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The japanese gallery of psychiatric art: Pyromijin® (pyridoxal), 1968, Psychiatria et Neurologia Japonica
• Sep 29, 2010 link notes tagged: art design human body anatomy machine metaphore representation drug psychiatry Japan
• Sep 29, 2010 link notes tagged: art design human body anatomy machine metaphore representation drug psychiatry Japan
 | Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain, because something that’s dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from. |
The above quote can be find D.T. Max short essay “The Unfinished. David Foster Wallace’s struggle to surpass “Infinite Jest.”” which was published in The New Yorker, March 9, 2009.
David Foster Wallace committed suicide on September 12, 2008.
• Sep 12, 2010 link notes tagged: art author novel book posthumous dullness pain dull stimulation shock distraction lost entertainment modernity 21st century America Foster Wallace creation depression drug suicide death
| An especially disturbing section of the book delves into a lawsuit brought against Eli Lilly by survivors of a rampage by Joseph Wesbecker, who was the company’s worst nightmare: a Prozac user who went on the rampage in 1989 with an AK-47. Fortunately for Eli Lilly, the 1994 trial was concurrent with the O. J. Simpson trial, the facts were carefully manipulated, a secret settlement was made between plaintiffs and the drug company even as the trial continued, and Prozac avoided a warning label about possibly violent or suicidal behavior. All the particulars of this remarkable legal travesty are laid out here. |
The quote above is an excerpt from the review of the book Overcoming the Dangers of Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil and Other Antidepressants With Safe, Effective Alternatives by Joseph Glenmullen, M.D. (383 pages. Simon & Schuster). On the same subject, read also “Papers indicate firm knew possible Prozac suicide risk” by Tom Watkins, January 3, 2005:
An internal document purportedly from Eli Lilly and Co. made public Monday appears to show that the drug maker had data more than 15 years ago showing that patients on its antidepressant Prozac were far more likely to attempt suicide and show hostility than were patients on other antidepressants and that the company attempted to minimize public awareness of the side effects. (more)
Previously on Skandalon: Eli Lilly and Co.
• Sep 03, 2010 link notes tagged: technology rampage lawsuit antidepressant drug Prozac depression suicidal suicide homicide violence psychiatry pharmaceutical science industry capitalism individuation
✖ Via Curious George Takes A Job by Margaret & H. A. Rey, 1947, cover, p. 36 and p. 37
As George is recovering in the hospital, The Man with the Yellow Hat see a newspaper story on it, and alerts the hospital that he would come get him. As George is waiting to be discharged, he finds a bottle of ether, opens it, and the fumes make him high, then dizzy, then knocked him out cold. When The Man and the nurse find him, they had to throw him in the shower to wake him up. (wikipedia)
Scans of the book were found at thisMySpace page. I first became aware of this strip via Etherealisation.
• Aug 28, 2010 link notes tagged: art comic illustration children book story monkey animal classic culture popular drug ether lost sleep
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Altered States by Ken Russell, 1980 [IMDb]
• Jul 22, 2010 link notes tagged: art film movie experiment consciousness reality isolation hallucination drug poster design
✖ Via Lapham’s Quarterly: “Under The Influence”, Arts & Letters issue, spring 2010
About Lapham’s Quarterly:
“Each issue of Lapham’s Quarterly adopts and explores a single theme. Our first four issues were dedicated, respectively, to War, Money, Nature, and Education, each created with an aim to help readers find historical threads from Homer to Queen Elizabeth I to George Patton, from Aesop to Edith Wharton to Joan Didion. New essays from writers such as Stanley Fish, Fritz Stern, and Andrew Delbanco then knotted each theme together. A typical issue features an introductory Preamble from Editor Lewis H. Lapham; approximately 100 “Voices in Time” — that is, appropriately themed selections drawn from the annals and archives of the past — and newly commissioned commentary and criticism from today’s preeminent scholars and writers.” (more)
First spotted via This Isn’t Happiness.
• May 01, 2010 link notes tagged: art technology meds drug alcohol artist influence brain creativity chart statistics ressource
✖ Via Modern Mechanix: “Are You Giving Your Wife The Companionship She Craves?” (Inside Story, Jan. 1960
“YOU may be giving your wife all the love and care you are able to. You may have given her a good home, security, many of the conveniences all women yearn for. But is she completely satisfied? Are you giving her what she most expected on the day that you married her? Are you giving her the full companionship of the man she loves?
Or are you always “too tired” at the end of a day’s work? Do you come home from work with only the “leftovers” of your energy for your wife and family? Is time catching up with you too fast… at work, at play?” (read more).
• Feb 14, 2010 link notes [via] tagged: technology communication drug ad vintage sex couple love life woman man humor
✖ Via Adam Stennett / Painting : “Drink”, 2007, Oil on wood, 72” x 72” [click for hi-res]
Adam Stennett was born in 1972, in Kotzebue, Alaska. He now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
If you like this one be sure to check his other paintings and all of his work on paper. It’s interesting to find a link to Damian Loeb’s website in his “links” section.
• Jan 31, 2010 link notes [via] tagged: art drug girls painter painting photorealism realism water bodies and water
✖ Via Stumbled Upon by John Maringouin, 2007
Guy Maddin meets Harmony Korine?
“Maringouin’s controversial debut, Running Stumbled, is a hybrid documentary/fiction about his father and step mother’s drug fueled war. It premiered at the Rotterdam Film festival in 2006 to international acclaim and controversy. The film had a limited theatrical release in Europe but remains unreleased on dvd due to the filmmaker’s own suppression of the footage. Maringouin says this was done to protect the film’s subjects from criminal liability. Despite this the film was nominated for multiple awards including the Independent Spirit Award and has been widely hailed among filmmakers and critics as one of the greatest undistributed films of all time.” (Wikipedia).
Big River Man, Maringouin’s second film, definitely worth the watch.
• Dec 29, 2009 link notes tagged: art movie film filmmaker parent loser drug life death philosophy
✖ Via Horacio Salinas: “Brain Repair” for The New York Time Magazine.
“Horacio Salinas is a conceptual, still life photographer in New York, New York.”
• Aug 31, 2009 link notes tagged: art photography photographer idea concept medication drug brain anatomy body mind
✖ Via Adam Simpson: “Personalized Medicine”, Stokely Design Associates, 2008.
About Adam Simpson : “Adam Simpson graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2004 with a First Class Honours degree in Illustration. In the same year he moved to London to study at the Royal College of Art, where he began a Masters degree in Communication Art and Design. His work encompasses design, animation and illustration - always with a strong emphasis on drawing.” (Read more).
• Jun 29, 2009 link notes [via] tagged: medicine health human mind emotion drug illustration design poster
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