Halloween Best Make-Ups

...and costume...

( make-up pix via colorsandjoy )

Ink Mapping

Fanrtastic video mapping projection on tattoos by Oskar & Gaspar



Ink Mapping: Video Mapping Projection on Tattoos, by Oskar & Gaspar from Oskar & Gaspar on Vimeo.

Health and Society

Still Waiting.....

( via skygazercarba)

Gayageum Versions

Musicist Luna Lee plays the blues classic "The Thrill Has Gone" by B.B. King with a gayageum, a traditional Korean zyther-like string instrument with 12 strings, though some more recent variants have 21 or other number of strings.
( thanks The Presurfer )

Kings with Straw Mats

Poet, publisher, photographer, world travelerr and filmaker Ira Cohen (1935-2011) was one of the pioneers of the American counterculture. He edited the legendary underground magazine San Francisco Oracle and was a close friend of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin.
In 1998 he released "Kings with Straw Mats", a documentary filmed in Haridwar (India) at the Maha Kumbha Mela in 1986, documenting the fascinating world of Hindu wandering sadhus, with their ancient traditions and extreme ascetic practices. Ira films the holy men, mingle with them and often joyously partakes in their herbaceous sacrements... At the end he makes a pooja (offering) to the memory and soul of Julian Beck, founder of the Living Theatre...
Ira Cohen wiki 
Ira Cohen webpage 

The Sound of..... Carrot !

Linsey Pollak, an Australian musician, instrument maker, composer, music director and community music facilitator, shows how to build in few minutes a "carrot clarinet", with an electric drill, a sax mouthpiece and... yes... a carrot !

Entheogen Pix of the Day

(via Jupiter Seltzer)

Aphorism of the Day

"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute."
Gladys B. Stern (1890-1973)

Psychedelicized Vintage Book Covers

German motion designer Henning M. Lederer animated 55 retro "Op art" book covers from the 50s, '60s and 70s with hipnotic, psychedelic results....
(thanks Dangerous Minds)


Covers from Henning M. Lederer on Vimeo.

The Sunday GIF

Tim Leary's Last Trip

Thirty after the legendary Merry Pranksters' tour of the USA on board of the "Further" bus, Ken Kesey and some of the old Pranksters reunite with Tim Leary in mid-90s ro celebrate the psychedelic spirit of the sixties and renew its message...... Shortly after, Tim's already compromised health further deteriorated and the good doctor died at 75 on May 31, 1996.
Timothy Leary 
Ken Kesey 

Weaving the Bridge at Q'eswachaka

Every year local communities on either side of the Apurimac River Canyon in Southern Peru use traditional Inca engineering techniques to rebuild the Q'eswachaka Bridge. They take down the old bridge and built the new one in just three days.....

Psy Press UK Journal vol V out now !

A new issue of the fantastic Psychedelic Press Journal (Vol V, 2015) is available from the PsyPress UK webshop
In this (14th) journal you will find a short story by James Oroc (author of "Tryptamine Palace" book), the experience of Jani Pestana in two shamanic rituals alongside the theory of  'embodied knowledge', various practical strategies and methods of setting up and running medicine circles by Julian Vayne, an extract from Graham St John's forthcoming book on the cultural history of DMT, a writing by David Luke on San Pedro cactus and psychic abilities and Roger Keen's second part of his exploration of psychedelia and the movies....
See more details here
PSYCHEDELIC PRESS UK Vol V 2015

Cactus Flower of the Day

The Mind-Manifesting Digital Art of Luminokaya

LUMINOKAYA 

Lee Perry's Vision of Paradise

Legendary Jamaican musicist, producer, sound alchemist Lee "Scratch" Perry (b. 1936) is one of the original creators of DUB music, initially just the instrumental b-side of reggae hits "psychedelically" modified with echoes, reverberes etc. and then developed in a reggae "sub genre" on its own.
To celebrate this astounding crazy music genius, director Volker Schaner has realized "Vision of Paradise", a "fairytale documentary" about Lee's extraordinary life...
I hope it will be  available to the public asap.....
Lee Perry 

Human Be-in 1967

A short documentary about he famous Human Be-in held in January 1967 in the Golden Gate Park of San Francisco, celebrating the counterculture and starting the legendary "summer of love" of San Francisco....With "special guest stars" like Allen Ginsberg, Tim Leary, Gary Snyder and the Grateful Dead,  music by Blue Cheer and light show by Abrams & McKay....
( read more about the documentary on Dangerous Minds )

Zoetrope Cake

French director and animator Alexandre Dubosc and his animated zoetrope cake called Melting POP 
Alexandre Dubosc 
(thanks Colossal)




Melting POP from Alexandre DUBOSC on Vimeo.

Children of the Sun

" Plants give us nourishment, they give us healing remedies and they give us medicaments for consciousness. From sunlight, plants produce our food and the air we breathe. And our consciousness is ultimately nothing other than the highest transformation of this solar energy. We are the children of the sun ! "
(Albert Hofmann, 1906-2008)

The Collage Art of Ffo

Ffo  makes eye-catching 'art-nouveau'/anatomical collages. See gallery (and webshop) here 

The GIF art of Dave Strick

If you like "artistic GIFs", you can find something interesting on Dave Strick's webpage...
Dave Strick

Human

What is it that makes us human? Is it that we love, that we fight ? That we laugh ? Cry ? Our curiosity ? The quest for discovery ? 
Driven by these questions, filmmaker and artist Yann Arthus-Bertrand spent three years collecting real-life stories from 2,000 women and men in 60 countries...