As the word of Albert Hofmann’s death slowly makes its way across the blog circuit, our hearts go out to the capital of the Lone Star Republic which has lost the patron scientist of its only observed holiday unrelated to secession, and our heads go "Jesus Christ, he was still alive?" Not that it’s at all what he would have wanted (he hated Timothy Leary and the hippies for pilfering LSD from the Man), but in honor of the occasion here is part one of perhaps the closest approximation to actual tripping ever captured on video, Ryan Trecartin’s "A Family Finds Entertainment."
Reader Comments
April 29th, 2008
11:40 pm
Hofman’s another one of those guys like Marx and Mao that the hippies love to claim as “their own” but in actuality were/would have been completely disgusted by being associated with the slumming, postured progeny of the rich.
April 30th, 2008
12:00 am
Respect the man and spell his name correctly.
April 30th, 2008
12:47 am
crap, that was a bad one. sorry guys.
April 30th, 2008
1:35 am
its trecartin you selfrighteous bastards
April 30th, 2008
6:22 am
Marx would’ve been ok with the hippies, read about his life. At one point, while living with his family he sold his last pants to buy cigars.
April 30th, 2008
7:34 am
That Ryan Trescartin video is the shit! I didn’t know it was online. I saw part of it at the Getty and now I can see all of it on YouTube!
April 30th, 2008
5:41 pm
watch trecartin’s youtube vid called “tommy chat just emailed me”–horrifying!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8O_t7pdCfoA&feature=PlayList&p=4F6D36A7F26F6773&index=0