BM&W / "Wake Up and LIVE" live 1979

Bob Marley and the Wailers live in Oakland (California), 1979......Bob's concerts weren't just "good music and entertainment" but cathartic, liberating mass rituals and existential and spiritual experiences for everyone with working ears and open heart....

The Visionary Art of Toru Kamei

Fascinating, baroque and mythological oil paintings permeated by the sense of mortality by the Japanese artist Toru Kamei. You can meet him on facebook 

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Edouard Martinet's Mechanical Animals & Insects

The French artist Edouard Martinet makes wonderful sculptures of birds, insects and other creatures using parts of discarded cars, motorcycles, bicycles and household objects.

See the complete gallery and read details on the always cool Colossal 

When Cocaine was Hip and Trendy

While the counterculture always warned against the use of 'hard drugs' like speed and heroin, there was a time in the late seventies when for many cocaine became  just an enjoyable, exotic,chic and, reasonably 'mild' substance to share with friends at parties and  disco clubs. Head magazines like High Times published a lot of cocaine paraphernalia ads which winked at a great mass of new (and old) eager aficionados....
The short season of the cocaine paraphernalia ads finished in the (very) early 80s, when the people began to see the serious side-effects of cocaine abuse on themself and friends, the "war on drugs"became more and more intolerant and aggressive and the the narco cartels  ever more violent and intrusive (and often sponsored by far-right military dictatorships,) And the coke (re-) entered in the list of  dangerous and 'politically incorrect' drugs....
( See the complete gallery on Dangerous Minds )

Time 4 Boogie

Etta James, Carlos Santana, John Lee Hooker (and Paul Butterfield on harmonica) jamming together at Fillmore in San Francisco, 1986....
(The MC is the legendary psychedelic events promoter and rock impresario - Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother & the Holding Company, etc.- Bill Graham)
Etta James 
Carlos Santana 
John Lee Hooker  
Paul Butterfield 
 

"Monster Lizza" by J222Rgif

Celebrating the Healing Herb

More than 10.000 people gathered together in Golden Gate Park's Sharon Meadow and Hippie Hill (in San Francisco) to celebrate 420 (april 20), the international Cannabis day.... After 70+ years of irrational, unscientific and criminal prohibition, the Pandora's box is  wide open by now and things are slowly evolving in many countries.....
( more photos here )

The Psychedelic Digital Dimensions of Larry Carlson

"Through my artwork I aim to offer the viewer a new way of seeing the world, to describe life as magical, and rich with wonder, mystery and possibilities."
Larry Carlson is a (very talented) American visionary multi-media artist, well known in the 'psychedelic community' and among 'digital surreal art' lovers. Don't miss Larry's website if you like his mind-bending, DMT-like art....

Partisans

Italian anti-fascist partisans, April 25, 1945 (Liberation Day)

Casey Weldon
( Casey Weldon on Terra Incognita ) 

Kali 

Goodbye Mr Nice....(1945 - 2016)

For some reason I miss the sad news of Howard Marks' death, happened on April 10. Best known by many as 'Mr Nice' (one of the several aliases he adopted during his career as a preminent international hashish and marijuana smuggler between 1970 and 1987), Howard was a brilliant writer
and a cool, intelligent and loveable guy: you can read about his adventurous life in his famous autobio "Mr Nice" (1996), and read about the discovery, uses and trade of psychoactive substances on "Book of Dope Stories" (2001), his various travel adventures in "Senior Nice: Straight Life from Wales to South America" (2006) and also found his talent as a fiction writer in the thriller "Symphaty for the Devil" (2011). 
Rest in Peace brave brother.....
Read more about Mr Nice here and here

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The Prince Has Gone...

Prince  (June 7, 1958 - April 21, 2016)

"The Pleasure Principle" (1937) - Rene Magritte

The Pop-Up Illustrations of Mengyu Jenny Chan

Mengyu Jenny Chan is an American designer and art director........

The Miracle Garden of Dubai

Spreading over 72.000 square meters and featuring over 45 million flowers, the Miracle Garden of Dubai (UAE) is the world's largest natural flower garden. Beautiful and "psychedelic" for sure, but I wonder if they paid the right fee (for  reasonable daily work hours ) to the (most likely immigrant) workers....I suspect they didn't....
Miracle Garden
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Music for Change (again!) / "Honky Tonk Women"

Really cool and bluesy cover of the Rolling Stones' legendary song.....With Keb' Mo' and Mermans Mosengo (guitars & voices), the California Feet Warmers and Kevin Moore Jr (drums)

Music for Change / "Jah Guide"

Musi for Change is a global project formed by several (often street-) musicians from all over the world who interact  just for the joy of playing good music together and inspire the world with positive feelings and vibes.You can find many videos on the tube, in which they make wonderful covers of well known songs, often with famous musicians as special guests. Some time ago I posted the "Get Up Stand Up" cover with Keith Richards (here) and this time I choose a brilliant  version of the beautiful Peter Tosh's "Jah Guide" live in Australia. Enjoy!

The Dark Visionary Art of Zladizlaw Beksinski

Zladizlaw Beksinski (1929 - 2005) was a Polish surreal  painter, photographer and sculptor, whose 'dark surreal' apocalypticpaintings and drawing sare among the most representative and disturbing masterpieces of the genre.