Comments on: acid trip

acid trip

specialk420 — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 21:09:45 -0800

acid trip
wow. [ via newstoday ]

By: kjh

kjh — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 21:16:35 -0800

remarkable. thank you.

By: bonaldi

bonaldi — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 21:21:50 -0800

That's such a good advertisement for drugs. From tedious, conservative drawings to genius in just 4 hours. And being startled by things on the floor. So is this art something I'd need LSD to understand?

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 21:22:57 -0800

reminds me of louis wain's cats.

By: The Michael The

The Michael The — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 21:23:01 -0800

If there were some sort of gratuitous award and complementary award show for MeFi posts, perhaps called the Posties, I would award you one for this post. Bravo.

By: PrinceValium

PrinceValium — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 21:28:47 -0800

The resemblance of this drawing to Matt Groening's Life In Hell characters is eerie. Maybe now we know the secret behind the Simpsons?

By: wuakeen

wuakeen — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 21:57:49 -0800

I found the most remarkable ones the transition from this one, to a fuzzy recovery
thanks for the link special-K

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:06:20 -0800

W---o------W There's little, alas, in my current life which takes my breathe away. That did, Thanks. I did a drawing like this once, at Alan Ginsberg's farm in upper NY State, after tromping through a two foot deep snowfall and -10 degree fahrenheit, naked but for my boots, to undergo a sweat lodge. Next morning there were people hanging out in the trees - fruit trees - apple, I'd guess - playing saxophones and flutes. I liked it. But was that another, warmer time? I drew a picture, in oil pastel, that everyone seemed to covet. It was very complex. I gave it away and can no longer remember what it looked like - another of that herd of spontaneous art-works I have emitted, at various times in my life, as dramatically varied as those from this post. They trail behind me like fireworks, burning out in this instant of mortal time and momentarily lighting up my night's sky.

By: specialk420

specialk420 — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:06:44 -0800

i thought they were startling ... im glad you guys enjoyed the find

By: loquacious

loquacious — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:07:13 -0800

*THUMP* Sorry! I thought my legs had turned to wood... My spine coils it's serpentine slyness just s-s-s-susurrating about it. Yum. Again I say: Yum.

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:16:37 -0800

im glad you guys enjoyed the find Great post, specialk, as usual. You really have what we Portuguese call faro, a highly sensitive nose for what's interesting which I'd roughly translate as "truffle-hunter's nostrils". Plus you sincerely and generously enjoy sharing. You really should consider becoming an editor. Seriously. Also, as you know, editors don't have to bother with apostrophes, capital letters or punctuation! They're above all that crap. :) Thanks!

By: FormlessOne

FormlessOne — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:19:24 -0800

I'm intrigued by the stylistic transitions - several different styles emerge, each different, each interesting, but the subject is still obvious and recognizable in each one. Very cool post - thank you.

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:20:55 -0800

What is genious anyway? Is artistic genious the ability to draw in a non conformist fashion?

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:22:03 -0800

'I am... everything is... changed... they're calling... your face... interwoven... who is...'

By: gwint

gwint — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:45:23 -0800

There's also how our arachnid friends would react. (Original link dead-- here's a live one... can't find a full version of the original)

By: adamgreenfield

adamgreenfield — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:50:38 -0800

Sigh, mem'ries...

By: squirrel

squirrel — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 23:05:27 -0800

Wonderful. I wish there were larger versions of the portraits. The cats, too. Mreow.

By: Samsonov14

Samsonov14 — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 23:21:01 -0800

Are we sure this is real? I've dropped tabs and goofed around with art before, but never experienced much of a change in my style (althought the skill certainly suffered). Number six in this link seems like a little bit too much to me. When I was in college we did make a pretty cool mural on our wall with clothes detergent that only showed up in the blacklight, though. The style never really changed, though.

By: bwg

bwg — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 23:38:02 -0800

We need an experiment to see how someone posts in MeFi threads while on acid.

By: emelenjr

emelenjr — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 00:20:27 -0800

If I'd only had a tape recorder and a piano handy that one time. I wonder what that would have sounded like. What began as a night of looking up at the sky and rearranging constellations à la Lite-Brite soon turned into a nightmarish experience I'd rather not relive. Very cool link, thanks.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 00:22:22 -0800

no feather can besmirch my jihad.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 00:24:23 -0800

A THREE HOUR FOON.

By: Satapher

Satapher — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 01:20:04 -0800

everybody reacts differently to everything, everytime

By: Dillonlikescookies

Dillonlikescookies — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 01:50:16 -0800

Nice Link Samsonov14, That's because the art in the sixth image is done with a different medium to the 5 before it. Troutfishing, why give up so easily? Creativity comes so naturally!

By: alloneword

alloneword — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 02:12:30 -0800

That is extraordinary; especially the way that his own judgment comes and goes. "I can feel my knees again". What exquisite nostalgia!

