My Bloody Visuals

In response to last week's Super Ego column about rave visuals and the techno-optical dance floor wizardry of young projectionist 3, I received a very cryptic e-mail from one Woolsey Kitty, that read simply:

i took "lsd" more than 5,000 times.

and then directed me to a mindblowing Flickr account that contained hundreds of lysergically lovely imagery.

Woolsey is an artist in his 50s who claims to have have at one point amassed a 10,000+ drug research library (I don't really know what that means, but I suspect ... ) and to have only officially earned $2,143 in his lifetime. All the incredible details are here. Let's just drop back and enjoy ....

After the jump: More trippy pics PLUS shoegaze videos!

Check out Woolsey's Flickr page for more trips and trips and trips.

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Speaking of which:

I didn't mention in the column, among all the rave influences, that the best dance floor visuals I ever saw in my life (and gurl I seen a million zillion acid asteroids zoom by on giant screens) were at a Slowdive/Ride/My Bloody Valentine concert in, I think, 1992. In fact, the whole shoegazer rock movement, whose rise and fall paralleled and often fed into rave's (think cosmic visual connections: Cocteau Twins? Happy Mondays?) was incredibly visually fruitful. Below are some video examples that take my third eye back ...

My Bloody Valentine, Knows When