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IHOP Commercial 1969
19 FebOh yes, more pancakes please. Here’s a vintage commercial for the International Hpuse of Pancakes. I don’t really know what’s up with this one. Is that soundtrack original? Whatever the story, it’s definitely trippy.
The color of pommegranates
11 JanIf you liked Jodrowski’s Holy Mountain, you might also enjoy Parjanov’s The Color of Pommegrantes (1969) which might very well be called the soviet holy mountain.
My dear son Ephraim
6 NovBack in the 1960s, in the height of the psychedelic era, even the house band of the Israeli army’s infantry division “Nahal” started dabbling in psychedelics. Taking this well known traditional hymn “My dear son Ephraim” (Ha-Ben Yakir Li Ephraim), mixing it with some psychedelic sounds and images as well as some shtetel style, the band created this unique and quite extraordinary clip. Enjoy.
1960’s Intermission Time Animation
23 May
Many years ago, I found this great video tape of vintage drive-in movie intermission animations at Kim’s Mondo Video in NYC St.Mark’s Square-the same square in which I witnessed Joey Ramone crossing the street in requisite all black using a classy cane. When I saw this totally psychedelic Peter Max style animation, my lid was officially flipped. I especially love the cow that morphs into a hamburger. The video was released by Something Weird Video http://www.somethingweird.com/index.php
The Likely Girls – Village Green Machine
11 MayA well done 1960s style psychedelic video clip by the Village Green Machine.
“Celebration at Big Sur”- Baird Bryant and Johanna Demetrakas
28 Mar“Celebration at Big Sur” is a 1969 film documenting the Folk Festival at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA. You can find the entire film in bits on youtube and it’s available as a DVD. In this 9 minute clip, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young perform “Down by the River”. The performance starts at about 49 seconds into the clip, but there is a lot of good vintage hippy stuff before and after the music.
After spending last week travelling the California coast, I’m in total Pacific Ocean bliss. I love seeing all the aerial shots of the coastline in this film almost as much as I love David Crosby’s fringe jacket and Stephen Stills’ geometric poncho. The Esalen Institute is still around. You can sign up for self actualization workshops and retreats through their website.
I took these photos last year at a campground in Big Sur. You can see the bridge in the first photo in the aerial shots. What I didn’t get a photo of, was the terribly cute sea otter that would swim around the cove with a seagull perched upon his little belly.
Magic trip and Ken Kesey’s acid test videos
27 FebBack when acid was mostly known as an experimental drug examined for its exotic effects on consciousness and its potential therapeutic value, Ken Kesey was among the first who came up with the idea of using it to party and explore reality intuitively. After publishing his masterpiece “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, which he wrote on acid, inspired by the acid experiences he had in CIA LSD experiments, Kesey assembled a group of intrepid freakstes around him. Otherwise known as the merry pranksters, this merry group of psychonauts initiated the famous 1960’s acid tests, which were basically the first acid parties. All the while, they shot an experimental psychedelic film, while on acid. But the group couldn’t get its mind around how to edit the film, which was to be edited from hundreds of hours of fragmentary materials. Only in 2011 was it finally released as part of a film called “Magic Trip” about Kesey and his group, and if you have anything more than a fleeting interesting psychedelics I suggest you check it out soon to get better acquainted with Kesey and his group. Above the trailer to the magic trip video. Below, an animation accompanying a conversation with Jerry Garcia from the Grateful Dead, reminiscing about the acid tests. And finally, the acid test graduation film.
The Daily Psychedelic Video 