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Dumbo the psychedelic elephant

This famous excerpt from Disney’s Dumbo (1941) is arguably one of the first psychedelic scenes ever.

The relations between Disney and psychedelics are not clear. According to Peter Stafford’s “Psychedelic Encyclopedia” the chief visualist for Disney’s Fantasia (1940) participated in the mescaline experiments conducted in Germany by Kurt Beringer in the 1920’s. Artist Paul Laffoley claims that Disney himself experimented with Mescaline “On a regular basis” during his stay in Germany in the 1930’s. Many other theories regarding the relations between Disney and psychedelics exist, and you can find out about some of them here in this fascinating article.

In this particular scene, Dumbo drinks from a bucket and slowly begins hallucinating. He sees pink elephants which appear before him out of thin air, and start dancing and singing (This sequence starts around the 3rd minute). By the fifth minute Dumbo’s fantasy world becomes increasingly psychedelic as the pink elephants change shape and colors. It seems the bucket has been spiked.

Tags: 40's psychedelia, disney, dumbo, psychedelic, psychedelics

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Categories Psychedelic Cinema, Psychedelic Visuals
Author Ido Hartogsohn

Tinman

31 May

This isn’t really a video in the normal sense of the world. More like an interactive video. However Infinite Oz, Verizon’s psychedelic rendition of sceneries from the sci-fi series Tin Man is just so amazing I had to feature it here.

Check it out here – Infinite Oz

(Link: Moris Oz. Thanks!)

Tags: psychedelic, tin man, tinman, wizard of oz

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Categories Psychedelic Art, Psychedelic Visuals
Author Ido Hartogsohn

Sesame Street 1-20 Raga

30 May

Psychedelic numbers from Sesame Street. The most relaxing mathematics lesson ever.

(Link: Yonatan Levi. Thanks!)

Tags: 70's psychedelia, children's psychedelia, psychedelic, psychedelics, sesame street

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Categories Psychedelic TV, Psychedelic Visuals
Author Ido Hartogsohn

‘Altered States’ Trip

29 May

The zenith of a mind blowing psychedelic trip. This one is from the incredible movie “Altered States” directed by Ken Russell (1981). The film is loosely based on the pioneering work of isolation tanks pioneer John Lilly, who was also a sedulous psychonaut and conducted some of the world’s most interesting psychedelic research of his time by using psychedelic drugs in combination with lengthy periods of isolation inside isolation tanks – a practice sure to arouse some hyper-psychedelic results. This particular clip is saturated with esoteric and symbolic content, some of it rather dark in nature, however I find it to be very revealing.

Tags: altered states, ken russell, psychedelic, psychedelics

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Categories Psychedelic Cinema, Psychedelic Visuals
Author Ido Hartogsohn

Of Montreal – Grolandic Edit

27 May

“I guess it would be nice to give my heart to a god / but which one, which one do I choose”

Tags: 00's psychedelia, grolandic edit, neo psychedelia, of montreal, psychedelic, psychedelics

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Categories Psychedelic Music Clips, Psychedelic Visuals
Author Ido Hartogsohn

Psychedelic Gaga?

26 May

Is Lady Gaga psychedelic? According to the most stringent criteria she most certainly is not. She is an extreme product of consumer culture and indeed she does not seem to overtly reference psychedelics or psychedelic culture in her work. Still, watching the amazingly surreal abundance of images, symbols and colors which streams from the screen while watching her music clips, there does indeed seem to be something psychedelic about her – Although admittedly pertaining to a very dark strain of psychedelia which we will most certainly be sure to explore here in the future.

Psychedelic or not, one thing is for sure, watching this video clip while under the influence can prove to be a highly revelatory experience. The only question is: who is being revealed?

Tags: 00's psychedelia, bad romance, gaga, lady gaga, psychedelic, psychedelics

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Categories Psychedelic Music Clips, Psychedelic Visuals
Author Ido Hartogsohn

Albert Hofmann’s bicycle trip reanimated

24 May

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!)

Tags: 00's psychedelia, albert hofmann, lsd, psychedelic, psychedelics

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Categories Psychedelic Short Films, Psychedelic Visuals
Author Ido Hartogsohn

Superjail’s Psyhcedelic Trip

22 May

It does not get anymore trippy than this one. Superjail, a series described as psychedelic on Wikipedia, gives us an extreme hypertrip full of shiny colors and references to Yellow Submarine and Timothy Leary.

(Link: Avi Graiver. Thanks!)

Tags: 00's psychedelia, psychedelic, psychedelics, superjail, timothy leary

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Categories Psychedelic TV, Psychedelic Visuals
Author Ido Hartogsohn

Love & Theft

20 May

* BAD TRIP Notice – Caution this clip features (some) dark materials and might catalyze bad trips, especially while under the influence of psychedelics.

http://vimeo.com/16245334

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!)