Got to love videos made by fans, and got to love those clouds!
Ultimaya // Larsenball //
16 Mar
Here is a sample of my actual work in progress in generative video feedback.
more to come soon 😉
video: Samas (Ultimaya/Le complexe du crabe)
Juggling: Joa.na! (Le complexe du crabe)
Music: Hightone (outback)
Verse (2010)
15 MarTony Comley presents to us a visual incarnation of his poetry. Prepare to get your brain soaked in the most lysergic way possible.
Life in Transition – John R. Dilworth
14 MarA surrealistic-psychedelic mixture with a bizarre frolicsome Dali figure, by American animator John R. Dilworth (2005).
Mirages by Sabrina Rattlé
13 MarMusic by Le Révélateur.
A breathtakingly beautiful exploration of the geometries of light and color beyond the limitations of space.
Sabrina Rattlé is a Canadian exerimental film maker and Mirages is a collaboration with the Canadian musician Le Révélateur. While watching the film one feels that the sound is really woven into the images.
Multiple Reality Acroyoga
13 MarThis is what happens when you mix acroyoga and string theory’s multiverse.
(Link: Shalom. Thanks!)
Psych Out – The Psychedelic Jack Nicholson Film
11 MarI’ll cut to the bottom line first: “Psych Out” is one of the best psychedelic films of the sixties. Many  cheap sensational movies were done about and around psychedelics during the end of the sixties, most of them were using the topic in a sensational way looking for an easy buck, and did not leave much of an impression.
“Psych out”, in contrast, is worth seeing for a few reasons. The first of which would be that it features the young Jack Nicholson who also wrote the script (This was actually Nicholson’s second script to deal with Psychedelics, after 1967’s “The Trip”, with Peter Fonda) which was heavily revised because it was deemed too experimental by the producers.
Secondly, for those interested in 1960s culture, it acts as a rare time capsule of the 1967’s San Francisco and allows a precious glimpse into the world of the hippies at the time: from Free Shops to Guerilla Theater scenes; while trying to deal, at least superficially, with some of the issues of the era like the ideas of ego dissolution, mind expansion and bad trips. Even the talks about the STP-Fright seem highly characteristic of the time and place (STP was a major drug problem in the Haight-Ashbury around the end of 1967).
While the film is not a piece of cheap anti-drug propaganda, it does seem to carry the message that psychedelics are probably the path to your destruction, or are a the very least a very risky business, best left to madmen. It features 2 bad trips and lots of weirded out folk that the film portrays as acid casualties.
Jenny’s bad STP trip, in the closing scene, has nightmarish, acid-horror film qualities, and does a pretty good cinematic work at making the viewer feel what it is like to be on a really bad trip. I won’t tell you the outcome, but if you want to watch the whole movie you can skip this particular one (which contains spoilers) and go to this link on YouTube where you can find the whole thing, divided into 9 parts.
Seymour Bits – Put It Back Down
8 MarA surreal trip into a realm of bizarre entities, has some sexy bits in it.
Dir.: Michiel ten Horn
Badger Badger
7 MarA trip gone wrong or a trip gone viral? This might be the most widely viewed psychedelic clip on the YouTube. And still, we have to ask, what’s the deal with the Amanita mushroom?
epic psychedelic battles of pong
6 MarPong is a classic in the history of video games. While there might not be much to see, everyone will recognize it instantly.
Now Plasma Pong adds a little twist to the familiar and classic Atari design by letting you manipulate the trajectory of the ball through the plasma surrounding it.
Another great thing about the game is that it includes a sandbox mode where you can just play around with the real-time fluid and particle effects for the joy of it.
You can download the game for free (there is also a mac version).
