This sweet animation was made to illustrate the remarkable achievement of a no-hitter in a major league game game of Dock Ellis, a player for the Pittsburgh Pirates, while he was on acid back in 1970.
Since steroids are well known as performance enhancers, athletes are scrutinized to prevent their abuse. Psychedelics, on the other hand, seem to be a possible influence on the artist who designed this film for the 2012 London Olympic Games:
In the 1960s U.S. underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger released a “Sacred Mushroom Edition” of his earlier film “Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome”. It was meant to be screened to people while taking LSD. In his movies occult, homoerotic and surreal themes often merged to a truely psychedelic vision.
Another psychedelic classic by Disney. In 1940 Fantasia introduced shimmering abstract figuration morphing to the pulse of music as a subject of public viewing. Synaethetics for the masses.
If Coltrane’s sax sounds could materialize themselves, this is how they’d look. Michal Levy’s Giant Steps.
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Dali meets Disney in “Destino” (2003) a beautiful and surreal short film based on a collaboration between the two artist.
This one is a bit slow to develop but as it advances it moves on to absolutely breath-taking and very trip-like visual landscapes. Created by Michal Levy to music from Jason Linder.
(Link: Michal Vexler. Thanks!)
This is how it must have been on that crucial day on April 16th 1943, in the middle of WWII, when Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann accidentally poured LSD on himself and inadvertently became the the first LSD user, actually startkicking the psychedelic movement. The bicycle trip, which became the most famous bicycle trip ever, was actually 3 days later, on the 19th of April, when Hofmann took his second and much stronger LSD dose, but who cares. Beautiful animation! Perfect for an LSD trip, I guess.
(Link: Ingrid Sherman. Thanks!)
* BAD TRIP Notice – Caution this clip features (some) dark materials and might catalyze bad trips, especially while under the influence of psychedelics.
One of the defining characteristics of the psychedelic visual experience, and of the psychedelic experience in general is endless transformations of things morphing into each other, as you can see in other videos which were featured here on the DPV, such as The Amazing Mr. Brickford.
This video created by Andreas Hykade also shows this tendency: Morphing the whole world upon itself, skipping between dimensions and amazing landscapes of figures and emotions.
(Link: Snapovitcz. Thanks!)
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