The relation between psychedelic aesthetics and capitalism is one that still needs to be elaborated upon, and those who wish to explore it are welcome to explore “Psychedelic Commericals” category here on the site which features a selection of psychedelic commercials.
The “Shtusim” Yoghurt series has already been featured here on the site, as a prime example for an extremely psychedelic video. The new video from the “Shtusim” Yoghurt series, has the same vibe of psychedelic children in a la la land.
This amazing hand-drown video was made for the release of the album ‘Retrospect – a Decade of Fracture & Neptune’. made by Astrophonica, their production company.
Toshio Matsumoto (Born 1932) is a Japanese film director best known for his film “Funeral Parade of Roses” which influenced Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange”.
“While Hole” has an extremely similar aesthetic style to that of the final scenes of Kubrick’s “2001, a space oddessey“, that came out in the exact same year (1969), and with which so many hippies were tripping at the time.
Matsumoto has created some other pretty psychedelic experimental films over the years. His “White Hole” from 1979 has pretty some amazing visuals, even without taking into consideration that it was done more than 30 years ago. The film has a beautiful flow which makes for a benign trip, whereas Matsumoto’s “Phantom” contains what seems to be the most psychedelic yoga lesson ever as well as other beautiful and bizzare visuals.
If you have been to the beatles ashram in Rishikesh, you’ve probably saw all the egg-like meditation rooms. If you haven’t been there… than you must go there 🙂
Here are some of the more explicitly psychedelic samples from the portfolio of Maxime Bruneel, a young French graphic & motion designer currently working from New York.
This guy doesn’t even look Japanese but he will definitely raise your adrenaline levels. “Nippon Kazauwa” is a sort of freaky homage to Japanese freakiness, which was freaky enough itself – and it comes in the form of a new beverage which makes people crazy!
This… hair… it is a whole psychedelic planet on its own. I think it’s hypnotizing me, it’s pulling me in…
This guy is so super talented! Bring on the crazy rays!
The opening of Lady Gaga‘s new video is another sounds like a 1950s monster movie and looks like a pornographic version of a 1960s Klaedoscopic film.
To me, Gaga is the greatest Goddess of the age. Something to give your life for, in a world where it sometimes seems as if there is nothing left to believe in. A true spectacular simulacrum that performs the same function as the high priests of ancient Egypt, in creating a spectacle that makes us come to face to face with the transcendent and transcend our everyday lives.
Lady Gaga, to me, is a constant cry, to become more, to become eternal, to go beyond the limits of the possible. Many of her messages are very psychedelic, calling us to accept ourselves as beautiful creatures of the universe and explore our full potential: “”I’m beautiful in my way, ’cause God makes no mistakes; I’m on the right track, baby, I was born this way.””
“This is The Manifesto of Mother M onster.
On board a government owned alien territory in space, a birth of magnificent and magical proportions took place. But the birth was not finite, it was infinite. As the wombs numbered and the mitosis of the future began, it was perceived that this infamous moment in life is not temporal, it is eternal. And thus began the beginning of the new race– a race within the race of humanity– a race which bares no prejudice, no judgment, but boundless freedom. But on that same day, as the eternal mother hovered in the multi-verse, another more terrifying birth took place– the birth of evil. And as she herself split into two, rotating in agony between two ultimate forces, the pendulum of choice began its dance. It seems easy, you imagine, to gravitate instantly and unwaveringly towards good. But she wondered, ‘How can I protect something so perfect, without evil?”
“Everybody’s got to live together. All the people got to understand. So love your neighbor like you love your brother. Come on and join the band. Well, all you need is love and understanding, ring the bell and let the people know. We’re so happy and we’re celebrating, come on and let your feelings show.” sang the frog, and how right he was.
“The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast” is a hippie concept album and from 1974 based on a children’s book of the same title.
This was the most ecstatic, charismatic frog I ever saw, and I think you will all agree with me, that we need more frogs like that one!
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