In 1962, Bruce Conner left San Francisco and moved to Mexico, apparently intending to “wait out the impending nuclear holocaust”. He spent about a year in Mexico before running out of cash and patience, and returning to the United States. During his year in Mexico, Conner hosted psychedelic guru Timothy Leary, who he had met on an earlier visit to New York. Conner and Leary occupied themselves with mushroom hunts in the Mexican countryside. It’s not clear whether their hunts were successful. But Conner’s staccato home-movies of their walks – combined with movies of previous mushroom hunts in San Francisco – became his film Looking for Mushrooms. The film rushes through the rustic landscape of rural Mexico, flitting past houses and through a crumbling graveyard.
Conner cut Looking for Mushrooms down to 100 feet in 1965 in order to fit it into an endless-loop cartridge for continuous projection. In 1967 he added a soundtrack by The Beatles (“Tomorrow Never Knows”).
Bruce Conner: Looking for Mushrooms (1967)
6 SepAMAZING Fireworks!!!
3 SepSome fireworks are beautiful to see not only when you see it under the heavenly sky, but even on the screen. Amazing what fireworks masters are able to do these days…
Off The Air: Falling (S02E01)
31 Aug
Aired in 2012.
List of videos in this episode:
Experience Human Flight by Infinity Lift
Falling to Hell by Devin Flynn
“My Machine” music video by Daniels
Giant 6 ft. Water Balloon by Gavin Free
Hövding in Action video supplied by Hövding
In the Fall by Steve Cutts
Valse Statique et la Theorie du Combo by Maxime Bruneel
Fugue/Trampoline performance by Yoann Bourgeois for ZAT! Montpellier
Derty Falling by Taras Hrabowsky
GoPro: Endless Barrels – GoPro of the Winter 2013-14 powered by Surfline
29 AugSurfing and psychedelics always mixed well, from Santa Cruz to the rest of the US pacific shore. A MAPS bulletin article about psychedelics and extreme sports one touched upon the whole surfer-psychedelic connection in depth, and it tuns out some surfers have been able to reach exceptional surfing abilities by combining surfing and the use of psychedelics. I can’t imagine how it feels to surf inside a wave, while on a psychedelic, but it certainly looks amazing.
Okuda “Kaos Temple”
27 AugSpanish graffiti artist Okuda turns an old church into a colorful “Kaos Temple” in this stunning Red Bull commercial.
The Daily Psychedelic Video 