Hunter S. Thompson experimented with Gonzo Journalism in his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He intended to record everything as it happened in a notebook and submit it for publication without any editing. Thompson viewed the journalist's eye and mind as functioning like a camera, selectively writing descriptions but considering the written words final, similar to a photographer's unaltered negatives. However, the experiment in Gonzo Journalism without editing proved to be a failure for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.