Sentences with phrase «hypnotic experience of»

Paired with loose - leaf assemblages such as Dieter Roth's mesmerizing Book AC, 1964, a hypnotic experience of optical illusions and pattern formation through cut paper, these works offer a visual and tactile feast at the very least.

The Pzizz is a gadget (and now, an optional software package for your iPod) designed to generate, through headphones, a unique hypnotic experience of the user's chosen length.

Not exact matches

Many people have experienced a type of hypnotic state while driving a car and become unconscious of the fact that they are still driving.

One school claims that hypnosis fundamentally alters a subject's state of mind; the other believes that there is nothing radical about it, that all the strange experiences and odd behaviors typically associated with hypnosis can be observed in people who are not actually in a hypnotic trance.

Aside from the well - noted fact that more superior long - form drama (and comedy) can be found on television than in cinemas, the two most interesting motion picture experiences I had in 2012 were in galleries: The Clock (Christian Marclay, 2010), a staggering and hypnotic achievement of which I still have some of its 24 hours to catch up with, and two multi-screen installations by Candice Breitz: «Him» and «Her» in which many scenes from the films of Jack Nicholson (in Him) and Meryl Streep (in Her), isolate the actors from their filmic background leaving the actors to speak to and interrogate each other across space and time on many themes of character, identity, success, failure, anger and disappointment.

Yet, I appreciate that, through the hypnotic dancing of the Princess, I was given a window into the psychological landscape of a woman, while also experiencing her life and regrets.

But it's impossible to stay safe amidst the explosive color, hypnotic superimpositions, and lurid intertitles, and while Maddin neophytes may find the experience of The Forbidden Room akin to a brain aneurysm (in a good way), movie lovers with any sense of humor will gleefully lap up the overflowing bounty of cinephilic pleasures and polymorphous perversities.

«Watching Denzel just embody Malcolm X — the growing maturity, the intensity, the watchfulness, the utter control of his performance — is hypnotic, and close to a religious experience.»

July 31, 2012 • It's not hyperbolic to suggest that Sigur Rós is one of the world's greatest live bands, creating a hypnotic, almost overwhelming experience.

Re: Embrace of the Serpent: the dark heart of colonialism in the Amazon mixed in alongside hypnotic and hilarious moments, Ciro Guerra's stunning, singular Embrace of the Serpent would arguably be my best movie - going experience of the year — the one that caught me unawares.

The story, characters, cinematography and score (one of the best matches of music and movie all year thanks to composer Johann Johansson) work together to provide an engaging, nearly hypnotic movie going experience.

This clean and comfortable property not just features great gourmet restaurants and small eateries in close vicinity but also allows you to de-stress with a help of a massage bang in the middle of the beach while experiences the hypnotic sounds of the waves.

We find ourselves reluctantly reminded of Geometry Wars again, the trance beats and responsive sonic backing of Resogun compound the slick visual presence of the title, working together to deliver an experience that is as hypnotic as it is engaging.

The games — sadly Windows - only, due to Game Maker's reliance on DirectX — are evocative of the arcade experience, combining Minter - like screen effects and staticky bursts of audio to create an effect that oscillates between hypnotic and unsettling.

For the past two decades Steinkamp's hypnotic 3 - D animations — of trees, rocks, abstract shapes, even pearl strands — have typically added layers of cheer to spaces as disparate as Las Vegas's Fremont Street Experience to the rotunda at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (which will reinstall her Loop projection, last displayed in 2000, this March).

Owusu's uniquely visceral style of filmmaking and storytelling possesses a rhythmic quality that allows viewers to experience and internalize the subject matter in a hyper - hypnotic way.

Beyond the conceptual aspects of their construction, the paintings themselves have a visceral and physical vitality that makes viewing them an unfolding and hypnotic experience.

Through the repetitive and hypnotic movement the screen - saver hopes to give the viewer a sensation of experiencing an encounter with the piece physically.

The design and sequencing of the work, fabricated from 3,390 LED bulbs and 527 meters of neon tubing, replicates the movement of water, creating a hypnotic experience for viewers.

She has recently collaborated with video artist Simon Ward and sound composer Andrew Clarke to translate her drawings into animated Virtual Reality, allowing her audience to have the simulated experience of entering the hypnotic realms depicted in her drawings.

His hypnotic and exhilarating light sculptures will be appreciated by both the young and old, experienced and inexperienced art viewers, students of both the arts and sciences, and engineers who will be tempted to analyze the artist's algorithms.

The effect is a hypnotic adventure into everyday life — that of the artist, her friends, her parents — but also of the modern, digital - age experience.

Displayed as a large installation, this 30 - minute piece is also accompanied by a series of eye - witness accounts of extra-terrestrial phenomena and experiences and therefore conjures up an eerie yet hypnotic world filled with magic and possibility.

For example, Firmament (2001), consists of a 16 - foot diameter, ceiling - mounted light sculpture, sequenced by a microcontroller; visitors will recline on a specially designed couch to experience the hypnotic animated patterns above.

Using The Who's operatic album, Quadrophenia, as a departure point, what results is an almost hypnotic optical experience that references the four - point structure of quadraphonic audio.

The sound of the leather hitting the wood: hard and succinct, builds to an almost aggressive quality as it is picked up in surround sound, yet the repetition of this specific sound allows for an almost hypnotic or meditative experience.

This collection of images is as disturbing and hypnotic as any requiem should be — and it offers an exquisite moment of escape from a culture increasingly experienced as a lifetime of frenetic activity divorced from any chance for reflection.

For those who witness Huanca's hypnotic, hybrid works, you can expect to experience something between the aftermath of an acid rave and the spiritual ceremony of an ancient ritual.

Gregorio Magnani writes «Distinguished by their non-spectacular almost casual format, his readings have a hypnotic quality that engenders a momentary shift of focus within the gallery going experience.

Using aged book covers as a template for his intricate drawings, Jeremiah's artwork reveals hypnotic patterns and a color palette that dialogue with the details of everyday personal experience.

As for influences, I look at and am inspired by a large range of work and artists, from the Venus of Willendorf to Robert Irwin, but the key factor is that slowness of experience, something hypnotic, a sense of presence.

Standing in front of the work can be a hypnotic experience.

Let's just hope Magic Leap can pull off the kind of hypnotic experiences RollingStone is raving about on a relatively wide scale, at a decent price, in the not too distant future.