There is a very nice article on the experience of exploring the labyrinth of the map. To be found here.
Attack of The Killer Ants
17 JulIt sounds tacky: an unexplained cosmic event causes ants to increase their intelligence and try to take over the world. But the movie “Phase IV”, 1974, By Saul Bass (who is best known for his opening titles and posters for Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and many others) is a slow, poetic and extremely beautiful film. I loved the way he films actual living ants and 1960’s futuristic technology: from squeaking gigantic computers to geodesic domes. will the end of life as we know it will come from these little creatures? or is their technocratic, authoritarian society only a symbol of our own?
Spaceship Babies – Spaceship Earth
16 Jul“You are me and I am you, that’s the kind of stuff love can do”. This beautiful paean to the spaceship earth would have made Buckminster Fuller shine.
(Link: Ido Amin via Uri Baruchin. Thanks!)
Psychedelic Independence
15 JulBjork reminds us what “they” want us to be, and what “we” should do.
Gonjasufi – DedNd (clip – taken from A Sufi And A Killer)
12 JulLo-tech psychedelia.
(Link: Or Furst. Thanks!)
Space Channel 5 part 2
11 Jul..singing robots. check! duelling alien dancers. check!
what else do we need for a happening of intergalactic proportion? how about a president of the galaxy called Peace? sure! an evil plan to dance the galaxy mad? why not, bring it on! a pink haired pigtailed reporter on 20 cm pleatau space boots to guide us through all this? yeah, keep it going! all of ’em singing and dancing frantically inbetween explosions of color and light? that’s it! space channel 5.
You Look Familiar
10 JulFor some people, drugs are an escape. This clip may represent some of them. it also reminded me the surrealistic and even psychedelic look of animation in the 1920’s.
Rockfour – Time Machine
9 JulIsraeli rock group Rockfour has had a long fledged flirt with psychedelic elements. Their albums show a great amount of nostalgia to the sixties and their songs often sound like attempts to mimic the musical style of the sixties (Which is both fun, as well as at other times somewhat disappointing). Likewise, the videoclip for Rockfour’s time machine is a contemporary attempt to mimic the aesthetics of the psychedelic videoclip of the late sixities and early seventies (While making some homage to 1950’s sci-fi films). The result is a pretty accurate mimesis which blends these old motives in a fun way.
(Link: GGG. Thanks!)
