Designer Simon Bent’s Science Vs Delirium series tributes history’s greatest scientists, chemists and inventors with minimalist hybrids of Rorschach blotters and ’60s psychedelic graphics. Just like the lab housewife-dozing experiments with LSD of the 1950′s, their work took guts, curiosity and mind-altering leaps in thinking. Read more »
Designer Simon Bent’s Science Vs Delirium series tributes history’s greatest scientists, chemists and inventors with minimalist hybrids of Rorschach blotters and ’60s psychedelic graphics. Just like the lab housewife-dozing experiments with LSD of the 1950′s, their work took guts, curiosity and mind-altering leaps in thinking. Read more »
The NYPL has purchased 335 boxes of papers, photos and videotapes from academic-turned-acid guru Timothy Leary. The documents feature detailed drop out session accounts with counter-culture celebs and scribbled gab on “the sexiest season in the long annals of the human race,” the summer of ’69. Read more »
Time to re-approach LSD “without hysteria or hype?” Here’s BBC’s 1986 doc on the rise and fall of LSD, The Beyond Within featuring Albert Hoffman, Ken Kesey, political peoples and a wide-eyed aristocrat on Mescaline, uploaded in its entirety. Bonus: something vintage, mystical and long on salvia too.
Photographer and architect Hiroshi Sugimoto made these elegant photograms by electrocuting giant sheets of unexposed film with a 400,000-volt Van de Graaf generator “wand” in a darkroom. The “Lighting Field” series of organic, meotrite-inspired images are on view at the Pace Gallery now. Now see what this maniacal mofo looks like. Read more »
His house was literally stuffed with drugs. Yet yesterday, Christopher Graham, the step-son of a UK lottery winner, told the court that he’s no supplier. See, he’s a hoarder. He only deals in blotter art. Read more »
When she was coming up, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta aka Lady Gaga assumed artists had to live like rock stars to be a rock star and found herself doing mounds of blow in an effort to emulate her favorite idols, sometimes to the brink of death. In an a forthcoming new biography, “LADY GAGA: Just Dance,” by Helia Phoenix, the vagina-verified, pop music sensation admits, “I thought I was gonna die…I wanted to BE the artists I loved, like Mick Jagger and Andy Warhol – and I thought the only way to do it was to live the lifestyle.” Talk about sacrifice. Read more »
The man who invented one of the greatest man-made, mind altering substances on the planet—LSD—died at the tender old age of 102 on Tuesday. Born in Switzerland, Albert Hofmann was a chemist who kind of stumbled on the cartoon-inducing drug by happenstance:
Dr. Hofmann first synthesized the compound lysergic acid diethylamide in 1938 but did not discover its psychopharmacological effects until five years later, when he accidentally ingested the substance that became known to the 1960s counterculture as acid.
To honor this innovator, ANIMAL turned to the LSD-hating Drug Enforcement Agency and swiped some of their colorful and whimsical sheets of acid that include high res images of Conan the Barbarian, the Mad Hatter, and even some dancing condoms that would have even exceeded Hofmann’s expectations. Plus there’s this hugely impressive A-Z collection of blotter acid from Erowid and their handy Material Safety guidelines. |NYT|
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