A Japanese Alice in wonderland falls down the rabbit hole in search of her cellphone and lands in a bizarre world of magical brands. This amazing Superflat Louis Vitton by Takashi Murakami bears resemblance to Murakami’s Superflat First Love, and uses similar motives. It is a yet higher level of the mixture of the worlds of psychedelia, consumerism and magic.
Tag Archives: 00’s psychedelia
Army of Lovers – Let the Sun Shine In
8 JulWe, the generation who survived the new-age holocaust of the 1980s, the 1990s and the 2000s, deserve to have our private little revolutions with a tacky aftertaste of saccharine, and sicker than ever before.
Army of Lovers pervert one of the the 1960’s most powerful anthems into an amazing hyper-consumerist vision of curious colorful glowing perversions.
Baby Jesus celebrates his birthday
24 JunThis week, I celebrated my 33rd birthday. Being 33, which is of course the age in Jesus died of the course, made me think of Jesus, and the time to be reborn.
A friend of mine shared this link on my wall, to congratulate me for my birthday with a psychedelic-pop-Jesus. I was mesmerized.
Follow the Link – Talia Link’s Treasure of Life
21 May“The treasure of life is a digital advice book designed especially for you.” “This life changing book will redesign the way that you communicate. It will make a better you”.
Talia Link’s treasure of life is a sort of robotic self help guru in the form of a book, which is actually a self help video kit which is actually an art project. I found the whole thing to be very simulacric and enticingly technomystical.
“Follow the link”
(Link: Assaf. Thanks!)
Horror Psychedelia: Melvins- The Talking Horse
20 MayIf there is such a thing as horror psychedelia, this is it. This video manages to bridge the gap between hard rock and psychedelia, and has some pretty powerful moments near the end.
(Link: Anthony Abbatangelo. Thanks!)
The Incredible Story of ToastGirl
2 MayToastgirl is a Japanese performance artist, who began her career after one day, out of boredom, she decided to toast a piece of bread while holding a toaster on her head.
The rest is history. On her debut performance in Melbourne, Toastgirl made a toast on her head, while her friend’s band played. This was a sensation and she became widely known as toast-girl and has a strong following among young women inJapan (I’m not making any of this up. I swear!).
PS. I think I’m in lve.
(Link: Pi: Thanks!)
I met the walrus – Celebrating the one year Anniversary of The Daily Psychedelic Video
25 AprA little more than a year ago I was talking with a friend of mine who was showing me a cool psychedelic video by Gong. At the time I was keeping track of my growing collection of A class psychedelic videos links by sending them to my email account and arranging them with tags, planning to watch them all sometime when tripping heavily. The system worked. However, it seemed like a rather clumsy way to keep track of all these videos.
What if we would build an internet site dedicated to psychedelic videos, I asked my friend? “You could call this site ‘The Daily Psychedelic Video’ and feature a different psychedelic video each day, so that this would turn into an amazing bank for psychedelic videos. Every person in the world ever tripping next to an internet connection would always be able to go on the site and access a huge bank of high-quality psychedelic videos for him to trip with.”
The idea sounded cool, and what more, it didn’t seem to be too grandiose to be accomplished. It took me a while to get there, but a few weeks afterwards, on the 25th of April, the DPV went online. Less than two months later, in June, the site turned into a collaborative effort and pretty soon there were 6 different contributors participating in the DPV, each of them contributing on a regular weekday, together fashioning a psychedelic week, composed of the 6 distinct tastes of the six psychedelic video curators.
And there was also the 7th contributor, which were you, all the people who have been sending us links to cool psychedelic videos all over the past year, and who have been an integral part of the video selections published on the DPV during the previous year.
The DPV actually started out as an attempt to solve a very personal problem: how to organize my growing lists of psychedelic video selections for tripping? Since then, it has featured more the 320 psychedelic video posts (Despite being the DAILY psychedelic video, we sometimes lost track of the dates, so we’re not at 365 posts yet, but give us a break, after all it’s the daily PSYCHEDELIC video, and some time bending is to be expected…), and become perhaps the most extensive exploration into the realms of psychedelic aesthetics in video.
I never thought we would find so many psychedelic videos to keep us going that long, but the amazing thing is that the more we keep going, the more we find out about amazing stuff that’s being done out there by psychedelic artists and spirits worldwide.
As someone who is genuinely in love with this kind of art, it just personally makes me happy.
This year we will celebrate the DPV anniversary with a series of 3 interviews with 3 leading psychedelic video artists which will be published this Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, so be sure to check it out.
I’ve chosen to celebrate our one year anniversary with a beautiful rant from the man with the psychedelic glasses on the top of DPV page, John Lennon. This short interview with Lennon was done in 1969 by a 14 years old beatles-obsessed reporter who snuck into his hotel room. Lennon answered in his sort of witty, off handed and cosmic way, and 38 years later the 5 minute recording was turned into a highly associative and beautiful video by director Josh Raskin and illustrators James Braithwaite and Alex Kurina. The short film was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Animated Short and won the 2009 Emmy for ‘New Approaches’ (making it the first film to win an Emmy on behalf of the internet). Enjoy!
I want to thank all the people who made this all possible. Thank you to the different contributors, who have shown me new ways to think about ‘what is a psychedelic video’, thank you to all those who have sent us links to psychedelic videos, and another big thank you to all who keep coming back because they are interested in this kind of video, quite dissimilar from many of the other YouTube gags so popular these days, and yet much more satisfying, in my eyes at least.
Thank you all, and may we see many more mind-blowing psychedelic videos this year.
Ido Hartogsohn
Nippon Kazauwa
18 AprThis 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!
(Link: Tom Orgad. Thanks!)
A Psychedelic Promise: forever young by The Youth Group
10 AprDo you remember the commercial with the 250 000 colorful balls bouncing down the streets of San Francisco that has been featured on this blog a while ago? This video by the Youth Group shares the mood or promise evoked in images of the commercial. Both videos show montages of an effortless downhill movement by a multitude of individuals.
I must have watched this one a million times since I discovered it.
The Daily Psychedelic Video 