Good lord, you had an angel sitting on your shoulder.
Shrooms, acid, and a Harley? How the hell did you ever survive?
Good lord, you had an angel sitting on your shoulder.I used to take large quantities of hallucinogenics and ride the Harley (which I still have) on dark foggy nights. These images were taken July 4th 1982 from a hotel roof while on an unknown quantity of LSD. Canon AE-1 50MM f1.8 Kodachrome 25 exposure lost to history. Not recommending anyone do this (nor would I do it today) but it worked for me.
Sure. But the experience might result in some interesting pictures later. It's an intensive experience, and you are going to digest it in the days following, when you are sober again (and able to shoot photos again).
But, sure, I don't recommend to go that route in general.[/QUOTE
Are they interesting to others? Are they still interesting to the maker when no longer stoned out of his mind?
esp LSD? This may be a dumb post, but I believe Lewis Carrol used psychedelic mushrooms to write "Alice in Wonderland?,
Of coarse, sleep is when your body producers serotonin, especially in the REM state when we dream. LSD is suppose to stimulate serotonin some way, but far better to stimulate it naturally.
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Art Clokey and Frank Zappa and ...On the other hand, I have known many successful artists in painting, sculpture, and music who never had a need to resort to drugs for “inspiration”.
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Good lord, you had an angel sitting on your shoulder.
Shrooms, acid, and a Harley? How the hell did you ever survive?
HI VaughnSuper and Smokey
And remember, Acid consumes 47 times its weight in excess reality.
I knew dozens of successful studio photographers in San Francisco. I doubt any needed drugs to do great work, tho most smoked dope socially and a couple of them did go on occasional drug/alcohol benders. A very successful large format studio guy occasionally hit himself in the head intentionally with LSD, hoping to change something unspecified. His conservative Jewish family kept him on rails.
Dope dumbs some folks down enough to return to and stick with retail or government work.
The addict you know WILL steal from you (and from his parents and former friends) ... if they toot coke beyond briefly they will turn into ASSES within a week. Those are iron-clad rules of the universe.
On the other hand, I heard a long interview with Louis Armstrong in which he said he smoked dope every day...he didn't have to buy because it could be found growing in rail yards. There are millions of dopers and not many Louie Armstrongs.
In college, I found caffeine and nicotine excellent for helping me to study art history, physics, chemistry, electric circuits, philosophy, mathematics, and pretty much anything else that involved reading or memorization. Cannabis helped with my art and design classes, allowing me to come up with new ideas that I wouldn't have otherwise. It also helped with physics, chemistry, electronics, history, and philosophy for conceptualization and incorporating small ideas into the big picture. It was terrible for math and memorization, and made reading more enjoyable, but less effective. Caffeine and nicotine we're good for fill in the blank and multiple choice tests, and cannabis for essay tests. LSD, mushrooms, and peyote are good for changing your perspective on life, but bad for getting work done. Cocaine and hard stimulants are too addictive and dot do anything for me positively that caffeine can't do. Opitaes are virtually worthless for me. The only way I can tell they're working is if they make me itch. Alcohol just makes me tired and gives me a headache. Benzos provide minor help with social anxiety, but aren't highly effective.
That's my experience. Everyone's brain chemistry is different, and everyone reacts differently. If everyone reacted the same way as me, cannabis would be legal, alcohol wouldn't, and no one would be addicted to cocaine, meth, or opiates. It would be like Dramamine, which is a powerful psychotic, but so unpleasant that abuse is extremely rare. LSD, mushrooms, and peyote would be commonly prescribed drugs for depression and PTSD.
These days, I just do moderate caffeine, nicotine, and rarely a glass of alcohol. If cannabis were legal here, I might occasionally do that, but it's not, and not worth the risk.
Super and Smokey.
Some people should not drink, some people should not do some drugs. Either one can harm, either can bring benefit. Most of the drug problems -- perhaps 90% -- are caused by the drug(s) being illegal.“Odd Bodkins” by Dan O’Neill summed up the late ‘60’s - early ‘70’s era in San Francisco quite well. Unfortunately there a good number of drug casualties too, don’t know if their creative selves got a lot out of it. My older brother and sister enjoyed the Summer of Love and all that went with it, being a little younger I saw the other side of it, it wasn’t pretty. They had a lot of fun while it lasted.
Caffeine and/or nicotine -- for some people it is a needed natural laxative in the morning...I fail to understand how nicotine can help one to study anything. It may give one a false sense of something.
The folks you mentioned also already had the talent, discipline and creativity to put ideas, regardless of where they came from, into a form of art. It's doubtful that any substance that alters consensual reality is going to make someone artistically creative. Someone either has it before or doesn't. I type this while listening to Bob Marley, who had it, with or without ganja.The marijuana that Satchmo, Gene Krupa and others smoked back then was the equivalent of 3.2 beer compared to the stuff available today. Off hand, I can’t think of a jazz musician who took cocaine or heroine who lived a long life, most died young, such as Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Bud Powell, etc. Chain smoking tobacco also took a toll, for example, Art Blakey (one of the nicest guys I ever met).
Looking for creativity in booze doesn’t work either and, again, often leads to a short life. In the performing arts it can lead to a short professional life. Hank Williams was a sad loss for those of us who enjoyed hill-billy music. ( Where I grew up we had a great mix of music,...opera, symphony, jazz and hillbilly...and often the same audience for all genres.)
For a young guy only 60 years old to believe that because he is still alive he has gotten away with drug use, I can only say I know of many artists who finally reached a creative peak in their 80s. But they were all physically fit.
I never had an interest in drugs because I wanted to know what was going on around me. Also, I couldn’t stand the smell.
Well, if I needed a crutch, I'd go with drugs before religion or politics.... I never felt the need for a crutch.
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