LSD-25
(Youtube DirektLSD, via Dangerous Minds)
Tolle, epische Kurzdoku über die Gefahren von LSD. Von Dangerous Minds: „LSD-25 is a goofier than average drug scare flick produced in 1967 for the San Mateo Union High School District in San Mateo, California. The entire film is narrated by a tab of LSD – a device that Bunuel would have admired.“
LSD-Doku: The Beyond Within
Schöne BBC-Doku von 1986 über LSD. Von Dangerous Minds:
Media and public interest in LSD reached a point in the early 60’s that a politician by the name of Christopher Mayhew agreed to undergo an experiment, and for this experiment to be filmed by the BBC. This fascinating experiment involved his taking a dose of Mescalin in the company of a physician, and answering certain basic brainteasers over the course of his little trip. The footage of his experience is extraordinary, as this eloquent upper-class aristocrat describes what he is experiencing under the influence of the drug, his eyes wide as saucers. Indeed, the footage proved too controversial for the BBC at the time, and was not shown until this Everyman documentary broadcast it in the 1980’s. Interestingly, Mayhew, who in 1986 was a member of the House of Lords, watches the footage, 30 years later, and stands by his description of the experience. “I had an experience in time” he says, and his conviction is apparent.”
The Paris Review: Robert Crumb Interview über LSD
The Paris Review ist eine legendäre Literaturzeitschrift aus New York und vor allem für ihre langen, ausführlichen Interviews mit Schriftstellern bekannt. Und die haben jetzt ihr Archiv online gestellt, auf den ersten Blick für mich interessant sind die Gespräche mit Stephen King, Umberto Eco, Ray Bradbury, Hunter S. Thompson, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Aldous Huxley und Jack Kerouac und das waren dann nur die, die hier ins Blog passen. Eine einzige Interview-Schatztruhe.
Und dann hätten sie noch dieses recht neue Interview mit Robert Crumb, geführt anlässlich der Veröffentlichung seiner Genesis. Wer seine Bibel-Interpretation kennt, kann das erste Viertel des Interviews überspringen, danach wird es aber superspannend, wenn er von Comics seiner Kindheit erzählt, die Einflüsse der Beatnik und schließlich davon, welchen Einfluss LSD auf seine Arbeit gehabt hat.
INTERVIEWER
So how did you finally find publication?
CRUMB
Well, the hippie revolution happened. In 1964 I first got laid, I met my first wife, Dana, and all these protohippies in Cleveland. A lot of them were Jews from Cleveland Heights, Shaker Heights. They started taking LSD and urged me to try it, so Dana got some LSD from a psychiatrist, it was still legal in ’65. We took it and that was totally a road-to-Damascus experience. It knocked you off your horse, taking LSD. I remember going to work that Monday, after taking LSD on Saturday, and it just seemed like a cardboard reality. It didn’t seem real to me anymore. Seemed completely fake, only a paper-moon kind of world. My coworkers, they were like, Crumb, what’s the matter with you, what happened to you? Because I was just staring at everything like I had never seen it before. And then it changed the whole direction of my artwork. Other people who had taken LSD understood right away what was going on, but the people who hadn’t, my coworkers, they didn’t get it.
INTERVIEWER
How did it change your artwork?
CRUMB
I had been working along in this modern adult cartoon trend, very influenced by the modern, expressionistic, arty quality of work by Jules Feiffer, Ronald Searle, Ralph Steadman. Then, on LSD, I got flung back into this cruder forties style, that suddenly became very powerful to me. It was a kind of grotesque interpretation of this forties thing, Popeye kind of stuff. I started drawing like that again. It was bizarre to people who had known my work before.
R. Crumb, The Art of Comics No. 1 – Interviewed by Ted Widmer (via MeFi)
LSD-Freakout at a 2001-Screening: Space Odyssey gone bad!
(Youtube Direkt2001, via Reddit)
In dem Video erkennt man leider nicht viel, aber man ahnt, was da passiert: Ein Typ lutscht ‘nen LSD-Trip während einer Vorstellung von Stanley Kubricks „2001 – A Space Odyssee“ im Egyptian Theater in Los Angeles, rastet komplett aus, kommt auf einen sehr schlechten Film (während einem sehr guten Film) und muss rausgetragen werden, wo er schließlich von Cops in Empfang genommen wird. Ausnahmsweise sind die Kommentare auf Youtube mal ganz hilfreich:
I hope the guy is OK. He is probably a Kubrick fan that just wanted to augment the experience and it went too far. I was one of the many that helped pull the guy out. I agree though, it was one of the best screenings of 2001 – beautiful print, enthusiastic crowd, and interactive!
Heavy. Und 2001 auf LSD zu schauen ist sowieso eine eher schlechte Idee. Wahrscheinlich hatte er das hier erwartet:
Timothy Leary über Aleister Crowley, LSD und Geister
(Youtube Direktghosts, via Dangerous Minds)
Ghosts! LSD! This is so me!
