/diy/ - Do It Yourself

I want the bottle pattern to look something like this, but it doesn't have to be that exactly, as long as it's a mandala pattern in general.

I also want to have brown ship rope or whatever to make a net out of that can go in between the bottles and their spaces, so it looks more solid, more like it's part of the roof than just hanging there.

And I want to put some sort of dark purple glass in the center, but it doesn't really matter what it is as long as it's centered, circular and even.

So, does anybody have any tips, advice, ideas you can lend me?

I will dump comics so it's not a completely one way transaction :)

Actually if you guys don't mind I'll show you my room and what I've done with it so far and what my reasoning behind everything is so far.
The beatles poster represents every persons journey they have from childhood, through adolescence and into adulthood.
The round beatles thing is to remove corners from the room, I'm trying to make my room a pod of sorts.

The poster of the beach is to create a relaxed state for whoever does drugs in there, and it's to inspire as well.

>>315238
Can't help you too much on the construction of this thing (I know people sell them so I'd say to look those up to get an idea of how the frame work is gonna be) But what I can suggest is taking one of the mandala patterns you look running it in through photo shop and maybe using a posterize filter to make it simpler then from there print it out and lay the bottles accordingly on top of the design.

Pretty much print out one of those images make it blockier/ more solid then organize the bottles/colors accordingly on top of the image to get a good idea of the lay out.

>>315247
Here's a good idea for some frame work/ designs people have used.

http://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&biw=1920&bih=1091&tbm=isch&
sa=1&q=beer+bottle+chandelier&btnG=

Sorry, that other photo was sideways.
On the dresser, there's a couple geodes that have 90' angle cuts right to the center, and someone burrowed a cylindrical hole into it, so you can drop a candle inside it and you can illuminate the rock, and you can see where it started it's formation.
Something to blow peoples minds when they're high.
There's other crystals on the windowsill and around the room, and it's just to set a mood, and it works.

>>315250
Cool, you kinda see what's inside my head :P

Here's what I have in mind, but I also want some brown rope like the kind that would make you think it was from a pirate ship or something, and I want to make a net out of it so the bottles rest on it a little bit.

>>315247
That's a good idea, thanks for the help!

The golden rectangle on the wall is a ticket to a music festival that promotes peace and love and it's one of those things where if you rotate the ticket, the picture evolves, and it's of a flower that's budding.
The red rectangle was a packet for inscence, and it says 'clarity' on it and has a mandala pattern on it as well.

The blanket on my floor was from my parents, my uncle bought it in south america.
It's just a pretty cool shaman looking kind of blanket, so it's there to add dynamic to the room.

There's a tasteful pullout from a playboy mag to the left of the marijuana girl banner, and those are both to appreciate the form of the female.
It's artistic almost in nature, and it's nice to look at.
The banner also takes out a corner, so again, that more round shape/feel.
The slayer banner is from 1986, my uncle gave it to me, and I like to think that if you look around the room you see birth, journey through life, finding a woman, and then death, or something like that.
And then outside the window, there's a wooded area and a creek you can go wander around.

If I were going to do something similar... I think I would get wooden dowels that exactly fit into the bottle necks... I would get a central pillar or circular log like object drill holes where the dowels will fit... drill out channel for electrical wiring in the dowel centers, and into the circular base... I would use something like a single led light per bottle, could use very thin wire that way, feet wires through dowels and center thing, solder on lights, stick on current stepdown to whatever you end up using for led lighting (you could take apart a ropelight and just rewire it pretty easily already has all the parts you need) then I would stick a bottle on each dowel. Could swap out for different types of bottles or mix/match as desired.

Anyway, I have to go to the city for a bit, thanks for your input, I appreciate it!

Also, here's something interesting to read about psychedelics, enjoy!

http://io9.com/5617273/two-new-scientific-studies-reveal-hallucinogens-are-good-for-your-mental-heal
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>>315266
The thing is that I want the lightbulb to shine through the bottles so the room emanates green and purple. The dowels wouldn't allow that.

