This is your brain.
Photo from Wikimedia Commons.
This is your brain on drugs.
Well, not really.
Tooling around on the Inter-tubes today, I found a version of Godfrey Reggio's 1978 film Koyaanisqatsi, sped up 1,552% by visual artist Wyatt Hodgson. Mr. Hodgson's version uses a different score (including music by Debussy and The Art of Noise) and has been compressed to run for just five minutes.
If you're not familiar with Koyaanisqatsi, it is a meditation on the imbalances of modern life. It is assembled footage, dating from just before its 1982 release to documentary footage and stock imagery dating all the way back to a NASA film from 1962.
Although it is only 86 minutes long, time speeds, slows and bends in upon itself as the images fly by. The images range widely: staring pedestrians shot on the street, cars and televisions being assembled, and the most famous, iconic shots: clouds racing across mirror-front skyscrapers.
Enjoy.
Balance Out of Life from Wyatt Hodgson on Vimeo.
And here's Godfrey Reggio's original on YouTube.
