The X Men have a penchant for including psychedelic tunnel visuals in their opening credits, it seems…
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Civilization Megaplex 2008
25 Feb
Upper and lower worlds collide in this Hieronymus Bosch style video by Marco Brambilla (2008). Compare with another rendering of Bosch’s Garden of Eternal Delights featured here on the DPV a while back.
Cosmos 2014
11 Feb
Contrary to what this recut video says, the cosmos opening was not too long in the least. Still, even the cut version for this mind-expanding show on the universe is spectacular. Watch the show to get the full version.
Revolution – Records and Labels – V&A video
4 Feb
If you’re in London this month, you still have a chance to go and see the Records and Labels exhibition in the V&A museum. As spectacular and illustrative a take on the 1960s and their impact on culture as you’ll ever get to see, with lots of delicious psychedelia.
The SECOND Official Ultra-Ever Dry Video – Superhydrophobic coating
28 Jan
There is something psychedelic about this spray that keeps you dry no matter what they throw at you…
Expo 1967 and 1970 videos
21 Jan
As Donald Drumpf enters the white house and we enter deeper into the historical abyss of late-capitalism it might be worth to remember just how cheerful things seemed some 50 years ago, the 1967 Montreal World Expo and in the Osaka 1970 Expo.
World exhibitions are a genre that has kind of passed on from the world, which is a shame. In the past they were used to offer a vision of the future, and though those futures seem kind of naive today, I kind of miss those people who tried giving us a universalisitc and hopeful vision for the planet and mankind. This might be a time to revive the world Expo (there’s one scheduled to happen in Dubai in 2020).
Watch the last two minutes of the clip from the Osaka 1970 expo and you are in for a treat with all those Japanese dancers waving the flags of all the nations of the earth. Oh the camaraderie!
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