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Peter Parks, Tame Impala, and the Underlying Pattern of the Nature Fractal

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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