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May 04, 2008

LSD Inventor Albert Hofmann Leaves Lasting Albeit Controversial Legacy - CBC Sunday News Online Video

Links for this Post: Psychedelic Pioneer Albert Hofmann Video on Canadian Broadcasting Company Sunday News Watch Video with Windows Media (click here) I taped a short statement here in Vegas whch was included as part of a collage of people...

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April 21, 2008

The Dream Machine Online

Link for this Post: The Dream Machine Online Note; Be sure to close your eyes when you view the dream machine. Three years ago, I wrote Remembering Brion Gysin Among Gysin's works was the concept of the Dream Machine. The...

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February 14, 2008

Horizon: Psychedelic science by Bill Eagles Google Video

Video Embedded Below A short excerpt from the Google Video introduction to this film: Bill Eagles' extraordinary film tells the story of a handful of dedicated scientists who have struggled to make psychedelic research respectable again. In the USA. My...

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December 23, 2007

The Trips Festival Film Provides a Time Tunnel into the Sixites

Links for this Post Listen to Panel Discussion on the Trips Festival MP3 Download (this comes via KPFA's Dead To The World Radio Program broadcast Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 which also streams on the KPFA website) Trips Festival Movie Website...

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October 29, 2007

Actress Mariel Hemingway Hosting Fund-Raising Dinner November 9th for Alex Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in New York -- Consciousness Cafe

Link for ths Post: Consciousness Cafe. Here is an excerpt from this post: Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated American actress Mariel Hemingway will host a fund-raising dinner November 9th for Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (CoSM) in N Alex's art is...

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September 26, 2007

The Shock Doctrine A Short Film by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein -- YouTube Video

Links for this Post: The Shock Doctrine A Short Film by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein -- YouTube Video Ebbed in this post below The Shock Doctrine Book and Film Home Page The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism...

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August 01, 2007

Orange Sunshine -- YouTube Video Trailer from Upcoming Documentary on the Brotherhood of Eternal Love

Link for this Post: Embedded YouTube Video Below According to the blurb on this You Tube video, this is a "ten minute Trailer for the upcoming documentary on the Brotherhood of Eternal Love." I found this video by way of...

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July 16, 2007

alterati The Yellow Sign: Timothy Leary's Neurocomics and More -- Plus Info on Leary Biopic

Link for this Post: alterati » The Yellow Sign: Timothy Leary's Neurocomics & Promethea by Alan Moore. by Wes Unruh. This alerati post is interesting from a variety of perspectives. I actually own one of the Neurocomics. Timothy gave it...

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June 25, 2007

RAI Film Festival Conference Beyond Text: Synaesthetic & Sensory Manchester UK June 27-July 2

Link sfor this Post: RAI Film Festival Conference Beyond Text: Synaesthetic & Sensory Manchester UK June 27-July 2. Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology According to the website announcing this event: In his recent book The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography, and...

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May 30, 2007

Aldous Huxley Documentery: Gravity of Light on Google Video

Links for this Post; Embedded Google Video of the Entire Documentary and Gravity of Light DVD on Amazon (support the filmaker) I first saw this documentary five years ago and immediately purchased several hundred copies to send to members of...

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May 22, 2007

Where are they now? Interview with “Switcher Girl” Ellen Feiss

Link for this post : Macenstein Where are they now? Interview with “Switcher Girl” Ellen Feiss. A couple of years ago, I posted The Never-Before-Seen Unreleased Second Ellen Feiss Apple Commercial about the "switcher" girl. That post was one of...

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April 08, 2007

John Lennon: The US VS John Lennon -- Full Movie Google Video

Links for this Post: The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006) on the IMDb I had been wanting to see this documentary since hearing that it was listed in a Venice Film Festival. I found the entire video via a link...

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Sixties Themed - Film Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe Trailer (Release Date Sept 28th)

The Link for this Post is the trailer below. Also thanks to eblips blog for the heads up about what looks to be an interesting film (or do I just think that its interesting because it remind me of my...

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March 05, 2007

Roky Erickson rocks in San Francisco

Links for this post Roky Erickson rocks in San Francisco - A+E Interactive Your Gonna Miss Me (1983 version of current documentary) on You Tube: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Who were the 13th Floor Elevators? There...

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February 18, 2007

Remembering Rachel -- A Poem

Links for this Post: Clay's Ten Cups Blog "Remembering Rachel: A Collaboration" "My All-Time Favorite Movie I Love You Alice B.Toklas" Vision Thing Blog Post Over New Years, my friend Clay and I worked on a collaborative poem. Clay had...

