Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
13 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
vietnam day committee
|
Just WHAT is Happening?
The Vietnam day Committee (VDC) plans a huge protest for Berkeley The Vietnam Day Committee (VDC) was a coalition of left-wing political groups, student groups, labor organizations, and pacifist religions. It was formed in Berkeley in the spring of 1965 by activists Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman. On May 5, 1965 the VDC several hundred students marched from the Berkeley campus to the Berkeley Draft Board, where staff were given a black coffin as a gift, and a number of students set alight their draft cards. |
|
never trust a prankster by Kesey
|
“Never Trust A Prankster”
Kesey, after playing an out-of-key harmonica and singing “Home on the Range” told the audience: “There’s only one to do. There’s only one thing’s gonna do any good at all. And that’s just everybody look at it, and turn your backs and say… f it!” Although the message was not lost on the nascent hippies in the crowd, the message, by Abbie Hoffman’s own admission: “…confounded the radicals.” |
|
the hippies emerges
|
The Hippie Emerges
On 5 September 1965, the first use of the word hippie appeared in print. In an article entitled "A New Haven for Beatniks," San Francisco journalist Michael Fallon wrote about the Blue Unicorn coffeehouse, using the term hippie to refer to the new generation of beatniks who had moved from North Beach into the Haight. Fallon reportedly came up with the name by condensing Norman Mailer's use of the word, "hipster" into "hippie". |
|
pranksters vs learytes
|
OH WOW VS. OH OM
PRANKSTERS VS LEARYITES Tripping Can Change The World Tripping is Fun Tripping is Sacred Prank & Fun & Introspection Set & Setting & Introspection |
|
chet helms enter
|
Chet Helms Enters
Chet Helms, a long haired freak from Texas, who had just finished hitching from there with Janis Joplin, was trying to become a “player”. When Ellen Harmon and Luria Castell, the originators of the Family Dog dances left, Helms jumped on the opportunity to exploit the naïve. |
|
psychedelic solution
|
The Psychedelic Solution
On January 3, 1966, Ron and Jay Thelin opened what is regarded to be the world’s first head shop on Haight Street called The Psychedelic Shop LSD was still legal, and the shop signaled the beginning of the psychedelic revolution on a subcultural level. |
|
the limit of the absurd
|
The Limit of the Absurd
The Merry Pranksters decided to REALLY take their trips festival public and rented the Fillmore for January 8, 1966 . Graham was hired to produce the whole thing on virtually a moments notice, but it netted such great profits, and people were so free with it, that Graham saw the exploitation of the scene as a done deal. |
|
the trips festival
|
The Trips Festival
Owsley Stanley had turned his perfectionist attentions to the sound equipment being used by the Dead. He'd bought cratefuls of amplifiers and speakers and monitors and even an oscilloscope. The Pranksters were able to wire the place up with microphones and speakers in unexpected places, so you might be downstairs watching somebody make a fool of himself on the closed-circuit TV and suddenly hear something you'd said upstairs a few minutes ago broadcast all over the hall. Neal Cassady was there spouting his famous raps. Dancing, strobes, ultraviolet lights that made Day-Glo paint fluoresce all the more brightly, strange things being written on the overhead projector and flashed on the wall (Anybody who knows he is God go up onstage) and announced over the loudspeakers. |
|
beatles and the haight
|
The Beatles and The Haight
The Hippies found Beatles songs “strangely compelling” because of their simultaneous suggestiveness of expansiveness and grief The Beatles try to release their “Yesterday and Today” album with the infamous butcher block cover. |
|
brilliant lights and shining rock
|
Brilliant Lights and Shining Rock
The San Francisco rock scene continued to grow with at least two ballroom performances per week. The audience began contributing more too by wearing costumes, that actually were becoming their street clothes, body painting, etc. The poster artists began creating artwork that would revolutionize the way we see the world. Light shows got better, and so did the bands, becoming tighter and more professional sounding. |
|
what was different about the 60s (4)
|
What Was Different About The
60s? What would assist the 60s generation be among the first to “think in pictures?” Television Light Shows Psychedelic Drugs And these resulted in many things: among them… |
|
the medium is the message
|
The Medium is the Message
What does this famous quote from Marshall McLuhan mean? It means precisely what we’ve been talking about: Not just is the medium through which a message is transmitted more important than it’s message (e.g. television itself is more important than any show that appears on it because the medium has changed our lives in ways that the shows never will) It also means that the fragmentation of that medium, ergo its images, are of primary importance to us… Therefore… we have become a society in which the more fragmented a medium (read message) is, the more importance we place upon it AND… perhaps the most important, and certainly the most relevant for this discussion, is the idea put forth by McLuhan that: technology … destroys the alphabet AND… in this regard, technology (the medium) precisely creates a greater link between experience and the medium by which that experience and the means by which that experience is transmitted. In other words, our world of experience is now a fragmented one primarily populated by, and understood as, image. One of, if not the first physical manifestations of this fragmentation/experience link was the psychedelic poster. |
|
look at posters
|
look at posters in 13
|