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A winter wonderland battle in Superjail! involves lasers, yetis, severed limbs, and getting your tongue stuck on a frozen co-worker’s boob.
Superjail! is Adult Swim’s look at the harsh reality of prison life. Superjail! is home to the worst criminals humanity has to offer, but their violence pales in comparison to the bubbly sadism of The Warden, who delights in inventing whimsical death machines to control his inmates.
Visit Adult Swim’s website to watch full episodes of Superjail!
An artist who paints with a combination of metaphysical, spiritual, and music themes, Tokio Aoyama hails from a tiny town in the north of Japan.
Tokio has painted murals and has done commission work for clients all over the world. He has designed art for record labels Epistrophik Peach Sound, Mello Music, Moamoo, and Jazzy Sport.
Tokio has done many private commissions for domestic and international clients. He has also done many live paintings at Music events such as Appi Jazzy Sport, Japan.
Tokio Aoyama’s trippy art has a hip hop feel with psychedelic undertones. Enjoy this collection of his fine work.
Official Website | Tokio Aoyama
This trippy animation is loaded with visual references to the writings of Franz Kafka and Hunter S. Thompson.
The psychedelic piece of art was created by String Theory for online bookseller Good Books International that donates 100% of its profits to Oxfam, an organization that fights poverty.
We dug through the darkest recesses of our minds and studio to create original music and sound design for this masterpiece. Working with squirming, analog-tape leeches, moaning coeds, screaming guitar goats, and brain-exploding psychedelia, we were certainly in our element.
Plus, it’s always fun to rock out and get a little weird for a good cause! – String Theory
Paolo Ceric creates bizarre GIFs, and he’s really good at it!
His trippy animated GIFs seem to be inspired by sacred geometry and so-called impossible objects – think the Penrose stairs.
They’re fun to look at – especially if you’re already tripping – sorta like most things, I guess.
Hope you like them, sound off in the comments below.
Abby Martin‘s speech about the artist’s task in society mixed with awesome music by Explosions in the Sky and a selection of artworks by visionary artists. (Editor’s Note: Unfortunately the video was deleted by the author. Please check out the visionary art resources below.)
All art is a question mark, but only you know the answer to. In the broader picture, the warped value system in which we live has conditioned us to consider art as something unattainable, something unapproachable, as a rich man’s hobby.
Because the “powers that be” know that only through artistic expression and imagination we can envision a better world and work to create one. – Abby Martin
Street Art promoting social awareness from Mear One:
Visions of space and the future from Japanese culture in the 70s and 80s.
One of our favorite sites, 50watts’ has a running feature where they showcase Japanese sci fi art scans from their ever-growing collections of books and catalogs on Japanese illustration and design.
We love looking through old book illustrations, and the sci-fi genre always is chalk-full of the most surreal, colorful, and bizarre. This is a fantastic collection of obscure artists and their fantastic imaginations that you would otherwise never see! – Juxtapose
Visit 50 Watts for the full collection of Space Teriyaki
Fear and Loathing has one of the best trip scenes of any drug involved movie. The entire movie is pretty much one long drug-fueled crazy adventure.
The film has become a true cult smash and is sampled over and over again in popular culture from music, to art to just about anywhere psychedelic drugs are involved.
A film that screams “product of its time,” The Holy Mountain was Alejandro Jodorowsky’s dizzying elegy to the sex, drugs and spiritual awakening of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
A Christ-like vagrant and thief wanders through a perverse and unfriendly land until he encounters an enlightened one, who gathers the thief and six of the world’s most powerful individuals for a spiritual pilgrimage. If you want to see the conquest of Mexico re-enacted by reptiles, soldiers shoot innocent people as birds fly from their wounds, and a wizard turn feces into gold, this is the movie for you.
The central members of the cast were said to have spent three months doing various spiritual exercises guided by Oscar Ichazo of the Arica Institute. The Arica training features Zen, Sufi and yoga exercises along with eclectic concepts drawn from the Kabbalah, the I Ching and the teachings of Gurdjieff.
