Wired goes behind-the-scenes of movies and popular drug-themed TV shows and gives you the skinny on what actors “actually toke—or snort or shoot or huff—on camera.”

Methamphetamine

The speed cooked up by Walter White (Bryan Cranston) on Breaking Bad won’t give you meth mouth, but it might cause cavities—rock candy is the stand-in for Heisenberg’s product.

Marijuana

Throughout Pineapple Express, characters smoke a nontobacco herb from online head shop International Oddities. It looks like pot, it blazes like pot, but no word on if it “smells like God’s vagina.”

Cocaine

Legend has it that Al Pacino plowed through real coke on the set of Scarface. When it was time for the cast of 2001′s Blow to go skiing, though, the actors snorted inositol—powdered vitamin B.

Crack

Ryan Gosling’s rock in the indie film Half Nelson was actually a piece of a broken drinking mug that prop artists had dyed with coffee. A bit of tobacco provided the smoke, and voilà: Pookie status.

Read more of Drug Doubles: What Actors Actually Toke, Smoke and Snort on Camera

 
The order Mucorales consists of 13 families, 56 genera, and 300 species. Mucoralean fungi, or pin mold, is typically fast-growing, and generally found on food, with the most ubiquitous example being bread mold (Rhizopus stolonifer), or the equally common genus mucor, found in rotten vegetables or soil. In The Life Cycle of the Pin Mould we can see the development of fungi through the use of time-lapse photography, watching spores grow on an apple, cheese and porridge.

Made in 1943, The Life Cycle of the Pin Mould was originally intended for educational purposes, and is now one of 125 films currently being re-released by the British Council on Vimeo. Already available are films on London during wartime, hospitals, growing vegetables, the life cycle of a rabbit, the gardens of England and how to make a bicycle, amongst many others. Check here for details.
 

 
Not Your Mamma’s Cookie has step-by-step instructions on how to make “Ned Stark” Game of Thrones cake pops.

The ingredients look quite tasty, actually.

Via Boing Boing

 
Einstürzende Neubauten front-man Blixa Bargeld demonstrating his recipe for an ink-black calamari risotto.

About midway through, the conversation turns to memory and the sensual pleasures of cooking.

And look, not a single broken dish!
 

 
Via Nicole Panter

 
Marky Ramone has gotten into the trailer food craze with his Cruisin’ Kitchen, which has a suitably Ramones-like minimalist menu offering four types of meatball sandwiches: Italian (beef), Asian (pork), American (turkey) and Mexican (chorizo).

Hey Marky, why no chicken vinadaloo?

“Hanging out on Second Avenue
Eating chicken vindaloo…”

Nosh pit:
 

 

 
I don’t know too much about superhuman “Meat Man” and his superpowers. But I bet his version of “Kryptonite” is Ron Swanson.

As a side note: what’s up with that weird armadillo tail?

Via Nerdcore

 
Here’s a surly-faced “rude root” from the He Shou Wu plant, harvested in Southern China by Farmer Lu Chen. Even though Lu Chen has been offered good money for this well-endowed “rude root,” he ain’t sellin’.

“I think it is a sign that my farm will have new fertility and that I’m going to have a bumper crop this year.”

Via Austrian Times and Nerdcore

 
Well this is thoroughly disgusting! Apparently this is a “mummy” made from McDonald’s hamburgers, other McDonald’s food items and resin by Texas-based artist Ben Campbell.

Ben says:

McDonald’s food doesn’t decompose if left to dry out. Seriously, just google it. As such archaeologists from the future will be digging this stuff up thousands of years in the future. Especially if something cataclysmic happens to our society.

Currently I have two McDonald’s food mummies completed and would like to make many more. Other works include preserved hamburgers in commercial plastic cases, McDonald’s food skulls, and large scale paintings.

I’m not sure how to process this. But “yuck” comes instantly to mind.

McDonald’s Food Mummy Art Show

Via BuzzFeed

 
Not sure who made this, but it’s a great way to visualize the actual amount sugar that’s in some of your favorite drinks.

Can you say “Mountain Dew mouth”? Yuck!

Via Neatorama

 
Well, it’s only for sale in Sweden right now, but you can order Slayer’s new Reign In Blood—appropriately named after their 1986 record—Cabernet Sauvingnon here.

Previously on Dangerous Minds: 
Slayer: Angel of Death rendered in smooth rock stylings
 
Via Cherrybombed