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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Pineapple

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Peach

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 Onion

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Tomato

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Lettuce

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 Corn

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 Celery

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Banana

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Garlic (Coronal)

Garlic coronal> Andy Ellison | Inside Insides

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.

Psychedelic Princess by Davis Ayer (Photo Gallery)

Psychedelic Princess by Davis Ayer (Photo Gallery) | Third Monk image 12

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Davis Ayer is a photographer living and creating in California who takes a unique approach to each photo he creates. Sometimes he uses trippy double exposures, sometimes he varies the frames, and sometimes he adds psychedelic paint – all of which provide beautiful textures to his work. 

Ayer’s favorite equipment is a medium format camera (Mamiya with a polaroid back) and a 35mm (Minolta SRT 200). For digital, he uses a Canon 5D Mark II.

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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!

Psychedelic Self-Portraits

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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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Nicotine gum (after quitting smoking for two months)

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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

Circle of Abstract Ritual – Psychedelic Stop Motion Time Lapse About Creation and Destruction (Video)

Circle of Abstract Ritual - Psychedelic Stop Motion Time Lapse About Creation and Destruction (Video) | Third Monk image 2

This short film combines 300,000 photos of riots, wildfires, and paintings in abandoned houses. The entire stop motion time lapse was created without any digital special effects.

Circle of Abstract Ritual began as an exploration of the idea that creation and destruction might be the same thing.

The destruction end of that thought began in earnest when riots broke out in my neighborhood in Anaheim, California, 2012. I immediately climbed onto my landlord’s roof without asking and began recording the unfolding events. The news agencies I contacted had no idea what to do with time lapse footage of riots, which was okay with me because I had been thinking about recontextualizing news as art for some time. After that I got the bug.

I chased down wildfires, walked down storm drains on the L.A. River and found abandoned houses where I could set up elaborate optical illusion paintings. The illusion part of the paintings are not an end in themselves in my work. They’re an intimation of things we can’t physically detect; a way to get an ever so slight edge on the unknowable.

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Risset Rhythm & Mutations by Jean-Claude Risset (Audio High)

Risset Rhythm & Mutations by Jean-Claude Risset (Audio High) | Third Monk

In this audio high, you will hear a looped sample of the Risset Rhythm. What’s weird is that this loop will sound as though it is constantly speeding up, yet it never actually increases in beat.

We know: that doesn’t make any sense.

How the Risset Rhythm Works

French electronic music experimenter Jean-Claude Risset based this audio high on Shepard Tones, the looped notes that sound as if they are constantly increasing or decreasing in pitch even though they are just repeating. Risset duplicated Shepard Tones in rhythmic form. The result is a drum-based track that sounds as though it gets faster and faster when, in actuality, it is playing the same steady beat.

The following is a detailed explanation only for the most dedicated of audio heads out there. You’ve been warned…….

To get an idea of how Risset Rhythm works we’ll need to review how our brains process sound. Consider the brain as a famously impulsive file clerk who can’t stand to have information just sitting around, clogging up its synapses. As such, when information comes in, the brain quickly places it in what it considers to be the most appropriate “file” to make room for new input. When the brain gets bits of information that don’t fit exactly into a prescribed file, it makes an assumption, throwing this information into a file that it considers “close enough.” Sometimes the brain misplaces information into the wrong file. These wrong assumptions, or “file” placements, are why we mistake visual, audio, or other sensory details: why we think a mirage in the desert is a watering hole, a prick of a needle on a couch is an insect bite, the voice on the other end of the phone line is your current girlfriend not your psycho ex.

The brain can make these same incorrect assumptions with rhythms.

When we hear any repeated pattern of sounds the brain will immediately try to place the pattern into a rhythm file, even if this pattern is random and doesn’t perfectly fit. In this rhythm file the brain will attempt to put the pattern in a logical sequence of beats. Risset Rhythm takes advantage of these incorrect assumptions. It subtly merges a loop of increasing beats and sounds over and over. The brain doesn’t notice these subtle transitions between the beginning and ending of the loop, it assumes that the rhythm is constantly speeding up. As a result, we hear the Risset Rhythm loop as a continuous pattern, one that is constantly getting faster and faster.

Risset Rhythm

For another one of Jean Claude Risset’s trippy audio specials take a listen to Mutations. Old school out of this world sound for all you trippy psychonauts.

Thank you – I mean, you’re welcome!

Mutations by Lillian F. Schwartz, Music by Jean-Claude Risset, 1973

> Audio High | Get High Now

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

Death's Head Seals

The Beast in the Solar Disc

The Beast in the Solar Disc

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

You’re Dead! – Psychedelic Afterlife Animation with Flying Lotus

You're Dead! - Psychedelic Afterlife Animation with Flying Lotus | Third Monk image 1

‘You’re Dead!’ is a shamanic pilgrimage into the psychedelic unknown of the infinite afterlife.

