THE IMAGES I HAVE POSTED TO MY FLICKR GALLERY SHOULD BE VIEWED BY RESPONSIBLE ADULTS ONLY!!!!

  

(“If you think the world is just fine as it is, then this is probably not the art for you.”

 

---Oakland artist Lorraine Bonner, commenting on some of her sculptures that she calls The Perpetrator Series. [The quote is from her website.])

  

(Free high-resolution downloads may be made of almost all of the images seen here in my Flickr gallery.)

  

(Some of the tools I have used to make the images seen here:

 

Argus Model C3 [aka "the Brick"] 35mm camera

Nikon FE 35mm SLR camera with 50mm Nikkor lens

Nikon Lite Touch 35mm compact autofocus camera with 28mm f/3.5 lens

Minolta XG-7 35mm SLR camera with 50mm lens

Olympus Stylus 35mm compact autofocus camera

Polaroid Model 150 bellows camera

Polaroid Model 103 bellows camera

Polaroid Model 20 "Swinger" camera

cheap (circa 1989) Polaroid camera

Fujifilm FinePix A500 digital camera

Canon PowerShot SD750 digital camera

Apple iPhone 3G camera

Wiko cellphone (Android) camera

Apple iPad Mini (first generation) camera

  

Agfa 8x loupe

lens from a compact Nikon camera

multiple cheap plastic kaleidoscope lenses

multiple pieces of faceted glass from chandeliers, window hangings, etc.

 

Epson Stylus CX6600 scanner/printer

Apple PowerBook G4 notebook computer

Apple iMac G5 desktop computer

Acer C720 notebook computer camera

Asus VKG023CR laptop computer camera

Palm Tungsten E (PDA)

 

PicNik's "Hypnotic" app by "Mr. Doob" [mandalas]

Popartstudio's "Kaleidoscope" app

Apple iPhone "Layers" app

Apple "Photo Booth" app

ArcSoft PhotoImpressions software

Google SketchUp software

Deep Dream Generator software)

  

("...an errant U.S. drone strike...killed 10 members of their family, including seven children.

 

The missile struck as the car was pulling into the family's driveway and the children ran to greet Zemerai.

 

On Friday, U.S. Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, called the strike a 'tragic mistake,' and after weeks of denials, said that innocent civilians were indeed killed in the attack and not an Islamic State extremist as was announced earlier."

 

---CBS News, 9.18. 2021. ("...after weeks of denials...")

  

The next time you pay income taxes, please remember that you are voluntarily funding the U.S. military, which has a long, long history of mass murdering innocent children and a long, long history of repeatedly lying and denying that they mass murder innocent children.

  

("If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a bloody and violent measure, as it would be to pay them and enable the state to commit violence and shed innocent blood."

 

---Henry David Thoreau, in his pamphlet CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE. Two postage stamps honoring Thoreau have been issued by the United States Postal Service, one in 1967, and one in 2017.

  

Thoreau's pamphlet was one of 16 books selected by Robert B. Downs, former president of the American Library Association, for his 1956 book BOOKS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD.

 

["The number one criterion: the book must have had a great and continuing impact on human thought and action, not for a single nation, but for a major segment of the world."

 

---from the introduction]

  

The ideas expressed in CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, which I was required to study in public school when I was young, definitely changed my life.)

  

("...there is already developing a sort of 'LSD underground man', in the Dostoevskian sense of the term---a man who, in Dostoevsky's words, 'would rather that his hand wither off than that he carry a single brick to build the crystal palace'..."

 

---Frank Barron, in CREATIVITY AND PERSONAL FREEDOM, 1968. Barron, who formerly taught at Harvard University, was a Research Psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley.)

  

"He took a (probably LSD-inspired) vow of poverty long ago..."

 

"On principle, he refuses to pay taxes, which has landed him in prison twice."

 

---Jocelyn Silver, writing about famous San Francisco attorney J. Tony Serra, now more than 80 years old. Vice.com, 7.10. 2015.

  

("Most of what my neighbors call good, I am profoundly convinced is evil, and if I repent anything, it is my good conduct that I repent."

