Rafaël Rozendaal takes research chemicals. His sister takes photos. Their grandfather took control of Brazil, as president. Rafaël is one of the worthwhile artist’s taking the post-ASCII art world seriously. He makes plastic images for browser viewing; sharp, facile, endless, and often very nice to play with. Along with his work, his site also mentions that he took 2-CC while living in LA. Research chemicals are those which are unscheduled, unregulated, and untested by the higher authorities and are generally not covered by law. However 2-CC was covered in the ‘Phenethylamines I have known and loved’ book where it is listed a mild hallucinogenic, unless you snort it, when it becomes a harbinger of death according to someone on the Russian “bluelight.ru” forums.  It’s a prescient warning to internet artists all over the world – Please be careful; snorting 2-CC just leads to brain haemorrhage:

“Our friend knows a lot about research chemicals and also has a lot of them… So we all decided to take some 2-CC having tried 2-CI and 2-CE and 2-CD…We all ate 30 mg. oraly, however my boyfriend perfers to put things up his nose… So he instead of eating it, snorted 30 mg…By the second seizure we called the ambulance, and he was rushed to the hospitol. After about 11 hours of being in the emergency room, he started to gain concience, and was gonna be okay. They kept him in the hospitol for about a week so that they could make sure his brain stopped bleeding, and so that he wouldnt go into any random seizures. It was a while before we touched any drugs… Especially hallucigans… Now the only thing we do is K, weed, and the occasional pill…”

Video of Rafael jumping into the turgid waterways of Venice. His show opens at Takura Someya this Saturday. http://tsca.jp/