By: phylum sinter

phylum sinter — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 02:14:24 -0800

This one get's my award for #1 fpp 2004 so far... I had thought about conducting this sort of experiment before, but most of the artists i know don't do acid. pic 6 is definitely the stand out of the bunch. I think a better way to do this would be to only allow the patient a certain medium... that might be kind of hard while working with a person on acid. These types of studies should certainly continue. Whether within independent labs or governmental ones, they could result in potential uses for these substances that might be rewarding enough to consider [re?]legalization. Of course, that might be why there are no more government studies on them in the first place.

By: johnny7

johnny7 — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 05:02:11 -0800

The cowboybooks site itself is a bit of a trip.

By: poopy

poopy — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 05:07:31 -0800

very cool indeed. thanks

By: loquacious

loquacious — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 05:31:30 -0800

A THREE HOUR FOON? MAD sir! Completely MUFFIN-GUFFIN, sir, A GIBBERING NEWT of SLIGHT REMORSE, if you would allow. We shant be out of this thick until we braid their whiskers tight to the brimming fishguts, I'd hazard! Nay! A bright eye is what we need! A challenging needle to thread! A grim bonnet! A TOSS OF MARL! A SMACK OF RELISH! HARK! A verdantly noisome malingering funk chitters at us in the dark! Can't you taste it? What does it want? Distillate of Yak? FLEE WITH YOUR VERY PITH! Your very STUFF is omniously threatened, man! Your OBJECT! Your entire MAGNITUDE! Course like a bunny's loins in springtime! Fly! Deliquesce! Seek lofty hermitage in a nether district! YOU'RE DOOMED! EXACRATED! POTHERED POINSETTAS!

By: phylum sinter

phylum sinter — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 06:09:00 -0800

....Al Qaida has finally invaded MeFi. I knew it would happen sooner or later.

By: asok

asok — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 06:42:21 -0800

Now that the legal magic mushroom business is, erm, mushrooming in the UK we can all try this out at home. It reminded me of the cats too, the experiences are supposed to be quite similar.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 06:44:45 -0800

That's not even funny you fig-headed bumfisker, you molt. Oh, hell, there's someone at the door. If it's those damn kids again I'm going for the rock salt and... BRB.

By: Goofyy

Goofyy — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 07:00:22 -0800

Beware of three things: Set: Who you are and where your head is, your expectations. Setting: The environment of your experience. Dosage: What you take and how much.

By: muckster

muckster — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 08:02:00 -0800

If this is from a test conducted by the US gov't, why does it say "Noch müde" (still tired) on the last image?

By: carter

carter — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 08:56:02 -0800

Great! There and back again ... thanks, specialk420.

By: mkultra

mkultra — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 09:36:19 -0800

"Upon completing the drawing the patient starts laughing, then becomes startled by something on the floor." Best one-line summation of the sensation of tripping, ever.

By: rikabel

rikabel — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 10:09:01 -0800

asok: I enjoyed some legal magic mushrooms just last week, which i bought from a bookshop in Streatham, London. They were extremely splendid, but I didn't draw anything. I will next time. I highly recommend listening to Sigur Ros and Múm while shrooming. Particularly when the synaesthsia kicks in...

By: Blue Stone

Blue Stone — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 10:48:11 -0800

His drawing definintely improves at the 2 hour, 45 minute mark. I can't help but think the use of chunky charcoal hindered him. The really ineteresting study, I think, would ahve been not what his drawing looks like under the influence, but how his general work has been influenced by the experience afterwards, if at all. Most of the drawings I've done under the influence of LSD have been very detailed; spidery; spirally (I was drawing with a regualr biro) but the influence on my art afterwards, was much more interesting: uses of repetition, iterations and so on (although these were all techniques I was using anyway, the acid definitely made me more aware of them.) [ps: rikabel - legal magic mushrooms - sold in a shop?!!!? I know it's legal to consume magic mushrooms so long as you don't "prepare" them, but the wording of the law makes it such that using a pair of scissors to cut the stalks counts as preparation (AFAIK) and drying would seem to most certainly count as such. More details, please?]

By: Blue Stone

Blue Stone — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 10:56:49 -0800

Just seen asok's post above. Crikey.

By: dabitch

dabitch — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 12:01:13 -0800

I volunteer to be one of the observers if we kick off bwg 's idea.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 12:32:13 -0800

Most of the drawings I've done under the influence of LSD have been very detailed; spidery... OK, I can no longer resist bringing in actual spiders. Check this out.

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 20:06:12 -0800

Wow. The acid spider web is the most beautifull, I think. Dillonlikescookies - Oh, I haven't given up. Creativity may be my downfall, as was Gandhi's three weeks pumping gas in Baltimore, for the Mahatma

By: kliuless

kliuless — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 21:34:34 -0800

coo! reminds me of david shapiro's bad acid trip on word, which unfortunately, regrettably, sadly and fittingly? is rather... um, unpreserved, unf... but just keep clicking next tho :D (as i recall it ends with him frenzily eating ketchup packets and, after coming down, walking home naked on feet cut with glass.) oh and patrick farley's chrysalis colossus :D thanks for the heads up asok! i've been meaning to take a trip over, esp after japan closed their loophole... oh yeah :D and!