Lo-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!)
Birdy Nam Nam – The Parachute Ending
8 JulThis shroomy video is by the animator Steve Scott. If any of you are in NYC this upcoming weekend I recommend you go and check out the Tryptophantasia II – Psychedelic Animation Film Screening. You could check out works by Steve Scott and many other psychedelic animators, and I would be happy to hear your impressions.
The Maya Loop
7 Jul
Look for yourSelf, first of all. Video Feed-Back, (VFB, aka Larsen, OFB) is a metaphor for the process of self-awareness.
God, who is Nature as a conscious self, gazes at himself with wonder – and worlds arise.
All is perfect, beautiful and nonexistent. Whatever you see here is an invitation to observe the observer, the center of perception.
Chemical Brothers – Let Forever Be
6 JulAn amazing kaleidoscopic music clip by the Chemical Brothers. Jumping between dimensions and different perceptions of space and possibilities is what is.
(Link: Matan Lipman. Thanks!)
2001: A Space Odyssey
4 JulThis is just another classic of psychedelic visualization. And a gorgeous one it is!
The sequence within the movie is far too long to be reduced to a mere sign or reference to the psychedelic counter culture of the time (’68). It ripps right through the fabric of a reality of symbolic economies by showing itself immune to any reduction of meaning; it has to be watched.
After this sequence an orgy of symbolism takes place (in a baroque “life as dream” setting). But for the time of the flow of images even the anticipated junky for meaning will enjoy the spiritual peace of tripping.
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – “Lion in a Coma”
3 JulOri Toor had just finished Shenkar A of Design, and this is his final project. Shenkar’s annual exhibition will open on 15/7/2010.
This is gorgeous, Ori! Good luck in real life, and may you bring color and psychedelic goodness to all your future projects!
(Thanks Matan, for the link!)
