-portrait of artist with liquid refreshment.

Hang on! (via Julian Beever)

Hang On!

Taking the plunge (via Julian Beever)

Taking the Plunge

Water In The Way (via Tracy Lee Stum)

Water in the Way

The Medici Garden (via Tracy Lee Stum)

The Medici Garden

Drawn Basketball Optical Illusion (via Greg Lehman)

Drawn Basketball Optical Illusion.

Phoenix (via Edgar Muller)

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Lego Terracotta Army (via Planet Street Painting)

Lego Terracotta Army

Central Shopping Centre (via Qi Xinghua)

Central Shopping Centre

Batman Rising 3D Street Art (via Julian Beever)

Batman Rising 3d Street Art

This is River is a Street!

This River is a street! So realistic

 Sidewalk Boat Art

Sidewalk Boat Art

Bears (via Arndt Nikolai)

Amazing Sidewalk Art by Arndt Nikolai

3D Painted Living Room

3D Painted Living Room

Watch your step!

Watch your step!

Ride of a God (via Tracy Lee Stum)

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Staring at Self (via Eduardo Relero)

Eduardo Relero, Staring at Self

 

Feeding the Baby (via Eduardo Relero)

Eduardo Relero, Feeding the Baby

Store Front (via Eric Grohe)

Eric Grohe, Store Front

Belgium, underground in Brussel

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The flying carpet, Bettona, Italy

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Best of 3D Street Art Illusion – Episode 1

18 of the Best Animated Shorts Ever (Video)

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Animated Shorts are absolutely amazing. The pure creativity and passion that goes into these works is hard to imagine. And to think, some of these shorts were completed by only one person!

I hope you will love these animated shorts as much as I do. And do tell us which your favorite ones are, or share your favorites if they aren’t in this list. Enjoy!

Oxygen

We follow Oxygen as he tries to make friends on the playground. Unfortunately for Oxygen, he is unaware of the many things that can go wrong when trying to interact with his other elementary kin…

 

Mac ‘n’ Cheese

When you find yourself running scared and running out of energy, there’s only a few options left to outrun your opponent through the southern desert. Stopping at nothing, watch these two guys wear each other out and rip through boundaries hitherto unbroken. Enjoy the ride!

Alma

Seizing the possibility of directing his first independent short film, Rodrigo Blaas asked some of the best artists in their field to take part in this independent project. In October 2010, it was announced that DreamWorks Animation is developing an animated feature film based on Alma. Short’s director Rodrigo Blaas is again set to direct the feature, with Guillermo del Toro executive producing it.

Oktapodi

How adorable are these octopi? In Oktapodi, these two cuties help each other escape the clutches of a tyrannical restaurant cook. But, even once theyre out of the kitchen, their battle to stay together is not over.

The Passenger

A one-man project created between 1998-2006. Find out how and why at http://chrisj.com.au

Get Out

Gary, is a madman, shut up in a padded cell which he refuses to leave. He has a phobia about doors and lives in an imaginary world where he feels secure. A psychiatrist uses different plots to try to get him to leave the cell, but with no success. Finally he has to employ force.

Pigeon: Impossible

A rookie secret agent is faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped inside your multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase.

Replay

In a destroyed world, the only glimpse of hope is the memory of a forgotten past. But be careful not to let your dreams control your mind…This is Replay an amazing animated short film.

One Life

This animation will make you think about your life.  The song is “old man” by Neil Young. Animation by Corey Hayes.

The Last Knit

When knitting becomes an obsession.

Kiwi!

Kiwi! has received a large following for its deep meaning and heart touching manner.

Skhizein (Jérémy Clapin,2008)

After being struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living precisely 91 centimeters from himself.

MEET MELINE : THE 3D ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Meet Meline tells the story of a little girl whose curiosity is sparked by a mysterious creature as she plays in her grandparents barn.

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A story of of fate, love, and death. Highly enjoyable!

A Quoi Ca Sert L’amour? (Perils of Love)

This wonderful short follows the ups and downs of a young couple.

Les Dangereux – A Ninja Love Story

A vacationing ninja finds true love, but it’s much more than he expected.

Thought of You

One of the greatest parts of making this film is reading the comments left on Vimeo and Youtube.  I love the variety of interpretations and meaning – Creator Ryan Woodward

The Man Who Planted Trees

The Man Who Planted Trees (French: L’homme qui plantait des arbres) is a 1987 Canadian shortanimated film directed by Frédéric Back. It is based on the story of the same name by Jean Giono. This is a 30-minute film.

Terence McKenna – The Role of Psychedelics in Simulation Theory (Video)

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An artistic visual presentation of a Terence McKenna lecture that explores simulation theory and how code can be the language behind our DNA, space, time, matter, and energy.

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In other words, we have to begin to take seriously the consequences of generalizations like quantum connectivity. It’s one thing to bask in the overarching metaphor, which says that everything is connected to everything else. It’s quite another thing to say, and so then what are the consequences, for me, of this? The answer seems to me to be that the inside of our imagination, the inside of our heads really is the most vast frontier imaginable, and we must leave it for future generations figure out why an animal nervous system would evolve a propensity for accessing non-local data, in other words, quantum mechanically accessible data at a different level of the physics of things. 

What we have to grapple with is that it is so, that you have the Hubble telescope inside of you. You have inside of you an informational gathering instrument that can give you good intelligence about things so immeasurably distant from this point that to state it in numbers and units is meaningless. It’s just elsewhere; the elsewhere of the absolute infinite of the plenum of the imagination in which apparently beings rise and fall like plankton in the sea, and of course the psychedelics are the naturally evolved nano-machinery of the Gaian matrix that knits together this cosmic ecology, this system of living relationships.

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