A surprisingly successful combination of static artwork and motion graphics. The motion graphics manage to make the details of the artwork come alive in a pleasant and subtle way. The Youtube uploader (vid in original post) has taken a lot of liberties in naming the video “DMT animation” when it is intended by the artists as a “meditation for soul ignition, third eye and heart activation, through metaphysical interpretation.” Artwork by Simon Haiduk with one additional piece by David Heskin, music by Dréa Drury.
Works like this would have been quite work intensive in the old days. From the making of we can see how much modern software speeds up the process. Theoretically one might do a project like this with a shoestring budget as these days even some libraries have CNC machines for public use.
This year, for the second time, we present you with the psychedelic video Oscars for 2013. After watching around 400 videos which were published on the Daily Psychedelic Video in 2013 (around 30 hours of psychedelic viewing!!!) we chose the 20 best videos of the year (and also included some of those which came close).
Psychedelic Music Clips
Cirrus – Bonobo
Cyriak, the web’s mad genius of consciousness-altering visuals, deconstructs 1950s style visuals and creates a complex swirling web of hypnotic disorientation. (Orignal post).
Libynthth – It’s my beak
A bunch of ducks party wildly and colorfully in a video which reeks of pure mischievous fun. (Original post).
Carpet – Nearly Four
A powerful music clip by Andreas Zimmer to a track by Carpet, with some masterful use of special effects. (Original post).
Anamanaguchi – [MEOW]
This is how it feels to trip in the arcade on a Saturday night. A delightful video to a track by Anamanaguchi. (Original post).
Beta Band – Wonderful
The psychedelic typography to the Beta Band’s “Wonderful” is highly synesthetic and makes this video into a veritable psychedelic love song. (Original post).
Vial of Sound – Lifetime passed
Ori Toor animates a track by Vial of Sound with his unique and mesmerizing style of animation. (Original post).
A deliciously psychedelic cartoon world in this video short from cartoon network. (Original post).
Jack Fried – The Deep End
Jack Fried’s uniquely multi-layered videos take the viewer on a journey into the genealogical realms of the subconscious. (Original post).
Psychedelic Nature films
Bird Ballet
The birds in the sky perform a majestic dance. It’s so easy to lose yourself in the spectacular movement of the flock, and feel yourself dissolving with the multitude which is one. (Original post).
An incredible journey through enchanted fractal realms. (Original post).
Ben Ridgway – Cosmic flower unfolding
Ben Ridgway creates a mesmerizing landscape of phosphorescent mandalic underwater flowers. (Original post).
Burning man time lapse 2013
Burning man festival in fast forward as seen from the heights of Peak Trego. Amazing vistas of movement, shadows, winds and miniscule trucks driving around the playa. The part from around 2:30 looks like the future of humanity as a futuristic intergalactic civilization in space. (Original post).
High Contrast – Spectrum Analyser
A masterful use of the glitch effect which mixes animals and computer imagery into a kicking techno-shamanic journey. (Original post).
Psychedelic Short films
Bianca Giaever – The scared is scared
This is quite possibly the cutest film I’ve ever seen. Bianca Giaever asked a six year old what her movie should be about, then she went about and followed her instructions word for word. Language creates reality.(Original post).
N.A. Brummbaer – Where in the Universe is Timothy Leary
N.A. Brummbaer send us on a fantastic journey in search of Timothy Leary. (Original post).
A night walk in the windy streets of Tel Aviv turns into a ecstatic-meditative journey, following the magical encounter of two plastic bags who wonder the streets together, going on and on in a mystical cyclical bag dance. And for a moment the whole street seems to wake up with vibrant life – joining them in a communal dance of bags, feathers, flowers and even a butterfly. (Original post).
Best pre-2013 psychedelic videos published in 2013
Joanna Newsom crafts fragile psychedelic folk tunes. Both music and lyrics to “Sprout and the Bean” are reminiscent of the solo work of Syd Barrett in their childlike, magical simplicity and playfulness. The video accompanies this very well with its chalk animations and the empty classroom and enchanted woods settings.
N/A Brummbaer’s YouTube channel is bursting with brilliant and mesmerizing computer-generated visions. “Where in the Universe is Timothy Leary?” goes into the rabbit hole, searching for the lost guru of LSD, and finally reaches the only possible conclusion – “Question authority and think for yourself” – The real Timothy Leary is inside yourself.
Other favorites include a very original take the question of crop circles:
And also one of the finest fractal universes I’ve ever been to:
Animated short-film produced in The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark. By The Animation Workshop, Nicobis, Escorzo, and the Community of Bolivians Animators and is supported by the Danish Government.
Animated by 8 bolivians animators, directed by a french, Main song “chillchip parita” written and composed by the bolivian ambassador in France, Luzmila Carpio, composed by another french, a danish project, hepled for the production by a mexican and german. Adaptaded from ayoreo myth.
From my point of view, this is close from THE apotheosis !
An epic adventure that completely destroys the concepts of thinking “inside/outside the box” and brings us to a new understanding that there is no box. and never was.
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