Psychedelic
Malfunction
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 06, 2015 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Domestic, Surrealism, Psychedelic, 1950s
Psychedelic Wurlitzer Ad
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 03, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, Psychedelic, 1970s
Austin Animation Jam 2014
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 29, 2014 -
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Category: Surrealism, Cartoons, Psychedelic
Music Good Enough to Eat
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.
The Chocolate Watchband.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 06, 2013 -
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Category: Food, Chocolate, Junk Food, Music, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Psychedelic, 1960s
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids
How a sardonic adult western ever loaned its name to a sappy kids' cartoon will remain forever a mystery. Whose brainstorm was that? In any case, please revel in the ghastly animation.
And if this happens to be a potent nostalgic item for you, you can buy the recently released complete series at Warner Archives.
Wikipedia entry here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 23, 2013 -
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Category: Music, Spies and Secret Agents, Television, Cartoons, Psychedelic, 1970s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Your Brain on Mescaline
In the early 1950s, German photographer Leif Geiges created a series of abstract images in order to try to portray "exactly what the mescaline subject sees and hears during the course of his artificial psychosis" — as Newsweek put it, which ran his images in its Feb 23, 1953 issue. This was before mescaline was made illegal, back when psychiatrists still believed that the experience of taking mescaline approximated the mental state of a schizophrenic and therefore could be of great experimental value.As for the mescaline imagery itself, Newsweek explained:
"Wallpaper patterns come to life, change to demoniac caricatures, threaten immediate destruction"
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Posted By: Alex - Tue Sep 18, 2012 -
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Category: Dreams and Nightmares, Drugs, Psychedelic, Photography and Photographers, Science, 1950s, Brain, Mental Health and Insanity
Let Go
Please follow the singer's advice to abandon all hopes and preconceptions when viewing this video.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 23, 2012 -
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Category: Music, Surrealism, Cartoons, Psychedelic
L.S.D.
L.S.D from TRIPPPLE NIPPPLES on Vimeo.
Via Bruce Sterling's blog.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 21, 2012 -
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Category: Aliens, Armageddon and Apocalypses, Drugs, Psychedelic, Music, Surrealism, Body Painting
Drug Turns Man Into Human Blood Hound
I came across this brief article in a back issue of Fantastic Adventures magazine (August, 1940).
The source isn't the most credible. (I don't think Fantastic Adventures peer-reviewed its articles.) But the story made me curious enough to do a google search to try to figure out where this drug 'anhalonidin' came from. A lot of the search results discuss it in connection with the cactus lophophora, from which comes the drug peyote. That kinda makes sense, I guess. Though I'm not sure if lophophora grows all the way down in Colombia.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Mar 10, 2012 -
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Category: Drugs, Psychedelic, Experiments, Blood
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