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.
PELEPE Rail
10 DecIsraeli poet and artist Ave has been a regular feature onthe DPV since it’s very beginning. Ave’s video (see here) are unique in that what makes them psychedelic is not a garish flow of colors on the screen, but rather something more simple and unmediated. The felt presence of immediate experience.
Whether it is two plastic bags hovering around each other in the wind like two lovers caught up in a dance, or a zen moment on top of an amusement park merry go round, Ave’s videos capture something elusive and beautiful about the reality of the present moment. As a viewer, you tend to get caught in the experience of what is happened in those very moments in which the video was shot.
Ave has a very Zen-like approach to film making, a way of filming reality and yet being present in it. Whether he is the one shooting the video or the one to appear in it, the camera is not invisible. It is part of the scene, like a participator but in a way that doesn’t hem or hamper the magic which happens on the screen but ends up making it even brighter and more awesome.
Ave’s present video, Pelepe, is, to my mind, his best work so far. It starts as a regular ride on the Israel train service, but then Ave and his partner in this video, the dancer K, begin their highly peculiar act which is difficult to describe: is this a dance? a performance? a meditation?
As they continue they arouse the interest of not only their immediate wagon neighbors. The entire train car gets involved, all sharing the magic of the moment, the wonder of watching people open up like this, sharing their intimacy with strangers on the train. In this way, Ave and K give those around them the present of intimacy, as the whole train wagon gets immersed in the special and beautiful happening.
Things continue to evolve from there, ending with a reminder of the kind of fears this intimacy and expressiveness can also stimulate in some, and the existence of violence which is always there lurking alongside the beauty and the joy in this imperfectly perfect world of ours.
A spectacular video.
Off the Air: NEWNOW (S05E04)
7 Dec
Aired in 2015.
List of videos in this episode:
Title sequence by Natalia Stuyk
“Birds of Paradise” segment from Planet Earth supplied by Getty Images; Bird of Paradise Hook Up by Jamie Margary
Amalgam by Jack Turpin; Totally Normal by Andrew Benson; Hug by Julia Pott
Ghillie OneWheel footage by David Lewandowski; “Morgan 3000” music video by Benjamin Janos-Szabo Hunter; BDAY/KSS/TMLSS/LST_RLM by Kidmograph; Landscapes by Amy Lockhart
Drone footage by Renee Lusano
Cavernous Womb by Annapurna Kumar; “Girl Seizure” music video by Gabriel Mangold, originally for the song by Last Ex; Swirls by Masanobu Hiraoka
Wake Up to the New Now by Matthew Silver
The following artists provided additional animated loops: Zachary Zezima; Kevin Eskew; Annapurna Kumar; Julia Newhide; Jack Turpin; Alan Jennings; Andrew Benson; Allegra Jones; Adriana Trukillo; Benjamin Janos-Szabo Hunter; Rachel Seropian; Tim Brown; Gina Maune; Dina Kelberman; Kaylee SooHyun Lee; Ana Mouyis; Sian Bliss; and Maureen Kuo.
The Hardest Mandelbrot Zoom in 2016 – New record, 750 000 000 iterations!
5 Dec
I don’t really know what a Mandelbrot is or what its significance is, but its still very interesting nonetheless . Besides, the double edge sword of finding out the mystery in something, removes the mystery that made it so interesting in the first place.
OK Go – The One Moment – Official Video
3 DecOK Go continue to stretch the limits of the possible, this time bending the one moment in a video clip that took 4 seconds to shoot but screens for 4 incredibly beautiful minutes.
The Daily Psychedelic Video 