Artist Creates Self-Portraits on Different Drugs

[Kommander]

So Xanax apparently makes you pretty normal, except that you become a brony.

[Darrell]

Mankind has always looked for ways to cop a buzz. The Ringo Starr comedy movie Caveman humorously illustrates some quite believable aspects of life in the bad ol' days, i.e. when the tribe has him try the "berries" from what is obviously a marijuana plant. I once read of evidence that Bushmen in Africa were cultivating marijuana many thousands of years ago.

[Aesop]

Stupid beyond belief.
Best of all, those are his fantasies for the most part, and not any effects of the drugs. So he made them up (beyond the creative aspect) in the sense that he wasn't under any such effects unless he took them for weeks, which I doubt.
Most of the psychoactive drugs take from 5-10 weeks of steady use before they achieve anything.
So he may as well have entitled this "Crap I Made Up Watching Saturday Cartoons".
And more importantly, he's a mediocre or worse artist to begin with, and substances haven't improved his efforts.

He should have spent the money he expended on drugs to hire a couple of thugs to go to the matchbook-cover art school that took his money and get it back for him, so that he could try his hand at either retail sales or janitorial service endeavors, for either of which he is clearly vastly better suited than anything creative.

He's another casualty of thinking that the world is just a bigger version of mommie's refrigerator.

[Jered]

Sigh, you just don't get it. It's ART!!!

Apparently I have discernment.



Most modern art is something I would throw in the trash.

[free_me]

Fascinating. Explains the style of several prominent artists which I recognize in this guy's art.

[Rod]

Sigh, you just don't get it. It's ART!!!

Or an experiment in how your self-perception gets skewed when you're on the various drugs. Kinda like putting different color filters up to your eye and looking at a landscape thru them.

If it was art for art's sake, this wouldn't interest me.

Some of those drugs wouldn't cause any "high" to occur. Unless the dude took retarded amounts of them.

Hell, Cephalexin is an antibiotic.

ETA: I'm not implying antibiotics don't have side effects. Just that there is no market out there of people looking to score some Keflex for a good time.

I noticed one of the drugs was nicotine gum, how much of that stuff would you have to chew at once to get high?

[Old Grafton]

Take all the "artwork" and stack it in one pile. If you light it, he will snort it. Mansadick. Keep him away from children.

[skb12172]

Hmm. I wonder what the incidence of hallucinations is. Some websites don't even list it as a side effect.

On the other hand, the guy probably had additive or synergistic effects from all the shit he took previously. And I had to google Butane Honey Oil. WTF? The lengths some people will go to in order to alter their consciousness is amazing.

I didn't even bother to look that one up, I figured it would most likely fit in the 'I didn't want to know' category.

Yes about that last bit. Makes me wonder, what is so desperately wrong with their minds that those people are so eager to wreck and alter them.

When I used to work for the state Dept. of Justice, I was thunderstruck when our Secretary suddenly banned hand sanitizer in the state prisons. It seems the inmates were heating it up into liquid form and drinking it for a buzz.

[Aesop]

Cool.
Eight ounces of isopropyl alcohol is the lethal dose.
Death penalty by stupidity works for me.


Thinking over the guy who did this exhibition, I'd be happy to sponsor him if he'd do portraits immersed entirely in inert gases. Helium, nitrogen, stuff like that.

[Windy Wilson]

"An artist is the only thing you can say you is that nobody can say you ain't" -- Charles M. Russell.

And I learned recently that Jimson weed was psychoactive and the padres at the California missions considered the natives in what is now the Inland Empire to be useless because of their addiction to Jimson weed. Which makes me wonder if it's still growing in the area and on any Schedule of the DEA, is anyone using?