The Sun might be going gaga on us, but the upside is all the purty light shows we'll get to enjoy in the meantime:

Celestial Lights from Ole C. Salomonsen on Vimeo (shot in Norway, Finland and Sweden during autumn 2011, winter and spring of 2012).

H/T to Kathrinn for pointing this out.

Our good buddy, visionary artist Adam Scott Miller, has posted a 'trailer' (11 minutes long, *cough*) for ASMOcean, a visual 'trip' composed of his artworks. Adam's static artworks are eye candy enough, but this combination with visual effects and motion is just wonderful:

Adam has been closely associated with this site for some time, from his wonderful work illustrating our online magazine Sub Rosa, through his recent contribution of the wonderful cover image for Charles Laughlin's book Communing with the Gods (available from Amazon US and Amazon UK).

You can browse his portfolio and purchase prints of his artwork from his website. At the moment Adam's offering 23% off the purchase of all paper prints, canvas giclées, and originals, so if you're looking for a Xmas gift that is meaningful and actually made with love, make sure you take a look. As I've been saying for a while now, the internet now offers a great way for communities to support creators, rather than corporations. Plus, with the way Adam's star has been rising recently, you just might find an original work is a fair financial investment in its own right...

This year the alternative lifestyle 'Burning Man' festival, held annually in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, celebrated its 25th year. The Big Picture has a wonderful gallery of shots which show the festival's otherworldly, post-apocalyptic vibe. In this shot, the playa is reflected in the goggles of Kevin Wagter, a.k.a. the "Dust Demon" (though with that mask, and surroundings, perhaps "Sandman" might be a better name...):

See the complete gallery of pics at Big Picture: 25 Years of Burning Man.

For any Australian readers: our good friend, visionary artist Adam Scott Miller (who contributed a bunch of the brilliant article illustrations in Sub Rosa), will be giving a presentation in Byron Bay (N.S.W.) this Friday! If you're in the general vicinity (which, in Australia, means anywhere within 1000km), I'm sure it would be well worth a drive to see his artworks in person - and perhaps have a chat to Adam in the flesh.

The event is from 6pm to midnight, at the Byron Community Centre. Here's the flyer:

You can also browse Adam's artwork virtually - and purchase originals and prints - at his official website: AdamScottMiller.com. Huge future ahead of him, so may just be worth your while to pick up an original or two at this early stage of his career...

Our good friend Adam Scott Miller, who created much of the amazing artwork in our PDF magazine Sub Rosa, will be one of a number of artists featured at the 2011 Alchemeyez Visionary Art Congress, to be held May 13-15 in Hawaii. Here's the flyer for the event, for more details visit the website:

We are a collective of artists, musicians, educators, spiritualists, and visionaries dedicated to the idea that Conscious Art and Music can reflect and catalyze the necessary changes in our culture that will provide a theme of upliftment and reinvigoration of the Spiritual into our societies and species at large. Through the Creation of Sacred art forms and meditations, we aim to inspire and transform our communities, cities and nations.

This Event and Congress has been created as a Festival, a Conference and a Model for schooling by which we can discuss and share among ourselves and the Attendees, methods, ideas and visions for allowing this change. In a word, while Alchemeyez is entertaining, and a cause for celebration, we are embarking on this Voyage to bring about conscious ideation with our work, music, art-forms and voices. Artists and musicians chosen to provide the body of work at this amazing event are collectively engaged in this model and mission. The term Alchemeyez is a new spelling of the verb meaning ‘to engage in alchemy’ and uses the root word form coupled with the ‘eyez’ of internal contemplative Vision.

We invite participants at this landmark Conference and Festival to allow deep reflection on these themes and to use the art, experiences, and messages encountered at Alchemeyez to bring new energy, insight, and inspiration to their lives, homes and places of labor.

For a sampling of the artists involved, check out this promotional video for the event:

Get along if you can, sure to be a feast for the eyeballs and the mind.