HR-Hippie-Doku und eine spanische LSD-Orgie aus „Acid Delirio Dei Sensi“
(Vimeo Direkthippies, via Dangerous Minds)
Im Vimeo-Channel Towersopenfire habe ich neben den Manowar-Weihnachtsbaumkugeln auch noch obige 20minütige Doku über Hippies in San Francisco vom Hessischen Rundfunk und einen Ausschnitt mit einer LSD-Orgie aus dem Film „Acid Delirio Dei Sensi“ gefunden, der und das Filmposter nach dem Klick.
Unicorn LSD
Die Website Blotter Barn hatte ich hier schonmal am Rande erwähnt, was mir damals aber durch die Lappen gegangen ist, sind diese Einhorn-Tickets. EINHORN-LSD-TICKETS! With… Rainbows’n'Colors’n'… Rainbows! DOUBLERAINBOWSOMG! (via Kotzendes Einhorn)
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
LSD-Ticket-Artworks
Cary in the Sky with Diamonds
Lennons verlorenes LSD gefunden
National Geographics Inside LSD
Obama Acid
Dock Ellis’ LSD-Baseball animated
Der Brief von LSD-Erfinder Albert Hofmann an Steve Jobs
R.I.P. Albert Hofmann, LSD-Entdecker
Cary in the Sky with Diamonds
Die LSD-Story von Cary Grant begegnet mir nicht zum ersten mal, aber Cari Beauchamp und Judy Balaban haben sie für die Vanity Fair nochmal sehr schön aufgeschrieben.
Before Timothy Leary and the Beatles, LSD was largely unknown and unregulated. But in the 1950s, as many as 100 Hollywood luminaries—Cary Grant and Esther Williams among them—began taking the drug as part of psychotherapy. With LSD research beginning a comeback, the authors recount how two Beverly Hills doctors promoted a new “wonder drug,” at $100 a session, profoundly altering the lives of their glamorous patients, Balaban included.
The Electric Beverly Hills – Cary in the Sky with Diamonds (via MeFi)
LSD-Ticket-Artworks
Erowid hat eine recht große Sammlung voller Scans von LSD-Tickets online und die Artworks darauf reichen vom üblichen Psychedelica-Kitsch bis Darth Maul (aber nicht Darth Vader!), Daffy Duck und Alice in Wonderland. Ich meine, echt jetzt mal: Alice in Wonderland-Trips? (Übrigens, for those who know: Er hat auch einen Scan der Tickets, die damals Richie „Plastikman“ Hawtins erstem Album beilagen [und die kein LSD enthielten]. Ich hab’ die Dinger damals tatsächlich in einem Anfall von Arschlochtum vertickt und musste dann… aber lassen wir das.)
Black market LSD blotter generally bears art or a design printed on the paper. The paper is perforated into individual “tabs” or “hits” approximately 1/4 in. x 1/4 in. The sheets are then dipped in a solution containing a known quantity of LSD or have LSD applied with a dropper creating a relatively consistent dosage per tab.
The creation of blotter has become an underground art form leading to an array of creative and stunning designs. It is likely that a few of the blotter designs shown have never been dipped and were created purely as art.
LSD Blotter Art Gallery by Erowid (via Cakehead)
Related (jeez, wo kommen die ganzen LSD-Links auf einmal her? Egal, Farben):
Blotter Art: The Institute of Illegal Images, Blotterbarn.com, I took LSD at Disneyland, mein LSD-Tag hier und auf Delicious.
Lennons verlorenes LSD gefunden
Der Legende nach hat John Lennon damals, als die Beatles offiziell keine Lust mehr auf Drogen und sowas hatten, seine letzte Portion LSD auf seinem Grundstück vergraben und hatte es dann, als er es sich anders überlegt hatte, nicht mehr wiedergefunden (und hat dann ein paar Leute angerufen). Und genau das haben Bauarbeiter jetzt beim Umgraben gefunden: ‘Ne Box mit Glasampullen, das Zeug war natürlich längst verflogen.
HARDCORE fans of The Beatles legend John Lennon uncovered where in the grounds of his Surrey, southern England, home he hid his stash of LSD more than 40 years ago.
Builders digging up the lawn of his old house, Kenwood, came across the remains of a leather holdall containing several large broken glass bottles
John Lennon enthusiasts uncover singer’s hidden LSD stash (Die Story hat ihren Ursprung in der Sun, also haben wahrscheinlich Bauarbeiter ‘nen leeren Sixpack gefunden, aber ich mag die Geschichte.) (via Arbroath)
National Geographics Inside LSD
Letztes Jahr hat der National Geographic eine superinteressante und sehr schön bebilderte Doku über Lysergsäurediethylamid namens Inside LSD produziert. Die ganze Doku konnte ich online leider nicht finden, aber auf der Website zur Doku gibt’s genug Videoschnipsel und Bilder, um glücklich zu werden. Und wer eine Torrent-Suchmaschine bedienen kann, könnte auch eine komplette Version finden.
Oben zwei sehr abgefahrene Videos, das erste zeigt eine Dealerin, die LSD Candy herstellt, im zweiten sieht man einen Sammler (und Zeichner) der Illus auf den Tickets.