 

---Henry David Thoreau, as quoted by Henry Miller.)

  

("There comes a time, when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies on the gears, upon the levers, upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus. And you've got to make it stop."

 

---'Free Speech Movement' leader Mario Savio, University of California, Berkeley, 1964)

  

("By lack of understanding they remained sane."

 

---George Orwell, in his novel NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR, describing members of the Party.)

  

(As a brilliant Berkeley attorney once said:

 

"Life is quite often marginal for those who choose to live with a conscience.")

   

("Banksy's work embodies everything I like about art."

 

"He has a gift: an ability to make almost anyone very uncomfortable."

 

---Artist Shepard Fairey, writing about underground artist Banksy, whose identity remains unconfirmed. Fairey was quoted in TIME magazine, 5.10. 2010. TIME named Banksy as one of "The 100 Most Influential People In The World".)

  

("...most artists worthy of the name are loners and renegades. They operate without licenses---or Ph.D's---striving to be themselves as only they can, as clearly and intensely as possible. This is very hard work..."

 

---Roberta Smith, art reviewer, New York Times newspaper, November 12, 2010)

  

("A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want. Indeed, the moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist."

 

---Doris Stricher, contemporary French visual artist and art historian.)

  

("Marketers and filmmakers are often quietly at war. 'The most common comment that you hear from filmmakers after we've done our work is "This is not my movie," Terry Press, a consultant who used to run marketing at DreamWorks SKG, says. 'I'd always say, "You're right--this is the movie America wants to see."'"

 

---Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 7.8. 2013.)

  

I often think of the famous quote by Dr. Hans Asperger: "For success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential." I have never considered myself to be mentally ill, but a doctor recently diagnosed me as suffering from schizophrenia. I think the doctor is mistaken in her diagnosis, but then again, it is said to be a recognized symptom of severe mental illness that the person who is crazy absolutely does not think that they are crazy...

  

(Sometimes a diagnosis of schizophrenia can be seen as an accusation. If a psychiatrist strongly disagrees with the political [and/or aesthetic] opinions of someone, it is not impossible that the psychiatrist may attempt to marginalize that person. Since people are rarely if ever considered to be qualified to self-diagnose, a person is not taken seriously if they disagree with an assessment made by a psychiatrist....)

  

"I think our society is run by insane people for insane objectives...I am liable to be put away as insane for expressing that."

 

---John Lennon, 6.6. 1968, in a filmed interview with Peter Lewis.

  

(My Diagnosis:

 

"295.60 RESIDUAL TYPE

 

A type of schizophrenia in which the following criteria are met:

 

A. Absence of prominent delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior.

 

B. There is continuing evidence of the disturbance, as indicated by the presence of negative symptoms or two or more symptoms listed in Criterion A for Schizophrenia, present in an attenuated form (e.g., odd beliefs, unusual perceptual experiences)."

 

---from DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA from DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS, FOURTH EDITION, 1994, American Psychiatric Association.

 

["Odd beliefs"? "Unusual perceptual experiences"? It seems to me that the diagnostic criteria cited could easily be interpreted as meaning that what the psychiatrists were saying is that they believe that people who make psychedelic art are mentally ill...])

  

("... those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

 

---Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)

  

("I have become a 'crazy fool', one of 'them', the ones who have been discarded by this world, whose visions are greeted with mockery, dismissal, or fear. And I am much happier for it."

 

---Daniel Pinchbeck's conclusion, after experimenting with a variety of mind-active substances and studying shamanic culture, in his 2002 book BREAKING OPEN THE HEAD--A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism.)

  

("Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity."

 

--- T.S. Eliot)

 

("Here's to the crazy ones, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes...the ones who see things differently."

 

---Jack Kerouac)

  

("The poet makes himself a seer by a long, prodigious, and rational disordering of all the senses."

 

"...even if, crazed, he ends up losing the understanding of his visions, at least he has seen them!"

 

---Arthur Rimbaud, 1871, in a letter to Paul Demeny.)

  

("A newspaper should have no friends."