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December 01, 2006

The Rise of the Military-Industrial Complex -- Video Documentary

Links for this Post: Why We Fight on Google Video see image below (full version) "Why We Fight" DVD on Amazon We We Fight is a documentary by Eugene Jarecki starts with the Dwight Eisenhower's farewell address address in which...

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November 18, 2006

Get the Latest Buzz at Buzzfeed

Link for this Post: Get the Latest Buzz at Buzzfeed Here is a site with potential. Its just starting out so a but spartan but promising. Here is some excerpts from how it works:

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November 14, 2006

Coming Soon via Your TiVo: Downloadable Internet Video on Television - New York Times

Link for this post: Coming Soon via Your TiVo: Internet Video on Television - New York Times. Looks like Tivo is getting into the downloaable movie business along with everyone else ( including MSN Live). Here is an excerpt from...

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November 12, 2006

How to Operate Your Brain by Timothy Leary

Link for this Post: See Video Below Timothy Leary made this video, How to Operate your Brain more than a decade ago. The 28 minute 58 second video was produced by Chris Graves. It is the best in a series...

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September 21, 2006

While Nixon Campaigned, the F.B.I. Watched John Lennon -- New York Times

Link for this Post: While Nixon Campaigned, the F.B.I. Watched John Lennon By Adam Cohen - New York Times. The harassment of John Lennon in the recently released film “The U.S. vs. John Lennon” is spotlighted in this NY Times...

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August 12, 2006

Updated with Torrent Video Download --Sundance Channel Premiers Documentary "The Drug Years" -- Also on VH1

August Update: You can download the entire program as a torrent by visiting Mininova here. Let me know the status of the link. Updated: I just got finished watching the entire 3 hour documentary. The author Martin Targoff reflects at...

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June 23, 2006

Google Offering Premium Streaming Videos For Free as Test

Link for this Post: Free Today Videos on Google Video Google is testing its new ad supported video business model by offering some of its premium priced videos for free. Included are movies, sports, classic movies,documentaries and cartoons plus more.

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June 08, 2006

Variety Timothy Leary lives Miramax high on Harvard legend's biopic Based on a Hatchet Job Bio Book by Robert Greenfield

This is from Variety, the Hollywood trade paper: Accoring to Variety Miramax nabs the rights to 'Timothy Leary: A Biography.' biopic of Timothy Leary for the bigscreen after snapping up rights to the upcoming tome "Timothy Leary: A Biography" by...

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May 09, 2006

BBC NEWS Business Warner to start movie downloads using Bit Torrent technology

Link for this post BBC NEWS Business Warner to start movie downloads. The same torrent technology that current streams movies to millions around the world is going to be used by Warner Brothers to deliver movies to even more millions...

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April 22, 2006

More on Timothy Leary Movie Biography

Links for this post: Winona Ryder & Leonardo DiCaprio Fight to Make Biopic About LSD Pioneer -- StarPulse News Blog Leanardo DiCaprio Bio Timothy Leary Neurocomics Here is the short piece from the blog in its entirety: Winona Ryder and...

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April 21, 2006

The Race For The Timothy Leary Biopic -- Inside Entertainment

Link for this post: The Race For The Timothy Leary Biopic -- Inside Entertainment Here is an unresting little bit of news about the making of one (or more) biographies about Timothy Leary. Here is an excerpt: (KP International) –...

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April 06, 2006

Four Free Online Mind Videos By Way of The Hyperaware Consciousness Blog

Links for this post (the videos): Brain, Mind and Consciousness: Science and Consciousness - Session 3 The Science Network 2 hr 42 min 8 sec - May 14, 2005 2005 Skeptics Society Cal Tech, Pasadena, California A Glorious Piece of...

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April 03, 2006

CNN Announces That Legal Downloads of Hollywood Movies Will begin

. Links for this post: CNN Announces "Hollywood to sell movies online" Movielink: Download 100’s of Hollywood Movies CinimaNow Movies-To-Go. Download Hollywood movies to your laptop. Hollywood is fighting back against the torrents of downloaders grabbing first-run movies from the...

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March 31, 2006

My All-Time Favorite Movie "I Love You Alice B.Toklas" on Exquisitely Bored in Nacogdoches

Links for this post: (The first two links are from The Exquisitely Bored in Nacogdoches Blog) Love You Alice B. Toklas Frame by Frame Pt 1 I Love You Alice B. Toklas Frame by Frame Pt 2 gertrudeandalice.com: site dedicated...

