Another early and colorfully painted psychedelic film from dance master Loie Fuller.
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God is a skier (2018 Winter Olympics Apline Skiing)
24 Feb
The Winter Olympics will close this Sunday. Watching some of the reruns made me realize God is a skier, and the ski piste is the road to enlightenment. Just watch that flow.
Giant Cellphone
17 Feb
Israeli experimental hardcore group Giant Cellphone presents a wicked and weird hallucinatory mix of vintage Israeli TV overlayed with screeching guitar, plenty of subversive political messaging and a general sense of malaise.
And here’s another fabulous one:
Ladybug and the wolf – ‘Under my chair’
3 FebBeautiful music video by psychedelic master Thomas Blanchard.
Boney M Daddy cool
27 Jan
Some grooving psychedelic disco from the 1970s, in what appears to be a video taken in the best of all possible worlds
Clouds, Trees, Streams – School of Life
20 Jan
Just stop for a moment preoccupying yourself, and get back to the broader perspectives of the clouds, trees and streams. A beautiful lesson from the School of Life.
Experimental 1960s psychedelia by Jud Yalkut
13 Jan
Some real history of psychedelic video. These are videos by 1960s experimental psychedelic film maker Jud Yalkut. Here a quote from a dissertation about Yalkut by psychedelic historian Chris Elcock.
USCO also collaborated with the filmmaker Jud Yalkut, who produced disorienting films allegedly in an attempt to ―find another way to hit people, to dislocate them, and then re-center them at the end – very much a trip analogy.‖102 Masters and Houston described his art as ―a torrent of hurtling colors and lights, forms blinking, whirling, and surging. Image follows image in rapid-fire succession, distorting awareness of time and space as the sensory bombardment continues.‖103 For Gerd Stern, a testimony of Yalkut‘s use of psychedelics is apparent in his heavy use of the in and out zoom,104 as can be seen in his collaborations with the polka-dot artist Yayoi Kusama.105
On March 1, 1968, Kusama presented her ―Self Obliteration‖ at the Cooper Square Arts Theater in front of a crowded audience. To accompany the happening, a band composed of late-teenagers called ―The Dayz Beyond‖ played psychedelic rock. Kusama entered from behind the stage, ―dressed in red leotards with white dots sporadically covering her outfit and wears a long-furred black coat.‖ She was soon followed by three semi-nude men who wore US flags around their waists. As she began to paint dots on their skin, more naked or near-naked participants joined in. Then, a fake policeman arrived on stage, swinging his club and shouting that everyone was under arrest. He was wrestled down to the floor and stripped. Kusama then produced a print of the Mona Lisa and began painting dots on it, while a film partly made and edited by Yalkut appeared on a screen, just above the band. The whole event was intensified by flashing strobes.106
(From:Elcock, Chris. “High New York: The Birth of A Psychedelic Subculture in the American City.” PhD thesis, University of Saskatchewan, 2015.)
9 November – Radio Berlin Tel Aviv
12 Jan
A psychedelic conspiracy theory regarding the infamous 9th of November date tying up Nazi Germany, the Hebrew Bible, Jewish history and the 9/11 attacks, courtesy of yours truly. (It’s all explained in the part that start 2:30).
Loie Fuller – Danse Serpentine by the Lumière Brothers (1896)
7 Jan
This is the earliest psychedelic film that I am aware of (1896!) featuring the legendary dancer and Art Noveau icon Loie Fuller. The film was made by the Lumiere Brothers, who were among the earliest pioneers of cinema, which means psychedelic visuals were there from the very start.
Here’s a short video about Loie. What a goddess!
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