A sonic, visual and metaphysical fusion of technological innovation and technical virtuosity that amounts to a transcendent, mind-expanding plasm that could only exist between our world and another.

The enduring universe of Lotus’ supporting cast has expanded and evolved to feature in order of appearance, Herbie Hancock, Kendrick Lamar, Captain Murphy, Snoop Dogg, Angel Deradoorian, Thundercat, Niki Randa, alongside mindblowing original artwork by Japanese comic book artist Shintaro Kago.

The album isn’t about the end, it’s really the beginning.

It’s a celebration of the next experience.

It’s the transition and the confusion.

It’s not ‘hey you’re dead.’ It’s ‘hey you’re dead!

– Flying Lotus

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Flying Lotus’ new album You’re Dead will be released on Oct 6, 2014. Preorder at iTunes or Google Play

Increase Introspection with Colored Noise (Audio High)

Increase Introspection with Colored Noise (Audio High) | Third Monk

Colored Noise

A consistent flooding of noise in the ears mutes out thoughts and places us into a deeper, introspective state.

Sift through the colored noise below, find a comfortable place, close your eyes, and listen to the static din for an introspective boost.

Click here for more audio highs.

How Colored Noise Works

Though noise is defined as a random signal, it is often classified into areas: environmental noise, industrial noise, occupational noise, etc. It is also further classified into colors.

Engineers originally developed colored noises to use as guides for electric, acoustic, and audio equipment experiments. Each noise was named after the color it most closely resembled in frequency. Different colors vibrate at a different frequencies, which is how the human eye distinguishes them. Interestingly. in the early 1970s, colored noises were used to test for extrasensory perception.

Dr. Charles Honorton, among other parapsychologists, believed white and pink noise played through headphones could mute out the senses and make a person more amenable to subconscious thought. In Ganzfeld Anomalous Information Transfer experiments, extended exposure to white or pink noise was often successful in inducing in subjects hypnagogic and other altered states of consciousness. At a minimum, a few minutes of white or pink noise placed people into a deep state of meditation.

Brown Noise

Pink Noise

Violet Noise

Blue Noise

White Noise

> Audio High | Get High Now

Surreal Photography by Ex-Ballet Dancer Kylli Sparre (Gallery)

Surreal Photography by Ex-Ballet Dancer Kylli Sparre (Gallery) | Third Monk image 7

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It’s never too late to change directions in life and fulfill your dreams instead of just your obligations.  

Estonian Photographer Kylli Sparre is a perfect example – she discovered she wanted to be a photographer only after completing professional ballet school.

When the studies were over, I realized it wasn’t the path for me. I have been searching for an outlet for my creativity ever since. [A few] years ago I found it in photography and never looked back. – Kylli Sparre

Her ballet background seems to influence her surreal photography, as the models in her dream-like pictures are filled with grace, poise, and elegance.

Hopefully, her passion and courage will inspire others to follow their dreams.

 Surreal Photography by Dancer Kylli Sparre

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I had no idea what it is that I should or could be doing. I had this very strong feeling that I need to go and find what it is that I love. – Kylli Sparre

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It took me years to finally find what truly inspires me. The feeling I get, when a picture turns out the way I imagine… I get so much energy and I love to be alive! – Kylli Sparre

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> Surreal Photography by Kylli Sparre | Bored Panda

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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Mark Ryden – The Gay Nineties West Art Gallery

Mark Ryden - The Gay Nineties West Art Gallery | Third Monk image 6

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Mark Ryden’s The Gay Nineties West at the Kohn Gallery was a wonderful success.

The artist explores Victorian decorative design, clichéd notions of “Main Street USA,” small business and immigration (“The Meat Shop”), and vaudeville shows with a dark and complex sentimentality. Integrating the Christ figure and Abraham Lincoln with his wide-eyed, petticoat clad ingénues, Ryden presents the viewer with an unreal and very oddly camp version of American history.

His is an exploration of what becomes cliché, what becomes kitsch and what becomes forgotten.

Yet through it all Ryden makes some of the most richly rendered, beautifully glazed, idealized yet disturbing works of contemporary art. Like his contemporaries John Currin, Lisa Yuskavage and Neo Rauch, Mark Ryden uses a skillfully honed technique to render his polished and emotionally charged works.

The Gay Nineties West Art Gallery

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 Mark Ryden Sketches and Framework

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> The Gay 90’s | Kohn Gallery