Why Do All My Photos Look So Trippy?

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Why Do All My Photos Look So Trippy?

Is my camera broke or am I on drugs?

Did you know if you break a digital camera in a certain way, your photographs will start looking pretty psychedelic? People who have never taken LSD think these are the kind of images you see when you’re tripping. We take a lot of acid here at VICE, so I can assure you that tripping doesn't look anything like the stuff above or below. But that doesn't mean these pictures aren’t pretty awesome and a little flashback-inducing.

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I wanted to share this new technique with you, but I just got a new camera and I am not about to break it. So I did the next best thing and went on image-sharing websites and culled for you all the creepy-but-pretty pictures I could find.

Here are a few of my favorites.