Due to my cock-up last week, I felt the need to supply something extra for your hungry serotonergic brains this time. I hereby present you a triple music video fiesta:
Tame Impala – Half Full Glass of Wine
Wonderful melange of styles. And walruses! By Special Problems.
Caelum – Apoptosis
Epic polar coordination by takcom.
Ólafur Arnalds – Ljósið
Celebrated Icelandic-Argentinian collaboration from 2009, featuring candyflippingly colorful smoke simulation by Esteban Diácono.
Morgan Beringer visualizes the music of Matthew Dear with amazing results. Apparently shots of liquid were mixed/layered with themselves and other footage using masks. Even the emboss filter effect works in this, it’s like liquid frost on a surface.
Squirrel gains access to a psychedelic oak tree in the sky. By Jason P. Ryan. Jason also did the effects for this pretty cool acid trip sequence for a comedy series:
Benjamin did some 3D animations, printed them out and messed around with the prints with watercolours and stuff. Sure makes that CGI look lots more organic.
1 of 18 by Robert Seidel
14 of 18 by Tom Scholefield
Advanced Beauty is an ongoing art project with a large number of collaborators. Their first release was a collection of 18 synesthetic sound sculptures. There are no news about any upcoming releases as far as I can tell.
Freak Owls – optimistic automatic
valse statique-la théorie du combo
The Aston Shuffle – Your Love
Here are some of the more explicitly psychedelic samples from the portfolio of Maxime Bruneel, a young French graphic & motion designer currently working from New York.
The freaky Greek motion design group Nomint is responsible for this ad for an architectural materials company.
A chiral phenomenon or structure is some weird-ass thing that is not identical to its mirror image. You have to admit the concept sounds cool, even though you wouldn’t immediately understand it. Inspired by this scientific idea, German Robert Seidel went and created a very unique motion graphics piece using among other things projection onto a paper sculpture.
Equally impressive works can be found on Seidel’s Vimeo channel.
