Carolina Melis’s video are nothing less than enchanting. This particular is not only psychedelic, but also send sout a message against violence. Check out her Vimeo channel, She made my day look brigher.
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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
Toshio Matsumoto – White Hole (1979)
22 AprToshio Matsumoto (Born 1932) is a Japanese film director best known for his film “Funeral Parade of Roses” which influenced Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange”.
“While Hole” has an extremely similar aesthetic style to that of the final scenes of Kubrick’s “2001, a space oddessey“, that came out in the exact same year (1969), and with which so many hippies were tripping at the time.
Matsumoto has created some other pretty psychedelic experimental films over the years. His “White Hole” from 1979 has pretty some amazing visuals, even without taking into consideration that it was done more than 30 years ago. The film has a beautiful flow which makes for a benign trip, whereas Matsumoto’s “Phantom” contains what seems to be the most psychedelic yoga lesson ever as well as other beautiful and bizzare visuals.
(Link: Stefan Demey. Thanks!)
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!)
Gaga does it again
16 AprThe opening of Lady Gaga‘s new video is another sounds like a 1950s monster movie and looks like a pornographic version of a 1960s Klaedoscopic film.
To me, Gaga is the greatest Goddess of the age. Something to give your life for, in a world where it sometimes seems as if there is nothing left to believe in. A true spectacular simulacrum that performs the same function as the high priests of ancient Egypt, in creating a spectacle that makes us come to face to face with the transcendent and transcend our everyday lives.
Lady Gaga, to me, is a constant cry, to become more, to become eternal, to go beyond the limits of the possible. Many of her messages are very psychedelic, calling us to accept ourselves as beautiful creatures of the universe and explore our full potential: “”I’m beautiful in my way, ’cause God makes no mistakes; I’m on the right track, baby, I was born this way.””
“This is The Manifesto of Mother M onster.
On board a government owned alien territory in space, a birth of magnificent and magical proportions took place. But the birth was not finite, it was infinite. As the wombs numbered and the mitosis of the future began, it was perceived that this infamous moment in life is not temporal, it is eternal. And thus began the beginning of the new race– a race within the race of humanity– a race which bares no prejudice, no judgment, but boundless freedom. But on that same day, as the eternal mother hovered in the multi-verse, another more terrifying birth took place– the birth of evil. And as she herself split into two, rotating in agony between two ultimate forces, the pendulum of choice began its dance. It seems easy, you imagine, to gravitate instantly and unwaveringly towards good. But she wondered, ‘How can I protect something so perfect, without evil?”
Roger Glover And The Butterfly Ball – Love is All
15 Apr“Everybody’s got to live together. All the people got to understand. So love your neighbor like you love your brother. Come on and join the band. Well, all you need is love and understanding, ring the bell and let the people know. We’re so happy and we’re celebrating, come on and let your feelings show.” sang the frog, and how right he was.
“The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast” is a hippie concept album and from 1974 based on a children’s book of the same title.
This was the most ecstatic, charismatic frog I ever saw, and I think you will all agree with me, that we need more frogs like that one!
(Link: Tom Orgad. Thanks!)
The Transpersonals – I’m Not A Seeker I’m A Founder
8 Apr“My head is in Shambala”. I always found Bollywood films to be mysteriously psychedelic. This clip makes the obvious even more conspicuous. A beautiful Indian flavored psychedelic candy from The Transpersonals.
(Link: Matty. Thanks!)
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