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BIG CITY was a CIA experiment in which the tailpipe of a 1953 Mercury was extended eighteen inches over its normal length. It was then driven for a total distance of eighty miles around New York City, emitting a gas of LSD in order to study its effect on citizens who came in direct contact with the gas. BIG CITY was carried out once a week for over a year. In another operation, operatives would travel on New York City subways with battery-operated emission apparatus in briefcases to see if the LSD could be secretly administered to individuals in a confined space and what its effect would be. The agents themselves wore nasal filter cartridges inserted high into their sinus cavities.

THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF TECHNOLOGY: THE CASE OF LSD

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JOSEF ALBERS

INTERACTION OF COLOR, 1963

PRIMARY YELLOW

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comparable to léon bakst’s ballet costume for ida rubinstein - i posted it some time ago. however i like this one much more - by oskar schlemmer

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SILBER STEINE PRINT by Yvo Hählen  & A3 Studio & Priscilla Balmer

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Mount Taranaki and the surrounding Egmont National Park forms a nearly perfect circle in New Zealand

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Scientific engravings from 1850

by John Philipps Emslie

(via the Wellcome Collection)

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I move to give John Philipps Emslie his own posthumous Tumblr, like now.

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Channa Horwitz, Sonakinatrography XVIII, 1991.

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Tara Donovan - Untitled (2008)

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Evol - Mural for the Point Ephémère exhibition in Paris (2010)

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LSD LIBRARY 2013 

FREDERIC POST artist (Geneva)

variable dimensions, photographic printing on tarpaulin, carpet, mattresses, lighting, sound diffusion.

In March 2012, I visited the discrete warehouses Ludlow Santo Domingo Library. Preserved in Geneva since 2003, this collection belonged to the Colombian businessman and friend of the arts Julio Mario Santo Domingo Jr. After his death, all the works were transferred to Harvard University. It is a few days before the cartons leave for the United States as I could, with the help of Dylan Perrenoud (photographer), make a record of this set of books and articles, also called The Fritz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library, initiated in 1970 by Michael Horowitz, Cynthia Palmer, William Dailey and Robert Barker. Ludlow Santo Domingo Library is known specialists and enthusiasts, to be the largest collection of books on the history of psychotropic and psychedelic drugs. 

Installing LSD Library is composed of an all-over digital print depicting shelves books and articles sham. The books are reproduced in 1:1 scale and all securities are perfectly legible.

Photographs: Dylan Perrenoud

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Philip K. Dick - Solar Lottery

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Mirrored Balls, Halboy Fixture Distribution

St. Louis, Missouri

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kustaa saksi

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Monochromatic Resonator II 2013. Watercolor on paper, 14.25 x 10 inches.

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Buckminster Fuller, Conceptuality of Fundimental Structures as seen in Gyorgy Kepes book, “Structure in Art and Science”, (1965)

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Marcel Duchamp