 

---Joseph Pulitzer)

  

("Ain`t singin` for Pepsi

Ain`t singin` for Coke...

Ain`t singin` for Miller

Don`t sing for Bud..."

 

---Neil Young)

  

("I wish to be paid, but I will not be bought."

 

---Vladimir Horowitz)

  

("The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all."

 

----John Updike)

  

("A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds..."

 

---Ralph Waldo Emerson)

  

("I don't pretend to understand the universe--it's much bigger than I am."

 

---Albert Einstein)

  

I am a hallucinographic designer and I write poetry.

 

Ut pictura poesis ("as is painting, so is poetry")

  

For more than 33 years, my "business" card has read: "MIND-ACTIVE DRUGS: INFORMATION, RESEARCH, AND CONSULTATION".

 

I am a psychedelicyberepidemiologist.

 

(PSYCHEDELICYBEREPIDEMIOLOGY: The study of how psychedelic states of consciousness are spread via the Internet.

  

["All colors affect us psychologically."

 

"They all have a major impact on the way we feel and act."

 

"Some reactions to color are physiological and completely involuntary."

 

"Many people are motivated by inner compulsions rather than by rational thought."

 

---from PANTONE HANDBOOK OF COLOR FOR INTERNET (1998).]

  

[The Apple Macintosh PowerBook 140, released in October 1991, was "...the very first notebook computer created by Apple..."

 

"Codenames for this model are: Tim Lite, Tim LC, and Leary."

 

---Wikipedia, 2015.]

  

["The impulse to use hallucinogens is a kind of empathy with the electronic environment."

 

---Marshall McLuhan]

  

["Apple exemplifies one strain of influence that is particularly unappreciated: the crossover between counterculture spirituality and tech culture."

 

"...this phase of Silicon Valley culture...was a distinct period from the 1970s hippie/tech crossover, which was documented...in John Markoff's book WHAT THE DORMOUSE SAID."

 

---Jaron Lanier, in his 2013 book WHO OWNS THE FUTURE?.]

  

["The Internet is...an expression of 1960s counterculture."

 

"It's...an electronic commune."

 

---Lev Grossman, TIME, 12.27. 2010.]

  

[“...you have the counterculture, the Grateful Dead, LSD, all happening in the same place that you get Apple computer and the internet born…”

 

“...they had in mind recreating the commune."

 

---Franklin Foer, author of WORLD WITHOUT MIND: THE EXISTENTIAL THREAT OF BIG TECH, speaking with Michael Krasny, KQED, September 2017.]

  

["A Kind of Electronic LSD?"

 

---G. Pascal Zachary, in an article about "computer whiz" Jaron Lanier and "artificial reality".

The Wall Street Journal, 1.23. 1990.]

  

["In a side street in Berkeley California, the epicentre of the counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s, I found what could well be the birthplace of the phenomenon."

 

---Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC News, 1.25. 2011, in the article "Hackers and Hippies: The Origins of Social Networking". (In 1973, as part of the "Community Memory" project, a computer terminal was placed near a bulletin board in a record store in Berkeley and other places that were easily accessible by the public, allowing local users to communicate with each other, form groups, etc.)]

  

[According to Mike Power in his 2014 book DRUGS 2.0: THE WEB REVOLUTION THAT'S CHANGING HOW THE WORLD GETS HIGH, the first thing ever sold online, in 1972, was a bag of marijuana.])

  

"jdyf333" is my nom de psychédélique. I am also known as "Davivid Rose" (and many other names)...

  

("I wish I could talk in Technicolor."

 

"I can't tell you about it. If you can't see it, you'll just never know it. I feel sorry for you."

 

---from a short film of a mainstream American housewife high on LSD during an experiment at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in Los Angeles, California in 1956. [Don Lattin, author of THE HARVARD PSYCHEDELIC CLUB, found the film during his research.])

  

(“The principle...described by Leonardo da Vinci in his Treatise on Painting, where he recommended to his fellow artists that they could quicken ‘the spirit of invention’ by staring fixedly at the stains and discoloration on old walls, until they discovered there ‘divine landscapes...battles and strange figures in violent action, expression of faces, and clothes, and an infinity of things.’”

