The lines between psychedelic art and excessive commercial advertising can’t be more blurred. it seems to be a part of a whole series, and the other videos are not any less pretty and trippy!
"The apocalyptic champ" - Takashi Murakami Detail
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MexicadarkSub – ULTIMAYA –
18 Aug
Seeing into the depth of self observing,
Endless layers of multiple oneness.
…I tought I was created…
Everything is alive
12 AugMuch like psychedelics, grafitti artists remind us that everything around us can come to life.
Invocation of my demon brother by Kenneth Anger
8 AugIn the 1960s U.S. underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger released a “Sacred Mushroom Edition” of his earlier film “Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome”. It was meant to be screened to people while taking LSD. In his movies occult, homoerotic and surreal themes often merged to a truely psychedelic vision.
Organic Meditation
4 Aug
by // SamaS ~ ULTIMAYA //
This is a video of my home made collection, I use to create organic mandalas from macro photos, then I give them life with visual feddback to bring the psychedelic effect !
enjoy !
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rad times and compression artefacts
1 AugToday I’d like to make the proposal that the aesthetics of “datamoshing” are kinda very psychedelic.
“Datamoshing” is the hip term for the effects achieved by removing keyframes from a videofile. It’s actually a very basic artisic technique in the tradion of randomness and the surfacing display of artistic means. What resurfaces here from the subconscious of the means of production are compression artefacts, objects born from the everyday algorithms of heavy data compression. The focus on compression artefacts sets them apart from other glitch aesthetics.
Not unlike a Rorschach test or psychedelic visuals these alien everyday compression artefacts are capable of expression. They have an emotional quality; they are anarchic smugglers on the border between conscious and subconscious.
The video above associates the compression artefacts with a certain melancholy. It’s an interesting construction of things passed since early objects of desire from 80s tv commercials and videogames are fused with the involuntary gestures of data compression from the internets early days of videostreaming. Just like a search of lost rad time with youtube.
Don’t miss those other two videos by eddie whelan! They are beautiful and no less rad executions of controlled randomness.
Ryan Larkin
31 Jul
Ryan Larkin (1943-2007) was a Canadian animator, who in 1969 was nominated for the Academy Award for is short psychedelic animation “Walking”. Three years later he released the acclaimed film “Street Music”, again, a tripy colorful short film, hand drawn with no narrative, but with a distinct and simple theme.
Soon after that, Larkin fell into severe drug abuse, alcoholism and homelessness. In 2002, another Canadian animator, Chris Landreth, Made this short film about him and won an Oscar for it.
The memory exists in the building blocks
22 JulThis is a video art performance which is projected on Haydarpaşa Train Station in Istanbul. You can read more about this project here
5 a.m.: A Psychedelic Action Half-Life Labyrinth
18 JulThere is a very nice article on the experience of exploring the labyrinth of the map. To be found here.
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