<story><title>LSD: The Geek&apos;s Wonder Drug</title><url>http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/01/70015</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joelhooks</author><text>I&apos;m a little hesitant, but it is hanging here on the wall so:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/mhg4c.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://i.imgur.com/mhg4c.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This was an 8 hour marathon of oil pastel madness. I was in my tiny apartment with 6-8 friends and literally spent the entire time engrossed in this thing. The background was the technique that I could never get back. This was a series of this basic type of drawing I did. There were 4 and this one I like the most. Gave one away to some chick I was seeing :/&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/HZ2yG.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://i.imgur.com/HZ2yG.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bic pens have always been a favorite as well. These are actually meeting drawings from a fairly recent (sober) time, but are representitive of the drawings I don&apos;t want to go dig out and scan. My brain didn&apos;t do this prior to LSD ;)</text></item><item><author>parfe</author><text>I&apos;d be interested in seeing any scans you might have.</text></item><item><author>joelhooks</author><text>I have several drawings and paintings that I did under the influence that still amaze me today. I could never reproduce the techniques or forms. There were many times that I wouldn&apos;t spend the entire duration drawing/painting, but I had several marathon creation sessions under the influence of LSD.&lt;p&gt;We would always make sure to have plenty of supplies. Art or otherwise. Pen and paper was probably the most difficult. The effects on your vision are pronounced and drawing can be... hard. I always enjoyed oil pastels the most. Thick and flowing pools of color. Man those were good times.&lt;p&gt;I was in art school at the time, and critique (the ability to give and receive) was one of the greatest things I walked away with. We would formerly critique on a regular basis in class.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; I don&apos;t doubt they had a good time, but seeing them utterly fail to use the drug as a tool kinda makes me skeptical of the productive benefits.&lt;p&gt;This is akin to coming onto a software project, seeing a huge tangle of grotesque code produced by some other programmer(s), and determining that the tools were at fault. In both cases it is not necessarily the wand, but perhaps the magician.</text></item><item><author>parfe</author><text>In college I lived with artists.  A few of their artist friends come over with big sketch pads, pencils and whatever else artists use.  They all drop acid while telling me they can&apos;t wait to see their amazing creations once their minds are opened.  I went out for a few hours and came back to find them all sitting around the living room.&lt;p&gt;One sketch pad had a long black squiggle on it, the same design you&apos;d make if you fell asleep while holding a pen to paper, and the rest had even less (One was literally two 1&quot; lines forming a 90 degree angle).  The next day they described the night as a huge success even though they never really attained any of their stated goals.&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t doubt they had a good time, but seeing them utterly fail to use the drug as a tool kinda makes me skeptical of the productive benefits.&lt;p&gt;As a side note, if you want your ego stroked then ask a student artist for his opinion of your work.  In the two years I lived with artists not a single negative comment was spoken by a student of anyone else&apos;s work.  It was a guaranteed self-congratulatory feedback loop.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RainFlutter</author><text>These are wonderful and thank you for showing them. The images speak more powerfully than simply saying &quot;yeah LSD helped me out.&quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>LSD: The Geek&apos;s Wonder Drug</title><url>http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/01/70015</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joelhooks</author><text>I&apos;m a little hesitant, but it is hanging here on the wall so:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/mhg4c.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://i.imgur.com/mhg4c.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This was an 8 hour marathon of oil pastel madness. I was in my tiny apartment with 6-8 friends and literally spent the entire time engrossed in this thing. The background was the technique that I could never get back. This was a series of this basic type of drawing I did. There were 4 and this one I like the most. Gave one away to some chick I was seeing :/&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/HZ2yG.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://i.imgur.com/HZ2yG.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bic pens have always been a favorite as well. These are actually meeting drawings from a fairly recent (sober) time, but are representitive of the drawings I don&apos;t want to go dig out and scan. My brain didn&apos;t do this prior to LSD ;)</text></item><item><author>parfe</author><text>I&apos;d be interested in seeing any scans you might have.</text></item><item><author>joelhooks</author><text>I have several drawings and paintings that I did under the influence that still amaze me today. I could never reproduce the techniques or forms. There were many times that I wouldn&apos;t spend the entire duration drawing/painting, but I had several marathon creation sessions under the influence of LSD.&lt;p&gt;We would always make sure to have plenty of supplies. Art or otherwise. Pen and paper was probably the most difficult. The effects on your vision are pronounced and drawing can be... hard. I always enjoyed oil pastels the most. Thick and flowing pools of color. Man those were good times.&lt;p&gt;I was in art school at the time, and critique (the ability to give and receive) was one of the greatest things I walked away with. We would formerly critique on a regular basis in class.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; I don&apos;t doubt they had a good time, but seeing them utterly fail to use the drug as a tool kinda makes me skeptical of the productive benefits.&lt;p&gt;This is akin to coming onto a software project, seeing a huge tangle of grotesque code produced by some other programmer(s), and determining that the tools were at fault. In both cases it is not necessarily the wand, but perhaps the magician.</text></item><item><author>parfe</author><text>In college I lived with artists.  A few of their artist friends come over with big sketch pads, pencils and whatever else artists use.  They all drop acid while telling me they can&apos;t wait to see their amazing creations once their minds are opened.  I went out for a few hours and came back to find them all sitting around the living room.&lt;p&gt;One sketch pad had a long black squiggle on it, the same design you&apos;d make if you fell asleep while holding a pen to paper, and the rest had even less (One was literally two 1&quot; lines forming a 90 degree angle).  The next day they described the night as a huge success even though they never really attained any of their stated goals.&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t doubt they had a good time, but seeing them utterly fail to use the drug as a tool kinda makes me skeptical of the productive benefits.&lt;p&gt;As a side note, if you want your ego stroked then ask a student artist for his opinion of your work.  In the two years I lived with artists not a single negative comment was spoken by a student of anyone else&apos;s work.  It was a guaranteed self-congratulatory feedback loop.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>parfe</author><text>Thank you.  Those are some cool drawings and the painting definitely deserves that frame.</text></comment>