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If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
![Via thedailywhat:
Acid Trip of the Day: Nine drawings by an unknown artist taking part in a government-sponsored LSD experiment in the late 1950s.
The subject was asked to draw a portrait of his attending doctor at various intervals throughout the experiment.
The fifth drawing, completed two-and-a-half hours after the initial dose of LSD 25 was administered, was accompanied by the following observation:
Upon completing the drawing the patient starts laughing, then becomes startled by something on the floor.
Compare with his final statement, five-and-a-half hours later, following portrait #9:
I have nothing to say about this last drawing, it is bad and uninteresting, I want to go home now.
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Via thedailywhat:
Acid Trip of the Day: Nine drawings by an unknown artist taking part in a government-sponsored LSD experiment in the late 1950s.
The subject was asked to draw a portrait of his attending doctor at various intervals throughout the experiment.
The fifth drawing, completed two-and-a-half hours after the initial dose of LSD 25 was administered, was accompanied by the following observation:
Upon completing the drawing the patient starts laughing, then becomes startled by something on the floor.
Compare with his final statement, five-and-a-half hours later, following portrait #9:
I have nothing to say about this last drawing, it is bad and uninteresting, I want to go home now.
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Architectural Tetris! Copy below from Flavorwire:
“Designer-in-training Sergej Hein animated this entertaining parody of Soviet Bloc architecture, filtered through the early ’90s pop culture touchstone Tetris. Hein, who grew up in Riga and later East Berlin, explains, ‘They used to build cheap housing for workers…. These “blocks” were so similar that in Soviet times, you could easily wake up at a friend’s place in another city and still feel like you are in your flat. Even the furniture was the same.’”
Last night’s driveway moment.
By adres in Portugal. The piece commemorates the Carnation Revolution, which is remembered in Portugal with a national holiday celebrating freedom.
Editorial cartoon by Oliver Herford, 1919. Apparently “demon rum” was the gateway drug of the time, leading to laudanum, opium, and so forth. Larger view here; via { feuilleton }.
“While curators at the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam stand by the theory of self-mutilation, Kaufmann argues that Van Gogh dropped hints in letters to his brother, Theo, once commenting: ‘Luckily Gauguin…is not yet armed with machine guns and other dangerous war weapons.’”
Signs of Character, a phrenology chart drawn and published by R. Degranza Pease, M.D., 1843. Via BibliOdyssey.
