Category: art gifs

The Third Chakra Opens

Artisti Unknown, (The Third Chakra Opens), Computer Graphics, Animation Gifs

“In the first chakra (red), you look at your foundation and the source of your life energy. In the second chakra (orange), you explore your emotions. In the third chakra (yellow), you work on your intellect. The fourth chakra (green) is about opening your heart to your true desire. In the fifth chakra (blue), you learn about authentic self-expression. In the sixth chakra (purple), you work with your intuition. And finally, in the seventh chakra (neutral), you open yourself to finding your highest calling and reaching an elevated level of spiritual development.”
― Tori Hartman

Interslice

Artist Unknown, (Interslice), Computer Graphics, Animation Gifs

“Heat flanks passageways down the Interstices. Wildfires cluster—spread down the base trunk Axon in a definitive roar: hitting branches, flaring out to Dendrites to give rise to this release of the very chemical seeds through which sentience is begotten.

Float about the ether, gliding a gentle current, before skimming down, to a skip over the surface of a sea of deep black with glimmering waves. And then, come to a stop, still inanimate and naked before any trespass into the Field, with all its layers that serve to veil. Plunge downward into the trenches. Swim backwards, upstream, and down through these spiraling jets of bubbles.”

– Ahim Shanker, Sinew of the Social Species

Weavers

Artist Unknown, (Weavers), Computer Graphics, Animation Gifs

“The weaver-god, he weaves; and by that weaving is he deafened, that he hears no mortal voice; and by that humming, we, too, who look on the loom are deafened; and only when we escape it shall we hear the thousand voices that speak through it. For even so it is in all material factories. The spoken words that are inaudible among the flying spindles; those same words are plainly heard without the walls, bursting from the opened casements. Thereby have villainies been detected. Ah, mortal! then, be heedful; for so, in all this din of the great world’s loom, thy subtlest thinkings may be overheard afar.”

– Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 102 A Bower in the Arsacides

Thanks to http://beesandbombs.tumblr.com

Tantalus

Artist Unknown, (Tantalus Wading Through the Pool of Water), Computer Graphics, Animation Gifs

Tantalus was a Greek mythological figure, most famous for his eternal punishment in Tartarus, the deep abyss that is used as a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked and as the prison for the Titans.  He was made to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches, with the fruit ever eluding his grasp, and the water always receding before he could take a drink.

Tantalus was the father of Pelops, Niobe and Broteas, and was a son of Zeus and the nymph Plouto. Thus, like other heroes in Greek mythology such as Theseus and the Dioskouroi, Tantalus had both a hidden, divine parent and a mortal one.

Many thanks to http://thesatyrsglade.tumblr.com for the great gif.

Lucea Spinelli

Lucea Spinelli, “Photosgraphe”, Light and Motion Photos

NYC-based photographer Lucea Spinelli has a special appreciation for light and motion in her series of moving images titled Phōtosgraphé. She utilizes chairs, swing sets, and park benches as backdrops and props for luminous forms that seem to bounce effortlessly through the frame. In some pieces the light mimics the pathway of ghostly human figures while in others it sparkles like fireflies or expands like a rainbow.

“Photography is the process of drawing with light, as it’s etymology implies: a compound of the greek words φωτός (phōtos) “light” and γραφή (graphé) “representation by means of lines” or “drawing”. Like a human eye, the camera receives impressions of light reflected off the world around us. When making long exposures, the film (or sensor) becomes a canvas for as long as the shutter is open, permitting light to act like paint on a brush.

In this way, by distilling the course of movement over time into one single image photography, in addition to it’s potential to mirror reality, also has an ability to suspend reality.” – Lucea Spinelli