These two videos remind me of the notion that one way to look at the world is as an infinitely expanding/ingressing im/explosion of fractally arranged space, time, and content accelerating towards a disappearing event horizon of novelty. For more opinions on this see this previous post or surrender some time to psychedelic prophet, culture critic, word wizard Terrence Mckenna.
The first is a video loop of macrophotography from Peter Parks, the guy behind the galactic sfx in The Fountain (incidentally directed by Aronofsky, who also directed Pi, a film concerned with the fact that seemingly all of nature springs from a sort of underlying source code that expresses itself in the infinite novelty of the world while still maintaining a sort of basic structural similarity - a fractal). These images are of microscopically small chemical reactions. When placed in a different context, as in The Fountain, they can appear differently, for example, massive.
The second is a music video from Tame Impala for their mediocre song Lucidity, which features the perspective of a weather balloon ascending into the atmosphere and seeing the surface of the world transform into abstract morphing strangely reminiscent of macrophotography above.
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