For once an honest brainwashing session! Whales, didgeridoo, sitar, a spirit animal.. you know, the usual car commercial stuff!
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Baby In The Sky by Bonzom
18 JanBonzom consists of five young French animators. Here they glorify the idea of being born without HIV by depicting an enchanting journey through some astral realms.
The Chase Film
15 JanWhy is this new Intel commercial for 2nd generation Intel Core i5 processor psychedelic?
Moving between alternate realities has forever been the trademark of the psychedelic (and shamanic) world view. Although here this happens on a computer desktop (Beware, as Terence McKenna said, computers and drugs are both ways to expand consciousness, only different parts of it…), one only needs to re-imagine this clip as the flight of the shaman through alternate realms, flying between parallel window-worlds in his other-worldly mission. And indeed, it seems to me that the dynamics of this video might remind many a psychedelic voyager, of their own trips, running, flying from inner demons, and into new frontiers through a labyrinth of window-worlds. Highly psychedelic!
Caural – Lake
22 NovSean Capone created this music video using photos taken with a cell phone as a base.
Here’s a pretty hypnotic project he did for PUMA: The Book of Five Rings
In “The Time Tunnel” he mashed together all sorts of time-travel sequences found in sci-fi films and the result is quite trippy as might be predicted.
On his Youtube channel are some other, more slower pieces that are worth checking out, like animated wallpapers designed for events.
THX Trailer: Amazing Life
31 OctThis one is a real beauty!
The THX demo trailer needs not a word to promise us “experience of a different kind”. In a way the psychedelic promise was always present in the way new media and new media technology did connect with our daily lives. It expected us to be longing for “new experience”, “new” in a way you could not have had it before. New technology did kind of guarantee you that it wouldn’t be just more of the “same old”. “New ways of seeing”, “new ways of hearing”! once you had to get lost trying to return home to your wife from a defeated troy, had to keep silent while your friends were eaten by a cyclops and stuff like that before you finally saw things with different eyes. But suddenly in the second half of the 20th century all you had to do was “tune in turn on and drop out.” The subject had changed. Experience had changed, indeed.
Everything is alive! all you ever need is different eyes.
Bouncy Colorful Balls
28 OctI cann’t believe that I’m uploading a commercial… but hell this one is so beautiful. Too bad you have to be S*#Y if you want to afford yourself 1.5 million colorful balls.
Alias – Sixes Last (2005)
12 Oct1stAveMachine created this alien plant music video for Alias.
Here’s another plant bit they did for Quinns fruit alcohol drink.
Lan Dan Deeee!
25 SepI came across a whole series of videos from japan, made from a 10 seconds footage of Roland McDonald shouting something in Japanese, That are applied over and over again with different video effects. It’s unexplainable, twisted and repetitive, like some experiences from drugs I don’t really want to do again. Roland McDonald is a disturbing figure to start with, the ecstatic smiley that represents the corporate giant playing with our mind. The Japanese videos in this post, and many others linked to them, are taking to extreme the overwhelming commercial trip that is the urban and the virtual world around us.
Superflat First Love by Takashi Murakami for Louis Vuitton
21 AugThe 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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