Archive | April, 2011

Maxime Bruneel

19 Apr

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.

Nippon Kazauwa

18 Apr

This guy doesn’t even look Japanese but he will definitely raise your adrenaline levels.  “Nippon Kazauwa” is a sort of  freaky homage to Japanese freakiness, which was freaky enough itself – and it comes in the form of a new beverage which makes people crazy!

(Link: Tom Orgad. Thanks!)

Ladies and Gentlemen… Mr. Reggie Watts!

17 Apr

This… hair… it is a whole psychedelic planet on its own. I think it’s hypnotizing me, it’s pulling me in…
This guy is so super talented! Bring on the crazy rays!

Gaga does it again

16 Apr

The opening of Lady Gaga‘s new video is another sounds like  a 1950s monster movie and looks like a pornographic version of a 1960s Klaedoscopic film.

To me, Gaga is the greatest Goddess of the age.  Something to give your life for, in a world where it sometimes seems as if there is nothing left to believe in. A true spectacular simulacrum that performs the same function as the high priests of ancient Egypt, in creating a spectacle that makes us come to face to face with the transcendent and transcend our everyday lives.

Lady Gaga, to me, is a constant cry, to become more, to become eternal, to go beyond the limits of the possible.  Many of her messages are very psychedelic, calling us to accept ourselves as beautiful creatures of the universe and explore our full potential: “”I’m beautiful in my way, ’cause God makes no mistakes; I’m on the right track, baby, I was born this way.””

This is The Manifesto of Mother M onster.

On board a government owned alien territory in space, a birth of magnificent and magical proportions took place. But the birth was not finite, it was infinite. As the wombs numbered and the mitosis of the future began, it was perceived that this infamous moment in life is not temporal, it is eternal. And thus began the beginning of the new race– a race within the race of humanity– a race which bares no prejudice, no judgment, but boundless freedom. But on that same day, as the eternal mother hovered in the multi-verse, another more terrifying birth took place– the birth of evil. And as she herself split into two, rotating in agony between two ultimate forces, the pendulum of choice began its dance. It seems easy, you imagine, to gravitate instantly and unwaveringly towards good. But she wondered, ‘How can I protect something so perfect, without evil?”

Roger Glover And The Butterfly Ball – Love is All

15 Apr

“Everybody’s got to live together. All the people got to understand. So love your neighbor like you love your brother. Come on and join the band. Well, all you need is love and understanding, ring the bell and let the people know. We’re so happy and we’re celebrating, come on and let your feelings show.” sang the frog, and how right he was.

“The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast” is a hippie concept album and from 1974  based on a children’s book of the same title.

This was the most ecstatic, charismatic frog I ever saw, and I think you will all agree with me, that we need more frogs like that one!

(Link: Tom Orgad. Thanks!)

ULTIMAYA // Liquefaction, Solution, Distortion…

13 Apr

Liquefaction Solution Distortion
Maya Loop the fundamental
Consciousness Feedback Experiment
Ultimaya May 2008, Lyon Dark side of feedback process // Samas, liquid shakti, Victor Furiani // Ultimaya team sound Liquid Shakti.

Visions of Frank (art of Jim Woodring animated)

12 Apr

Japanese animators put the colorful Lemurian world of Jim Woodring in motion.

Looking forward to seeing this documentary about the artist: The Lobster and the Liver.

The embedded video is the intro, here are the rest (not embedding them so your browser doesn’t choke):
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6

Psychedelic Kids

11 Apr

Your psychedelic little sister.

(Link: Morningglorian. Thanks!)

A Psychedelic Promise: forever young by The Youth Group

10 Apr

Do you remember the commercial with the 250 000 colorful balls bouncing down the streets of San Francisco that has been featured on this blog a while ago? This video by the Youth Group shares the mood or promise evoked in images of the commercial. Both videos show montages of an effortless downhill movement by a multitude of individuals.

I must have watched this one a million times since I discovered it.

The Dark Side of The Trip (part 2)

10 Apr


This troubling video was written, composed and sung by Chad Vangaalen.