OP, I'm wondering if you have ever tripped before? not saying your wasting your time here but a lot of what you think will be ''really trippy man'' when your straight has no bearing whatsoever when your tripping, the best experiences are nature, bushwalks with friends, it just feels right, sitting in a room trying to buzz out to things you have ''set up'' will not work in my opinion, and I have had a lot of psychedelics in my time, anytime you try and make yourself trip to things you just have a bad time or forget about them completely and go on a walk

Cut the bottles in half, top to bottom. Attach the bottle halves to strips of wood. Arrange the wood as spokes in a wheel.

Cutting a bottle in half top to bottom is the big challenge.

>Dude i'm tripping balls - look at my slayer flag, its fucking moooooving and shit brah, omfg check out my beer bottle lamp its so fucking crazy i'mma freak the fuck out wtf that bitch on the poster is looking at me homie.

hahaha what a fucking try-hard. you don't need some fucking juggalo redneck carnival basement to enjoy psychedelics.

>>315866
To each their own.
I've tripped multiple times in this room now, and so far, I set up my room in accordance to what compliments the drugs.
Yes, it works, and nature walks is a subjective preference.
Besides, I have nature in my backyard when I do get that urge to just go for a stroll, and I have.

>>315916
No, it's cool to talk about time and how it goes so fast and slow sometimes and how sometimes you'll lift your head up from daily events and just realize 'wow, things got different really fucking fast'.
That's why it's there, to help people appreciate life a little more.

And no, you don't need what I'm doing to enjoy psychedelics, this is just one way of changing the dynamic, even enhancing the experience.

>>315868
Interesting idea, I'll consider it for sure.
Still want to gauge other peoples idea's first.

>>315866
Dude, nature walks are nice an all, but seriously, a good setup is paramount for indoor tripping.

Pic related, my old drug den.

>>316076
And being rather out of your mind with a spinny chair and a camera? (As well as the hazy plasma globe on top of the TV in the first pic)

Leads to the image in this post, feels like what are brains felt like. (I don't think I used any effects to get it, if I did it would have been the 'fireworks' setting)

Ecstasy + Avatar on the PC screen, xbox visualizations on the TV, and shpongle playing from the speakers. Wat....

I digress.

>>316079
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Forgot pic.

>>316079
>Xbox visualizer
>Avatar with the volume down
>Shpongle
>Pretty lights
My nigga!

Seriously though, shpongle is so fucking good!

Pic related, how I feel with mushrooms and shpongle

>>316114
>So. You take let us assume
>a third toke
>long and slow
>You vaporise
>and you take it in and in and in
>and there is a sound
DUMDUMDUMDUMDUM
>like the crumpling of a plastic bread wrapper
>or the crackling of flame
DUMDUMDUMDUMDUM

>mfw when on DMT
>mfw I have no face
>mfw my face melted

>>316123
Here bro, I think your face might be somewhere behind that pillar in the back, I think u left it there when you went to the fourth dimension

>>316142
Oh thanks, there it is. Lemme just walk down the hall to get a drink of water

OH FUCKITTY FUCK FUCK FUCK

>>316145
>Oh god I'm so thirsty!
>THIS IS THE WORST HALLWAY EVER!!!

>>316150
Finally, I got my water

WAIT WTF IS GOING ON HERE

>>316162
>Man that water was delicious
>Wait wtf was that noise!??
>Oh shit oh shit im so hiiiiiighhh

Oh man I love psychedelics.
I just did a tab of acid with my neighbors at their house last night and we stayed up and chatted about life, and listened to tool the entire time, it was grand.

Have you ever done dmt before?

>>316168
First off, I really hope you are OP, i've been assuming you are. Just realized I might be raping a thread, which is terribad etiquette for /diy/

Yes, I've done DMT many, many times. Now I no longer trip off it. Dunno the explanation, but I can take several hits, one of which will knock everyone else out of reality, and still remain functional and able to carry a conversation, just given a glimpse of 'wtfisthis'

>>316173
Haha yea it's me.
Wow, you built up a permanent tolerance to it eh?
That's weird, I've never heard of that before.
I've only smoked it once, and I screwed up when I was smoking it so the only visuals I got was when I closed my eyes, and it just looked like tv static, but brown and golden, and my brain felt like it was being massaged.
Wanna do drugs together sometime?

>>316180
That's the only explanation I currently have.

