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HR Pufnstuf : The Magic Path – Sid and Marty Krofft
25 JanHR Pufnstuf is a highly psycheelic children show which ran on American television in 1969, created by Sid and Marty Krofft.
Over the years the show has had a cult following on account of claims for drug references in the show. According to Wikipedia ‘”Pufnstuf” has been interpreted as a reference to smoking hand-rolled (H.R.) marijuana (puffin’ stuff).
There is something very psychedelic indeed in “Living Island”, that curious piece of land (or headspace) where everything is alive, and in which Jimmy lands. With lots of magic mixed in, and some pretty crazy humor the show is quite fun to watch, even 45 years after it’s original broadcast. It certainly hasn’t lost its charm. Only downside to it, is that once I started watching it a few weeks ago I can’t get the title song out of my head. Bewarned!
Here is the first episode of the series in which “Jimmy and his magic flute Freddy are lured to Living Island and trapped there by Witchiepoo’s trickery when she makes the Magic Path disappear.”
Flo Rida – Can’t Believe It ft. Pitbull [Official Music Video]
20 JanFlo Rida ft. Pitbull in a psychedelically styled, sexy, and arguably quite sexist music video. ..
Stand up comedy… On acid!
18 JanVice magazine produces quite a lot of videos on drug themes. One of their remarkable productions is the “on acid!” series, where different people perform different activities while on acid, like performing in an amateur stand up evening, going to interview contestants in the Westminster dog show, or going to watch the monster trucks show. The results are variable, and not always that interesting, but there is a certain charm to the whole thing…
In the episode above, Josh takes drops acid and goes on stage in an open comedy night. The experience proves frightening, disorienting, yet strangely empowering.
This one is the Westminster dog show on acid…
And here is monster trucks on acid
Z▲Z▲Z◎Z◎ – Private Life of Animals
11 JanA colorful tribal video from ZAZAZOZO, whose YouTube channel is full of other psychedelic treats.
Stepehen Malinowsky – Auto-Animated Musical Scores
6 JanStephen Malinowsky wrote us:
“In the 1970s, under the influence of LSD, I saw a musical score auto-animate (that is, dance along with itself). However, because musical scores are hard to read, this effect was only possible with simple music. This led to a project I’ve pursued for all my adult life: making musical scores designed to be easy for a listener to follow. Last year (nearly forty years later), I had a chance to look at some of my animated graphical scores under the influence of LSD. Sadly, it wasn’t what I’d hoped for. However, I subsequently got to watch them under the influence of mescaline, and the effect was everything I’d dreamed of. I’ve made hundreds of these videos (which are (which are available at my YouTube channel via the link I provided).”
Indeed Malinowsky’s synesthetic clips, which receive dozens of millions of views counts on YouTube, are a delightful experience, and make the majestic pieces by Strawisnky, Debussy and Beethoven even more enjoyable.
The top 2013 DPV psychedelic videos which were not made in 2013
4 JanA curious title for a post about top 2013 psychedelic videos. Let me explain…
Many of the best psychedelic videos of 2013 have not yet been published on the DPV. Some of them will only be published in the DPV in 2014 or maybe years in the future. For this reason we composed this complementary list to the Best Psychedelic Videos list of 2013, which includes some of the best psychedelic videos made in the years preceding 2013 but featured and featured on the DPV in 2013.
[[Click here to view the best 20 psychedelic videos created in 2013]]
Psychedelic Music Clips
Tame Impala – Full glass of Wine
A super trippy video by Tame Impala. (Original post).
Peaking Lights – Beautiful Son
If you’re gonna have a child. Do it the psychedelic way. (Original post).
Other candidates
Paul Weller kicks ass with a seizure inducing hardcore-psychedelic video.
Some kind of Victorian psychedelia in this spectacular video by Plush.
An Electro-Escheresque video for the song One Hundred Realities.
Beautiful psychedelic light show in the first single from Clinic’s seventh album
Jon Leone mixes organic imagery and creates a mesmerizing mirage to a song by Dungen.
Psychedelic Feel Good Videos
The Gummy Bear Song
This video always makes me smile. (Original post).
Usai Drop – Opening
The cutest magical world, inhabited by the cutest magical creatures. (Original post).
Psychedelic visuals
Hinode
Breathtaking computer generated animation of underwater jewelery, by Tetsuka Niiyama. (Original post).
Psychedelic food coloring by Dave Michuda
Some magnificent food coloring visuals. (Original post).
Inspirational Psychedelic Video
Terence Mckenna – The Message
Terence McKenna launces on an inspired rant about the psychedelic experience and it’s meaning to mankind, masterfully mixed with inspiring visuals. (Original post).
Psychedelic Nature Films
Fantastic Fungi: The Forbidden Fruit
Paul Stamets, the world’s foremost mycologist, talks about the incredible world of mushrooms, accompanied by amazing mushroom videos. (Original post).
Psychedelic Animation Films
Dora Kereszstes – Smiling Sad Willow Tree (2001)
Hungarian animator Dora Keresztes in a superb video which mixes European folk motives. (Original post).
Sandor Reisenbuchler – Warnings for every day (1993)
Spectacularly psychedelic animals give us a warning for every day. (Original post).
Almost made it
An explosion of great stuff from the Zagreb School of Animated Film (1974).
Psychedelic Short Films
Maelstrom
A lonely and depressed young woman goes down the rabbit hole. (Original post).
Stereo 3D video mapping in Mapping Festival Geneva 2012
A video that takes video mapping to a whole new level… (Original post).
Almost made it
A cellular story from Japanese Indie animator Mirai Mizue.
A powerful animated short film dealing with the dark world of schizoaffective disorder.
