Some seriously psychedelic leotards in this video by Beyonce and Nicki Minaj.
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A golden ethereal video by artist Neil Krug. It looks like elysian fields to me.
“Celebration at Big Sur”- Baird Bryant and Johanna Demetrakas
28 Mar“Celebration at Big Sur” is a 1969 film documenting the Folk Festival at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA. You can find the entire film in bits on youtube and it’s available as a DVD. In this 9 minute clip, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young perform “Down by the River”. The performance starts at about 49 seconds into the clip, but there is a lot of good vintage hippy stuff before and after the music.
After spending last week travelling the California coast, I’m in total Pacific Ocean bliss. I love seeing all the aerial shots of the coastline in this film almost as much as I love David Crosby’s fringe jacket and Stephen Stills’ geometric poncho. The Esalen Institute is still around. You can sign up for self actualization workshops and retreats through their website.
I took these photos last year at a campground in Big Sur. You can see the bridge in the first photo in the aerial shots. What I didn’t get a photo of, was the terribly cute sea otter that would swim around the cove with a seagull perched upon his little belly.
“Strawberry Short-Cut” by Tom Rubnitz
24 JanFollowing up last week’s Rubnitz gem, “Pickle Surprise”, we have his 1991 tasty beauty “Strawberry Short-Cut”.
Here’s an interesting article listing who’s who in Tom Rubnitz’s videos:
“Pickle Surprise” by Tom Rubnitz
17 JanOh my, it’s Pickle Surprise! Tom Rubnitz, director of the 1987 cult documentary “Wigstock: the Movie”, takes us on a groovy psychedelic journey in this 1989 gem. Can you find everybody’s favorite drag star Ru Paul?
The Video Data Bank website has a higher quality short clip and offers a DVD of Rubnitz’s work for purchase.
There’s Gonna Be Some Rock n Roll This Winter
20 DecThis tune has become a staple amongst my former flatmates and I during this time of year. Actually, we sing it most of the year, but it gets a far better reception when we’re in the appropriate season. The video brings us back to the grand old days of glam rock, when psychedelic visuals were left to the costume department. A time when Roy Wood (who is better known for his days with the Electric Light Orchestra) looked like a Muppet from another dimension. And those lyrics are warm and fuzzy enough to bring holiday cheer to the biggest Grinches around. Like the bassist. Honestly, why is he being such a goon?
Oh well. At the very least, if you find yourself struggling to find the right politically correct greeting this season, I’d just go with telling folks to “Have a wonderful rock and roll winter, baby.”
Pepsi psychedelic commercial from the 1970s
30 OctRegrettably this one has no audio, but the photos speak for an era in which mind expansion was a concept to be used to get people to drink your brand of cola.
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]
The beautifully disturbing videos of Champagne Valentine
19 OctThere is something attractive yet deeply disturbing about the videos of Champagne Valentine, which showcase the work of artists Geoff Lillemon and Anita Fontaine. Maybe it is because Lillemon and Fontaine are artists creating psychedelic commercials, which seem to be aware and to reflect the disturbing nature of late-capitalistic society.
See for example Anita Fontaine’s video “Beefeater London” (above) which follows a young blonde through the streets of London. Although it seems to sell the viewer on the romantic image of a young and beautiful girl roaming the streets and having fun by herself, the videos seems to be inherently aware that this is a fantasy, something which comes to bare in the small viewing disturbances which appear on the screen from time to time to remind us that this is not the real thing but a simulation. The girl in the film is not really just roaming the streets and having fun, she is actually nothing more than an image which sells us notions about cities and identity and who we can be. But we are not that carefree person happily roaming the streets, we watch this video on our digital screens, where this kind of free adventure is just a substitute for life. Moreover, our hero seems to be inexplicably alone all through the video, or just flirting with the camera, something which is emphasized by her strange, somehow disturbed gazes, caught by the camera in close up shots. When the video ends, our hero is toasting a glass with somebody, but we don’t see that somebody and somehow it seems like she’s still all alone.
A similar sort of disturbing psychedelic simulacra is also evident in the §tereop§i§ video, and in the the Versace, and Louis Vitton commercials created by Champagne Valentine
Ladytron – TOMORROW
20 JulA golden ethereal video by artist Neil Krug. It looks like elysian fields to me.
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