In the video “for common people” Japanese group Eel delivers Japanese pop-punk-psychedelia, kawaii puppets, splashing colors all around.
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Tag Archives: psychedelic
Katchafire “Collie Herb Man”
30 Mar
Music video made by Paul Herschell for the Sola Rosa Rimix of Katchafire’s Collie Herb Man.
Birdfractals
28 MarThey tell us that fractals are all around us in nature, but I didn’t know birds could do that. I don’t even know if this counts as some sort of fractal, most probably not, but it certainly looks like one of those old Microsoft Windows screen savers from the 90’s. Only one thousand times more amazing, because it’s all real, and it’s all birds! Quite spectacular!
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
25 Mar“In a world of my own all the flowers would have very extra-special powers/They would sit and talk with me for hours”. Alice only needed to go down a particular rabbit hole and drink that magic potion and she got to the place she wanted.
A one charming Alice from the classic 1951 Disney version of “Alice in Wonderland”.
KaiKai & KiKi – Takashi Murakami
21 Mar“Kaikai & Kiki” is 2005 teaser for a longer animation video by Takashi Murakami, which has been featured on the DPV before. While we haven’t been able to find the full film, we are always ecstatic at any new eye-candy from this Japanese genius of pop-culture psychedelia.
Life in Transition – John R. Dilworth
14 MarA surrealistic-psychedelic mixture with a bizarre frolicsome Dali figure, by American animator John R. Dilworth (2005).
Multiple Reality Acroyoga
13 MarThis is what happens when you mix acroyoga and string theory’s multiverse.
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Psych Out – The Psychedelic Jack Nicholson Film
11 MarI’ll cut to the bottom line first: “Psych Out” is one of the best psychedelic films of the sixties. Many cheap sensational movies were done about and around psychedelics during the end of the sixties, most of them were using the topic in a sensational way looking for an easy buck, and did not leave much of an impression.
“Psych out”, in contrast, is worth seeing for a few reasons. The first of which would be that it features the young Jack Nicholson who also wrote the script (This was actually Nicholson’s second script to deal with Psychedelics, after 1967’s “The Trip”, with Peter Fonda) which was heavily revised because it was deemed too experimental by the producers.
Secondly, for those interested in 1960s culture, it acts as a rare time capsule of the 1967’s San Francisco and allows a precious glimpse into the world of the hippies at the time: from Free Shops to Guerilla Theater scenes; while trying to deal, at least superficially, with some of the issues of the era like the ideas of ego dissolution, mind expansion and bad trips. Even the talks about the STP-Fright seem highly characteristic of the time and place (STP was a major drug problem in the Haight-Ashbury around the end of 1967).
While the film is not a piece of cheap anti-drug propaganda, it does seem to carry the message that psychedelics are probably the path to your destruction, or are a the very least a very risky business, best left to madmen. It features 2 bad trips and lots of weirded out folk that the film portrays as acid casualties.
Jenny’s bad STP trip, in the closing scene, has nightmarish, acid-horror film qualities, and does a pretty good cinematic work at making the viewer feel what it is like to be on a really bad trip. I won’t tell you the outcome, but if you want to watch the whole movie you can skip this particular one (which contains spoilers) and go to this link on YouTube where you can find the whole thing, divided into 9 parts.
Badger Badger
7 MarA trip gone wrong or a trip gone viral? This might be the most widely viewed psychedelic clip on the YouTube. And still, we have to ask, what’s the deal with the Amanita mushroom?
Fiat Lux
4 MarFiat Lux gives the history of the universe in 3:56. Everything from the big bang, to evolution, to shamanism.
Performed by HUGO (lyricist behind the RAP NEWS), with beat by TREATS (musicfromspeakers.com) and video collage by filmmaker TIM PARISH aka VERB STUDIOS, it is “an ode to the creative muses and the evolution of consciousness”.
The track is taken from the album ‘The Enlightenment Age’ available online through Reverb Nation here, and the video is dedicated “to the brilliant artists and creative minds that have inspired and evolved the human experience into manifesting a visionary society.”
I have a feeling Terrence McKenna would have liked this one.
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