Psychedelic Web Videos
Abelard – Last time in Space
A great kitschy psychedelic quality in this video to a track by Abelard. (Original post).
Ori Toor – Unofficial video to Panda Bear’s Alsatian Darn
Ori Toor does a masterful work in this unofficial video to a track by Panda Bear. (Original post).
Almost made it…
The Best 20 Psychedelic Videos of 2013
30 Dec[[For more of the best psychedelic videos of 2013 click here]]
This year, for the second time, we present you with the psychedelic video Oscars for 2013. After watching around 400 videos which were published on the Daily Psychedelic Video in 2013 (around 30 hours of psychedelic viewing!!!) we chose the 20 best videos of the year (and also included some of those which came close).
Psychedelic Music Clips
Cirrus – Bonobo
Cyriak, the web’s mad genius of consciousness-altering visuals, deconstructs 1950s style visuals and creates a complex swirling web of hypnotic disorientation. (Orignal post).
Libynthth – It’s my beak
A bunch of ducks party wildly and colorfully in a video which reeks of pure mischievous fun. (Original post).
Carpet – Nearly Four
A powerful music clip by Andreas Zimmer to a track by Carpet, with some masterful use of special effects. (Original post).
Anamanaguchi – [MEOW]
This is how it feels to trip in the arcade on a Saturday night. A delightful video to a track by Anamanaguchi. (Original post).
Beta Band – Wonderful
The psychedelic typography to the Beta Band’s “Wonderful” is highly synesthetic and makes this video into a veritable psychedelic love song. (Original post).
Vial of Sound – Lifetime passed
Ori Toor animates a track by Vial of Sound with his unique and mesmerizing style of animation. (Original post).
Some videos that almost made it…
Digital Me goes on a psychedelic bike ride in Tel Aviv.
Rendezvous with a new luminescent and highly psychedelic clip.
Some amazing high-definition images of psychedelic nature.
Azealia Banks, strikes back with a roaring video, bursting with energy and shamanic force.
A rocking polyphonic symphony of natural sounds and clips in this clip by Coldcut.
Psychedelic Animation
Cartoon Network Summer Indent 2013
A deliciously psychedelic cartoon world in this video short from cartoon network. (Original post).
Jack Fried – The Deep End
Jack Fried’s uniquely multi-layered videos take the viewer on a journey into the genealogical realms of the subconscious. (Original post).
Psychedelic Nature films
Bird Ballet
The birds in the sky perform a majestic dance. It’s so easy to lose yourself in the spectacular movement of the flock, and feel yourself dissolving with the multitude which is one. (Original post).
Other favorites
A weird looking spider performs a spectacular shamanic dance.
Psychedelic Visuals
Mineral Beings – Nightdriver
An incredible journey through enchanted fractal realms. (Original post).
Ben Ridgway – Cosmic flower unfolding
Ben Ridgway creates a mesmerizing landscape of phosphorescent mandalic underwater flowers. (Original post).
Burning man time lapse 2013
Burning man festival in fast forward as seen from the heights of Peak Trego. Amazing vistas of movement, shadows, winds and miniscule trucks driving around the playa. The part from around 2:30 looks like the future of humanity as a futuristic intergalactic civilization in space. (Original post).
High Contrast – Spectrum Analyser
A masterful use of the glitch effect which mixes animals and computer imagery into a kicking techno-shamanic journey. (Original post).
Psychedelic Short films
Bianca Giaever – The scared is scared
This is quite possibly the cutest film I’ve ever seen. Bianca Giaever asked a six year old what her movie should be about, then she went about and followed her instructions word for word. Language creates reality.(Original post).
N.A. Brummbaer – Where in the Universe is Timothy Leary
N.A. Brummbaer send us on a fantastic journey in search of Timothy Leary. (Original post).
Other favorites
An powerful combination of stunning imagery, dubstep and an inspirational speech.
Psychedelic Commercials
Splash!
A hyper-colorful commercial for the SLPASH animation effect. (Original post).
Shilo – Premier Global Services “Paper Airplanes”
A magical commercial for an eMarketing company takes paper-planes to the new level. (Original post).
Other favorites
Flying Lotus & Adult Swim’s ‘Lilfuchs’ short animation in honor of the new Moog Sub Phatty.
Psychedelic Web Videos
We are Machines – Electric Sheep
A music video to a track by We Are Machines mixes some powerfully evocative imagery. (Original post).
Meditative Psychedelic Videos
Calling the others
Meditative DMT vistas… (Original post).
Other favorites
Experimental Psychedelic videos
Plastic bags love story – Ave
A night walk in the windy streets of Tel Aviv turns into a ecstatic-meditative journey, following the magical encounter of two plastic bags who wonder the streets together, going on and on in a mystical cyclical bag dance. And for a moment the whole street seems to wake up with vibrant life – joining them in a communal dance of bags, feathers, flowers and even a butterfly. (Original post).
Best pre-2013 psychedelic videos published in 2013
[Some of the best psychedelic videos which were featured on the DPV in 2013 were created in 2012 or previous years, and don’t appear on this list. Click here to check out the best pre-2013 psychedelic videos which appeared on the DPV in 2013]
N/A Brummbaer – Where in the Universe is Timothy Leary? (And other videos)
28 DecN/A Brummbaer’s YouTube channel is bursting with brilliant and mesmerizing computer-generated visions. “Where in the Universe is Timothy Leary?” goes into the rabbit hole, searching for the lost guru of LSD, and finally reaches the only possible conclusion – “Question authority and think for yourself” – The real Timothy Leary is inside yourself.
Other favorites include a very original take the question of crop circles:
And also one of the finest fractal universes I’ve ever been to:
The Daily Psychedelic Video 