Keep in mind, 8 hits of acid, 10g of shrooms, mescaline, shrrom/mescaline tea, ex+acid+meth+shrooms, DMT+EX+Meth+methylone+acid+ketamine start to remove the ability to trip. My last two trips (acid then shrooms) have been unpleasant, and I do not wish to have an actual freakout, so I have abated my thirst for tripping. I will likely do shrooms again in a few months (it's been a year), but I have no wish to "understand reality" anymore, I know what life is. I don't need to trip to get it, and theres other things to make your enjoy yourself.

If you know what salvia is, or have done it, that's another thing I can't get high off anymore.

Never take drugs too far. They are for exploration, not pure enjoyment. The brain you are left with after is not pleasant when you remember how smart, how quick you were. I'm still smart (I was way above normal, quite high in genius level IQ if you believe that means anything) before my downward spiral (Yes, Trent Reznor reference) but I am lacking many abilities I had. It almost makes you regret, but once you get to this stage regret doesn't quite exist. When your sanity is encroached so adversely, you will feel the detrimental effects. Be careful my friend, and happy tripping.

I would love to, but I live down in the rednecklands of Texas. Not too many of us around on 4chan outside of /k/.

>>316199
Fair enough, I had to abstain from shrooms for a while because I had some awful trips, same with acid.
I learned things from those trips, but I did not wish to recreate something so horrifying.

I think you and I are mostly on the same page when you say that you know what life is and what it's about.
I do psychedelics now to get creative and make things, I'll jot down notes and poems and play instruments and try and write music, they're great for putting your brain into a different mindset quickly.

Oh yes, I've done salvia, first psychedelic I've ever done.

Yes, the brain is so important, and we have to make sure we don't abuse it in our journey through life, otherwise we're just useless people haha.

>Happy tripping
Thanks man, you too

>>316202
Yeah, life is easy. Do what you want. Pic related.

Back on topic:
Get a plasma globe and a digital plug in alarm clock. If you set them next to each other, each number on the clock randomly changes like 3x a second. Trippy as hell.
Also, if you have one of those 4bulb light fixtures, get a blacklight, red light, bluelight, and regular bulb. Unscrew the regular before tripping. The shadows from each shade are a bit apart depending on angles, it really fucks with you in a good way.

>>316208
Last thing before I turn in for the night.

The voices in your head? (Not the way the media portrays them to be, but the ones who whisper "I should...." or "i'd like to") are a good thing. From my experience, if you feel those voices are falling off, you have gone too far, stop while you're ahead.
I've just started rebuilding my identity back from an empty shell. It's hard on many levels.

It's hard to remain sane with no way to define right and wrong, love and hate. These are the things we'd like to push past in trips, but that's folly. We need to understand them as advice, not admonish them as methods of control we like to think.

When the voices disappear, insanity rules.

My current girlfriend (and the most important female in my life, other than my sister) is having issues with this. I don't feel love the same way, I cannot reciprocate feelings.

Tripping is good, but keep a strong handle on your impulse to do it. Over indulgence leads you down a bad road.

Sorry for the father/son, mentor/protégé stuff here, but I doubt anyone else on /diy/ would offer decent advice.

OP is a massive faggot with an ugly room

that being said, why are you using ship rope

>>316218
Please don't listen to the schizoid rambles of someone who's tripped a few too many times.

Psychedelics are no joke guys THIS is exactly what happens after prolonged use, ESPECIALLY if you're predisposed to mental illness.

>green and purple
Been enjoying /v/, OP?

>>317821
Seconding this.

>>317821
I agree that this guy sounds like a fried-out retard, but responsible and moderate use of psychedelics is possible.

>>317821
>>317830
>>317833

Right, don't listen to the guy that tells him he should continue to ensure his mental stability by not overdoing it, and asking him to make sure he retains his drive to do things.

>>317833
>fried out
Not hardly.

>>317994
>not overdoing it

Which means actually doing it. Which is a retarded thing to do.

>>318023
Right, people should never drink, smoke, or do things that can hurt them, because bad things can happen if you do things stupidly.

Shit, this is /diy/, not /nofunallowed/
Life is for living, not for growing old safely.