Lovely video essay by Mathew Salton on the shamanistic and psychedelic backrounds of Santa’s character and story.
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“The Ancestor” – Vancouver Film School Student Animation
25 Dec
Sadly I do not have anything seasonal to show today, but here is
A heartwarming animation depicting the idea of death and rebirth, done by Paola Cordova Casilla with visual media provided by Timothy Hahn.
Happy Holidays though to everyone and anyone watching this, and my this day be a joyful one 🙂
“The Guardian” by Alessandro Nevelli
16 Oct
A powerful black and white animation by the Italian Artist, Alessandro Nevelli who talks about fear and anxiety of the choices we make in our lives.
Energia Sagrada by NexusVisions
10 OctSacred Energy Aumetry also known as SEA is the Collaborative project of designer and digital artist Samuel Farrand and visionary video producer Ferdinand Real who goes under the performance name of NexusVisions.
Land of Mine – Roman de Giuli
7 OctA truly spectacular video made of acrylic paint on paper.
“The idea was to recreate the unique look on planet earth from space which sometimes rather appears like an abstract piece of art than a real photo. From far away, the surface of our planet shows the beauty of it’s landscapes, coasts and the sea in perfect order. It’s highly expressive visual aesthetics and it’s contextual narrative inspired me to create an artistic interpretation of what I’ll never see with my own eyes. It’s just flowing colors on drawing paper, but it’s there, it’s massive and it’s real: the land of mine.”
Beauty knows no end
“Ikam Ardas Wahe Guru” – White Sun
2 Jul
Grammy winning psychedelic Sikh new age music to relax on sunday evening!
Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials
26 Jun
An audio recording of Carl Sagan on the topic of extraterrestrials turned into a beautifully vivd animation.
Based on the youtube channel “Blank on Blank” which turns audio recordings of famous figures into psychedelic animations in order to help expand and get the overall message and/or wisdom of the topic across with better success.
The Wisdom of Pessimism
12 Dec
On top of the cool psychedelic visuals in this video, you get a nice dose of modern day philosophy to help give your brain some thinking food. A 2 for 1 deal i’d say.
Terence McKenna: Octopus (Visual Language/VR-2)
26 AprTerence talking about the immediate visual language of octopi. Taken from IMAGINATRIX – The Terence McKenna Experience (2014).
Ken Adams has been collaborating and experimenting with McKenna for over twenty years and co-created Alien DreamTime and Strange Attractor. IMAGINATRIX was catalyzed by the recovery of previously unreleased videos circa 1990-94.
As a bonus, a video of Ken talking about the production of IMAGINATRIX. It contains interesting bits of information. It is implied Terence was involved in distributing LSD to make a living.
