Year of the Selfie—Are Camera Phones Killing Photography?
Is the ubiquity of camera phones having a ruinous effect on photography? Throughout the ages, new technologies are always said to be the ruin of something. The best camera is the one you have with you.
Best Strains for Productivity and Focus
In the quest for the best strain for productivity and focus, we’ve taken a look at some popular strains for productivity and focus, according to the cannabis community.
Fantastic Fungi w/ Louis Schwartzberg
Jackee talks to Louis Schwartzberg, director of Fantastic Fungi, about inspiration, psychedelics, and more in this episode of Delic Radio.
Living in Dangerous Times
I consider television, and most recently the development of social media, to be the most powerful mind-control ‘drugs’ that have yet been developed, with their effectiveness at influencing and controlling docile (and often legally sedated) populations unparalleled in human history.
Psychedelia in the Movies
As someone who took LSD whilst training as a film student, I was often struck by the notion that the sheer magnitude and pan-dimensionality of the acid experience could never be even remotely contained within the circumscribed parameters of film – but at the same time I understood the irresistible urge to try nevertheless.
Extremist Art: A Talk with Nick Zedd
The Internet has become the perfect tool of
mind control. FB and the Net are SOMA. Huxley predicted it in Brave New World.
We are enslaved by distractions and easy pleasures that cater to our
narcissism and prejudice.
It's better to be outside al…
Ayahuasca, Wolves and Music: A Conversation with John Sheldon
John
Sheldon was
Van Morrison's lead guitarist at age 17. He has an uncanny gift for conjuring the wild
spirit, so when he told me he'd written a song for the famous alpha
female Wolf 06 shot and killed just out of Yellowstone, I wanted to share it with others who, like me, are mourning for all of the hundreds of wolves who are murdered for sport.
Incendiary Person in the Desert Carnival Realm (A Burning Man Story)
I had come to the High Desert Carnival Realm with a magical agenda: to
ritualize the experience by associating the Incendiary Person with
aspects of myself that I wanted to transform, aspects I linked to
Thanatos, the death drive, so that the burning would parallel my intention to transcend.
Isis Aquarian — On the High Road With Father Yod
Isis Aquarian was right-hand woman to Father Yod, leader of the Source Family commune, an Aquarian community based in Hollywood and Hawaii in the 1970s. A contemporary resurgence
of interest in Aquarian community has led to a film. In this interview, Isis recounts her years with the Family.
The Poem Again is Yours: A Tribute to Ira Cohen
Poet, publisher, photographer, filmmaker, artist-shaman and world traveler Ira Cohen died on
April 25th, 2011. The following article is a tribute from a few of his many friends,
assembled for RS by Steve Dalachinsky.
