domingo, 10 de janeiro de 2016

A Book of Art and Essays Explores Psychedelics as a Spiritual Technology

The intersections between Eastern philosophy and psychedelic drugs are explored in Zig Zag Zen, a newly expanded edition of an anthology of essays, interviews, and artwork.


quarta-feira, 6 de janeiro de 2016

Heavy Metal Headbangers Frozen in Time

With hair flying and faces contorted in expressions between joy and agony, the heavy metal fans captured by Danish photographer Jacob Ehrbahn are a frenzy of movement in saturated color.


sábado, 2 de janeiro de 2016

Modeling Life, Death, and Eternity in the Ancient Americas






Chimú palace model with figures, found at Huaca de la Luna, Peru (1440–1665 CE), wood cotton, and shell. Themodel shows a ritual in the palace courtyards, with the three larger figures thought to represent mummies. (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic)



Miniature mummies carved from wood and carefully wrapped in tiny shrouds overlook a model of a Chimú palace, one of the small-scale representations of a lost precolonial world in Design for Eternity: Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas