Held on the first full-moon night of the lunar year, the Lantern Festival is commonly regarded as one of the most important and romantic festivals in Taiwan. The festival is celebrated with lantern making, lantern riddle games, and displays of glittering decorative lanterns.

The origin of the festival lies in the festive activities of an agricultural people celebrating the lengthening of daylight hours and the coming of spring after the New Year. Other legends have it that the festival was actually started by an emperor of the Han dynasty (206 B.C. – 220 A.D.), who was a devout Buddhist and who ordered his people to display lights on the fifteenth night of the first month of the lunar year to pay respects to Buddha. According to the same legend, holding torches or lanterns on this night makes it easier to see deities descending from heaven to give blessings to the earth. Yet another legend has it that in the Tang dynasty, the emperors would celebrate the festival by ordering hundreds of beautiful women to sing and dance with lanterns in the brightly lit plaza. These festive activities gradually spread to the common people and developed into the most popular festival in the year after Chinese New Year. The festival is also called the Little New Year. In the old days, these festivities, together with the celebrations for the Chinese New Year, would last for as long as forty-five days. Nowadays the festival lasts for a week.

These audio-visual compositions by Andrew D. Lyons are from 2001 and 2002. The visuals were constructed in Houdini.

The game of thrones opening is just mesmerizing.

As a child I was enchanted by images of worlds within worlds under the microscope. The music by psychedelic noise trio Emeralds fits the swarming activity of the liquid and translucent machines perfectly.

A psychedelic clip about love by the Pet Shop Boys. Pretty cool.

This is what happens when the yellow submarine meets 2012

[thanx  Ucinogen Hall for the link]

This is one of my favorite movie !

it’s full of beautiful soundtracks (by Clint Mansell) and really nice visual scenes.

Baltimore rapper Rye Rye goes through a one-on-one arcade fighting psychosis.

TerenceMckennaTube is a website which delivers dozens of hours of classic, mind bending talks by Terence Mckenna, arguably the most important psychedelic philosopher in the history of psychedelic thought. This short video is an audio collage made of recently recovered recordings of McKenna.

(Link: 6dmind. Thanks!)