One hell of a trippy ride in this video feedback clip.
(Link: Matan Lipman. Thanks!)
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Psychedelic Ke$ha – Your love is my drug
26 JulUltra-capitalistic mega-synthetic pop star Ke$ha has recently released a highly psychedelic video with lots of references to drug culture, psychedelic culture, shamanic culture and hippies.
This time Ke$ha, formerly in love only with the $ sign, wakes in the desert and finds herself in love with some hippie. Throughout the song she is dancing around in the desert, playing with motives of indigenous and shamanic culture (Wearing native-american styled clothing, putting on a totem mask of a tiger, or wearing glowing body painting reminding of shamanic wall and body painting) seeing hallucinations and singing about being addicted to this hippie like a “drug”, referring to herself as a “crackhead”.
Things get really wild around 1:30. In this sequence Ke$ha and the hippie are inside a boat in the middle of the desert, probably hallucinating on the “love drug”, they are trying to stir the boat through the sands when they go into a full fledged hallucination whose style kind of reminds one of “Yellow Submarine” animations and this eventually develops to fractals and more modern style psychedelic imagery.
Has Ke$ha had a new psychedelic revelation or is this just another cash-hallucination on the way to stardom. Time will tell, but we will be hoping for more psychedelic videos from Ke$ha in the future.
You can find an interesting and more world-conspiracy style interpretation of Ke$ha’s video here.
Alice in Wonderland (1966)
24 Jul
In 1966, the height of the psychedelic revolution, this television-play was made by British theater director Jonathan Miller. There is nothing Disney-like in this film, no talking animals and no flamboyant settings. Still, it has a strong haunting atmosphere of a deep plunge into the unconscious of the Victorian mind. The soundtrack is by Ravi Shankar.
Follow the white rabbit!
Tripmeister Eder – Tutenchamun – Goa Goa MPU, ja!?
23 JulGerman raver parody about a drugged Goa-party goer who encounters a policeman. Just unbelievably funny.
The memory exists in the building blocks
22 JulThis is a video art performance which is projected on Haydarpaşa Train Station in Istanbul. You can read more about this project here
A drugged rainbow
21 Jul“The camera could not capture the vivid intensity and brightness cause the camera wasn’t on drugs” wrote someone on YouTube regarding this hilarious video. I am not sure what these guys took, or if they even took anything but their reaction to this amazing rainbow sure leads me to believe that they were in some state of cosmic enlightenment, and the camera does manage to capture the mood of that moment. Funny, amazing video!
(Link: Ido Amin via Uri Baruchin. Thanks!)
Chemical Brothers – Under the Influence
19 JulAn amateur rendering of the Chemical Brothers’ “Under the Influence”. I love the way it makes every day life scenes seem highly psychedelic.
Attack of The Killer Ants
17 JulIt sounds tacky: an unexplained cosmic event causes ants to increase their intelligence and try to take over the world. But the movie “Phase IV”, 1974, By Saul Bass (who is best known for his opening titles and posters for Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and many others) is a slow, poetic and extremely beautiful film. I loved the way he films actual living ants and 1960’s futuristic technology: from squeaking gigantic computers to geodesic domes. will the end of life as we know it will come from these little creatures? or is their technocratic, authoritarian society only a symbol of our own?
Spaceship Babies – Spaceship Earth
16 Jul“You are me and I am you, that’s the kind of stuff love can do”. This beautiful paean to the spaceship earth would have made Buckminster Fuller shine.
(Link: Ido Amin via Uri Baruchin. Thanks!)
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