More essential viewing from Jake Fried.
Archive | November, 2012
Japanese psychedelic awesomeness. The tale of an amphibian and moonchild beneath the sea.
Is This Knot Our Planet?
19 NovA “Mystery tour of a psychedelic painting, accompanied by surreal sound art”.
A Slower Speed of Light
18 NovA Slower Speed of Light is a game developed by the MIT Game Lab and it aims to make the crazy world of special relativity relatable to everyday experience. You can experience the Doppler effect, the searchlight effect, time dilation, Lorentz transformation and the runtime effect all rendered in realtime. And all of this in the familiar setting of a first person platform game with loads of colorful, vibrant giant mushrooms.
You can download the game for free here and study physics all night long.
(Btw, the game is open-source and the code will be released soon. so if you would like to develope a game with an engine that renders relativistic physics in real time…)
[many thanks to Karo]
The trippiest films ever made by flavorwire
17 NovFlavorwire composed a video essay of “The trippiest films ever made” and while there is a bit too much emphasis on the horror and gore part of the word “trippy”, it’s still a very illuminating video.
Video excerpts are taken from a great number of classics and cults including (in order of appearance): “The Trip (1967, Roger Corman), Head (1968, Bob Rafelson),Glaze of Cathexis (1990, Stan Brakhage), Allegro Non Troppo (1976, Bruno Bozzetto), Natural Born Killers (1994, Oliver Stone), Fantasia (1940, Armstrong, Algar, et. al), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick), Viva La Muerte (1971, Fernando Arrabal), The Holy Mountain(1973, Alejandro Jodorowsky), Performance (1970, Donald Cammell and Nicholas Roeg), Videodrome (1983, David Cronenberg), Dark City (1998, Alex Proyas), Belle De Jour (1967, Luis Buñuel), Eraserhead (1977, David Lynch), El Topo (1970, Alejandro Jodorowsky), Tetsouro, the Iron Man (1989, Shin’ya Tsukamoto), Inland Empire (2006, David Lynch), Dead Alive (1992, Peter Jackson), Waking Life (2001, Richard Linklater), Anchorman (2004, Adam McKay), Mulholland Dr. (2001, David Lynch), Un Chien Andalou (1929, Luis Buñuel), Requiem for a Dream (2000, Darren Aronofsky), Lost Highway (1997, David Lynch), Pi (1998, Darren Aronofsky), Easy Rider (1969, Dennis Hopper), The Big Lebowski (1998, Joel Coen), Naked Lunch (1991, David Cronenberg), Skidoo (1968, Otto Preminger), Being John Malkovich (1999, Spike Jonze).”
For more details see here.
Hola – Taye Taiwo
16 NovJapanese psychedelic awesomeness. The tale of an amphibian and moonchild beneath the sea.
Inside LSD // Documentary
14 Novhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv82CXDNtHA
A great doc’ about LSD in it’s possibilities through ages !
Biolapse – Wire
12 NovA collaboration between Theidians (Visuals) and Biolapse (Audio).
Audio – Tim Miiller
Visuals – Steven M. Yeager
Acid Mothers Temple
11 NovTonight I will have to choose between seeing legendary ecstatic noise hippies Acid Mothers Temple live here in cologne or visiting the philharmonic hall for a concert in memoriam H. W. Henze, the radical composer who died just a few weeks ago.
Somebody got a working time machine, maybe?
Update: Hey time machine people, I don’t know how you did it, but you are awesome! I saw both (while everywhere else in cologne the beginning of the carnival season was raging)!
The Daily Psychedelic Video 