Added: Jul 6, 2008

From: pdog2000

Duration: 9:7

Laffoley's Odyssey is currently a work in progress, a short 5 minute film that documents Paul Laffoley. He's a 64 year old man who works in a small windowless room where he creates intensely detailed paintings of futuristic engineering projects, diagrams of time machines and portals to other dimensions. A self-imposed hermit who paints obsessively and who has far-fetched ideas can easily be dismissed. Is he a modern day daVinci, ahead of his time that he's misunderstood? If so, what if Laffoley is never discovered?

Channel: Howto

Tags: dreaming  laffoley  lucid  nick  paul  pietrocarlo 

Rating: 4.91 (44 ratings)    Views: 10791' favoriteCount='180    Comments: 23

bennymalone Says:

Jul 6, 2008 - I love his paintings. I came across his work on MySpace, my girlfriend Amanda spotted these amazing pictures. Thanks for posting.

pdog2000 Says:

Jul 6, 2008 - thanks we really appreciate your support...

answerswithquestions Says:

Jul 6, 2008 - I am surprised there isn't atleast 133 comments on this already. What can I say, I am awe inspired by each work I see, I hope one day to afford some personal works of the man himself. I am also very interested on his personal story with the implant and his spiritual understandings/experiences. My only wish is that I could read more clearly some of the samples of his work on his personal site, though perhaps there may be a good reason for this. Many thanks and blessings.

navgator211 Says:

Jul 6, 2008 - Paul's work is very impressive, I love this type of stuff. Very inspiring... -NJ

sneaky7 Says:

Jul 6, 2008 - It's amazing work. Since the sound quality is not so great, you might want to eliminate the gunning engine sound and other background sound effects...they don't work so well. Anyway, thanks for your wonderful documentary.

Waldemar3 Says:

Jul 6, 2008 - I agree...truly brilliant work here. His material has been copied many times over...and of course it's unjustly non-footnoted at best. We need more people talking about non-sequiter/unorthodox ideas like this...No matter what the risk. Thank you...

aether777 Says:

Jul 6, 2008 - amazing. just amazing. thankyou.

psymatik Says:

Jul 6, 2008 - I'm hooked... i need more info on this guy..his website has some amazing concepts..

benjybyte Says:

Jul 6, 2008 - Amazing.And what springs to mind immediately is a quote from Arthur C. Clarke:"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)

davidfbello Says:

Jul 6, 2008 - SWEET

meach96 Says:

Jul 6, 2008 - I own both of Paul Laffoley's books. They are absolutely amazing and would recommend them to everyone interested, or anyone with the capacity of understanding needed to comprehend this knowledge. His books are pretty rare and hard to find, but if you come across one I'd recommend scooping it up and ingesting... although, obviously, not for everyone.

addmelolz Says:

Jul 6, 2008 - yeah dude, this is awesome, can;t wait to see all of it.

HoboSheriff Says:

Jul 6, 2008 - waaaay over the top with the music and camera work at the end. He's a brilliant and interesting enough guy just on his own-

v9j68 Says:

Jul 6, 2008 - 'The room could then be filled with hot lucite, then let cool and removed from the building.. and then launched into space..' Is this his actual wish as to what will become of his room, or is it all a lengthy example to demonstrate how he feels while he's working? ahhh.. sure, we'll certainly try our best in arranging that, Mr. Laffoley.. His theories sound very interesting though, too bad they kept overlapping one on top of the other so that he jever seemed to finish his thought..

clearlyalec Says:

Jul 6, 2008 - he, more than just about anyone else out there in any sphere, is who we should be listening to and with. will we? can we? finish your film and let's see.

TheRasD Says:

Jul 6, 2008 - I have a synopsis of every single piece of his work if anybody wants a txt. They are written by Laffoley.

thopcc Says:

Jul 6, 2008 - yes please! will you send it to thopcc@yahoo thank you.

mijazma Says:

Jul 6, 2008 - why the FUCK does his voice overlap in the middle of the clip - A) you can't understand what he's saying B)he seems even more autistic and lunatic than he really is. it really pisses me off, it's nothing but disrespectful and fucking degrading! ________________btw, the things he does are fantastic, i've just discovered this guy and it's like a revelation.

itubeonu Says:

Jul 6, 2008 - i have to agree with you there

Tulkastaldo Says:

Jul 6, 2008 - This man reminds me of the mathematician from the movie Pi, except he has no need of a computer, since his brain is one and he puts his programs in the form of paintings. Amazingly crazy. I think I'm a conceptual deviant as well.

ProfessorHuggins Says:

Jul 6, 2008 - the overlapping audio is retarded and ruins this entire thing

jrzy12 Says:

Jul 6, 2008 - very tedious techniques. irritating and distracting.

6ReiFukai9 Says:

Jul 6, 2008 - Thank you for posting this video and bringing to our attention this man, his work, his vision, and his curse. I found the composition to be excellent in that the overlap captures the very essence of dualistic thinking, in both its beauty and its horror. This of course is backed by the visual presentation that focuses on the materials he has surrounded himself with that mimic this concept. Simply wonderful!Thank you pdog2000!