Lucy in the sky with diamonds.

I have always been a fan of 60's and 70's art and music. I believe some of the greatest creativity was unleashed at that time due to substantial changes in society and peoples way of thinking. LSD and other hallucogenic drugs had a big part in it too off course.

Yellow Submarine is a movie that was released back in 1968 based on the music of the Beatles and it was directed by George Dunning. The film and the people behind it were some of the pioneers in psychedelic art and paved the way for the the hippy generations artwork.

(Warning before you watch the videos below, make sure you are not on any hallucinating drugs!)

LISWD from Yellow submarine

The animation technique and artwork also paved way for Terry Gilliam's animations for Monty Python, another favourite of mine.

Here is a beautiful quote from Terry Gilliam that very much reflects the time and era he represents, although he reefers to "magic realism" that was invented back in the 1920's.
- "Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things."

an animation from Terry Gilliam's Monty Python

Heinz Edelman, one of the illustrators and animators behind Yellow Submarine, later also released the book Andromedar SR1 in 1970.

Andromedar SR1

I love how all parts of the community adapted to the trippy trend. Even the Government officials must have been on acid! This trippy tribute to Americas 200th birthday was funded by a Bicentennial Project Grant and animated by Vincent Collins. This film was produced by the United States Information Agency -the government's propaganda agency

psychedelic cartoon by the United States Information Agency

Even commercial giants were flying high. Here is an ad for LEVIS.

Levis commercial

I think I made my point, everyone in the world was on a trip! For me personally I like the world better that way and very often i wish I would have been part of that time. But then again I think I and many people around me have managed to create a lifestyle that is pretty close to it.

The next ones are just a random selection of some of my favourites. Most of by Student Academy Award winner in 1975 and psychedelic prophet Vince Collins

Vince Collins

vince collins

Heinz Edelman directed this one.