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High on Fire – Fertile Green

18 Mar

Brilliant visualization of stoner sound by Phil Mucci.

Martin Stebbing: 100

11 Mar

http://vimeo.com/59814609

It’s Captain Stebbing himself, here to take you on a cruise on the seas of psychedelia!

Here, have a bonus video:

http://vimeo.com/69580352
Holographic Circuit I

Max Cooper / Tom Hodge: Fragments of Self

4 Mar

Nick Cobby illustrated this piano & glitch composition with beautiful greyscale forms generated by Trapcode After Effects plugins.

Ferenc Cakó: Ashes (1996)

25 Feb

Gloomy visions from the Hungarian sand animation master.
Quote from Cakó:

I try to reach a little deeper, down to more social aspects in a rather strong, almost political way, just like in Ash, which was darkened by my mother’s death.

He also has an interesting claim:

It is also remarkable that Eastern Europe brings much more exciting films than the Swiss or the Swedish. Because what excitement can there be in welfare and tranquility? On the other hand, the Russians and the Czechs make very good films which are exciting in form, for example, Svankmayer, who I love.

John Moore: Sensorial (1978)

18 Feb

Freaky watercolors from Venezuela.

Stephen Arthur: Transfigured (1998)

11 Feb

Stephen X. Arthur took 3 years to make this from 80 paintings by Jack Shadbolt.

Kathy Rose: Mirror People (1974)

4 Feb

Kathy Rose did all the drawings upside down and went from the first drawing to the last without key poses and inbetweens.

In the 1980s and 1990s Rose created projection performance pieces (excerpt from Oriental Interplay):

Jeff Scher: Lost and Found (2007)

28 Jan

Warning: epilepsy triggers.

Jeff calls the color variation style in this film “psychadelichrome”. Originally published in an NY Times blog.

The Presets: Promises

21 Jan

A retro-aesthetic melange working nicely with the music for evoking a strange nostalgia for things you never experienced.

Whitney Alexander: Western Sunrise

14 Jan

Very smart and efficient way of using painterly filters. The intentionally rough 3D models are brought to life by the teeming brushstrokes.

Whitney has also directed this quite remarkable alternate reality romp:
http://vimeo.com/67556622