Saturday, January 22, 2011

An artist who makes self portraits on a different drug every day

1/2 gram cocaine

Anyone who decides they want to be an artist (or write a blog for that matter) is already fucked in the head to begin with. Add in the fact that most of them are incapable of holding a real job, and generally open to experimentation, (meaning they don't have anywhere to be in the morning) and it's no wonder that so many of them get on the drugs, as no one says anymore but I think they probably should.  


Bryan Lewis Saunders, a guy with three names so you know he's talented, has been making a self portrait a day since 1995, he says, although recently he started trying it  while under the effects of a variety of different drugs. The results are pretty boring interesting, but I didn't really have anything else to write about today, and that gram and a half of leftover coke over there isn't going to snort itself, so here you go. via io9 via Laughing Squid

Go see all of his work at his website.

2 bottles of cough syrup
  
one bump of crystal meth

More after the jump. Plus pictures of myself in various altered states. 



huffing gas

3 mg Klonopin
marijuana


I'm not sure what kind of lesson can be drawn from this project, although I've learned one important thing: Bryan Lewis Saunders has a goatee. 

Coincidentally, here's a few self portraits I cooked up of myself on various different types of shit recently. Send my official Artist Application Form in the mail when you read this, Famous Art School administrator. 


two bowls of ice cream

2 grams ennui

three bumps of Christmas

a fucking gallon of bourbon or however much I drank that night oooof


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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

60 mg of oxycontin or a dirty bag of smack. That's the O'Neil portrait we really want.

said...

Bryan Lewis Saunders, a guy with three names so you know he's a serial killer

Fixed.

said...

Wait, does that mean you want me to die?

@Justin: shit, good point.

Anonymous said...

The Two Bowls pic looks like Vader at the end of Jedi after Luke pwn3d him.

said...

hooof. so it does.

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