Nullsleep x Videogramo, Tanatos, 2011, vinyl sticker design.

Continuation of cooperative efforts with Videogramo resulting in a vinyl sticker design, based on one of his pre-existing works and adapted for a black/white/red palette. Below are some scraps collected during a surf session using this image as the point of origin:

En la mitología griega, Tánatos (en griego antiguo Θάνατος Thánatos, ‘muerte’) era la personificación de la muerte no violenta. • Tanatos also known as Bugbear is a worm that drops a backdoor/keystroke logger trojan that can allow a cracker access to many parts of the infected computer • Name : Worm:W32/Bugbear Detection Names : W32/Bugbear.A@mm Category : Malware Type : Worm Platform : W32 • the death drive (“Todestrieb”) is the drive towards death, self-destruction and the return to the inorganic: ‘the hypothesis of a death instinct, the task of which is to lead organic life back into the inanimate state’ • His touch was gentle, likened to that of his twin brother Hypnos (Sleep). • Death Pictures, Postmortem Photos, Post Mortem Photography, Mourning Archive. • Contemplation of death conjures up images of disintegration, dismemberment, flying apart.  In consciousness journeys, the dreamer may be sucked through a swirling vortex into a profound blackness-black that is blacker than black-cold and utterly empty. • Ego-death is a requirement for opening to the broader realm of transpersonal reality.  It heralds a change in the form of consciousness.