Dreams that Money can Buy

18 May

[ From Wiki]:

Dreams That Money Can Buy is a 1947 American experimental feature color film written, produced, and directed by surrealist artist and dada film-theorist Hans Richter.

The film was produced by Kenneth Macpherson and Peggy Guggenheim.

Collaborators included Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Darius Milhaud and Fernand Léger.

The film won the Award for the Best Original Contribution to the Progress of Cinematography at the 1947 Venice Film Festival.

Music: John Cage(segment “Discs”)

Priit Pärn: Time Out / Aeg Maha (1984)

17 May

This is a kool kat animation made in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. The director Priit Pärn is an animation legend still going strong.

Kaleidoscope-Colours

16 May

So many colors in this one, it makes you feel like you’re really out there. Mexican psych-rock from 1968 with some beautiful kaleidoscopic visions.

(Link: Shakti. Thanks!)

Video Game Commercials Pt.2

15 May

Here are three more commercials for video games you might enjoy.

Psychedelic Video Therapy

13 May

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Apparently there are some bucks to be earned in psychedelic videos today. AV3X Digital Meditation Technology is a site which offers “a scientifically proven way to reset your mind” and “give you all the benefits of deep-state meditation without the long winded effort to get there” through the use of  “audio visual brainwave entertainment on DVD”. The benefits: “get rid of stress”, “negative energy” “inner conflict” “neurosis” and “low self esteem”.

The AV3X site has a sample video which can be viewed on the site itself. To me it just looks like another psychedelic video, similar to others we posted here in the past, although admittedly pretty cool and with lots of flickering.

I’m not surprised by the claims made about the product, however.  I always believed psychedelic videos were therapeutic. You know what they say: “A psychedelic video a day keeps the doctor away”. And that’s why we’re here.

Gonex- Saraswati

12 May

BLESS

Björk // Innocence

11 May

By Passion Pictures ( passion-pictures.com)

Need more Chad VanGaalen!!

10 May


Chad VanGaalen – Clinically dead


Chad VanGaalen – Red Hot Drops

J Mascis – Not Enough

Vexy posted an animated music video by Mr. VanGaalen a while back and I have also had this particular tryptaminic multimediumist on my list of weirdness to post for over half a year. This stream of consciousness type of stuff might not be groundbreaking, but hey: you can’t do this with any computer simulation! Watch out for the morphing little birdies in the sky with diamonds near the end of the third video.

Edit: I have to add these two to the collection, music also by Mr. VanGaalen under an alias:
Black Mold: Metal Spiderwebs
Black Mold: Fuck Ebay
More of them diamonds and some birdies too.

Infinitude – Diamond Realm Buddhas

9 May
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/19661424]

Diamond Realm Buddha has a beautiful Vimeo channel with a variety of spiritually disposed clips.  He specializes in making beautiful spiritual assemblages made from a number of different movies. This particular one is cut out of pieces out of  “Contact”, “The Fountain”and “2001”, and with an audio track by Millionyoung.

Video Game Commercials Pt.1

8 May

Video Game Commercials seem to be a big juicy invitation to let your imagination go bonkers. Short bursts of associations that are meant to fuel your desire to explore the logics and rules of crazy mushroom kingdoms.