The Daily Psychedelic Video

200 Motels

Frank Zappa’s 1971 feature film (93 minutes, directed with Tony Palmer) is not for the week at heart: it’s super intensive, slapstick psychedelia with a hardly noticeable plot line to follow – something about a band on an endless crazy tour. Zappa fans love it, to judge from imdb message boards, while the rest render it “unwatchable”; still no one claims to understand it.

200 motels features The Mothers Of Invention (Zappa himself plays a side role as a musician in the band), animation by Charles Swenson, Kieth Moon in drag as a Nun, and Ringo Star as Larry The Dwarf, who pretends to be Frank Zappa.

Tags: 70's psychedelia, animation, frank zappa

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Categories Psychedelic Cinema, Psychedelic Humor
Author vexyvex

Dream Machine

3 Oct

This is a video of the Dream Machine Brion Gysin and Ian Summerville invented and build after reading William Grey Walter‘s book, The Living Brain. It is a nice diy approach to making mechanical interfaces for psychedelic experiences and experiments widely available.

I hope to write a whole post on mechanical interfaces for conciousness manipulation (compared to chemical interfaces like psychoactive substances) soon.

You can find a java based online version of the dream machine here.

Tags: brion gysin, diy psychedelics, dream machine, machanical interface

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Categories Home Made Psychedelia, Psychedelic Art, psychedelic light shows, Pyschedelic Visualisations
Author 7eit

Synesthetic Reactor

2 Oct

The psychedelic experience allow one to relate differently to the world around us: it removes the differentiation between object and subject, and alters the perception of cause and effect. This is why I think an interface should be a major consideration in a psychedelic work of art; and the reson I picked the video above from Thor Johnson’s highly recommended Vimeo page.

These elastic tentacles reminded me of the game pod from David Cronenberg’s “Existenz”. A cyber-psychedelic masterpiece that will get a post of its own… soon!

Tags: 00's psychedelia, exhibition, interface, psychedelic, psychedelic art, visual feedback

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Categories Psychedelic Art, Psychedelic Computer Gaming, psychedelic light shows, Psychedelic Video Art
Author vexyvex

Blueberry Ayahusca Scene

1 Oct

“Blueberry”, A.K.A “Renegade” (2004) is one of the most psychedelic films I’ve ever seen. It is a rare film which has a trip-like feeling from beginning to end.

This sequence, portraying an Ayahuasca experience undergone by the hero Vincent Cassel near the end of the movie, is one of the most breathtaking depictions of the psychedelic experience ever created. Lo and behold.

Tags: 3d psychedelia, ayahuasca, French psychedelia, psychedelic, vincent cassel

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Categories 3D Psychedelia, Psychedelic Cinema, Psychedelic Visuals
Author Ido Hartogsohn

Alifib- Trip trip Pip pippy pippy pip pip

30 Sep

In almost every powerful trip, there is a moment when the language collapses. Words turn into sounds, sounds turn into colors, textures, and wordless thoughts. When we leave our language behind, we leave ours sense of “self” behind. It’s a beautiful moment of true joy, of unity with the world, of love. Robert Wyatt has a great talent to describe psychedelic situations in a very delicate way. Lately I find it hard to connect with the ultra colorful descriptions and manifestations of the psychedelic state. That colorful visualization or description is true in some way, but it reduces the essence of the psychedelic state-serenity.

In this song, Wyatt documents that moment when language collapses, or as he describes it here: Trip trip Pip pippy pippy pip pip.

Tags: language, music, Robert Wyatt

PHA-DROID @ source

29 Sep

Light painting by android jones and phong !

http://androidjones.net/phadroid/

Tags: andrew jones, android jones, light painting, phadroid, vjay

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Categories Psychedelic Art, psychedelic light shows, Pyschedelic Visualisations
Author baba samas

Lebensader (2009)

28 Sep

http://vimeo.com/10372290

A little girl finds the whole world inside a leaf in this animation by Angela Steffen, who also worked on Love & Theft.
Official website.

Tags: animation

Friends With You

27 Sep

Friends With You is a collaboration between two artists, Sam Borkson and Arturo Sandoval. They do everything from playgrounds to gallery shows, from a giant balloons parade to a hard cover book. all is meant to bring magic, luck and friendship!

Tags: 00's psychedelia, bunny, cute, illustration, installation, neo psychedelia, psychedelic animation, psychedelic art, public space

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Categories Psychedelic Art
Author vexyvex

Peter Parks macro photography loop

27 Sep

Peter Parks was behind the spectacular visual effects of Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain. A Wired article gives more details about the effects work.
Son Chris has followed in his father’s footsteps and together they run a company called Image Quest 3D. More examples in the links and in this showreel by Chris:

Tags: macro photography, visual effects

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Categories Psychedelic Art, Psychedelic Cinema
Author Holographic Elf

Lan Dan Deeee!

25 Sep

I came across a whole series of videos from japan, made from a 10 seconds footage of Roland McDonald shouting something in Japanese, That are applied over and over again with different video effects. It’s unexplainable, twisted and repetitive, like some experiences from drugs I don’t really want to do again. Roland McDonald is a disturbing figure to start with, the ecstatic smiley that represents the corporate giant playing with our mind. The Japanese videos in this post, and many others linked to them, are taking to extreme the overwhelming commercial trip that is the urban and the virtual world around us.