Tag: Drugs

Mike Pelletier’s Spooky 3D Animations Showcase Human Emotion

Our faces display thousands of complex human emotions from blissful to rage. Interactive artist Mike Pelletier has explored the layers of human emotion through an incredibly freaky animation sequence. As insightful as Mike's animations are, they're also quite startling. Using facial recognition software that monitors the relative state of people, he's able to digitally manipulate the eerie figures twisted grins and frowns humanity. Via Designboom

Artist Creates Magical Clouds That Disappear in the Blink of an Eye

Painting a cloud is one thing, but how about actually making a cloud as part of an art project? That's exactly what artist Berndnaut Smilde has been doing, making clouds inside museum halls. It's a rather simple and of course fleeting process that he's used to develop his mystic Nimbus cloud series. Berndnaut wanted to recreate a rain cloud and experimented with a variety of...
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Portugal Treats Addicts as Patients, Not Criminals, and the Results Are Staggering

In 2001, in the midst of a heroin crisis, Portugal's government took the radical step of decriminalizing the possession and consumption of all illegal...

New Study Shows Big Pharma is Lying About Real Cost of Anti-Cancer Drugs

A recent study suggests that anti-cancer drugs in the US are significantly overpriced, and that even with research and development costs considered, these elevated...

Atlanta’s HIV Rate is so Bad, This Rapper Turned a Trap House Into a Free Clinic

Atlanta residents driving down Howell Mill Road got a colorful surprise this week when they saw a prewar bungalow splashed with pink and the...

MDMA is Being Developed Into a Prescription Medication

Here’s something you may know: MDMA, better known by its street name “ecstasy”, is an illicit drug first synthesized in the early 20th century and...

The Real Reasons Behind Nixon’s War on Drugs

A few weeks ago, Harper’s magazine interviewed former Richard Nixon's advisor John Ehrlichman, who admitted that President Richard Nixon’s war on drugs was in...

Pixel-Pusha: Different Drug & New Painting Every Day for 20 Days

Graphic designer Brian Pollett aka Pixel-Pusha recently set out to give a visual representation of the effects of drugs. Each day, for 20 days...