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Broadcast and the Focus Group
24 Julvexyvex has posted Broadcasts beautiful papercuts clip on this site a while ago. Here are some of the clips from their collaboration with Julian House. They are alive with a playful and childlike psychedelic spirit mixed with lots of occult symbols and imagery.
Aesthetic Species Maps
16 Jul
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/9017519]
“A time-based detail of the range of shapes and patterns within several species of flora and fauna. Genetic diversity visualized by forms which simultaneously reflect balance, symmetry, and an infinite potential for variation. ”
David Montgomery looks at the world of nature across scales, with a sharp psychedelic eye and beautiful music by Otters Making Music.
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/15056483]Jan Kounen / The last red chaperone
13 JulI already talked about Jan Kounen, one of my favorite movie director, actor, writer and documentary maker in psychedelia …
Today, I want to show you “The last red chaperone”, his version of the famous fairy…
It’s in french and spanish subtitled, but the fact here is much more about the visuals and the techniques he used to give us the perception he wanted, and it’s a success !
Please, enjoy 😉
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
And part 5
Popee The Performer is here to freak you out!
10 JulIn case you ever thought that even a bad trip has some truth to tell you, there should be more than enough truth in this show to endure its uncanny “realism”.
Please be careful watching this in any unstable condition of the mind and… enjoy!
Malcolm Sutherland: The Forming Game (2008)
28 JunCanadian Malcolm Sutherland commands forms in this short animation.
Kodachrome Film Test: 1922 in Motion and Color
26 JunThis is one of the most magical things I ever came across in the www. I keep coming back to it and it never looses any of its strange emotional power. The pulsing light gives an enchanted life to the dance of picture postcard poses and the color is such an otherworldly hue, you might think the apparatus just blushed because of the overwhelming intimacy.
When we experience new technologies like the recent reinvention of 3d cinema, we feel a kind of psychedelic stimulation. This little film test might give us an idea of the thrill of the first color motion pictures.
Betty Boop – Ha Ha Ha (1934)
14 Jun
Betty Boop provides a collective nitrous trip for the whole town.
Soviets and Yellow Submarine
31 MaySome Soviet animators apparently were influenced by the aesthetics of Yellow Submarine and you can watch the evidence below. Thanks for the info, Russian Wikipedia.
A Box with Secret / Шкатулка с секретом (1976). Director: Valery Ugarov
Merry-Go-Round 1. Inattentive Giovanni / Веселая карусель N°1. Рассеянный Джованни (1969). Director: Anatoli Petrov. Starts at 1.32 in the video, but I think you will want to watch the first one, too!
Merry-Go-Round 5. This movie is about you, isn’t it? / Веселая карусель N°5. Не про тебя ли этот фильм? (1973)
Psychedelic Typography
28 May
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/17546631]
Typography videos has been getting pretty big on the web in the past couple of years. Now, Olivier Ferland has been doing some pretty amazing work with two beautiful psychedelic raps from psychedelic stand-up prophet Bill Hicks and from Terence McKenna.
For people like me, text is so intrinsic to meaning, that we sometimes secretly wish that the whole of reality would be subtitled. These videos manage to make the powerful psychedelic speeches even stronger.
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/19509843]
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