The Art of True Sight- four fantastic art sites for your perusal

Telenomic Alchemy- Monsieur Laffoley

Surreal Visionary Fantastic Art & Metamorphosis Art Book

beinArt International Surreal Art Collective - The ever-expanding online gallery of surrealist,

psychedelic, esoteric, outsider, fantastic, lowbrow, erotic & visionary artists





Society for the Art of Imagination
Our mission is to battle the spirit of anti-art that is endemic around us
We intend to assist the resurgence of interest in fantastic and visionary art and make the Art of Imagination accessible to all
We are creating a community of support for other artists working in this spirit.
We encourage fine technique coupled with imagination to create fine works of art that transcend the ordinary.
We plan to provide teaching and seminar programs free or at low cost
We are planning A book of Art of Imagination
We Maintain an active website
We Send out a high quality magazine called Inscape twice a year to our members





Crystal and Spore


The Crystal and Spore collective reflects the relationship between synthetic and organic systems - that vital intersection between nature and culture where the future of the human landscape is continually being forged. Crystalline forms represent technology, manifest in the ubiquitous silicon chip that provides the digital means to create and receive information. The spore symbolizes the chaotically complex distribution systems of the natural world, through which living genetic information is dispersed.





Surreal Art Forum
Discuss many interesting topics with artists savants and hacks from all over the world.

More next time
DF

Thanaton III- Biomorphenetic "Paintings"

Paul Laffoley is my new favorite artist in the whole world, if you hadnt noticed already, so even though this is my third post laffoley-related it wont be my last.

Alex Gray is amazing, but Paul Laffoley is utterly stupendous to me in a way not much else is right now.

Am I the only one?

DF

The Frolitics of Evolution

Hello people of Earth...

And anyone else that might be reading this!! This is the first installment of my new cosmic rigor. This will be a place for insight and discussion on arts of sound and light and their relevance to the
(R)EVOLUTION of our minds and our hearts.

We as animals constantly respond in countless ways to the interplay of sound and light around us. Our brains hum with activity when we listen to Saul Williams New Album "The Inevitable Rise and Liberation Of Niggy Tardust" (download it here:saulwilliams.com ) or any other interesting sound pal;ettes around us. The patterns of complex tones and rhythms can be a neural massage to the beleagured stressed out mind of your average working stiff.

Is this the only effect of complex tones and rhythms on our mind/body/spirit triune or can experiencing enough great art over a long enough period magnify and mutate certain physiological processes?

To be completely straight with you my personal opinion is an emphatic YES!!!, that said I will not live in la-la land and talk about this subject as if everyone out there is surrounded by a utopic plethora of fantastic mind-bending art. The truth is there is a very dark side to the ability to manipulate sound and light and our culture is ground-zero for some of the most horrific experiments ever committed by one techno-ape upon another. The politics of this battle for the ability to create consensus reality play out in all of our daily lives.

In our culture, but this true for any megametropoli, everyone and everything is constantly trying to change your mind, either by something so quasi-benign as maintaining a certain appearance ie the curb you stand on is a commercial for the city council and their ability to "maintain order". Or parkbenches, buses, taxis, trucks, delivery vans with advertisements. Even our garbage is some sort of bizarro advertisement of where somebody ate or what kind of beer we drink.

Print, radio, television, and now the interweb are all extremely powerful mediums for the control of consensus reality, people are moved by the information behind these sounds and lights in ways which are holistic and total. I mean really try to think about anything that is not directly related or involved in a static information loop with any of those four medium.

Any luck?

DF