Ethereal Research Laboratories is a global research-driven project established in 2006. We discover, develop and manufacture textile-specific structures invented in our very specialized labs. Our award-winning researchers have introduced DNA and nanotechnology with molecular self-assembly and conventional manufacturing to build a new generation of fabric-like species, which in turn is making inspirational advances in art and evolution.

Our history is multi-faceted: the growth of a small meth lab started on a peninsula in a Southern California, oceanfront shack is now the largest ethereal research organization in all the world. ERL is conjoined with a global body of progressive researchers from around the earth. Our landmark building (located in an undisclosed area of Los Angeles) house the people that have led outstanding contributions to the field of imagination.

Etherecals

These odd-shaped relics belong to a quasi-scientific group of species known as Imagineodds, which are found everywhere from bathroom stalls in Bombay, to the little pockets inside sweater vests in Northern Minnesota. They are not unlike the Bacterribles that were discovered growing on hamburgers and ladies’ wig hats in 2005 by renowned chemist, Edvard Salvador Hawaiianstein, who later joined our research laboratories in early 2007.

Dr. Hawaiianstein has given us greater insight into the Etherecals story of origin. Some are fuzzy and soft, or starched and hardened with a variety of chemical compounds and substances unknown to most physicists of our planet (Earth). Some of his cultures were formed inside glass beakers, jars and Erlenmeyer flasks. Some at their later stages of growth have even squeaked with sounds that secrete from these species' inner-sensory membranes. While most of these forms are made-up from pure imagination, these organisms are inspired by their environments of bacteria, fungi, disease, atoms and cells, as well as evolution, sea life, animals, cartoons, and visions.

During the fall of 2007, Bacterribles and Imaginodds were gathered by our researchers and brought back to our highly specialized laboratory facility for documentation. Several hundred of these plush specimen sculptures will be tagged with hand-written data and filed into our temperature-controlled flat file drawers, just like the fossil cabinets from the University of Southern California. These are some nice-looking drawers, man.

Initiating the possibilities of the imagination, our company devotes extensive efforts to increase access to the arts and creativity through far-reaching programs. Our projects intend to provoke questions and inform, but never give finite answers. Answers come from an individual perspective. The purpose of our ethereal endeavors is to show that anything imagined and visualized can come to fruition. Simply stated, art imitates life, and it is for anybody and everyone.