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“Our goal is to make super-rad visuals without using any video or digital stuff,” Ake Arndt of liquid projection duo Operation: MINDBLOW told The Reader in February.
“Just to keep it fun and interesting and do weird shit.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3khIslRCHvc
Liquid light shows were pioneered around 1966 in the U.S. by artists including Glen McKay (who projected for Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead) and the Brotherhood of Light (the Doors, Traffic, the Who).
Around the same time, U.K. artists Mike Leonard (Pink Floyd) and Mark Boyle (Soft Machine, Jimi Hendrix) devised their own methods of projection at London’s underground UFO Club.
Operation: MINDBLOW is reviving and expanding on these artists’ techniques, employing dyes, oil, water, layered picture frames, and custom contraptions made from fans and aquarium pumps.
Following in the footsteps of Boyle, who integrated amoebas, paramecium, larvae, sperm, and wasps in his art, Operation: MINDBLOW often incorporates brine shrimp (or Sea-Monkeys) in their projections.
“You kind of get obsessed when you get into it,” says fellow MINDBLOWer Josh Bohannon, who has provided backdrops for acts such as Best Coast, the Loons, Red Octopus, Trap Gold, the Fairmounts, and the Kabbs.
“Anything you can think of can be applied. There aren’t books about it or anything, so you have to figure out everything for yourself. It’s a lot of experimentation, a lot of fun.”
On Saturday, January 26, Operation: MINDBLOW presents the fourth seasonal installment of psychedelic wondernight, Winter’s Womb at the Casbah.
Catch Arndt’s and Bohannon’s band California666 along with Dead Meadow, Dahga Bloom (see: Desert Daze), Harsh Toke, and Eddie & the Ear Wigs.
Tickets: $10 presale; $12 at the door.
“Our goal is to make super-rad visuals without using any video or digital stuff,” Ake Arndt of liquid projection duo Operation: MINDBLOW told The Reader in February.
“Just to keep it fun and interesting and do weird shit.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3khIslRCHvc
Liquid light shows were pioneered around 1966 in the U.S. by artists including Glen McKay (who projected for Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead) and the Brotherhood of Light (the Doors, Traffic, the Who).
Around the same time, U.K. artists Mike Leonard (Pink Floyd) and Mark Boyle (Soft Machine, Jimi Hendrix) devised their own methods of projection at London’s underground UFO Club.
Operation: MINDBLOW is reviving and expanding on these artists’ techniques, employing dyes, oil, water, layered picture frames, and custom contraptions made from fans and aquarium pumps.
Following in the footsteps of Boyle, who integrated amoebas, paramecium, larvae, sperm, and wasps in his art, Operation: MINDBLOW often incorporates brine shrimp (or Sea-Monkeys) in their projections.
“You kind of get obsessed when you get into it,” says fellow MINDBLOWer Josh Bohannon, who has provided backdrops for acts such as Best Coast, the Loons, Red Octopus, Trap Gold, the Fairmounts, and the Kabbs.
“Anything you can think of can be applied. There aren’t books about it or anything, so you have to figure out everything for yourself. It’s a lot of experimentation, a lot of fun.”
On Saturday, January 26, Operation: MINDBLOW presents the fourth seasonal installment of psychedelic wondernight, Winter’s Womb at the Casbah.
Catch Arndt’s and Bohannon’s band California666 along with Dead Meadow, Dahga Bloom (see: Desert Daze), Harsh Toke, and Eddie & the Ear Wigs.
Tickets: $10 presale; $12 at the door.