Esteban Diácono's 'Sand Dance' Video Chills Us Out

Posted: 27/03/2012 12:31 Updated: 17/04/2012 11:52

The internet can be an unsettling place, a cacophony of lurid headlines, Twitter chitter chatter and LOLcats … when we decide we need to chill out, the last place we usually look is online.

Until now.

Thanks to our cousins over the pond, we’ve just discovered this soothing creation by Buenos Aires-based graphics designer Esteban Diácono.

Using floating sand images created using some complex digital wizardry and set to a beautiful soundtrack by Ólafur Arnalds, it’s basically zen in a box.

Thus we’ve cancelled our trip to the country, thrown out our yoga mats and arrived one step closer to the inevitably of one day plugging our brains into the world wide web and living there permanently. We hope the food is good.

Check out these randomly exploding, angelically sound-tracked vapour trails of pure colour bliss for yourself and tell us we’re wrong.

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The internet can be an unsettling place, a cacophony of lurid headlines, Twitter chitter chatter and LOLcats … when we decide we need to chill out, the last place we usually look is online. Until...
The internet can be an unsettling place, a cacophony of lurid headlines, Twitter chitter chatter and LOLcats … when we decide we need to chill out, the last place we usually look is online. Until...
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06:46 PM on 04/16/2012
Liked the music, but thought the 'dance' was a little too quick
11:48 PM on 04/15/2012
Good, but not the best...........................
11:13 PM on 04/15/2012
This link may be more of a "Chill"
http://youtu.be/cQEK50CEzJY
10:36 PM on 04/15/2012
Hmmmm - chilled music; stimulating and discordant - if impressive - visuals.....
09:48 PM on 04/15/2012
very nice
07:56 PM on 04/15/2012
Bet it would be something else in 3d
07:54 PM on 04/15/2012
Very clever ; didn't 'chill' me though.
07:53 PM on 04/15/2012
Looks as if he's washing his paintbrushes. Stupid.
07:22 PM on 04/15/2012
That's as relaxing as a manic firework display created by several lunatics on Crack!
06:16 PM on 04/15/2012
VERY NICE.
04:31 PM on 04/15/2012
What was the end like , I fell asleep.
04:51 PM on 04/15/2012
better than the beginning,no staying power eh,did what it said,relaxed you,so maybe try again :) x
04:01 PM on 04/15/2012
I would prefer to watch this slowed down and maybe in silence. The timing is completely out of synch and it made me feel quite dizzy watching it. Actually, watching a lava lamp in motion is way more relaxing - but maybe too boring.
03:58 PM on 04/15/2012
Wrong,makes me dizzy and the musics annoying,sorry,certainly not Zen,learn to meditate and still the mind, that is real relaxation and its very easy and enjoyable,I have used Transcendental Meditation since 1978,a blissful Samadhi like experience which is our true nature and is within us all,no visuals or music can give the same experience.
Secret is ,go beyond the noisy mind to the depth of mind, to your soul,the source of thought to wide awake blissful" No mind "and TM does deliver that. research TM on YT
I have no connection with the TM movement,no agenda
03:58 PM on 04/15/2012
The sand is too excited and jumpy for this to be relaxing, and the music isnt soft.
10:11 AM on 04/05/2012
It's pleasant enough (prefer it without the music) but I wouldn't call it relaxing.