On top of the cool psychedelic visuals in this video, you get a nice dose of modern day philosophy to help give your brain some thinking food. A 2 for 1 deal i’d say.
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OK Go – Needing/Getting – Official Video
28 NovOK Go in another, particularly lavish display of excessiveness vandalize some hundreds of guitars and who knows how many pianos just to play a song that doesn’t even sound good in order to prove god knows what point, but on the way they bridge the gap between sports driving and music and again challenge our ideas of music and music videos. Crazy.
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.
Kurzegsagt – Black Holes Explained – From Birth to Death
17 OctKurzgesagt is my new favorite channel on YouTube. In just 5 minutes they can explain everything about the life, the universe, science, technology and everything else. Here is their mind bending episode on black holes.
Ken Nordine – Yellow
26 SepBack in the 1966 voice over artist Ken Nordine released a peculiar album named colors, with 34 tracks, each dedicated to a specific color on the color spectrum. Being the year when the psychedelic movement got launched into the public mainstream, it was a great year for an album about colors. It suffices to see this short music clip dedicated to the yellow color to get an idea of just what kind of genius went into this work… If you this has stimulated your interest, you might want to check out the full album here.
OK Go – This Too Shall Pass – Rube Goldberg Machine – Official Video
19 SepOK Go in another one of their film experiments which take a principle and push it to the extreme, this time the domino effect… As usual there are psychedelic colors splashing, and as usual it’s difficult to conceive how this entire video was even made possible… Amazing
Omniverse – Imagining 10 Dimensions
30 JulWhat’s the difference between the 5th dimension, the 7th dimension and the 10th dimension? Just click on this video and Rob Bryanton will explain it all. A mind-blowing watch for a Saturday afternoon.
Galen Pehrson’s The Caged Pillows
8 JunDream logic filtered through 1980s new age space art style. Soundtrack by Daft Punk, Death Grips, Future Islands and Devendra Banhart.
The piece was commissioned to to launch ruinsmag.com; a cultural digest intended to stimulate conversation around urbanism and the future of cities – reflected through contemporary art, literature and cultural topics.
Hyper-Reality by Keiichi Matsuda
31 MayThis is a pretty accurate depiction of what will eventually happen through augmented reality. The film got funded on Kickstarter and was shot on location in Medellín, Colombia. Official site: http://hyper-reality.co/
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