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Photos of drugs under the Microscope 3
#21928845 - 07/11/15 01:13 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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July 10, 2015
 Potassium bitartrate
Everyone wants to know what’s in their food these days. How much sugar is in this soda? What’s the fat content of that burger? Is that milk organic? But when it comes to pills, most of people throw ‘em back without a thought, unaware of what’s inside and what it might be made of.
Not photographer Maurice Mikkers. He’s well aware of what’s inside a wide variety of drugs, from aspirin to ecstasy. He’s been peering inside pills for about two years, making stunning images of all the things that heal you, soothe you, or send you on a wild, psychedelic ride.
His series Micrograph Stories started with the over-the-counter painkillers he took for three months after a surgery. The Dutch photographer had lab experience and bought a microscope so he could identify and photograph everything he was sending down his gullet. “We often use products without hesitation. Who these days is actually reading every medication leaflet or product label?” he says.
His rig in The Hague includes a trinocular microscope, which features two lenses to peer through and a third for the camera. Mikkers shoots with a Canon 5D Mark III and takes a series of HDR detail images through the microscope that he stitches together in Photoshop. He crushes pills in a mortar, weights out a specific amount and dissolves it in water. Drops of the solution are placed on slides, then allowed to crystalize. He’ll make solutions of different strengths to see which words best, and can wait anywhere from minutes to weeks for them to dry.
His first big success came with diclofenac (used to treat everything from migraines to menstrual cramps to arthritis pain). The solution took 72-hours to dry and created a beautiful crystal with a colorful outer section surrounding a geometric black and white center. Mikkers moved on from painkillers to everything from birth control pills to antibiotics and caffeine, but his most engrossing photos come from illegal drugs. MDMA, also known as ecstasy or molly, for example, is wildly colorful inside. “I had seen a lot of crystallization processes happening under the microscope in the last year and this was with no doubt one of the most vivid, intense and mind-blowing results I had encountered,” he says.
The photographer has gone on to peer inside LSD, GHB, DMT, and 2CB. He’s also photographed cocaine, ketamine and oxycodone, but those didn’t produce the crystalline formations he wanted (he’s still trying). Some of the drugs he purchased using Bitcoin. While the Netherlands is fairly tolerant of drugs in low quantities, Mikkers does have some hesitation using the Deep Web. But the results are too good to quit. “Stopping was not an option anymore,” he says. “I got ‘addicted’ and obsessed with documenting crystalline formations of drugs.”
There’s much more to explore. He’s investigating ingredients that shape and manipulate what we eat. One of his most eye-popping images is of potassium bitartrate, which is used to do everything from stabilize whipped cream to reduce the discoloration of boiled vegetables. It’s a visual reminder of the chemicals people ingest on a daily basis. Mikkers says his ultimate goal is education. “Some of us are very involved and aware about our product use, others don’t care about what’s actually inside until things may go wrong,” he says. “Involved or not the things inside are often abracadabra to us.”
 caffine
 2C-B
 Amphetamine
 MDMA
 Asprin
 DMT
 Acetaminophen Paracetamol (pain reliever/ fever reducer)
 Gamma-Hydroxybutyric Acid
 Diclofenac (anti-inflammatory drug)
 Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
 Diltiazem
 Ethinylestradiol / levonorgestrel (Birth control pill)
 Ciprofloxacin (Antibiotic)
 Vitamin C
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/maurice-mikkers-micrograph-stories/
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Re: Photos of drugs under the Microscope [Re: Ogla] 1
#21928909 - 07/11/15 01:36 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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So Awesome!
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Re: Photos of drugs under the Microscope [Re: Hobbyist]
#21928953 - 07/11/15 01:46 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I saw a picture of lsd under a microscope before, but the retards just put a sheet under it, so all you saw was colorful dots in a perdectpy uniform pattern. Here though it explains a lot about tripping on L. Your putting the whole universe in your fucking head, hence the feeling of connection.
-------------------- I'm addicted to coke, weed, booze, ludes and speed. Not LSD, you can't get addicted to LSD, it was built by scientists. I ain't got no demons that gonna get woke. In erowid we trust. Just take your damn pills and don't ask any questions, you'll be fine.
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Re: Photos of drugs under the Microscope [Re: Ogla] 4
#21928987 - 07/11/15 01:53 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Very cool. Interesting how the photo microscopy pics seem to actually reminds one of the drug's effect.
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Re: Photos of drugs under the Microscope [Re: Le_Canard]
#21929027 - 07/11/15 02:07 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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MDMA looks fucking amazing
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All the pretty colors, like a Rave light show or something.
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Re: Photos of drugs under the Microscope [Re: Le_Canard]
#21929111 - 07/11/15 02:32 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
LuSiD enthusiast said: I saw a picture of lsd under a microscope before, but the retards just put a sheet under it, so all you saw was colorful dots in a perdectpy uniform pattern. Here though it explains a lot about tripping on L. Your putting the whole universe in your fucking head, hence the feeling of connection.
