Simple but great trippy effect !
“I’m a yummy, tummy, funny likey gummy bear!”
A 1980s track by Miles Davis, mixed with 1960s psychedelic footage works surprisingly well together. The creator of the video writes that he made this mix because Davis’s Bitches Brew (1969) is one of the most psychedelic albums ever, and I have to agree.
A video which was done by a friend for our friends’ wedding which took place yesterday, in the longest day of the year. The voice in the background is the groom singing “I love you”. I loved the shooting style, which uses the simple technique of suddenly pointing the camera towards the sun or the illuminated sky again and again, stunning the camera with light and achieving a special transcendent quality, which transforms the singer’s words into a proclamation of love to the sun and the universe itself. The gaze, which is directed towards the sun again and again from various settings in the Israeli environment, makes this into a love song to the sun who is with us everywhere radiating its glowing light. Beautiful.
Chancellor Leopard has some good YouTube videos with things like singing skeletons and floating frogs in top hats. Here are a couple. Music above by Ben Wallis, below is Black Moth Super Rainbow.
For its 3rd birthday the DPV is featuring a series of psychedelic videos specials which will run between the 22 and the 28 of April 2013. Stay tuned for more of our psychedelic specials.
Back in the early 1980s software pirate groups started to incorporate audiovisual introductions into their cracked releases. The intros evolved into a form of art, combining code wizardry with music and graphics. With the forming of groups and organizing of competitions, the demoscene was born.
Coders today can either use powerful modern hardware and GPU effects or milk vintage hardware for all its worth.
There has been a strong current of psychedelic visionary demos in the scene throughout its history. The following videos provide a glimpse into this pulsating stream of imagination.
Spaceballs: State of the Art (1992)
flo: f.22 (2013)
Farbrausch: rove (fr-043) (2010)
Akronyme Analogiker: Hartverdrahtet (2012)
ASD: Electric Bullet (2010)
United Force & Digital Dynamite: The golden path (2009)
Farbrausch: palindromeda suger (fr-minus-012) (2001)
Farbrausch: theta (fr038) (2004)
Farbrausch & Neuro: Masagin (2008)
TBC: Traceless (2012)
MFX: Deities (2006)
Synesthetics: Lucy in the Sky with Deities (remix of MFX’s deities) (2007)
Dual Crew & Shining – 2cb (a.k.a. 4 – bromo – 2,5 – dimethoxyphenethylamine) (1998)
Soviet countries had their own scene starting in the late 1980s Poland and Czechoslovakia. The ZX Spectrum clone Pentagon was a popular platform. Here are some examples from the 2000s:
The Path by Cyberpunks Unity & Inward (Rus), 2004.
Mescaline Synesthesia by deMarche (Rus), 2009.
Your song is quiet, part 2 by elfh/inward (Rus) ps/tpolm (Pt) delilah/skim (Ita), 2007.
YouTube user B4Ddaycomes has a whole channel full of Psychedelic Art Videos he uploaded. While quality may not always be constant (shaky camera sometimes distracts, etc.), there are some discoveries to be made. This may not be your million dollar Kanye West video, but I really enjoyed the diy spirit (“FX Footage ( vegetable oil, food coloring, acrylic ink and water )”) for a change.
Wonderful adventures of a diverse cast of peculiar characters.