 

---Cal Tomkins and the editors of Time-Life Books, in THE WORLD OF MARCEL DUCHAMP.)

  

("Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth."

 

---Oscar Wilde)

  

("A poem is good until one knows by whom it is."

 

---Karl Kraus)

  

(THE WORLD IS MY STUDIO!)

  

PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO READ MY "AUTOBIOGRAPHY":

thewordsofjdyf333.blogspot.com/

   

Here is a federal warrant for my arrest:

www.flickr.com/photos/jdyf333/977992071/

  

Please click on the link below to view my photos of LSD doses and to read some *IMPORTANT* information about LSD:

www.flickr.com/photos/jdyf333/2075297284/

  

I have made MANY erotic hallucinographic designs.

 

("In early September 2012, The New Yorker found its Facebook page blocked for violating the site’s nudity and sex standards. Its offense: a cartoon of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Eve’s bared nipples failed Facebook’s decency test."

---Evgeny Morozov, "You Can't Say That on the Internet", 11.16. 2012, The New York Times.)

 

If you are a RESPONSIBLE ADULT whose publicly viewable photostream complies with Flickr's "Community Guidlines" and you wish to view some of my erotic hallucinographic designs, please contact me via Flickrmail or email (jdyf333@gmail.com) and I will list you as a "Friend" so that you may access the "Restricted" art in the "Private" album titled "eros". (The album includes a dozen nudes by Peter Hans Loschan, made in 1970 to accompany a collection of erotic poetry that I wrote. The collection remains unpublished.)

 

(I greatly admire the 1866 painting by Gustave Courbet, "L'Origine du Monde"...)

  

(One of my favorite books:

 

EROTIC ART--A Survey of Erotic Fact and Fantasy in the Fine Arts.

Compiled by Phyllis and Eberhard Kronhausen. Published in 1968.

 

[“This landmark book...sold in excess of 500,000 copies in its cloth edition.”

 

---amazon dot com.])

     

A RANDOMLY-EDITED SELECTION OF APPROXIMATELY 700 OF MY HALLUCINOGRAPHIC DESIGNS MAY BE VIEWED HERE:

www.flickr.com/groups/psychedelicart/pool/43237970@N00/

 

AND ANOTHER RANDOMLY-EDITED SELECTION OF MY WORK MAY BE VIEWED HERE:

www.flickr.com/groups/52241261028@N01/pool/43237970@N00/

  

Here is an interesting way to view some of my hallucinographic designs:

Please click on this link:

taggalaxy.com/ and

then enter jdyf333 in the "initial tag" bar.

Then click on "go".

Wait a few seconds until the planet-shaped sphere appears and then click on it.

Wait a few more seconds until my art appears. Click on any image to see it larger.

(You can click on the larger image a second time to see it in its original context.)

The sphere may be rotated by using your mouse.

  

A NOTE ABOUT "OUTSIDER ART":

"This is art that can neither be expressively tempered, nor politically corrected, nor marketably slotted by that great vetting, veneering machine called the art industry. So it stays volatile, radioactive, problematically hot. Is this why our mainstream institutions are so reluctant to exhibit it? Because they’re afraid of it, afraid of its unpredictablity, afraid of how its intense singularity will react with, clash with, even infect other art? I don’t have an answer, but it is questions like this that keep my passion - crazy, I know - for contemporary art alight."

(from "The Desire to Draw, Sometimes a Compulsion", by Holland Cotter in The New York Times, September 16, 2005 [a review of "Obsessive Drawing", a show at The American Folk Art Museum])

  

("...what is at stake is a pattern of seeing, who makes what visible and for whom."

 

---Penny Florence)

  

("The growing presence in our midst of chemicals that seem to alter consciousness raises questions of the utmost importance for us as individuals and as social beings. Examples of these questions are: What do these drugs tell us about the relationship between mind and body? Are they legitimate tools [in any sense] for changing the mind in a direction of greater awareness? How can society come to terms with the individual urge to alter consciousness? These questions are important because they bear directly on the nature of consciousness, which is, ultimately, the only problem worthy of total intellectual effort."

