This sweet animation was made to illustrate the remarkable achievement of a no-hitter in a major league game game of Dock Ellis, a player for the Pittsburgh Pirates, while he was on acid back in 1970.
Since steroids are well known as performance enhancers, athletes are scrutinized to prevent their abuse. Psychedelics, on the other hand, seem to be a possible influence on the artist who designed this film for the 2012 London Olympic Games:
In the 1960s U.S. underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger released a “Sacred Mushroom Edition” of his earlier film “Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome”. It was meant to be screened to people while taking LSD. In his movies occult, homoerotic and surreal themes often merged to a truely psychedelic vision.
Following the last few videos featured here, here’s more of the hipster-electronic-retro80s’-psychedelia, apparently a new genre in the art of video-clipping.
Some psychedelic elements in this Terry Poison clip Give me that nice psychlectro feel.
by // SamaS ~ ULTIMAYA //
This is a video of my home made collection, I use to create organic mandalas from macro photos, then I give them life with visual feddback to bring the psychedelic effect !
enjoy !
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Today I’d like to make the proposal that the aesthetics of “datamoshing” are kinda very psychedelic.
“Datamoshing” is the hip term for the effects achieved by removing keyframes from a videofile. It’s actually a very basic artisic technique in the tradion of randomness and the surfacing display of artistic means. What resurfaces here from the subconscious of the means of production are compression artefacts, objects born from the everyday algorithms of heavy data compression. The focus on compression artefacts sets them apart from other glitch aesthetics.
Not unlike a Rorschach test or psychedelic visuals these alien everyday compression artefacts are capable of expression. They have an emotional quality; they are anarchic smugglers on the border between conscious and subconscious.
The video above associates the compression artefacts with a certain melancholy. It’s an interesting construction of things passed since early objects of desire from 80s tv commercials and videogames are fused with the involuntary gestures of data compression from the internets early days of videostreaming. Just like a search of lost rad time with youtube.
Don’t miss those other two videos by eddie whelan! They are beautiful and no less rad executions of controlled randomness.
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