“Kaikai & Kiki” is 2005 teaser for a longer animation video by Takashi Murakami, which has been featured on the DPV before. While we haven’t been able to find the full film, we are always ecstatic at any new eye-candy from this Japanese genius of pop-culture psychedelia.
Archive | March, 2011
Beauty in Synthesis: the Art of Laurie Spiegel
20 MarWhen asked why she turned to digital synthesizers and software engineering after working with analog systems for a long time, American composer Laurie Spiegel answered that she was looking for a way to apply memory and logic to the freedom that the analog synthesizers gave her. A piece of paper as a composers tool provides a kind of memory that is missing in the old analog means of electronic music making. On the other hand you have control over the actual sound production when working with analog synthesizers. You can experiment with the results of your decisions in way that was impossible before. Computers and digital synthesizers now offer you the same degree of independence for experimentation while providing facilities for the use of memory and logical manipulation in the process of composition.
Mary Jane (1968) – The ultimate anti-drug propaganda film
18 Mar“Mary Jane, the excuse for anything!”. Mary Jane’s trailer is a superb example of 1960s anti-drug propaganda. You can’t help but laugh while watching it, and can’t help by feeling disturbed the fact that this kinds of movies were the ones shaping public perception of Cannabis in the 1960s. At least this shows you, what a long way we’ve gone from “Mary Jane” to Nancy Botwin’s “Weeds”.
I wonder who were the young actors in this anti-drug film. Either young squares chosen to portray hippies, or hippie sell outs. Anyway, I hope that when they watch it now they feel enormous shame for what they’ve done with their youth, or at least have a good laugh about it.
“This is a movie. But only as real as life”. Yeah, right!
Ultimaya // Larsenball //
16 MarHere is a sample of my actual work in progress in generative video feedback.
more to come soon 😉
video: Samas (Ultimaya/Le complexe du crabe)
Juggling: Joa.na! (Le complexe du crabe)
Music: Hightone (outback)
Verse (2010)
15 MarTony Comley presents to us a visual incarnation of his poetry. Prepare to get your brain soaked in the most lysergic way possible.
Life in Transition – John R. Dilworth
14 MarA surrealistic-psychedelic mixture with a bizarre frolicsome Dali figure, by American animator John R. Dilworth (2005).
Mirages by Sabrina Rattlé
13 MarMusic by Le Révélateur.
A breathtakingly beautiful exploration of the geometries of light and color beyond the limitations of space.
Sabrina Rattlé is a Canadian exerimental film maker and Mirages is a collaboration with the Canadian musician Le Révélateur. While watching the film one feels that the sound is really woven into the images.
Multiple Reality Acroyoga
13 MarThis is what happens when you mix acroyoga and string theory’s multiverse.
(Link: Shalom. Thanks!)
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