 

--- Dr. Andrew Weil)

  

(When used properly, LSD can GREATLY increase intelligence and compassion. It is quite unfortunate that there are so many people who have not experienced [or cannot experience] LSD and thus are suffering from both "Pre-LSD Cognitive Disorder" and "Pre-LSD Perception Disorder"...)

  

("'In a central chapter of "Tristes Tropiques", Claude Levi-Strauss studies the intricate body painting of the Caduveo Indians of Brazil: 'Their faces, and sometimes even their whole bodies, were covered with a network of asymmetrical arabesques, alternating with delicate geometrical patterns.'"

 

"In 1969, the anthropologist Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff wrote a paper on the Tukano Indians of Colombia and their use of...ayahuasca: 'For the anthropologist it is most intriguing that the Indians maintain that everything we would designate as "art" is inspired and based upon the hallucinatory experience.'"

  

---Daniel Pinchbeck, in his book BREAKING OPEN THE HEAD.)

  

("A well-kept secret of the mainstream art world is the role that psychedelic drugs have played in shaping and altering the course of art since the 1960s."

 

"For the most part, mainstream discourse about art goes on as if the psychedelic revolution were just a minor, tangential distraction."

 

---from an article by Ken Johnson that was published in The New York Times on December 19, 2008)

  

("...a stream of fantastic images of extraordinary plasticity and vividness and accompanied by an intense kaleidoscopic play of colors."

 

---Albert Hofmann, describing what he saw during his first LSD experience)

  

("The intense emotions surrounding LSD make it forever difficult to objectively judge the artistic merit..."

 

---Carlo McCormick, in an essay that accompanied the first exhibit of Mark McCloud's blotter art collection.)

  

("It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

 

---Henry David Thoreau)

  

If you email me at jdyf333@gmail.com I will be more than pleased to email you a free copy of my 1,446-item annotated bibliography of drug literature.

 

("THERE IS MORE TO A LIBRARY THAN MEETS THE EYE")

  

Here is a photograph of jdyf333:

www.flickr.com/photos/jdyf333/2091267305/

Here is another:

flickr.com/photos/jdyf333/1118323798/in/pool-psy

 

Here is a sketch:

flickr.com/photos/jdyf333/2141378470/in/set-7215760197426...

Here is a self-portrait:

www.flickr.com/photos/jdyf333/2869122106/

And here is another, painted entirely with liquid LSD:

www.flickr.com/photos/jdyf333/2188689084/

  

Here is the full text of an illustrated chapbook of my psychedelic poetry:

flickr.com/photos/jdyf333/sets/72157601783058195/

 

Here is a sentence about reading my poetry at the University of California Art Museum in Berkeley:

www.flickr.com/photos/jdyf333/3716087136/

  

I DEDICATE THE PICTURES ON MY FLICKR SITE TO THE MEMORIES OF THE MORE THAN THREE DOZEN OF MY FRIENDS WHO DIED BECAUSE THEY USED DRUGS IRRESPONSIBLY. ALMOST ALL OF THEM WERE VERY GOOD PEOPLE. PLEASE DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE THEY DID!!!

 

THIS DOCUMENT IS IN NO WAY MEANT TO ENCOURAGE THE USE OF ANY DRUG, LEGAL OR ILLEGAL. QUITE THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE!

 

(DIFFERENT DRUGS USED IN DIFFERENT WAYS IN DIFFERENT DOSES DO DIFFERENT THINGS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT BODIES AND DIFFERENT MINDS AT DIFFERENT TIMES AND DIFFERENT PLACES!)

  

Favorite books & authors:

 

Many! My current online "bibliography" consists of 4,482 digital color scans of the covers of some of the books, etc. that I have attempted to study.

