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A Vital Moment In History: Monterey Pop
DA Pennebaker made history by documenting the first major festival of its kind, the huge (at the time) Monterey Pop Festival, which I consider to be a more significant moment in the late 60s hippie revolution than even Woodstock. It … Continue reading
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Tagged 1967, big brother and the holding company, Concert, concert film, country joe and the fish, da pennebaker, Documentary, filmore, grace slick, hippie, historical document, historical moment, janis joplin, jefferson airplane, Jimi Hendrix, lsd, mamas and the papas, moby grape, monterey, monterey pop, music, music documentary, music festival, music film, quicksilver messenger service, ravi shankar, simon and garfunkel, sixties, summer of love, the byrds, the who
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Lucy (Besson, 2014)
Though divisive and critically overlooked, Luc Besson’s Lucy (2014) will surely satisfy the armchair philosopher, especially those psychedelically inclined. Indebted to the LSD consciousness expansion movement of the 60s counterculture, Lucy is frankly the best visual interpretation of Mind at … Continue reading
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Tagged action, Blockbuster, cerebral activity, Consciousness, Contemplation, eternity, Films of 2014, Limitless, lsd, luc besson, lucy, Mind At Large, mind expansion, morgan freeman, phenomenology, phenomenon, philosophy, Psychedelic, realization, scarlett johannson, Time, timothy leary, violence, vulgar auteurism, William Burroughs, yakuza
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Aesthetics Of The Mind 