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Posts: 138 Joined: 23-Sep-2012 Last visit: 02-Dec-2015 Location: GreatLakes
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Interesting to see his progression throughout his life.
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Posts: 7463 Joined: 21-May-2008 Last visit: 14-Jan-2025 Location: the lab
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 "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." ~ hassan i sabbah
"Experiments are the only means of attaining knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." -Max Planck
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Posts: 5257 Joined: 29-Jul-2009 Last visit: 24-Aug-2024 Location: 🌊
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Every artist has their low point benzy ^___^ After watching him paint while i was half way into lsd hyperspace, and talking with him for a while, i found him hilarious and brilliant. A really great and talented chap
<Ringworm>hehehe, it's all fun and games till someone loses an "I"
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analytical chemist
Posts: 7463 Joined: 21-May-2008 Last visit: 14-Jan-2025 Location: the lab
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hehe, fair enough "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." ~ hassan i sabbah
"Experiments are the only means of attaining knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." -Max Planck
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Kalt und Heiß, Schwarz und Rot, Kürper und Geist, Liebe und Chaos
Posts: 4661 Joined: 02-Jun-2008 Last visit: 30-Apr-2022
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I of course can't comment on his personality (he looks like a cool guy overall) , but damn, aren't Alex Grey's paintings some god-awful monstrosities... I never really understood why people like his stuff or why his paintings are famous in the psychedelic community. Need to calculate between salts and freebases? Click here! Need to calculate freebase or salt percentage at a given pH? Click here!
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Posts: 12340 Joined: 12-Nov-2008 Last visit: 02-Apr-2023 Location: pacific
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which ones are so awful? I doubt most people can paint like that..I really find that Obama one weird as hell though. Long live the unwoke.
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Kalt und Heiß, Schwarz und Rot, Kürper und Geist, Liebe und Chaos
Posts: 4661 Joined: 02-Jun-2008 Last visit: 30-Apr-2022
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Well...everything I've seen from him was dreadful. I appreciate the unique style as well as the effort and inspiration that goes in each of his drawings, but the end-result just doesn't do it for me. But also psychedelic paintings in general is not much to my liking... Need to calculate between salts and freebases? Click here! Need to calculate freebase or salt percentage at a given pH? Click here!
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Posts: 465 Joined: 18-Jan-2008 Last visit: 31-Dec-2024
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I really felt for the Shulgings being gifted this beauty... fourthripley attached the following image(s):  shulgin.jpg (17kb) downloaded 81 time(s).mistakes were made
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i think this is a new one universecannon attached the following image(s): tumblr_mdvi9z2JPi1qc5tsyo1_500.jpg (166kb) downloaded 58 time(s).
<Ringworm>hehehe, it's all fun and games till someone loses an "I"
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Infundibulum wrote: But also psychedelic paintings in general is not much to my liking...
wellp, theres your problem  what psychedelic art do you like though infund? im curious to see 
<Ringworm>hehehe, it's all fun and games till someone loses an "I"
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'Tis A Looooooong Wind Blowing Cosmic Dust
Posts: 833 Joined: 15-Feb-2010 Last visit: 02-Nov-2024 Location: Vermont
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Infundibulum, I can understand how you feel. It's hard to look at such intense visual stimulation, 24/7... but an an artist myself, I feel that even when the reaction the viewer of the artwork itself, is shock or even aversion, it has it's profound effect upon our consciousness. Well, perhaps I should say on many consciousnesses? Hieronymus Bosch, Max Ernst and Salvador Dali were much the same, in other centuries. I respect him to a tremendous degree!  We respond to the images and how they make us feel, think and react psychologically and even spiritually. And honestly, while I would probably prefer to have a relaxing dinner near one of Claude Monet's serene masterpieces... I admire Alex more than words can properly express. His tremendous work encompasses the totality of the human experience and leads the observer into the intricacies of the psychedelic experience. He is literally mapping-out many of his own interior spaces and deepest inner visions. In my little book of opinions and preferences, he is a bonafide genius! And he is a HUGE inspiration to younger painters like Luke Brown and many others talented kids.  There is no self to which I cling, for I am one with everything.
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