  

Favorite movies & actors:

 

I am pretty certain that watching movies (or television) is not a good idea! Unfortunately, to make sense of most of what is being presented on a television or movie screen, people have to suspend the obvious disbelief they should have. Apparently it doesn't take long for most people to permanently forget that they are suspending disbelief and as a consequence actually buy into delusional mainstream propaganda....(Television "programs"...television "programming"...yikes!!!)

 

ACTORS AND ACTRESSES ARE, BY DEFINITION, LIARS. PEOPLE WHO ENJOY BEING LIED TO ARE FOOLS. (INCLUDING ME.)

 

("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities."

 

---Voltaire)

 

When Picasso accurately noted that "art is the lie that shows us the truth", he was referring to genuine art, not to movies or television. The extent to which disbelief must be suspended in order to comprehend and/or enjoy a movie or a television show is much, much, much greater than the extent to which disbelief must be suspended, if at all, in order to understand and/or enjoy a drawing or a painting. In the painting of a tobacco pipe, "La trahison des images" ("The Treachery of Images") by Belgian surrealist René Magritte, the words "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" ("This is not a pipe") are written beneath the image of the pipe. To contemplate and/or enjoy the meanings of the painting does not require the viewer to assume the depiction is really a pipe even for a moment. (I am not, of course, entirely able to avoid viewing television and movies, but mostly I try to limit myself to reading written reviews so that I can be well-educated about American television and movie "culture". Indeed, how could I resist reading a review titled "CONSPIRACIES ABOUND, BUT DEAR OLD DAD JUST WANTS TO MAKE LSD"?? [The review, by Tim Goodman, writing in the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper on September 8, 2008, was of the television series "Fringe" ...])

 

(Read the script? Yes! View the movie? No!)

  

("We suffer under a mass national hallucination.

 

Americans, regardless of income or social position, now live in a culture entirely perceived inside a self-referential media hologram of a nation and world that does not exist.

 

Our national reality is staged and held together by media, chiefly movie and television images.

 

We live in a 'theater state'.

 

In our theater state, we know the world through media productions which are edited and shaped to instruct us on how to look and behave and view the outside world."

 

---Joe Bageant, in a lecture, 2009)

  

("Last year, the editors of ArtReview magazine named the Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei the most powerful artist in the world."

 

"Ai's resistance to all forms of control--capitalist and communist--manifests itself in one poignant way. He refuses to listen to music. He...prefers the silent spaces of independent thought."

 

---Art critic and Pulitzer prize winner Mark Stevens, Smithsonian, September 2012.)

 

If I am sitting in a cafe looking at an art book or a volume of poetry, I am not forcing anyone else to see the art or the poetry. If I am sitting in a cafe and music that I do not like is being played over the sound system, while I am there I am being forced against my will to hear something I do not wish to hear (unless the employees turn off the sound system or change what is being played over it when I request that they do so).

  

Interests:

 

Cats, art (especially outsider art, graffiti, and tattoos), poetry (especially small press poetry), thunderstorms, mountains, and many, many, many other things!!!!!

  

Disinterests:

 

I intensely dislike politics. I intensely dislike organized religion. I intensely dislike sports. I intensely dislike video games and computer games. I intensely dislike gambling. I intensely dislike beverages that contain alcohol. I intensely dislike methamphetamine. I intensely dislike Frank Sinatra, and I intensely dislike Frank Sinatra's singing, and I intensely dislike Frank Sinatra's songs. I intensely dislike Elvis Presley, and I intensely dislike Elvis Presley's singing, and I intensely dislike Elvis Presley's songs.

  

A FINAL NOTE:

 

If you can remember what one of my drawings looks like or if you can remember a line of my poetry, then I have physically altered the structure of your brain!

  

("We are our memories."

 

---Eric R. Kandel, quoted in SCIENCE magazine, 12. 4. 2009)

  

("Columbia University neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel won a Nobel prize in 2000 for proving that memory---which had been regarded previously as fleeting, insubstantial, and not really a subject that could be investigated with a microscope---has a physical basis, and that each new thought and new memory actually alters your neurons at a molecular level.")

  

("The dream of artists...is to plant themselves in other people's heads."

 

---Tad Friend in an article in The New Yorker magazine, August 16, 2010)