“The treasure of life is a digital advice book designed especially for you.” “This life changing book will redesign the way that you communicate. It will make a better you”.
Talia Link’s treasure of life is a sort of robotic self help guru in the form of a book, which is actually a self help video kit which is actually an art project. I found the whole thing to be very simulacric and enticingly technomystical.
“Follow the link”
(Link: Assaf. Thanks!)
If there is such a thing as horror psychedelia, this is it. This video manages to bridge the gap between hard rock and psychedelia, and has some pretty powerful moments near the end.
(Link: Anthony Abbatangelo. Thanks!)
If I wasn’t going to India (yeaa!) this summer I would definetely be in Transylvania
[ From Wiki]:
Dreams That Money Can Buy is a 1947 American experimental feature color film written, produced, and directed by surrealist artist and dada film-theorist Hans Richter.
The film was produced by Kenneth Macpherson and Peggy Guggenheim.
Collaborators included Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Darius Milhaud and Fernand Léger.
The film won the Award for the Best Original Contribution to the Progress of Cinematography at the 1947 Venice Film Festival.
Music: John Cage(segment “Discs”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nWn7rEy5co
This is a kool kat animation made in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. The director Priit Pärn is an animation legend still going strong.
So many colors in this one, it makes you feel like you’re really out there. Mexican psych-rock from 1968 with some beautiful kaleidoscopic visions.
(Link: Shakti. Thanks!)
Apparently there are some bucks to be earned in psychedelic videos today. AV3X Digital Meditation Technology is a site which offers “a scientifically proven way to reset your mind” and “give you all the benefits of deep-state meditation without the long winded effort to get there” through the use of “audio visual brainwave entertainment on DVD”. The benefits: “get rid of stress”, “negative energy” “inner conflict” “neurosis” and “low self esteem”.
The AV3X site has a sample video which can be viewed on the site itself. To me it just looks like another psychedelic video, similar to others we posted here in the past, although admittedly pretty cool and with lots of flickering.
I’m not surprised by the claims made about the product, however. I always believed psychedelic videos were therapeutic. You know what they say: “A psychedelic video a day keeps the doctor away”. And that’s why we’re here.
The Daily Psychedelic Video 