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Insanity/Genius

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Because there's a very thin line between the two and some ride the blurry both sides of it.

Prototype for the first 10,000 year clock. Read more here.

Albert Camus, Paris 1959

Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Just read one of his books. He's up and out there.

German actor Klaus Kinksi. Truly a genius nut job.

Film director Werner Herzog

Poet and recluse Emily Dickinson. Upon her death she instructed someone to burn a major body of her work. However, the leftover 40 notebooks ended up later being published.

Ian Curtis (15 July 1956 - 18 May 1980), English musician singer of 'Joy Division'. Shaman of the 80's youth.

Curtis, who suffered from epilepsy and depression, committed suicide on 18 May 1980, on the eve of Joy Division's first North American tour, resulting in the band's dissolution and the subsequent formation of New Order. In the same week, their most celebrated single "Love Will Tear Us Apart Again" was due to be released on the album Unknown Pleasures. Curtis was known for his bass-baritone voice, dance style and songwriting filled with imagery of desolation, emptiness and alienation. If you're more curious about his life I highly recommend watching the movie Control, which is based on his very tragic struggle with epilepsy, rising stardom, love, and much more.

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me. Hunter S. Thompson

Thomas Edison: Did you know he electrocuted an elephant or that one of his inventions actually killed one of his employees? Read more by clicking the picture.

Edie Sedgwick, the "It Girl" Andy Warhols' muse

Sid Vicious aka John Simon Ritchie, (10 May 1957 – 2 February 1979), bassist of the Sex Pistols.

"My father was a minister and banned rock music at home. So I played the Stones on piano when he was out''- Tori Amos

Nobel laureate John Forbes Nash, Jr was the basis for A Beautiful Mind.

Shock Jock Howard Stern. Love him or hate him, he's here to stay.

Howard Hughes

Dan Aykroyd did you know has Tourette syndrome?. well.. guess it's not insane.. just looks insane.

Marilyn Manson- artistically brilliant with his performance art or just nuts? YOU tell me...

Beethoven.. we know

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. -Leonard Cohen

Charles Manson (before the infamous murders he would receive fame for) was an insanely brilliant singer-songwriter on the fringe of the Los Angeles music industry, chiefly through a chance association with Dennis Wilson, founding member and drummer of The Beach Boys. After Manson was charged with the crimes he was later convicted of, recordings of songs written and performed by him were released commercially. Various musicians, including Guns N' Roses, White Zombie and Marilyn Manson, have covered some of his songs.

John Bonham, drummer for 'Led Zeplin' who died on September 25, 1980

Keith Moon, 'The Who' drummer who died in 1978

The polka dot priestess as her young 'obliterating' self.. Yayoi Kusama "Self-Obliteration" 1967

Visual Artist, Yayoi Kusama ... who can teach a thing or two to Damien Hirst about polka dots. Today, she voluntarily resides in a mental institution in Japan.

Earnest Hemmingway

Grigory Rasputin is known as the Russian Orthodox Christian, mystic healer, prophet.. holy monk.

Poet Sylvia Plath experienced many bouts of depression and madness before she finally took her life. Read her biography... I'm telling you.. her family life didn't exactly help.

Sylvia Plath's only novel was The Bell Jar

Ana Mendieta was a Cuban American visual and performance artist, known for her "earth-body" art work. She fell to her death from a bedroom window after an argument with Mr. Andre -her husband in NYC.. possible suicide.. possible murder.

Dorothy Parker: writer, poet and critic.. said "she wished she could write like a man and drink like a lady." Wish she were here today.

A modern & contemporary art icon, Louise Bourgeois. Her real recognition came after age 40, inspiring unknown artists to plug away at their work.

Virginia Woolf: English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

Nikola Tesla: one of the world’s greatest inventors but debatably-unjustly, eclipsed by Thomas Edison.

British fashion designer Alexander McQueen (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010).

Painter, Jackson Pollock destroyed his life w/too much drink and a deadly car crash.. father of Abstract expressionism.

Beat writer, Jack Kerouac

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio a revolutionary artist of his time.. a controversial man, was bisexual and killed a man in a brawl.

Dylan Thomas, the grandfather of beat poetry.. must've read "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower" a hundred times. x

David Lynch and his long-time "Hitler Youth" haircut.

Brian Wilson by Hedi Slimane

Philip K. Dick

Alexander McQueen.

Bjork and the infamous swan dress

Tom Waits

Woody Allen

Kurt Cobaine

Beck

Janis Joplin

John Lennon