Boom 2018 Dance Temple, Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal.
Boom 2018 was the typical life-rippling festival it normally is. The Dance Temple was a sustainable architectural marvel — a sacralized psy-trance dance space fully equipped with a surround-sound of vortexing Fibonacci geometry and high-fidelity sub and infransonic frequency distribution — it was a perfect, vibrating audio-visual space-place psychedelically designed to be explored with playful, hallucinatory precision and transcendental tribal movement.
On the opening day I stumbled upon an interesting electro-chemical sensory experiment while entranced in a lovely, other-worldly synaesthetic atmosphere. I began—for some reason or another—blinking rapidly while swaying my head in the familiar looping figure of the infinity symbol. I found great hypnotic joy in the rapid, rhythmic blinking and fluidly looping head movement. This simple, repetitive action amplified the notion of the film of life running on a reel—the reality reel, revealed—so to speak. I would turn my eyelid-powered stroboscope on and off from Ott on Day 2 to Braincell on Day 7. The experience of this joyous perceptual experiment urged me to further explore the slightly psychtropic stroboscopic topic.
I first explored and played with the word phonetically. In fact, it inspired a verse in "Cyclopsian Octopodes." Following the word play, etymological curiosity ensued. The word stroboscope is derived from the Greek, strobos 'whirling' and skopein ‘look at.’ Interestingly, my head was doing just that: whirling; while my eyes were looking at their Dance Temple surroundings through different shutter speeds. I literally transformed myself into a human stroboscope. Talk about Boom being a transformational festival.
On the opening day I stumbled upon an interesting electro-chemical sensory experiment while entranced in a lovely, other-worldly synaesthetic atmosphere. I began—for some reason or another—blinking rapidly while swaying my head in the familiar looping figure of the infinity symbol. I found great hypnotic joy in the rapid, rhythmic blinking and fluidly looping head movement. This simple, repetitive action amplified the notion of the film of life running on a reel—the reality reel, revealed—so to speak. I would turn my eyelid-powered stroboscope on and off from Ott on Day 2 to Braincell on Day 7. The experience of this joyous perceptual experiment urged me to further explore the slightly psychtropic stroboscopic topic.
I first explored and played with the word phonetically. In fact, it inspired a verse in "Cyclopsian Octopodes." Following the word play, etymological curiosity ensued. The word stroboscope is derived from the Greek, strobos 'whirling' and skopein ‘look at.’ Interestingly, my head was doing just that: whirling; while my eyes were looking at their Dance Temple surroundings through different shutter speeds. I literally transformed myself into a human stroboscope. Talk about Boom being a transformational festival.
Needless to say I found this newfound special effect even more fascinating when I stumbled on the fact that elite athletes, such as Steph Curry and his NBA championship team, the Golden State Warriors were no strangers to the mind-enhancing stroboscopic effect. The team would practice using pulsing stroboscopic light in a darkened gym in order to improve their capacity to take in more information per unit of time. By playing basketball in the dark with periodic flashes of light, their visual acuity would sharpen and their eyes would absorb much more information than normal given the limited periodic light. This practice strategy lead to new sports technology resulting in goggles that came to Curry from Sensory Performance Technology called the Eclipse, an updated version of Nike goggles called SPARQ Vapor Strobes.
Watch the video below to get insider information on this fascinating, cutting-edge stroboscopic goggle technology.
Watch the video below to get insider information on this fascinating, cutting-edge stroboscopic goggle technology.
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