GIF of the Day

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I Kong & Najavibes

"Life's Road", studio live 2015



I Kong

The Surreal Art of Gertrude Abercrombie

Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977) was an American (mainly self-taught) surresalist painter. Called the "queen of the bohemian artists", she was also a jazz singer and pianist and a good friend of  talents like Billie Holliday, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach.
Due to financial problems, arthritis and alcoholism which weakened her health, she spent her last years in seclusion.

Democracy in Few Words

The Visionary "Fish Art" of Riusuke Fukahoni

Evidently obsessed by fishes and aquatic  life, Japanese artist Riusuke Fukahori creates astounding art pieces using acrylic colors and layers of  resin...
Riusuke Fukahori 



"Goldfish Salvation" Riusuke Fukahori from ICN gallery on Vimeo.

Diffusion

"Why don't humans have patterned texture like animals?
Humans will be able to get it..."
"Diffusion" a video by Kouhei Nakama
music by Kai Engel


DIFFUSION from Kouhei Nakama on Vimeo.

GIF of the Day

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Medicinal Plant Time-Lapse

After decades of hysterical and senseless demonization, in more recent times the beneficial and therapeutic values of cannabis have been validated by countless scientific studies; ever more people use it as an effective medicine which can reduce the symptoms of many diseases, as a mild psychoactive, enjoyable and safe recreational substance (if used with moderation) and even as a sacrament. For sure, it can efficaciously replace addictive pain-killers and other chemical, toxic medicinal products and can be a saner (and more 'cool') alternative to alcoholic beverages.
See the miracle of the cannabis plant growth and see in great details all its incredible multi-colored hues and outstanding resin glands content.....(Unfortunately we can't get the intense, intoxicating smell here....)
(music by Chillaholic - Wussnaeahned)

The Visionary Art of Justin Slattum

" Justin Slattum is a self-taught artist, his work entering the surreal world of innerspace. After a near-death experience in 2007, inspired by a personal enlightenment, Slattum fell into a world of paint.Using the point of the paintbrush as a focus, he views the process of creating as his meditation..."
(continue reading bio and enter Slattum's worlds here)

Firework Starway to Heaven

(thanks Reggaepsyc)

Hoping in a Human World

In these times of destruction, violence and unjustice we carry on still hoping in a better, hunan world....

Gramps Morgan  /  "Wash the Tears"

Sculpture of the Day

"Self Organization" is an amazing sculpture created by Californian artist Courtney Brown with a 1938 Underwood typewriter and sculpted bronze tentacles.
Courtney Brown 

The Symbolic & Visionary Art of Don Farrell

Don Farrell is a talented American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington. You can see his paintings and get info about him on The Art of Don Farrell 

Demonizing (certain) Drugs (and Keeping Silent about Others...)

I don't know if  Terra Incognita readers and visitors use or are at least interested in psychoactive drugs, but I guess that they're all truth seekers and lovers, so probably interested in this article from The Independent which efficaciously explains "why does someone dying from alcohol poisoning get no media coverage, while an ecstasy-related death does"....
You will also learn about a real dangerous addictive habit: "equasy".....

"Six years ago the [ English ] Government's chief drugs advisers, David Nutt, alerted us to a frightening addiction called "equasy".
Equasy, as Nutt described it, was a pursuit that released adrenaline and pleasurable endorphins into the brain. It was also extremely dangerous, often fatal. Nutt reckoned that around one in every 350 usages of equasy resulted in acute phisical harm.Worse still, this was an addiction that had in its grip tens of thousand of people across Britain, including small children." (....)

continue reading here 

Bob Dylan / "Thunder On The Mountain"

talking about music legends and charismatic people.....

Catching Souls....

....from the beginning....

( via 2headedsnake )

A Day in the Life

'Phenakistoscope animations

Since first stumbling onto an early type of image projector called a magic lantern over 40 years ago, Richard Balzer became instantly obsessed with early optical devices, from camera obscuras and praxinoscopes to anamorphic mirrors and zoetropes. Based in New York, Balzer has collected thousands of obscure and unusual devices such as phenakistoscope, one of the first tools for achieving live animation.The phenakistoscope relies on a disc with sequential illustrations to create looping animations when viewed through small slits in a mirror, producing an effect not unlike the GIFs of today...

(continue reading - and see more phenakistoscopes - on ThisisColossal)

OZ on line

Dedicated to 'sex, drugs and rock'n roll' and radical activism, OZ was one of the most important and diffused English 'underground magazines' (together with IT [International Times], Time Out and Frendz.) It was published in London by Richard Neville (with co-editor Jim Anderson and later also Felix Dennis) from 1967 to 1973. With an outstanding psychedelic graphic and provocative contents, OZ well represented the wild spirit of those ebullient times and the establishment tried to shut it down- with trials and intimidation -  in more than an occasion. In 1970, the editors invited "school kids" to edit an issue which scandalized right-winkers and conformists and led to a long trial for obscenity. At the end of the trial the editors were found "not guilty" on the "conspiracy to corrupt public morals" but were convicted of two lesser offences and sentenced to imprisonment. At the appeal trial the convictions were overturned.
Now you can read ( and download ) the old issues of the legendary OZ  here. A good and funny way to remember (or know) that happy but controversial period, in which "changing the world" seemed a really possible task.....
OZ Magazine wiki 

Religious Evolution

( via a wiggly mind inaction )