The idea that someone who is "an artist" is given LSD and a sketch pad and encouraged to draw is different from simply a "participant" being given LSD and asked to draw.
What would the output of the non-artist tell us about the LSD experience?
Please allow me to recommend director "Danwei" on YouTube: A Western film company in China that does an occasional series "Hard Hat Chronicles" that explores the life of the Chinese migrant construction worker in the 21st Century.
Also of interest is their silly series "Sexy Beijing" where a pretty Jewish-American woman asks Chinese on the steet questions about their love lives, etc. Quite funny and well done.
I have serious doubts as to whether or not this experiment actually took place at all as described.
It's not that LSD isn't capable of manifesting itself visually as it appears here, it's the perfect narrative that the pictures depict.
Subject is normal, subject is given LSD, things start to get crazy, things REALLY start to get crazy! things start to get normal again. Things are all normal again. 8 hours start to finish.
While LSD most certainly CAN work just that way, it more likely than not doesn't. My guess is that the actual story behind the pictures is more complicated - perhaps the same subject being drawn by different people on different amounts of LSD... Perhaps drawn by the same person during different sessions of taking LSD.
This specimen appears to be a variety of cockroach ('maengda' in Thai). It is immature, as his posterial armor has not yet fully grown to shield the rear of his body from being bitten or stung.
IMO, the only good cockroach in Thailand is a dead one.
The idea that someone who is "an artist" is given LSD and a sketch pad and encouraged to draw is different from simply a "participant" being given LSD and asked to draw.
What would the output of the non-artist tell us about the LSD experience?
Also of interest is their silly series "Sexy Beijing" where a pretty Jewish-American woman asks Chinese on the steet questions about their love lives, etc. Quite funny and well done.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Danwei
It's not that LSD isn't capable of manifesting itself visually as it appears here, it's the perfect narrative that the pictures depict.
Subject is normal, subject is given LSD, things start to get crazy, things REALLY start to get crazy! things start to get normal again. Things are all normal again. 8 hours start to finish.
While LSD most certainly CAN work just that way, it more likely than not doesn't. My guess is that the actual story behind the pictures is more complicated - perhaps the same subject being drawn by different people on different amounts of LSD... Perhaps drawn by the same person during different sessions of taking LSD.
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I suggest a glass of warm milk before bed to make you feel better.
IMO, the only good cockroach in Thailand is a dead one.
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