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Boom Festival 2014
22 AugTwo weeks ago I was in the Boom Festival 2014 in Portugal. I thought a lot about what i’m going to write in regards to psychedelic experiences in the Boom Festival.
I’ll start by saying that the festival was really great, it seemed to me as though all of the artwork, music and everything else in the festival were made to grant you the best psychedelic experience possible.
This years theme was the feminine and this theme was played throughout the festival.
The Music Stages: the main course in any festival is the music, but for me what was even more amazing were the dance floors themselves. each stage (or dance temple) had a very unique design that was immanent throughout that stage.
The Main Dance Temple – the entrance was a huge head of a woman with amazingly beautiful VJ being played on her head. inside were huge colourful statues of animals that were lit up with an artwork of lighting design.
Both of the other main stages were also a sight to be seen but description is not enough (see the videos below).
The Artwork: the festival featured many pieces of art scattered across the huge area. The main things i want to mention are the following:
a. The psychedelic art museum featured many pieces of psychedelic painting printed in very high quality when viewed with 3d glasses. Amazingly it really came out of the frame and took form. The entire museum was built in the shape of a dragon.
b. Live statue Garden – in the edge of the chillout gardens there was a beautiful garden with amazing pieces of art: moving, breathing and filled with lights. Some of them had a darker look and feel a bit similar to works by H.R Giger, while others had a more divine feel to them. In any case seeing them while on psychedelics left me in awe to their beauty.
A lot of the talk in boom regards culture – mainly festival culture after the festival. The festival featured many lectures on the subjects of communities. But also the culture of psychedelics and their research. On the second day i saw the movie: Aya: Awakenings witch was a great experience in the festival ground – this movie is recommended (watch here)
For me the festival represents more than just a week of fun, music and drugs. For me this is an emerging culture trying to define itself through music (and yes drugs). I see the festival as a transformation hub that you get in on one hand and come out different on the other hand – never to be the same.
For people that haven’t had the chance to be I recommend coming in 2016 (it’s every two years)
Here is a few clips from the festival:
The Creation
1 Aug
The film depicts the creation of the world through playful images that draw parallels with the creative process associated with art. It focuses on the problems and dangers involved. But all’s well that ends well – because we’re at the movies.
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Script, Direction, Animation:
Thomas Meyer-Hermann
Singing animals: Jürgen Haas
Music: Joseph Haydn
Sound effects: Krüger und Krüger
Sponsored by: Hamburger Filmbüro and FFA
Production: Thomas Meyer-Hermann
Studio FILM BILDER 1994
Miley Cyrus and Flaming Lips: Blonde SuperFreak Steals the Magic Brain
22 Jul
NSFW!
The video story is something like this: Moby is an evil, power-hungry cult leader. He wants the world’s most valuable (according to our story) psychedelic supernatural possession… John F. Kennedy’s brain….the brain contains the original formula for the drug LSD!!!
Jon Jacobsen
18 Jun“From my perspective, daily life lies between the real world and fantasy. This duality crystalizes so naturally that it looks imperceptible for us: we live in the present without being conscious of it until something happens and breaks this state. This triggers emotions that confirm the coexistence between reality and fantasy in the everyday world.
My creative process starts with the observation of an event that shatters this duality, thus giving me the conceptual base for what in the future will be an image. From this framework, I start creating symbolic relations which are necessary to build a visual metaphor which will bring a first sketch. Nevertheless, my creative process does not respond to any linear sequence, but rather to a come and go between the creator and the artwork.
The photographic language does not capture the reality I want to show in my work. To fill this gap, I mix digital techniques that expand the semiotics of the image, to the point of merging fantasy with reality. This combination of techniques makes my work more diverse and this allows, in a certain way, to reinvent each new project.
Finally, the guidelines that lead my work consist of portraits and self-portraits because, on the one hand, I’m interested to express in an image the vulnerability of human beings facing their surroundings and themselves; and on the other hand, through self-portraiture I represent the inexorable passing of time and how each character inside my image blurs out the limits of their bodies as to, in a horizontal relation, be part of the whole.” [Jon Jacobsen]