After the training, the group lived for one month communally in Jodorowsky’s home before shooting began.
As far as trippy bizarre movies go – this takes the cake.
1940 – Over 7 decades ago, and still one of the top psychedelic animated films ever made. The third feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film consists of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski, seven of which are performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Fantasia and mind enhancing drugs go together like peanut butter and jelly. These days it is quite popular to discover what music synchs with Fantasia. Much like people do with Pink Floyds’ music synched to the Wizard Of Oz. Disney jumped on the 60’s hippy style and re-imaged the movie in the late 60s with a very different promotional poster, which included magic mushrooms.
Another music based film, Yellow Submarine is a 1968 British animated feature film based on the music of The Beatles. It is also the title for the soundtrack album to the feature film, released as part of The Beatles’ music catalog.
The film received a widely positive reception from critics and audiences alike. It is also credited with bringing more interest in animation as a serious art form.
The animation of Yellow Submarine has sometimes falsely been attributed to the famous psychedelic pop art artist of the era, Peter Max, but the film’s art director was Heinz Edelmann.
As far as classic animation goes its one of the best movies ever.
2001 contains one of the most memorable trippy scenes to ever hit cinema screens. Doubly impressive when considering it was made with 1968 technology.
As the film climaxes, the main character takes a trip through deep space that involves the innovative use of slit-scan photography to create the stunning visual effects. Known to staff as “Manhattan Project”, the shots of various nebula-like phenomena, including the expanding star field, were colored paints and chemicals swirling in a pool-like device known as a cloud tank, shot in slow-motion in a dark room.
Kubrick’s epic masterpiece remains a stoner favorite.
We’ll be back with another part of this series soon, I just have to watch some more psychedelic films!
Add your favorites to the comments below.
> Top Psychedelic Movies | Psy Amb
Nathan Spotts has always been captivated by the beauty of our world, and he would:
Often dream of the things that lay just beyond what we can see. I wanted to create images of scenes that are not-quite real, but that almost could be.
This ongoing project of composite photographs is meant to be viewed large, in print or on a vertical screen from the lower third looking slightly upward.
> Unrealistic Scenes | Photography Served
These geometric tattoo designs are so trippy and highly detailed, resulting in perfect examples of art and intention.
You might have flashbacks of a psychedelic experience after viewing the beauty inside our collection of geometric tattoo art.
Fabian Oefner brings together the world of science and art to create psychedelic images.
Ted Talks are refreshing because of the passion exhibited by the talkers. Psychedelic science art is born from taking, sometimes hazardous materials and creating chemical reactions which Fabian Oefner catches through his cameras.
Swiss artist and photographer Fabian Oefner is on a mission to make eye-catching art from everyday science. In this charming talk, he shows off some recent psychedelic images, including photographs of crystals as they interact with soundwaves.
And, in a live demo, he shows what really happens when you mix paint with magnetic liquid–or when you set fire to whiskey.
Having a psychedelic experience isn’t just for humans. There is documented evidence that shows animals tripping out of their minds.
Let’s celebrate our common animal drive for exploring consciousness with these psychedelic animal gifs.
Joe Webb’s work eschews the neo-traditional standard of digital manipulation, opting to meticulously craft his psychedelic work by hand.
Sourcing two to three images at a time, Webb’s finished collages probe the unreality of modern-life, with an emphasis on his disdain for technology.
I started making these simple hand-made collages as a sort of luddite reaction to working as a graphic artist on computers for many years. I like the limitations of collage…using found imagery and a pair of scissors, there are no Photoshop options to resize, adjust colours or undo.
I suppose I’ve become fairly anti-technology… although I now promote my art on websites, own an iPhone and use Facebook…It’s confusing, I wish I had been born 100 years ago. – Joe Webb
A selection of work from UK based collage artist Joe Webb.
