PulpMind

Disclaimer: I'm sure this could be posted somewhere better, but I really have no idea where, so feel free to move it accourdingly

I'm involved in the Seattle psychedelic music scene... for us, this means communal dancing to loud psychedelic trance (sample), big Mackie speakers, occasional psychs, and alot of flouro decor.
all of this is well and good, except I'm starting to get very sick of the flouro decor =P

so this saturday, we're throwing the party. the theme is essentially everything that is psy [that isn't flouro]. a new perspective on the old mind-fuck..

we have ideas... like paint the white walls with black to make big geometric visual illusions.. flowing fabrics always.. 3-d otherworldy sculptures...

the theme for this one is pretty open ended.. and I'd love some outside ideas from a creative bunch like this board

thanks much... we'll be posting pics after the show =)

Kaos

Black Lights, Pictures of Optical Illusions, that's all I can think of off-hand. LSD used to provide me with all the psychedelics I needed

Probably why I can't think of anything else too

Hanxter

flip discs inserted into a two bulb light socket with one red and one blue bulb - flip discs will alternate the bulbs so that posters with red when red is on won't show the red and the same with blue...

Skyriver Music Fest & The Satsop River Fest and Tin Cup Races were my faves to go to... the good olde times

troit

Yeah Hank -- Teaching the youngsters a thing or two I see...

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analog

three words: stark color contrast. lots of white vs. black with shapes and swirls and such, lots of blacklighting, lots of bright red, green, and blue. anything that flashes has potential. anything that rotates has potential. combine different elements as much as possible- example: something that rotates with a light on it, or something that rotates with a flashing light on it that changes color. i used to make things for cheap using small battery-driven motors, construction paper, LED's, small lightbulbs, and colored plastic film.

I find the aesthetics are best and the crowd most pleased when each individual element is fairly self-contained and can be viewed as such- exmaple: you dont' want huge flashing lights that go all over the whole room, confine them to certain areas so each area has unique elements, not just all elements in the room spilling onto each other. this way, when you're walking around, it's like you're actually going to different places rather than just different parts of the whole room/ambiance.

once I had someone paint one half of the room black, leaving the other half white, and putting up matching but color-contrasting art. you look at one side, you see white walls with 4 black posters of different shapes, you turn around and see the EXACT same thing but in the opposite colors of the other side. will fuck you up pretty good turning yourself around over and over.

smoke one for me. let us know how it goes.

joesmith

lava lamps?

gwr_gwir

very good ideas, analog. I know this is gonna sound cliche, but.. strobe lights. combine them with, say, one massive optical illusion - like having a projecter set up such that you see one wall as a rotating black/white spiral. think "austin powers time warp", only good. mm. else... could put some kind of rotating filter in front of the strobe.

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