We wish you a million tiny celebrations of a psychedelic life!
(btw, I did enjoy playing both videos at the same time quite a bit…)
Archive | Amateur Psychedelia RSS feed for this section
Trippy Trends in Minecraft: Freefall
2 OctWe have covered Minecraft before here on dpv. But this time the psychedelic activity is completely user generated. And this proofs an important point: If people would live in a box of legos they would still look for a way to trip.
It is also interesting to compare the aesthetics especially of the first video to the trippy sequence of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Everyday Psychedelia Pt.2: Night Flights
7 AugWhenever I book a flight to a big city I try to make it a night landing. Those pulsing breathing organisms of light look so alien and soothing.
What mushrooms did she eat?
25 JunThe title of this video of this video on YouTube sounds derogatory, but after watching the video itself, it really makes me laugh.
There is something so incredibly cool about people who are really really stoned, or for that matter, maybe just don’t care about social conventions.
This girl is really expressing herself, and to me, this is one of the most beautiful things to watch.
Birdfractals
28 MarThey tell us that fractals are all around us in nature, but I didn’t know birds could do that. I don’t even know if this counts as some sort of fractal, most probably not, but it certainly looks like one of those old Microsoft Windows screen savers from the 90’s. Only one thousand times more amazing, because it’s all real, and it’s all birds! Quite spectacular!
Multiple Reality Acroyoga
13 MarThis is what happens when you mix acroyoga and string theory’s multiverse.
(Link: Shalom. Thanks!)
so intense: double rainbow high on autotune with the Gregory Brothers
23 JanMy question to you today is: can the youtube hive mind trip? or: whose hallucination is this?
V stands for..: Bert Brecht had his V-fx (distancing effects). Originally intended to make you think all the way “across” the distance set by the “Verfremdung” (estrangement), it seems by today’s standards you have to put in lots and lots of V’s to get things at least a little bit real.
Exquisite corpse: The surrealists had automatic writing. It was a bit uncanny to realize that language was making sense while you did not intend to. Who is making sense here? And when language can make sense without your intention, who did just say that, or: what exactly is dependent on your intention? Thoughts like that can easily become psychosis inducing.
So before the internet, before the notion of the hive mind the question of superindividuals was there, too. Social technologies like language can be conceived as collective unconscious mind. So, why shouldn’t it trip?
“I believe that one day we could have an accidental singer on top of the charts” The Gregory Brothers gave us “accidental singing”. What a nice term!
Sleeping Beauty In meta-musicals like Singing in the Rain people started dancing in the middle of everyday situations. A rhythm surfaced from a silly walk and the dance – it seemed – just followed naturally. By the act of movies like Singing in the rain the world was enriched with virtual dance waiting to be released from the rhythms surrounding us. Now our world has been enriched by a song sleeping in every news flash, voice or video post, in virtually all recorded language, waiting to be kissed awake by autotune.
Maybe V-effect has been translated to virtualizing effect without anyone intending, maybe the rainbow has never been so bright, so vivid, so intense, maybe one of the most familiar things today is living in a post-psychedelic culture.
The Daily Psychedelic Video 