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March 03, 2006

The Shulgin Film Project with Trailer

Link for this post: The Shulgin Film Project Filmakers Etienne Sauret (Collateral Damages) and Sebastian Saville (Director of the UK drug policy organization Release) are making a film on the life's work of Alexander (Sasha) and Annn Shulgin. You can...

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December 26, 2005

Leary.ru A Website, dedicated to the scientific and public activity of Dr. Timothy Leary

Link for this post: Leary.ru A Website, dedicated to the scientific and public activity of Dr. Timothy Leary We Americans have been neglect in our maintenance of Leary.Com, the last project of Dr. Timothy Leary, in my estimation the greatest...

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December 25, 2005

Burroughs The Junky's Christmas on Gpod: Free Torrent Download

Link for this post: Francis Ford Coppola Presents The Junky’s Christmas on Gpod Gpod, Grey Lodg'es Podcasting and Torrent section is offering a free torrent download of Francis Ford Coppola Presents The Junky’s Christmas (1993) Claymation and Live Action Directed...

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November 20, 2005

Who Kidnapped My Vote? A new documentary directed by Dorothy Fadiman previews in Palo Alto Dec 4th

Dr. James Faidman, who I posted about in Interview with Consciousness Pioneer James Fadiman has a talented filmaker wife who is in the process of making a facinating new documentery. Titled Who Kidnapped My Vote? brings together behind-the-scenes stories from...

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September 28, 2005

Updated: Dylan Documentary on PBS is Great

Updated: I posted a complete review of "No Direction Home" on Blogcritics last night -- "Bob Dylan Gets Real in No Direction Home." I had read that there was a PBS documentary for airing on American Masters in the works...

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September 17, 2005

Some Sounds of the Subliminal

Twenty years ago, when I was a graduate student in psychology at UC. Santa Barbara, I had a class called History and Systems of Psychology taught by a highly opinionated professor named Howard Kendler. He spent an entire lecture or...

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September 03, 2005

RU Sirius Releases NeoFiles Number 15 -- Ear Candy for the Eye

Ken Gofmann AKA RU Sirius is back with Volume 1, No. 15 of NeoFiles: titled Ear Candy for the Eye. The title mainly refers to his podcasts which I have posted about previously: Podcast: RU Sirius Interviews New York Times...

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June 09, 2005

Cary Grant's Thoughts About LSD

Chapter Fourteen - Cary Grant Autobiography on the Ultimate Grant Pages tells the story of how he benefited from therapy with a then unknown experimental drug -- LSD. Here is an excerpt: "Now, I believe in caring for my health;...

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April 29, 2005

TV Movie on Timothy Leary in the Works

"TV Movie on Timothy Leary in the Works" By Kimberly Speight of Reuters reports: LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Production labels Panacea Entertainment and Blueprint Entertainment have teamed up to bring the story of the late psychologist, writer and drug...

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April 17, 2005

Showtimes Remake of the 1936 Film Reefer Madness Delivers the Truth

Updated: I just got done watching the premium cable network Showtime's remake of the classic 1936 anti-drug movie Reefer Madness. As one of the members of the Sixties hippies, I smoked pot almost religiously. I rarely smoke it anymore, it...

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January 26, 2005

New Film -- Entheogen : Awakening The God Within -- Set to Open at Sundance

"Entheogen : Awakening The God Within" is the title of a new film set to open in Sundance, Utah this week. There is a short backgrounder about the film at the maps.org site. You can download a nice trailer here....

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January 08, 2005

What the bleep I didn't know ...

In a post I made last July titled "What the #$*! Do We Know!? Getting the Buzz." It talked about the chit-chat around a new movie with a "new physics" plot. Since that time, I have heard some additional word-of-mouth...

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November 25, 2004

Robert Anton Wilson's Maybe Logic

Browsing the New World Disorder blog, I found myself reading a short interview (with a long title) with Robert Anton Wilson -- "President Hannibal Lector & the Thing That Ate the Constitution" on Falcon Press's Digital Falcon. One thing lead...

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October 20, 2004

The World According to Bush -- New, Free Streaming Web Documentary

I just received an email from a friend and he says: If you don't go to anything else that I've sent you, please view this excellent documentary! This film by William Karel in collaboration with Eric Laurent aims to pass...

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September 21, 2004

Wired News: Outfoxed Offered for Remix -- Download Outfoxed Interviews as Torrent Free

Wired News features Outfoxed Offered for Remix" By Daniel Terdiman about how a film maker is offering outtakes of his film on the web for others to use. Last month I talked about "Outfoxed -- Rupert Murdoc's War on Journalism."...

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