LSDs inventor Albert Hofmann called it “medicine for the soul.” The Beatles wrote songs about it. Secret military mind control experiments exploited its hallucinogenic powers. Outlawed in 1966, LSD became a street drug and developed a reputation as the dangerous toy of the counterculture, capable of inspiring either moments of genius, or a descent into madness. Now science is taking a fresh look at LSD, including the first human trials in over 35 years.
Using enhanced brain imaging, non-hallucinogenic versions of the drug and information from an underground network of test subjects who suffer from an agonizing condition for which there is no cure, researchers are finding that this “trippy” drug could become the pharmaceutical of the future. Can it enhance our brain power, expand our creativity and cure disease? To find out, Explorer puts LSD under the microscope.
Inside LSD (via Buzzfeed)
Obama Acid
Was haben Miraculix, Silver Surfer, Erdbeeren, Hofmann und Obama gemeinsam? Genau: A rainbow full of change.
(via BoingBoing)
Dock Ellis’ LSD-Baseball animated
(Youtube Direktbaseball, via Motionographer)
Baseball-Spieler Dock Ellis kam im Juni 1970 nach Hause und dachte, er hätte einen Tag frei und tat, was man in den 70ern eben tat, wenn man einen Tag frei hat: Er schmiss eine Runde Acid. Dummerweise hatte er allerdings gar nicht frei und so spielte er am Abend eine Runde Baseball auf LSD wobei er einen No-Hitter warf. Und ich alter Sportauskenner tu’ einfach mal so, als ob ich wüsste, was das sein soll.
Der Brief von LSD-Erfinder Albert Hofmann an Steve Jobs
Das hier ist so awesome, obwohl es eigentlich gar nicht so awesome ist, aber die Idee, der Fakt, das ist irgendwie so grandios – ich kann das gar nicht wirklich erklären, warum das so grandios ist. Aber es ist grandios. Und awesome.
Der 101jährige LSD-Erfinder Albert Hofmann hat Steve „LSD was one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life“ Jobs im Jahr 2007 einen Brief geschrieben, weil er wissen wollte, wie genau sich dessen LSD-Erfahrungen auf seine Kreativität ausgewirkt hatten. Ob Jobs den Brief beantwortet hat, weiß ich nicht, aber er wurde jetzt veröffentlicht und er liest sich gar nicht so spektakulär:
Dear Mr. Steve Jobs,
Hello from Albert Hofmann. I understand from media accounts that you feel LSD helped you creatively in your development of Apple computers and your personal spiritual quest. I’m interested in learning more about how LSD was useful to you.
I’m writing now, shortly after my 101st birthday, to request that you support Swiss psychiatrist Dr. Peter Gasser’s proposed study of LSD-assisted psychotherapy in subjects with anxiety associated with life-threatening illness. This will become the first LSD-assisted psychotherapy study in over 35 years.
I hope you will help in the transformation of my problem child into a wonder child.
Sincerely,
A. Hofmann
Aber ich finde die Tatsache, dass der 101-jährige Albert Hofmann einen Brief an Jobs schickte, auf so eine trippige Art superfantastisch. Apple, designed by a bunch of Hippies on LSD. Fuck, yeah!
Steve Jobs has never been shy about his use of psychedelics, famously calling his LSD experience “one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life.” So, toward the end of his life, LSD inventor Albert Hofmann decided to write to the iPhone creator to see if he’d be interested in putting some money where the tip of his tongue had been.
Hofmann penned a never-before-disclosed letter in 2007 to Jobs at the behest of his friend Rick Doblin, who runs an organization dedicated to studying the medical and psychiatric benefits of psychedelic drugs. Hofmann, a Swiss chemist, died in April 2008 at the age of 102. [...]
Written just after his 101st birthday, the letter’s penmanship is impressive for a man of his years. I showed it to my grandmother, Ruth Grim, who was 8 years Hofmann’s junior and did amateur handwriting analysis as long as Hofmann had been tripping. Without knowing who he was, she said in an e-mail that “something happened early in his life that made him twisted about things. Maybe he felt threatened. Also–creative with his hands, hard on himself, thinks a lot, stubborn, careful with the way he expresses himself, not influenced by other’s thinking.”
Read the Never-Before-Published Letter From LSD-Inventor Albert Hofmann to Apple CEO Steve Jobs (via Gizmodo)
N.A.S.A.s „Gifted“-Video is full of Astronauts auf LSD
(Onsmash DirektLSD, via IFMV)
Hier das neueste Video von Sam Spiegels N.A.S.A.-Projekt, diesmal mit Kanye West, Santogold, Lykke Li, einem auf dem Mars gestrandeten Astronauten, der offensichtlich auf einem LSD-Trip ist und einem Video, das wie ein animiertes Imaginary Foundation-Shirt aussieht.
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
N.A.S.A.s (die Band, nicht die Raumfahrer) Behind the Scenes-Dokumentation
Obey Giants N.A.S.A.-Video „Money“
Cosmic Drummer @ Imaginary Foundation Art Show
Imaginary Foundation Jetpack-Shirt
