Archive | July, 2010

Rockfour – Time Machine

9 Jul

Israeli rock group Rockfour has had a long fledged flirt with psychedelic elements. Their albums show a great amount of nostalgia to the sixties and their songs often sound like attempts to mimic the musical style of the sixties (Which is both fun, as well as at other times somewhat disappointing). Likewise, the videoclip for Rockfour’s time machine is a contemporary attempt to mimic the aesthetics of the psychedelic videoclip of the late sixities and early seventies (While making some homage to 1950’s sci-fi films). The result is a pretty accurate mimesis which blends these old motives in a fun way.

(Link: GGG. Thanks!)

Birdy Nam Nam – The Parachute Ending

8 Jul

This shroomy video is by the animator Steve Scott. If any of you are in NYC  this upcoming weekend I recommend you go and check out the Tryptophantasia II – Psychedelic Animation Film Screening. You could check out works by Steve Scott and many other psychedelic animators, and I would be happy to hear your impressions.

Chemical Brothers – Let Forever Be

6 Jul

An amazing kaleidoscopic music clip by the Chemical Brothers. Jumping between dimensions and different perceptions of space and possibilities is what is.

(Link: Matan Lipman. Thanks!)

Strange Forces – Love Rust

5 Jul

Beautifully done, contemporary psychedelic clip by Strange Forces.

2001: A Space Odyssey

4 Jul

This is just another classic of psychedelic visualization. And a gorgeous one it is!

The sequence within the movie is far too long to be reduced to a mere sign or reference to the psychedelic counter culture of the time (’68). It ripps right through the fabric of a reality of symbolic economies by showing itself immune to any reduction of meaning; it has to be watched.
After this sequence an orgy of symbolism takes place (in a baroque “life as dream” setting). But for the time of the flow of images even the anticipated junky for meaning will enjoy the spiritual peace of tripping.

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – “Lion in a Coma”

3 Jul

Ori Toor had just finished Shenkar A of Design, and this is his final project. Shenkar’s annual exhibition will open on 15/7/2010.

This is gorgeous, Ori! Good luck in real life, and may you bring color and psychedelic goodness to all your future projects!

(Thanks Matan, for the link!)

Capsula – Myth

2 Jul

A psychedelic, Indian influenced track from Capsula (Yosi Shamai).

Feed your head

1 Jul

what can be said about the most famous trip in modern tripping history? maybe just that it started with:

“two bags of grass, seventy five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, asalt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers… also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of budweiser, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls…” (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).