https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIO9y1xMPIA
A mesmerizing collage of images from Busby Berkeley films, with music by Artie Shaw.
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N.E.R.D. – “Squeeze Me”
3 Jul5 years after there last album or any independent work, Squeeze Me by N.E.R.D was created solely for the 2015 movie “The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water”.
Even though this movie wasn’t very good, it still confused and intrigued me that a kids show like Spongebob were its had no previous use of psychedelic visuals, is using psychedelic visuals to both promote and entertain viewers of there movie with. I mean it worked in the long run i thought it was cool, and it makes me wonder why more shows don’t incorporate psychedelic visuals. Marketing gimmick?
“The Infinite Now”- Armand Dijcks
23 JunFrom the vimeo description:
Over the past months I’ve been working with Australian photographer Ray Collins to bring his amazing oceanscapes to life in the form of cinemagraphs, a blend between photography and video. Each cinemagraph is created from one of Ray’s stills, and sets it in infinite motion, making a unique moment in time last forever.
These cinemagraphs inspired André Heuvelman from the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra to get together with pianist Jeroen van Vliet to record a very moving custom soundtrack, which I combined with a selection of the cinemagraphs.
You can see the original cinemagraphs at armanddijcks.com/cinemagraphs-waves
Ray’s images can be found at raycollinsphoto.com
André Heuvelman’s music: andreheuvelman.com
The soundtrack is available here: soundcloud.com/armanddijcks/the-infinite-now
Busby Berkeley – By a waterfall (1933)
10 JunNothing can hide the amazing genius of Busby Berkeley, the legendary 1930s movie director choreograph who created unbelievable kaleidoscopic forms all created by human dancers. (Below a backup YouTube version in lower quality for those having difficulty with Facebook videos).
Sausage Party (2016) Bath Salts Scene
29 Apr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycnohsdxUpU
“Bath salts are just as bad as they say,” if you take you might be able to “actually understand” sausages…
Compare with:
X Men Openings
25 Marhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U-btSA8YQc
The X Men have a penchant for including psychedelic tunnel visuals in their opening credits, it seems…
The Sunshine Makers Movie CLIP – First LSD Experiences (2017)
5 JanThere are a lot of psychedelic videos out there, but usually they are not really psychedelic in the sense that they recreate the visual effects that people actually see while on psychedelics. In other words, their visual effects are not really similar to those of psychedelic experiences. However, there is one subgenre of psychedelic videos that is focused on recreate the specific ways in which psychedelics make us see open eye visuals. Some videos from this genre can be found in scenes from movies like Fear and loathing in Las Vegas or Leaving Woodstock. To my mind the last 40 seconds of this clip out of “Sunshine Makers” (documentary about legendary LSD chemists Nick Sands and Tim Scully is the best rendition of the actual effects of psychedelic visuals so far, really tracing the very subtle and meaningful ways in which psychedelics alter perception. Check it out!
Koyaanisqatsi – Godfrey Reggio
12 NovWhen I recently realized that the film Koyaanisqatsi (1982) by Godfrey Reggio has not been featured on the DPV yet I was quite shocked. After all, I consider this film to be possibly the most psychedelic and impressive film ever. Still, maybe there is a reason to that. You don’t watch Koyaanisqatsi on YouTube and even though I now feature it here, I encourage and urge you to get the full high-quality film and watch it in one piece on a big screen as it should be watched.
How to explain Koyaanisqatsi. The word itself means “Life out of balance” in the Hopi language, and the film dwells on the topic of human civilization’s loss of balance and it’s destruction of life and nature on this planet. A movie with no words, it begins with spectacular unmoving images of nature and gradually accelerates until reaching the breathless world of the modern city.
Koyaanisqatsi was the grandfather of many films that would be later made in the same style, not only Reggio’s own Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi but also more popular titles such as Baraka, Samsara and Chronos. None of the above have achieved, in my mind, the same philosophical profundity and spiritual depth which characterize Koyaanisqatsi. Highly recommended.
Mea Culpa-Brian Eno and David Byrne: video by Bruce Connor
29 JulI consider this sort of proto-post psychedelia. Bruce Connor’s imagery is both mind altering and domestic. The music and imagery evoke altered states of consciousness with an edgy and dangerous leaning. If you find yourself in NYC, check out the Bruce Connor retrospective at MOMA.
That Sugar Song – Official Music Video
14 MayThe deliciously psychedelic music clip from the excellent film “That sugar film” will teach you all about the dangers of sugar and how it lurks around so many types of processed foods.
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