Orange Sunshine
This photo was taken a couple years back. I’ve been working on a book for the last few years on a closer look into some of the larger characters of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. This is Nick Sand who was one of the main chemist in the group that helped create the infamous Orange Sunshine LSD. He produced over 3.6 million hits of LSD and was caught with the biggest lab in the world .He went into hiding for about 20 years. After about 6 months of searching I found him and we began writing. It took another 4 months for him to trust me enough and one evening I flew up north to hang out and interview him. We sat around the whole day talking about his experiences and his childhood and how different the world worked when he was a kid.
Sand told me how when he was about 16 his dad was working as a chemist for the government developing nuclear weapons and how he had this amazing lab in his basement where Sand could experiment. He and his friends would sit around and experiment and eventually developed LSD that they began shooting up. At the time there were about 15-25 people in the US that were doing this. He told me that one day Aldous Huxley came to lecture at his college and that there were only about 10 kids that showed up to listen. After the lecture Sand asked Huxley to come to his house to see what him and his friends have been working on. While Huxley was reluctant at first he finally agreed to check it out and couldn’t believe was he was seeing when he got there . Only a handful of people in the world were experimenting with this at the time. Sand was onto something incredible and they all tested out his new LSD concoction. He also told me that while Huxley was there Sands mom came downstairs with sandwiches for everyone while they were all “Turning On”
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as my house spun around….
I’ve been reading this great blog lately by Jerry Solomon who’s an Executive Producer over at Epoch Films. Whether you’re in the industry or not I suggest you check it out since its one of the blogs I read on a daily bases and touches on some great social, technological and personal issues that in some way or another effect us all. Its called Producer Posts and its inspired me to start writing and updating my blog more. There’s a post on there about how few blogs actually get updated and kept up and eventually end up in deep voids of the world wide web.
“According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 33 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web”
Since reading this I haven’t been able to stop thinking about these numbers and what this cyber landscape will be like 5-10 years from now. A desert of dead information floating out in virtual space.
Here’s to saving a cyber ghost town ……lets just hope they don’t build a mall….
Le Mans vs. Pat Long
I grew up with Pat and a few years ago he invited me out to Le Man to check out his race for Porsche. If you don’t know about it it’s a 24 hour race through the streets of France. The house I stayed at was located next to a church with a bell that would ring every morning. The sound would echo through the streets over the cars racing. It was the life for about a week. Le Man is one of the hardest races out there and Pat managed to come in 2nd place that year. Amazing thing about Pat is that he’s one of the most cool and collected people you will ever meet and keeps his cool through ANY situation. He’s also Irish so when you get him and his pops around and they don’t have a race at 5am the next morning you’re in for some good times. You can check out more on Pat at his site below.
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