The Visionary Art of Marc Burckhardt

Marc Burckhardt (b. in Germany in 1962)  is an American painter and illustrator. Marc's paintings grace many private collection, for example that of the estate of Johnny Cash who commisioned Burckhardt a portrait of his wife June Carter. As an illustrator, Burckhardt has realized many books and album/CD covers and his illustrations have been published by several magazines like Rolling Stone, Atlantic Monthly and Wired.
Make a visit to his webstite here  

Chocolate Bunny

One of the weirdest videos  I have seen recently....poor rabbits---!
(by Lernert & Sander)

Chocolate Bunny from Lernert & Sander on Vimeo.

The Psychedelic Museum

The Psychedelic Museum was officially launched on Halloween of this year, and just a couple of weeks later, on Friday the 18th November the museum presented its first public show. This historic event took place at the Psychedelic Press Journal’s cover art exhibition ‘Eyes of Albion’ at The Kennington Residency, London. These combined events attracted over 200 visitors on this one evening, despite the cold weather.
The Psychedelic Museum exists to research, preserve and share stories from all expressions of psychedelic culture.
Get all the info about The Psychedelic Museum here and support the project. 


The Psychedelic Museum from julian vayne on Vimeo.

In the Fungine World

Amazing timelapse footages from the new Planet Earth II series on BBC One showing different fungi while they bloom at night.
(See more here)

Datura4 / "Fools Gold Rush"

If you like the (neo) psychedelic rock/blues, don't miss the sound of Datura4 from Fremantle, Western Australia.
Datura4  
(thanks ReggaePsych)

(art by Valerio Carrubba)

Inkteraction

You can see the complete Alex Solis' "Inkteration" series  here

The Life and Times of BEAR

Robert Greenfield's "Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III" is an intriguing freshly published biography of Augustus Owsley Stanley (1935-2011) ), the legendary sound engineer of the Grateful Dead and the elusive underground psychedelic chemist who fueled the American counterculture of the sixties synthesizing million doses of top quality LSD, branded with now mythical names like "Orange Sunshine" and "White Lightning".
Read an interesting interview with the author here 

The Surreal Art of Dan Quintana

Los Angeles-based and self-taught artist Dan Quintana has been compared to a 20th century Hieronymus Bosch.... See the complete gallery of paintings and read about the artist on dangerousminds
(Dan Quintana) 

Orange Sunshine

"Orange Sunshine" is a new doc by director William A. Kirkley dedicated to the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, the legendary Californian hippie/surfer community that tried to spread the 'psychedelic verb' to the world by smuggling massive quantities of  top-quality hash, pot and acid during the sixties.
Read more about the BEL and "Orange Sunshine" here 

Orange Sunshine Trailer from William Kirkley on Vimeo.

The Rock Faces Museum

In Chichibu, Japan, you can find a museum called Chinsekikan ("Hall of Curious Rocks") that host an impressive collection of rocks that resemble human faces.
Here I post just few images (hey isn't that Trump??!) but you can see and read more on the always cool ThisIsColossal .

(source)

The Disturbing (Sur)rrealistic Sculps of Johnson Tsang

Johnson Tsang is a sculptor and ceramic artist from Hong Kong who skillfully blends together a first class realistic techniques with a powerful visionary imagination.
Johnson Tsang's blog 

Farewell to a Poet

Leonard Cohen (Sept. 21, 1934 - Nov. 7, 2016)

The Surreal Art of Paco Pomet

I like a lot the weird oil paintings of Paco Pomet, a Spanish visionary artist (Granada, 1970) who loves to add strange. eye-catching visual mofifications to 'vintage' landscapes and situations, completely changing the subject and the viewer's perception...
( the last picture below is "The Theologian"... )
Paco's Web 

(Zolloc)

Unsatisfying

The frustrating, annoying, disappointing little things of everyday life....A fuuny animation by Parallel Studio...
( source )

UNSATISFYING from PARALLEL STUDIO on Vimeo.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan / "Tumhein Dillagi Bhool Jani"

I continue to post songs of the magnificient, devotional "qawwali music" of Pakistan. Here is the suberb, inspired singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and his first class 'band'....
The intro is rather long, as ever in "qawwali" tradition, the song really starts at min. 3.00
( see one of my previous posts on 'qawwali' here )

(source: UnGifDansTaGueule)

The Stunning Mandala Art of Asmahan Mosleh

Asmahan A. Mosleh is a UK-based artist who makes beautiful intricate mandalas, often gilded with gold paint. Read and see more on ThisIsColossal)

Amazing Psychedelic Nature

Fauna and flora worlds are an explosion of forms and colors indeed. Sometimes they are very bizarre, sometimes scary and/or disgusting, sometimes decidely 'psychedelic' !
Find out a stunning photo gallery of the strangest creaturest on earth on Real Monstrosities