Anonymous

According to the theory portrayed in the recent film ‘Anonymous’, Shakespeare was essentially the 17th century’s Wikileaks. Great movie… but it is not the Shakespeare theory I contend to. There are many theories regarding who the original author of the Shakespearian works was. Anyone who actually cares enough to look into the matter agrees that it was certainly not the actor from Stratford-on-Avon, however, no consensus has been reached with regards to whom the actual author was, or ‘were’ as the case may be. But even though I do not hold the position put forth by this new Roland Emmerich film, I was still sincerely impressed by the script and performances.

IMDB: Anonymous

Trailer: Stepping Into The Fire

This seems to point toward how high-end psychedelic documentaries are going to become:

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Enter The Void

Whoa, this looks pretty intense:

UPDATE:  Saw it:  it was absolutely insane and worth seeing on as big a screen and as high definition as possible.

The psychedelic sacrament scene cut from Avatar

The script pages for some scenes that didn’t make the final cut of Avatar have been uploaded and include an alien sex scene, an alien drunk scene and other back-story scenes as well as a Na’vi rite-of-passage in which Jake eats a sacred glow-worm then recieves an alien scorpion sting, the combination of which invokes a psychedelic mystical experience: definitely inspired by the ayahuasca DMT/MAOI combo.

Read the script for Jake’s trip here.

Other cut scenes here.

2001: A Space Odyssey (Short Version)

A convenient recut of “2001: A Space Odyssey” into a comprehensible, easy-to-follow short.

More at http://www.youtube.com/user/jacksfilms

Jim Carrey’s psychedelic brain

Jim Carrey has a new flash-website up with navigable scenes from his psychedelic mindscape.

Here he is singing I Am The Walrus… really rather well I might add:

 

Jean ‘Moebius’ Giraud

Jean Giraud aka Moebius is a comic artist who created the comic book Blueberry and helped design the visuals in the film adaptation, Renegade.  He also helped designed the luminous aquatic aliens in The Abyss and also helped design films such as Tron, Alien, The Time Masters & The Fifth Element.

100 Years of Visual Effects

Operation Midnight Climax

A new dramatic online series has started about the CIA’s testing of LSD on unsuspecting civilians and on-leave military personal lured by prostitutes into CIA-run brothels in San Francisco and New York.  First episode is up and it definitely has my attention:

The year is 1953 and the CIA has just been formed. We meet Jake Kowalski (Quinton Flynn) and his Army buddy Reed Spencer (Todd Cahoon) in an undisclosed location where Jake, now a CIA spook, tells Reed about the government’s MKULTRA campaign and the covert plans to administor LSD to unsuspecting brothel patrons while they are “filmed for research purposes”, behind two-way mirrors.

Reluctantly, Reed follows orders and recruits four lovely lieutenants to help him run the government sponsored brothel: Millie (Meredith Salenger), June (Stephanie Lemelin), Ethel (Jessica Myerson) and Bea (Vernetra Gavin) all must decide if they are good patriots. Is everybody in?

More info about the series at http//www.strangescience.tv

A/K/A Tommy Chong

I just watched the documentary A/K/A Tommy Chong and have to enthusiastically recommend it.   Often hilarious, sometimes infuriating, thoroughly poignant, A/K/A Tommy Chong is a documentary about the entrapment and imprisonment of counter-culture satirist Tommy Chong by the Federal Government for selling bongs.   With hordes of militant DEA agents with helicopters storming a completely open and legit glassware shop to keep post-911 America ‘safe,’ it is a surreal story that is absurd enough to fit right into a Cheech & Chong movie plot.

Far from being a cannabis-enhanced joke, however, Tommy Chong served 9 months in prison, paid $130,000 in fines and forfeitures and lost all the merchandise stolen in the raid.  To top it off, in 2008, the Federal Gov’t seized 10,000 copies of  A/k/a Tommy Chong from the distributor with no cause or legality whatsoever and has yet to return them or give a reason. Although that might also be seen as pretty good advertising:  The Federal Government does not want you to see this movie!

Here’s the 4 minute trailer:

Website:  akatommychong.com

Top 50 trips in movies

This post from Den of Geek  includes YouTube clips of almost every trip scene from said 50 best movie trips.  While the list doesn’t include Moebius’ genius portrayal of galactic ecstasy in Renegade (Blueberry) nor quite a few other pertinent works of cinemagraphic psy-art, it is a time-wasting tripper’s delight none-the-less.  :)

“I do not agree entirely. Which is to say I do not exactly disagree.” – Waking Life (deepest, trippiest movie evr.)

—->  Denofgeek.com

A Day in the Afterlife

1994 Arena documentary on the life of Philip K. Dick.

pt 1:

pt.s 2 – 6 on the sidebar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJehaCfnXHE