I just wanted some geeky 80's synth tunes

And then it turned into this whole thing.




There's a Part 2? Well, okay, sure -- let's give it a listen. Or pageview. Whatever.




Sticking with the New Traditionalists-era synths, but dialing down the visual complexity...




Bringing visual complexity levels back up to critical capacity...




I'm not a crazed fan of the animation in this one, but the music has a nice Lemon Jelly chill to it.  Turn your speakers down first -- the test pattern tone at the beginning is a bit insistent.

TURBO DISTURBO SPEDAAMO

Well, tomorrow marks the official beginning of fall. Such little time left for heatstroke hallucinations. And so I gather together the summer's creepiest audio-visual finds, and offer them up to those of you interested in such things. For those weak sisters in the audience with an aversion to the combination of Karo syrup and red food dye, I'd advise you to skip this post and maybe try something safe, soothing and non-confrontational.

Skull Thunder graffix

Ah, the wonders of Photoshop. Here's a handful of unsolicited graphics work I've done.




The following works were done in a spirit of experimentation. This next one is based on  the Minimize filter. When I was nearly done with it, I realized that there was at least one method that could bypass the regions that developed into rectangular forms, but by then I was ready to be done with it.




It took a mad amount of tweaking minor details to get this next result.




And look! Video! It's a silent thirty second loop, so I suppose you could put on some music and trance out. There's an HD version, but the fine details are smeared into Technicolor mud. What can you do?




I adore this effect. Not an easy thing to accomplish.




Hey, more video! Like Heavy Metal Omelette, it's a silent thirty second loop, and available in a higher-definition version -- but unlike Omelette, the fine details are the point, and yet here they are, lightly stomped into artifact grunge. But, hell, it's free, so why complain?

Techno ZZZ's v1.01

Allow these next few selections to tug you to sleepytime.

NSFW - Manual of Evasion

From Rudy Rucker's website: "In 1994 Portuguese filmmaker Edgar Pera made a wonderful dadaistic movie called “Manual of Evasion” featuring me [Rucker], Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson. My character was called the Lord of Chaos."





And here's a proto-Subgenius vid thingy, dimly related on a conceptual level.

Spedaamo Archives

Spedaamo Corflanctal Teledormonobono Flengette Analysis Report started out as a repository for hallucinatory animated works, but I occasionally added particularly eye-catching non-psychedelia. It's much easier now to segregate animations by type, so nowadays, the Spedaamo posts are strictly visual psychedelia I've found (and remembered about) online.For impressionable minds and molecular-level dumbasses, allow the first vid to assuage your discomfort at finding a large cache of colorized, flashing pixels on a computer screen.



I don't know of any way to combine YouTube and Vimeo clips into one playlist, so the Vimeo vids are hiding after the jump.

Super-creepy animated weirdness

Here's a one-day batch of bad-acid visuals. They start out relatively mild and get progressively freakier.




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