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Feast: For your ears and eyes

Vimeo is Youtube with integrity, and their evolving playlist Eye Candy is worth saving to your bookmarks for those moments when you need to let your brain wander…

Historical: First psychedelic

Enjoy this Vice interview with author Mike Jay, whose book Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic was recently released: Mescaline is an alkaloid that occurs in…

Biz: High creationism

Come prepared to smoke, paint, chat, indulge, and probably laugh harder than you ever had before. puff, pass and paint website The advent of legal recreational weed has…

Absorb: Some exceptional podcast episodes

Podcasts are perhaps the most accessible intimate artform, gaining your full attention. There are podcasts on most topics — no matter how obscure or ridiculous — I am…

Snapshots: Kismet or chaos?

Mr. Ye and Ms. Xue met and began a relationship in the Chinese mega-city of Chengdue in 2011. They are now married with children. While going through a…

Acidic: A bio about a garage chemist who helped turn millions on to LSD

I’m obsessed with biographies about the influencers and shakers of the 60s counterculture, the people who actively challenged American culture’s stifling status quo and aimed towards a reality…

Identity: Photography without a face

Ben Zank is a NYC-based photographer who captures mostly-faceless subjects buried, disappearing, laying surreal in isolated nature. I hoped the artist had a shop with prints, but no…

Ask: What gets really weird if you think about it too much?

A stimulating Reddit question posted five years ago by user Fuuuuunke. The entire reddit stream is here. A few of my favorite responses: Do caterpillars know they they…

Play: RPG about a queer community during the apocalypse

“Imagine that the collapse of civilization didn’t happen everywhere at the same time. Instead, it’s happening in waves. Every day, more people fall out of the society intact….

Balls: Pinball explained

In Seattle we have several supremely psychedelicly dark black-light-glowing strobe-blinking bar backrooms chock full of obnoxiously-loud pinball machines (most impressively: Shorty’s). The addictive scene reeks of chaos, but…