The Samorost games are beautifully crafted “point and click” puzzle adventures by the independent czech studio Amanita Design. Especially the art direction will give you a lot to admire on your magical journey. The suspicious looking character at around 0:57 gives a hint at how all that incredible detail of the graphics is enjoyed best.
You can play the whole first game and the first chapter of the second right away here and here in your browser.
Both NiGHTS into dreams… and NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams are classics of pdychedelic gaming. They combine Sonic’s joy of movement with Peter Pan’s dream of flying.
The Autechre sound and the famous congenial video clip by Alex Rutterford offer an explicitly synthetic synaestetic experience to our senses. The computer generated textures of image and sound recall the promise of a limitless richness to our modern days once again. And this time (again) the creatio ex nihilo is in the hands of man… and it is rather available compared to heavy industry. The promise of the artificial paradise grows in the vast amount of “unofficial videos” created to the sound of Autechre and similar artists.
I think this version of the promise of an artificial paradise is typical for the 90′s and early 00′s.
Just a lighthearted, pop-flavored fantasy from the musician MIKA.
Have a fun day :^)
A Japanese Alice in wonderland falls down the rabbit hole in search of her cellphone and lands in a bizarre world of magical brands. This amazing Superflat Louis Vitton by Takashi Murakami bears resemblance to Murakami’s Superflat First Love, and uses similar motives. It is a yet higher level of the mixture of the worlds of psychedelia, consumerism and magic.
We, the generation who survived the new-age holocaust of the 1980s, the 1990s and the 2000s, deserve to have our private little revolutions with a tacky aftertaste of saccharine, and sicker than ever before.
Army of Lovers pervert one of the the 1960′s most powerful anthems into an amazing hyper-consumerist vision of curious colorful glowing perversions.
This week, I celebrated my 33rd birthday. Being 33, which is of course the age in Jesus died of the course, made me think of Jesus, and the time to be reborn.
A friend of mine shared this link on my wall, to congratulate me for my birthday with a psychedelic-pop-Jesus. I was mesmerized.
“The treasure of life is a digital advice book designed especially for you.” ”This life changing book will redesign the way that you communicate. It will make a better you”.
Talia Link’s treasure of life is a sort of robotic self help guru in the form of a book, which is actually a self help video kit which is actually an art project. I found the whole thing to be very simulacric and enticingly technomystical.
“Follow the link”
(Link: Assaf. Thanks!)
If there is such a thing as horror psychedelia, this is it. This video manages to bridge the gap between hard rock and psychedelia, and has some pretty powerful moments near the end.
(Link: Anthony Abbatangelo. Thanks!)
