Tag Archives: 00’s psychedelia

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!

Tripping with friends

18 Sep

“The camera won’t catch it” I told J. when we went on our last mushroom trip, overlooking the city from a near mountain. he said that whatever the camera can catch will be enough. It’s true, some home videos depicting people in trips can make one almost share their state of conciseness. maybe it’s because of the DIY feel, a slice of life that is less flamboyant but can be more convincing than any computer generated psychedelic visualization. So call some friends, film yourselves from the other side, just add a cheap effect and dreamy sound and spread your experience to millions of youtube viewers!

You can only find this place by drifting

11 Sep

The quiet man seems to be the only living soul in post apocalyptic deserted London. John Foxx, the British musician, compiled this spoken word record, which inspired graphic artist Jonathan Barnbrook in making this dream-like drift through an alien city.

a longer sound clip with beautiful old 16mm footage can be found here

OK Go – WTF?

23 Aug

This is a one-shot video, that to my opinion makes the most of the trail effect. I recommend the really sweet making-of video, where they coin the oh-so-useful term “Psychediculous”

Blame it on The Boogie

Psychedelic Windows

10 Aug

Weird things start to happen when you connect the video-out port of your video card into the capture card. Even a Microsoft software might freak out into some pretty psychedelic trip.

Sports Special

9 Aug

This sweet animation was made  to illustrate the remarkable achievement of a no-hitter in a major league game game of Dock Ellis, a player for the Pittsburgh Pirates, while he was on acid back in 1970.

Since steroids are well known as performance enhancers, athletes are scrutinized to prevent their abuse. Psychedelics, on the other hand, seem to be a possible influence on the artist who designed this film for the 2012 London Olympic Games:

7 Aug

Following the last few videos featured here, here’s more of the hipster-electronic-retro80s’-psychedelia, apparently a new genre in the art of video-clipping.

Rihanna – Rude Boy

2 Aug

After Keisha and Lady Gaga, now Rihanna with her own randy and highly psychedelic video clip.

Fuck Buttons – Surf Solar

13 Jul

Hallucinacia Penguina.

(Link: Nick. Thanks!)

You Look Familiar

10 Jul

For 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.