Calm 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]
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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.
Les Kiriki Acrobates Japonais
15 AprIn 1907 people started using film to fulfill their anti-gravity desires. Write it down in your psychedelic history book, now.
Fantastic Planet (“La Planète Sauvage”)
1 Apr..the beautiful and award-winning classic from 1973 by René Laloux! It also has a great psychedelic soundtrack by Alain Goraguer (you might recognize some of the sounds from hip-hop producer Madlib’s “Quasimoto” project).
The Animations of Yuri Norstein
25 MarYuri Norstein’s beautiful animations “Seasons” and “Hedgehog in the Fog” may not be psychedelic in an explicit way. But I think their richness in texture and form and “sense of metamorphosis” make them more than suitable to our purpose of providing you with something beautiful and maybe even meaningful to watch when in that… special kind of mood. Enjoy!
“Hedgehog in the Fog” is one of my all-time favourites!
“Acid Skull” – Psychedelic Short (Exploitation?) Film
18 MarI don’t really know what to make of this short film. It starts out like an interview or a documentary about bad trips but then suddenly it turns into some kind of a bad excuse scenario to show naked girls in chains (if your punk band is still in need of a catchy name, you can borrow “naked girls in chains” or “trippin’ nudes in chains” for a while since I won’t be needing it any time soon).
[Sadly Youtube removed the video because of the nudity. We hope to find an alternative source in the future. If you come across this little oddity somewhere, please let us know so we can share it with everyone.]
