In need of some good inspiration

Marnik

I'm in the final hours of my dead line for a class project. I've scoured Google, Alta Vista, and even the dreadedly unreliable 4chan for inspiration and surely I've come across some amazing things...

But I'm sitting in front of my TV as I'm working on my environments and prop illustrations and whatnot that must relate to a character I've created. As much as I enjoy the comedic escape that The Simpsons and Family guy may offer, I'm thinking I could enjoy watching something inspirational that may influence my work.

My character is a raver in the throws of addictions to pills and hallucinogens. Any suggestions for movies that may offer some interesting takes on that scene or culture???

Youtube links gladly accepted as well as anything on Netflix instant cue =D

thanks for your time, polycounters

crazyfingers

JacqueChoi

Seems like the obvious choice, but watch Fear and Loathing again:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Kx_t6ko1k&feature=related[/ame]

Justin Meisse

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXt7GM0Cdh4[/ame]

Marnik

Crazyfingers: I came across this image a couple weeks ago somewhere in google, but didn't think much of it. Now that I'm looking at it again, I love the idea behind it and I really wanna use that pose! Thanks for rehashing that for me!

Jacque: I've seen Fear and Loathing maybe 6 times in my life and I have no idea why I hadn't considered scanning over it for this project until now. Thank you so much for rehashing that for me, I love that scene!

Justin: I'm amazed at what I just saw. I need to find this movie asap! I'm really digging the black and white TV, too. Thanks for the post and I hope to god I don't have any dreams like that, haha.

Justin Meisse

Have you seen a A Scanner Darkly yet?
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT4ObtDs0yc[/ame]

Marnik

Oh my god yes! I love that movie, it's intense! I actually started blocking out one of my environments based on that scene =]. I got the idea saturday night when I was actually at a rave and really had to piss. The bathroom was attrocious . Someone spilt water and the venue was surrounded by woods, so everyone tracked a ton of dirt that mixed with the water and there were torn up fliers all over the ground and there was grime all over the mirrors and everything. Got back and ended up watching some clips of this the next day and decided it'd paint a good depiction of the grungy lifestyle that accompanies an addict's. I'm not sure how much I'm going to flesh that one out though.

Swizzle

While not strictly drug-related, this video has a very interesting (and funny) section on ayahuasca from a guy who works for National Geographic. The rest of the video is great as well.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/wade_davis_on_endangered_cultures.html

Marnik

It seems like a really good video, I TED (thanks to my psych teacher.) Unfortunately I have a lot of work (more than I'd like to admit, especially considering my lack of workflow and speed in photoshop ) and only 10 or so hours to do it in, can you give an approximate time around when that part is???

Swizzle

It's somewhere around the 11 minute mark.

Ferg

edit: alright so I totally didnt read your post when I posted this pic. Check out the movie "go" for some rave druggie action.

Marnik

lmfao, will do. Just have to do so at a much later time, I have to work now =[

pestibug

My suggestion would be Naked Lunch, apparently the novel was written during drug/medicine abuse

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjU7ul0uoII&feature=related[/ame]

kwakkie

-requiem for a dream
-trainspotting

PS: you are hours away from your deadline and NOW you decide to watch a movie for inspiration?

TheBat

I was thinking about Trainspotting as well, but suddenly thought of this movie. Although maybe not directly drugs related, pretty trippy and maybe a good source of inspiration!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4[/ame]

Cheers, TheBat

Lamont

There you go.

Mark Dygert

That's where I left that, thanks! I was just about to go get in line for a slice of bread and a can of soup. Now if I could only find my wheelbarrow...

Murdoc

pestibug wrote: »

My suggestion would be Naked Lunch, apparently the novel was written during drug/medicine abuse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjU7ul0uoII&feature=related

Lol, William S. Burroughs drugged and medicated? That's just crazy talk. Actually, I think Naked Lunch was more of an auto-biography, seriously. Pretty much anything he is written is the best reference for a drug trip if you can manage to get through the incoherentness. I'm currently going through the red night triology... pretty awesome so far.

Slum

Regarding Naked Lunch, I'll quote Nelson Muntz from the Simpsons:

"There are two things wrong with the title of that movie."

t4paN

crazyfingers wrote: »

Heheh, I actually dreamt about this image tonight after seeing it here. Just thought I'd mention it, it's a very interesting interpretation of pacman.