Archive | July, 2010

Chemical Brothers – Under the Influence

19 Jul

An amateur rendering of the Chemical Brothers’ “Under the Influence”. I love the way it makes every day life scenes seem highly psychedelic.

5 a.m.: A Psychedelic Action Half-Life Labyrinth

18 Jul

There is a very nice article on the experience of exploring the labyrinth of the map.  To be found here.

Attack of The Killer Ants

17 Jul

It sounds tacky: an unexplained cosmic event causes ants to increase their intelligence and try to take over the world. But the movie “Phase IV”, 1974, By Saul Bass (who is best known for his opening titles and posters for Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and many others) is a slow, poetic and extremely beautiful film. I loved the way he films actual living ants and 1960’s futuristic technology: from squeaking gigantic computers to geodesic domes. will the end of life as we know it will come from these little creatures? or is their technocratic, authoritarian society only a symbol of our own?

Spaceship Babies – Spaceship Earth

16 Jul

“You are me and I am you, that’s the kind of stuff love can do”. This beautiful paean to the spaceship earth would have made Buckminster Fuller shine.

(Link: Ido Amin via Uri Baruchin. Thanks!)

Psychedelic Independence

15 Jul

Bjork reminds us what “they” want us to be, and what “we” should do.

Tales of emptiness

15 Jul

Fuck Buttons – Surf Solar

13 Jul

Hallucinacia Penguina.

(Link: Nick. Thanks!)

Gonjasufi – DedNd (clip – taken from A Sufi And A Killer)

12 Jul

Lo-tech psychedelia.

(Link: Or Furst. Thanks!)

Space Channel 5 part 2

11 Jul

..singing robots. check! duelling alien dancers. check!

what else do we need for a happening of intergalactic proportion? how about a president of the galaxy called Peace? sure! an evil plan to dance the galaxy mad? why not, bring it on! a pink haired pigtailed reporter on 20 cm pleatau space boots to guide us through all this? yeah, keep it going! all of ’em singing and dancing frantically inbetween explosions of color and light? that’s it! space channel 5.

You Look Familiar

10 Jul

For some people, drugs are an escape. This clip may represent some of them. it also reminded me the surrealistic and even psychedelic look of animation in the 1920’s.