A classic of psychedelia. Jerry Abrams’s “Eyetoon” is an 8 minute short film, a kleidoscopic torrent of partly disturbing images, myterious shadows and “lysergic sex” made by one of the pioneers of the psychedelic film culture of the sixties.
The German voice which presents the clip in the beginning informs that “at the time, a critic called the film ‘a perfect synthesis of metaphysical, spiritual and sexual feelings'”.
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In recent weeks we have been receiving a fair amount of Cyriak links. Cyriak, an after effects artist whose work has already been featured here on the DPV is garnering millions upon millions of YouTube views and quickly becoming a sort of YouTube age Dali (At least in terms of popularity).
Imaginatively and often viciously playing around with simple photos and animations, Cyriak creates dream landscapes which often turn into bizzare nightmares. The result is compelling, though I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it for someone under the influence…
Why is this new Intel commercial for 2nd generation Intel Core i5 processor psychedelic?
Moving between alternate realities has forever been the trademark of the psychedelic (and shamanic) world view. Although here this happens on a computer desktop (Beware, as Terence McKenna said, computers and drugs are both ways to expand consciousness, only different parts of it…), one only needs to re-imagine this clip as the flight of the shaman through alternate realms, flying between parallel window-worlds in his other-worldly mission. And indeed, it seems to me that the dynamics of this video might remind many a psychedelic voyager, of their own trips, running, flying from inner demons, and into new frontiers through a labyrinth of window-worlds. Highly psychedelic!
I am not sure this is what they meant when they were talking about “flower power” in the sixties, but this clip, titled “psychedelic warfare” on YouTube has already reached more than 3 million views. So this is what happens when guns go psychedelic…
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There is something in common between looking at abstract art and the psychedelic experience: they both present to you a phenomena that can not be articulated. a beauty that can not be named, an image unmediated by culture. Abstract art at it’s best may depict not more nor less than what Aldous Huxley referred to as “Suchness”
The first episode of Mr. Freeman, one of the more original and refreshing internet phenomena to have emerged in the last years, is a dark pitched appeal to consumers of mass-reality to start questioning their existence as part of the big machine.
This primitivistically drawn and ingeniously dubbed video which became an huge internet hit on the russian web, is a like concentrated mind-shattering medicine to hyper-mediated brains fettered by mass-media and a call to go out of your mind, out of the constraints of culture (Remember Terence Mckenna who said: Culture is not your friend) and find the path to true existence.
(If you don’t speak Russian, it would be a good idea to turn on the captions “CC” button)
To my mind, Hideaki Anno’s Neon Genesis Evangelion is probably the best, most mind blowing television series ever created and probably the most mind shattering material ever recorded on video. It changed my life when I first watched it around 2003 and I will forever be grateful to it.
This episode, from episode 26, the final episdoe of the original series (1995) is part of the ultra-psychedelic trip Shinji is going through is mind right around the end of the world. It deals with very fundamental truths about who we are and draws from Freud , among others, but reminds me of a the death-rebirth experiences which one might undergo during a psychedelic experience. (“Death-Rebirth” is incidentally the name of one of the two Evangelion films which were produced in 1997).
(Link: Morning Glory. Thanks for reminding me!)
“Sometime you find yourself in a place that you just can’t explain and quite often it can be a little bit worrying. This animated short tells of one such occasion as our hero tries to express his feelings in the only way he can…”
OOIOO is a Japanese all-woman band, founded in 1995. Even how they describe themselves in their website is delirious:
“OOIOO has it’s own personality. It’s music has been changing into different color even it’s own music breath and regenerate itself. You can not find the balance of their music any where else. One and only existance.”
Clinic’s latest video features a rite of horned hippy puppets summoning up some entity. what could have been a disturbing or just a bizarre image is kept sweet and small by the explicit craft of puppetry.
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