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Archive | 2015
Days of High Adventure by Open Source
9 OctSpectacular fractalic imagery with some kicking psytrance in this video to a track by Open Source.
Dorian Concept // Draft Culture
7 Oct
Taken from the Dorian Concept album ‘Joined Ends’ released October 20 2014 on Ninja Tune.
Alma Zohar – Psychedelia for babies and children
5 OctIsraeli singer Alma Zohar recently released two exceptionally beautiful psychedelic music clips from her children’s album “Pele” (Wonder). Filled with delicious indigenous imagery, these videos are just the right thing to show your psychedelic babies and kids, and if you have more suggestions for psychedelic videos for babies and children, please let us know, because there is a host of psychedelic parents searching for such materials for their kids.
(Link: Galia. Thanks!)
DyE – Fantasy (NSFW)
4 OctTruly, I wish I didn’t have to ruin some of the surprise in the turn that this video takes, but I’m afraid for this selection I do need to warn viewers that there are some disturbing visuals in this one. The music remains entrancingly chill though.
Plataeux (2015)
3 Oct
Kaleidoscopic, generative projections mapped to laser cut layers by Australian media artist Kit Webster.
“The Point” (1971)- concept and music by Harry Nilsson, directed by Henry Wolf
3 OctIdo’s post the other day featuring the 1977 Israeli animation “The Banana Bender”, made me think of the lovely 1971 film “The Point”. Created by musician Harry Nilsson, the animated film follows the travels of Oblio and his dog Arrow as they escape the oppression of their pointy headed countrymen.
Nilsson’s explained synthesis of The Point: “I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to points. I thought, ‘Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn’t, then there’s a point to it.’”-Jacobson, Alan (May 2004). “What’s The Point? The Legendary 1971 Animated Feature on DVD”. Bright Lights Film Journal (44). ISSN 0147-4049
Nilsson’s soundtrack is sweet, melancholy and lovely. Here is an excerpt featuring one of my favorites, “Think About Your Troubles”:
And another groovy one “Are You Sleeping” where the animation team makes fun use out of the optical printer and animated morphs:
The entire 75 minute film can be streamed here:
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