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Laughter is a strong and common mind alter-er.
Here, a whole car on a subway gets a strong mind alteration by making each other burst into laughter, giving everyone around a raise in endorphins. Even watching the video gets the watcher into another, humorous consciousness. Prepare for a gleeful, substance-less high (Except for the chemicals of pleasure in your brain, of course).
Norman McLaren was an oscar winning animation director who did some groundbreaking work from the 1940s to the 1970s. McLaren “Begone Dull Care” from 1949, was painted directly on film, to create a visual representation of Oscar Peterson’s superb piano – perhaps one of the first video clips ever.
McLaren’s work has a special exploratory quality. You can find more of it on YouTube.
A psychedelic commercial for a psychedelic memoir. Looks promising.
Back in the sixties Timothy Leary used to say (look up his 1966 playboy interview for the full discussion) LSD can give a woman hundreds of orgasms in one trip. This one brought me back to those pleasurable climatic days from the summer of love.
One of Disney’s weirdest films, an a adaption to the surreal classic “Alice in Wonderland”, was set to the Beatles’ psychedelic music . I love the result.
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Art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, expressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects, unexpected juxtapositions, etc.
The art movement of surrealism was a great influence on the psychedelia of the 60’s. The hallucinatory nature of the ideas that the surrealists fished from their unconscious, was embraced by the psychedelic movement and adapted for their creations. Well-known psych-rock songs of the era, such as “White Rabbit” and “I am the Walrus“, were heavily influenced by surrealism.
The surrealists became aware of the connection between their approach and the psychedelic experience. Salvador Dali himself was quoted saying in an interview (in response to the question, does he take drugs to make his artwork) “I don’t do drugs; I am drugs.”
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Crazy ass video made me laugh and wish I was high.
(Link: Anna Fitzgerald)
What could it be?
I call it emboginationachine, a machine that embodies imagination.
A really cool video clip.
A suprising psychedelic dancing video from the 80s, created by Ed Tannenbaum in 1982, with music by Might Dog and Dancing by PonsMaar.
(Link: Anna Fitzgerald. Thanks!)
The Daily Psychedelic Video 