Frank Zappa (& Terry Bozzio) live

When (rock) music was still uncompromising great music....Frank Zappa and his band  performing live.....(with a wild Terry Bozzio on drums)
(from "Baby Snakes" DVD)

The Sunday GIF

The (Disturbing) Surreal Art of C.R. Van Minnen

American visionary artist Christian Rex Van Minnen skillfully mixes pop surrealism and classical painting. If you like the oil paintings shown here, you can visit Van Minnen's website here or find him on facebook  

Banning Extreme Sports ??

Following the same logic that rigidly ban  psychedelic drugs  for their possible advert effects, governments should coherently ban also risky extreme sports like skydiving, bunjee jumping,mountaineering or even horseriding.
So thhe good people at Psychedelic Society have thought to send a petition to the English minister of sport, asking for more stringent and severe measures against dangerous sports....
Obviously is a satirical initiative, but you can actually sign the petition here.... Drug prohibitionism is slowly crumbling in the Western world and this petition might be just another little jolt to the sleeping consciousness of too many politicians....

The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band / "Black Magic Woman" live

Mick Fleetwood, English drummer and co-founder of the famous rock band Fleetwood Mac- performing live with his group.....(2008)
Enjoy !!

The Visionary Art of Wayne Edson Bryan

Wayne Edson Bryan is an American talented artist born in Mineola, New York, in 1957. If you like these few examples of his "diagrammatic or layered yeroglyfic approach to imagery", visit WEB website here 

Growing Old with Style and Automedicating....

Medical cannabis is ever more becoming an international reality, but while in many countries  the patients are still in trouble getting their medicine (due to criminal, obsolete and irrational laws) in some places like Colorado, Uruguay or Israel the cannabis therapy is perfectly legal and its healing effects amply recognized by doctors and patients.....See here what's currently happening in California, with many elder people using the healing herb with very good results....

LSD kills? Yes, if they put you in jail for life....

On December 16, 2014, deadhead, father and artist Roderick "Rudd" Walker died in prison at the age of 42 for cardiac arrest. In 2005, even though he was never found to possess LSD  and just on the testimony of undercover federal agents and defendants trying to reduce their own prison terms, he was sentenced to life imprisonment without any possibility of parole (because of two prior convictions on his record.)
Rudd's shocking harsh sentence and lack of proper medical assistance in prison, eventually killed him.

To read about more people serving long or life sentences in prison for non-violent drug offenses and sign petition calling on President Obama, the Department of Justice and state governors to grant clemency to these men and women, visit the Clemency Project at Change.org  

The Consumerist System

At first sight everything seems just perfect and shining, but if you see better....

Nick Sand, Psychedelic (Al)Chemist

Nick Sand (b. 1941) has been an underground psychedelic chemist from 1966-1996. During the sixties he was the chief chemist of Tim Leary's League for Spiritual Discovery , the main source of  LSD (in particular Orange Sunshine) for the Brotherhood of Eternal Love and is considered the first underground chemist to have synthesized DMT.  In 1976 he was sentenced to 15 years in a federal penitentiary, then he was released on $ 50.000 bail and went underground and remained a fugitive for decades, continuing his mission of synthesizing psychedelic "sacraments." He was arrested again in 1996 in Canada and served time in prison through 2001.
Nick is a thoughtful and spiritual person and a beloved and respected member of the international psychedelic community.
Read Nick's bio here   
See the video below and another one here  

Daevid Allen rip

Daevid Allen,  legendary psychedelic rock musician and poet, founding member of  Soft Machine and Gong has passed away yesterday at 77. In February, Daevid stated that  his time had come: he only had six months to live and to begin "starting the process of letting go of me, of mourning then transforming and celebrating this death coming up"....
I was lucky enough to see Daevid and Gong performing live at Melkweg in Amsterdam, 1974. It was one of the best "mind-manifesting" concerts of my life and I'll keep that sweet and powerful memory forever....Rest in peace brother...

Burroughs & Lawrence

"Burroughs & Lawrence", produced and directed by Chris Snipes, is episode 7 of  "Our Town", a series of films dedicated to Lawrence, Kansas (USA), the university town where William S. Burroughs, the great counterculture icon and writer lived the last 17 years of hishis long and adventurous life....Enjoy !



Our Town: Episode 7- William S. Burroughs & Lawrence from Moon Drunk Films on Vimeo.

The Visionary Art of El Gato Chimney

El Gato Chimney was born in 1981 in Milan, where he currently lives and works.
He started his career as a self taught artist, developing an early interest in graffiti that made him pursue a successful journey into street art.
As the years went by, thanks to the acquisition of new knowledge and the need to continuously improve his technical skills, the artist began to prefer to work in his studio, dedicating his time to an introspective research to depict immaterial things, such as emotions and inner visions.....
Visit El Gato's website here 

Janis' "Me and Bobby McGee"

...acoustic version.....and nice photo selection....Janis :-)

Drinking the Jungle

Ceremonially drinking ayahuasca on site, in the Peruvian jungle....A documentary by Andrea Gilbert (featuring my friend James W. Jesso )



Drinking The Jungle from Andrea Gilbert on Vimeo.

Looking for Details....

....time to rewrite history ?? 

Celebrating in Ozora 2014

When our people congregate, it's always music, creativity, love and good vibes....from the free rock festivals of the 60s, 70s and 80s (and the old and new Rainbow Gatherings) to the rave/psytrance scene of today (legal and "illegal"....)
Ozora is a "psychedelic tribal festival"  held yearly in Hungary and this is the official video of the 2014 edition.....
Ozora 
(thanks reggaepsyc)

The Love Pageant Rally 1966

On October 6, 1966 - the day LSD became illegal in the USA - Allen Cohen and Michael Bowen called to the gathering of the American freak people  in the Golden Gate Park of S. Francisco for a Love Pageant Rally  to celebrate the psychedelic molecule. See a video of the event here 
Love Pageant Rally 

The Asteroid Impact

A scary simulation of the impact of a large asteroid (310 miles / 500 km diameter) on the Earth surface (precisely the Pacific Ocean) and its terrifying effects....From Discovery Channel
See on full screen....
(thanks The Presurfer)

On Monotheism

The Strange Evocative Art of Piia Lethi

Piia Lethi (b. 1973) is an interesting artist from Finland. You can find her here 

Pandemonio by Valerio Spinelli

Valerio Spinelli (b. 1980 in Rome) is an Italian graphic designer, illustrator, animator and sound designer. In Pandemonio he creates bizarre creatures by overlapping what seem like felt circles....
You can find other Valerio's creative projects on Pixelpongo 


P A N D E M O N I O from pixelpongo on Vimeo.