Tortov Roddle and his long-legged pig friend are having a really good time with some red berries.
[Thank you, Karo, for the suggestion!]
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“Get Some” by Lykke Li
24 JunLykke Li and Johan Söderberg are not afraid of old stereotypes. They just pick them up and use them as stone tablets to write in their new laws. When this Scandinavian heathen valkyrie adorns herself with typical male sexual metaphors, those metaphors start to smell like shrunken heads and gleam like hunting trophies. So we better be careful what we call her since she is going to use it against us in her satanic dissemination rituals. In her voodoo, a word we might have dropped carelessly can be applied instead of a lost hair. In the center of the kaleidoscope she is dancing to the beat of the tribal drums while pulses of light move in on us from the “heart of darkness”. Her ink-stained fingers make clear: she is the one in charge of the Rorschach test.
Pretty Woman on Acid…
17 Jun…that is what a friend who told me about this video called it. And it is pretty spot on. The video for Bear in Heaven’s “Sinful Nature” by director Yoonha Park is uncanny valley’s take on the slick fairytale drowned in a very synthetic high. Bam!
(My favourite part is the yellow Walkman pirouetting through the scene while that Julia Robots is stripping out of her top around 1:24)
[Thank you for the suggestion, Daniel!]
Pipilotti Rist at Venice Biennale 2011
10 JunWork by Swiss visual artist Pipilotti Rist at Venice Biennale 2011.
Snow Cannon
27 May…one of my favourite otherworldly experiences on YouTube.
Video by Synopsis
Music by Steve Roach
Graphics by Denise Gallant and Brian Samuels
Emeralds – “Genetic”
20 MayAs a child I was enchanted by images of worlds within worlds under the microscope. The music by psychedelic noise trio Emeralds fits the swarming activity of the liquid and translucent machines perfectly.
“Festival” by Dungen
13 MayCalm and soothing animation for the song “Festival” by the Swedish psychedelic indie band Dungen . It is full of delicious dreamy swirling nostalgia…
[Thanks to Roland]
Getting all jiggly with Octodad
6 MayThe video above shows some awesome animation and physics glitches from that Octodad game.
The game plays a bit like a combination of the hotel room destruction in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. But while The Metamorphosis is a story about the rigid nature of overcome family structures and the fragility of identity in the beginning of the 20th century in Europe, Octodad is the story about… how it’s still complicated… sometimes… you know, standing, walking, stuff like that.
On the game’s homepage (where you can download it for free) the developers wrote:
“Octodad is a third person adventure game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood. The player controls Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about a day of his life. His existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless tentacles while simultaneously keeping his cephalopodan nature a secret from his human family.”
I certainly know that feeling.
I really hope they can get Johnny Depp (and not Robin Williams) for the unavoidable Octodad: The Movie (start around 00:45).
“Slippin Around” by Zhala
29 AprHere is some more of that darker toned style of psychedelia that is neither symbolistic nor surreal but genuinely psychedelic. I still think psychedelic aesthetics are developing into this direction right now. Let’s see what else is coming.
The Daily Psychedelic Video 