Maybe you see what you want to see? Both when tripping, in this reality, and in your dreams
Your psyche sees what it wants to see to balance itself
Just a theory ;-P
So, why do we want to see the universe? Why do we want to see colors? Why do we want to see nothing? Why do we want to take LSD? Why do we not want to take LSD?
I'm sure we could come up with a reason for each
It seems we see what we project onto the world
So if LSD is the shittiest drug in the world, we project that. If it's the love drug/universal drug we project that.
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Re: Photos of drugs under the Microscope [Re: lessismore]
#21929494 - 07/11/15 04:07 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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You see with your mind , your eyes are not needed to see - your eyes input is just a small subset of what you really see
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Re: Photos of drugs under the Microscope [Re: lessismore]
#21929622 - 07/11/15 04:32 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: Photos of drugs under the Microscope [Re: PsilocybinMan]
#21930695 - 07/11/15 08:22 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I don't get it.
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Re: Photos of drugs under the Microscope [Re: Mescalitoe]
#21931536 - 07/11/15 11:59 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I don't get it.
Isn't it obvious? It's someones brain on mxe, under a microscope.
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Quote:
LuSiD enthusiast said:
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I don't get it.
Isn't it obvious? It's someones brain on mxe, under a microscope.
God this was me yesterday. LSD looks like a reflection of the fucking cosmos placed in a tiny puddle.
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Re: Photos of drugs under the Microscope [Re: Mi-Go]
#21934175 - 07/12/15 04:13 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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NICE! MDMA looks exactly like how it feels
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Re: Photos of drugs under the Microscope [Re: tealeaf]
#21935841 - 07/13/15 01:11 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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The 2C-B and MDMA look very cool, like someone said it almost looks like how their effect is, nice post OP.
Edited by trippinlol (07/14/15 11:59 AM)
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Re: Photos of drugs under the Microscope [Re: trippinlol]
#21942242 - 07/14/15 02:23 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Would be rad to see an opiate...mescaline too
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Re: Photos of drugs under the Microscope [Re: Jvells]
#21944495 - 07/14/15 11:01 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Jvells said: Would be rad to see an opiate...mescaline too
I saw an article a long time ago that had drugs under the microscope. It wasn't as cool as this one and must have been done a different way, because the lsd one was a bunch of uniform tie die spots. But the heroin one they had was easily the trippiest one they had in the samples they did. It was lile a bunch of rainbow colored spikes and shit.
It looked just like caffeine in this one, but more spikes than lines.
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Edited by LuSiD enthusiast (07/14/15 11:02 PM)
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Grow LSD / dmt in your morning youghurt , order all parts off the internet, make your bacteria culture today and get the LSD sequence online
saw this one yesterday, pretty cool, when this happens the world will change ;P Grow ANY molecule in your youghurt
the guy grew prozac (from dna sequence) in his youghurt and added a dna sequence for orange color too (from carrots)
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Re: Photos of drugs under the Microscope [Re: lessismore]
#21946651 - 07/15/15 10:19 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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http://www.nature.com/news/drugs-regulate-home-brew-opiates-1.17563
Theres been alot of info on that surfacing for some time now, that is a big blow to the pointless war on drugs and a big fuck you the dea and any government trying to control drugs, its about time we can make acid from some yogurt, fuck!
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Re: Photos of drugs under the Microscope [Re: lessismore]
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Grow LSD / dmt in your morning youghurt , order all parts off the internet, make your bacteria culture today and get the LSD sequence online
saw this one yesterday, pretty cool, when this happens the world will change ;P Grow ANY molecule in your youghurt
the guy grew prozac (from dna sequence) in his youghurt and added a dna sequence for orange color too (from carrots)
As a molecular biologist let me tell you this is not going to work. Growing prozac and LSD, well thats 100% not going to work, I guarantee you certain fail. DMT could work but not by buying a kit from a pseudoscientist, but by actually practicing molecular biology in a real lab.
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Re: Photos of drugs under the Microscope [Re: sunkeep]
#21974708 - 07/21/15 08:30 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I was looking at other videos from this guy, and it seemed cool at first but then it all sounded pretty bs to me, havent there been alot of biotech companies doing this type of thing with genetically modified yeast for years? They do this with penicillin right?
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#21976700 - 07/21/15 05:42 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yes biotech companies do similar things and it generally involves copy-pasting the genetic code for a biosynthetic pathway from one organism to another such as yeast or bacteria. DMT is principally simple because its a couple of steps from tryptophan. LSD and prozac howevet are synthetic drugs (semi-synthetic in regard to lsd) and since there is no code for these thing well it just wont work.
Seems easy on paper, in reality there is a ton of steps that could fail.
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