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Adventure Time is one of the most hilarious and trippy shows ever to appear on American television. This is episode 1b from season 1, “Trouble in Lumpy Space.”
A pitch-perfect video for Go-qualia’s Requiem, with sparkling imagery and elements of sacred geometry. It reminds me of Eckhart Tolle’s quote: “diamonds are the enlightenment of rocks.” In that sense, this video is a beautiful visual representation of enlightenment.
Kraftwerk’s Autobahn animated by Roger Mainwood
4 MarI don’t know if you ever thought about Kraftwerk as a psychedelic group, but this animation by Roger Mainwood certainly brings out all those trippy qualities in the music.
Actually, Kraftwerk started as a group of long-haired experimental krautrock jam hippies. You don’t believe it? Convince yourself:
Journey through the inner worlds by Sander Bos
28 Feb
Young visionary artist Sander Bos takes us beyond the fabric of reality.
Sita Sings the Blues – The Ramayana gone psychedelic
25 FebSita Sings the Blues is a 2008 animated rendition of the great Indian epic The Ramayana, written, directed, produced and animated by American artist Nina Paley.
Hinduism has always had a distinct psychedelic style, but The opening sequence, which is like an animated introduction to Hindu mythology, definitely brings Hinduism even closer to it’s psychedelic days of Soma.
This second clip, from the middle of the film, also has a nice psychedelic touch.
If you liked this, you can watch the full movie (in better quality) here on YouTube.
The way through MISHICBATLLABAN (2008)
21 Feb
Alexander Nemenkov made this fascinating journey to the underworld. Alexander loves the music of Yello and wanted to animate something to a cinematic piece of theirs.
Other inspiration came from: Ivan Maximov, Hayao Miyazaki, M.C. Escher, Salvador Dali, Jacek Yerka, Joe Vaux, Carlos Castaneda. And of course side-scrolling video games.
Procrastination by Johnny Kelly
18 FebA beautiful video about procrastination, shot, animated and directed by Johnny Kelly, and narrated by Brian Quinn.
(Link: Ferrous. Thanks!)
Adventure Time
10 FebAdventure Time is one of the most hilarious and trippy shows ever to appear on American television. This is episode 1b from season 1, “Trouble in Lumpy Space.”
Go-qualia “Requiem”
20 JanA pitch-perfect video for Go-qualia’s Requiem, with sparkling imagery and elements of sacred geometry. It reminds me of Eckhart Tolle’s quote: “diamonds are the enlightenment of rocks.” In that sense, this video is a beautiful visual representation of enlightenment.
ACORNUCOPIA
17 JanSquirrel gains access to a psychedelic oak tree in the sky. By Jason P. Ryan. Jason also did the effects for this pretty cool acid trip sequence for a comedy series:
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