Timothy Leary - How to Operate Your Brain (1993)

[hamageddon]

well, i haven't seen the whole yet, and maybe it's just the funky
distortions and the strange colours on my copy ;), but is the work to be considered an early piece of vj-art?
http://www.audiovisualizers.com/library/catagory/reviews/learyhow/learyhow.htm
opinons?

[krezrock]

looks familiar. I think Camille (wife of Tool guitarist) had a role in the production.:jump:

[vjpixylight]

I bet most of you don't know that tim leary singlehandly argued a winning effort to get marijuana leagalized before the supreme court in 67'/68...unfortunately the DEA came in, and got marijuana criminalized though out the land in 1971..:sad:

So this LSD guru is also a masterful pothead...

[WordVirus23]

but I'm not sure if it falls into the "early VJ" catergory since by 93, there were PCs and (suprisingly) many rudimentary VJ style apps (trippy graphics with user control) everything was full screen back then... er at least every I played with. but definitely a great 30 min lil movie... but with Prof Leary providing words, you're almost guarenteed a treat. :)

..james...

[silk]

Originally posted by vjpixylight
So this LSD guru is also a masterful pothead...

who isn't ? :p

[bluntfaktory]

it was done by Videodellic , from San Fran , old school VJ masters . they did it as a test sample of would they could do for Learys tour that he did and instead of getting back to them he took off with the video thinking it was so great and used it with out them knowing , or saying anything . when i was starting out i saw it and was blown away , so some friends and i went on a trip down to California to meet the minds that made it . when we got there we checked out a show they did there at a club called DV8 , ( which had a plane in it ) , and picked their heads for info only to hear their strange tall . i can't remember what happened in the end but i know they did confront him eventually . what was really cool is they were mainly bummed out because they wanted to do something even better . weird story but true or at least it was the one they gave us . i'll always remember because right after we went to check out a "Grateful Dead " show but didn't go in , and 10 days later Jerry Garsia died , how dumb was that .

[mondo]

is it <still> available?

sounds interesting.

[eps]

http://island.org/market/viewgroup.asp?id=C0D05E1-0A99-417E-B4D5-0E6D0BBD88AB

i got it there ~6 years ago and they seem to be still active - at least considering maillist activity

as for leary - 'cool-aid acid test' book was the last nail in the coffin of his image for me [completely in line with other inconsistencies about him]. good PR-man and funky 'idea jockey' - hardly anything more

[elbows]

An important fact about Leary is that his first wife committed suicide on his Birthday after first baking him a cake. Ouch! It was after this that he embarked on all the stuff he is famous for.

I admire some of his stuff, but when I look deep at his ideas theres a lot of stuff that puts me off. Also he made a bit of a fool of himself by confidently predicting how all these life-extending drugs would be coming along, and how he might live well into his 100's, and then he went and died.

It could be argued that his somewhat cavalier approach to LSD helped get it banned for legitimate scientific use, but Im sure someone else would have done it if he hadnt.

Still fair play to him, he was imperfect as all humans are, he did good, he did harm, he said some good stuff with trippy visuals in the background ;) Still societies attitudes have changed a lot since he started, so much of what he achieved doesnt seem like such a big deal these days.