Those 1960s commercials were quite psychedelic here’s an apt and awesome mix of these 1960s psychedelic commercials with some cool music from DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist.
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Sly and the Family Stone visit the Ed Sullivan show (Dance to the music) (1969)
10 MarSly and the family stone performing to the buttoned-up Ed Sullivan crowd in 1969. Just watch the looks on people’s faces as the group descends to the crowd.
And here’s another one by the family. Boy, these guys had style,.
Experimental 1960s psychedelia by Jud Yalkut
13 JanSome real history of psychedelic video. These are videos by 1960s experimental psychedelic film maker Jud Yalkut. Here a quote from a dissertation about Yalkut by psychedelic historian Chris Elcock.
USCO also collaborated with the filmmaker Jud Yalkut, who produced disorienting films allegedly in an attempt to ―find another way to hit people, to dislocate them, and then re-center them at the end – very much a trip analogy.‖102 Masters and Houston described his art as ―a torrent of hurtling colors and lights, forms blinking, whirling, and surging. Image follows image in rapid-fire succession, distorting awareness of time and space as the sensory bombardment continues.‖103 For Gerd Stern, a testimony of Yalkut‘s use of psychedelics is apparent in his heavy use of the in and out zoom,104 as can be seen in his collaborations with the polka-dot artist Yayoi Kusama.105
On March 1, 1968, Kusama presented her ―Self Obliteration‖ at the Cooper Square Arts Theater in front of a crowded audience. To accompany the happening, a band composed of late-teenagers called ―The Dayz Beyond‖ played psychedelic rock. Kusama entered from behind the stage, ―dressed in red leotards with white dots sporadically covering her outfit and wears a long-furred black coat.‖ She was soon followed by three semi-nude men who wore US flags around their waists. As she began to paint dots on their skin, more naked or near-naked participants joined in. Then, a fake policeman arrived on stage, swinging his club and shouting that everyone was under arrest. He was wrestled down to the floor and stripped. Kusama then produced a print of the Mona Lisa and began painting dots on it, while a film partly made and edited by Yalkut appeared on a screen, just above the band. The whole event was intensified by flashing strobes.106
(From:Elcock, Chris. “High New York: The Birth of A Psychedelic Subculture in the American City.” PhD thesis, University of Saskatchewan, 2015.)
The Velvet Underground, Nico – Sunday Morning – Video by James Eads
2 DecA new soothingly beautiful visual rendition for the Velvet Underground’s 1967 “Sunday Morning” to celebrate 50 years to The Banana Album.
“Allures”- Jordan Belson (1961)
24 NovI’m certain this link will deactivate soon, so watch quickly. You can purchase views of high quality Belson films on Vimeo through the center for visual music.
Acid Visions (5 Short Experimental Psychedelic Films from the 1960s)
12 Aughttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CuCRwbbFCY
Five short experimental psychedelic films from the 1960s.
1 – 00:00 Chas Wyndham, Airborn, 1968; 3 min. The soundtrack is instrumental psychedelic rock.
2 – 3:13 Jerry Abrams, Eyetoon, 1968; 8 min. The soundtrack is avant garde electronics.
3 – 10:58 Stan VanDerBeek, Film Form No. 1, 1970; 10 min. the soundtrack is sitar music.
4 – 21:20 Hy Hirsh, La Couleur de la Forme, 1960, 6min. the soundtrack is Jazz.
5 – 27:30 Dan Agnew, Doppler Effect Version II, 1969, 4.5 min. The soundtrack is avant garde electronics.
Expo 1967 and 1970 videos
21 JanAs Donald Drumpf enters the white house and we enter deeper into the historical abyss of late-capitalism it might be worth to remember just how cheerful things seemed some 50 years ago, the 1967 Montreal World Expo and in the Osaka 1970 Expo.
World exhibitions are a genre that has kind of passed on from the world, which is a shame. In the past they were used to offer a vision of the future, and though those futures seem kind of naive today, I kind of miss those people who tried giving us a universalisitc and hopeful vision for the planet and mankind. This might be a time to revive the world Expo (there’s one scheduled to happen in Dubai in 2020).
Watch the last two minutes of the clip from the Osaka 1970 expo and you are in for a treat with all those Japanese dancers waving the flags of all the nations of the earth. Oh the camaraderie!
Ken Nordine – Yellow
26 SepBack in the 1966 voice over artist Ken Nordine released a peculiar album named colors, with 34 tracks, each dedicated to a specific color on the color spectrum. Being the year when the psychedelic movement got launched into the public mainstream, it was a great year for an album about colors. It suffices to see this short music clip dedicated to the yellow color to get an idea of just what kind of genius went into this work… If you this has stimulated your interest, you might want to check out the full album here.
The Amazing World of Coral Reefs Fluorescence Parts 2 and 3
24 SepSome breath-taking videos of fluorescent underwater glory.
Bruce Conner: Looking for Mushrooms (1967)
6 SepIn 1962, Bruce Conner left San Francisco and moved to Mexico, apparently intending to “wait out the impending nuclear holocaust”. He spent about a year in Mexico before running out of cash and patience, and returning to the United States. During his year in Mexico, Conner hosted psychedelic guru Timothy Leary, who he had met on an earlier visit to New York. Conner and Leary occupied themselves with mushroom hunts in the Mexican countryside. It’s not clear whether their hunts were successful. But Conner’s staccato home-movies of their walks – combined with movies of previous mushroom hunts in San Francisco – became his film Looking for Mushrooms. The film rushes through the rustic landscape of rural Mexico, flitting past houses and through a crumbling graveyard.
Conner cut Looking for Mushrooms down to 100 feet in 1965 in order to fit it into an endless-loop cartridge for continuous projection. In 1967 he added a soundtrack by The Beatles (“Tomorrow Never Knows”).
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