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8/31/2007

bonus mystery question

Filed under: Images — kf6hqc @ 5:30 pm

Just curious, Anyone know what this is?

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7 Comments »

  1. It’s gotta be Burning Man!

    Comment by weanus — 8/31/2007 @ 7:52 pm

  2. It’s gotta be Burning Man or at least whats left of him…. :(

    Comment by weanus — 8/31/2007 @ 7:53 pm

  3. That is Burning Man. I work with a guy that used to go every year. The Black Rock desert Dry Lake Nevada is the location. Sex and drugs, but not much rock and roll. Music is mostly trance, house, techno. The size of it qualifies as a true, Massive”. Its on an Indian reservation so tribal police rule. The saying is, Participants, No Spectators. Counter cultures that promote, Art, Sex, and whatever goes…...

    Dave

    Comment by Dave HDX — 8/31/2007 @ 8:43 pm

  4. they call it the playa….

    Comment by Dave HDX — 8/31/2007 @ 9:05 pm

  5. Check out Google Earth…Northern Nev.
    View of area during festival.

    Scar

    Comment by Scar — 9/1/2007 @ 7:32 am

  6. Nice, thanks for the GOOGearth tip.

    Comment by kf6hqc — 9/1/2007 @ 9:21 am

  7. YA YA IT IS UAHHHHHHHH A bunch of drugged up Hippie (sometimes spelled “hippy”) or hippy’s out in the desert getting loaded and burning a giant wood idol. FREAKS ! !

    refers to a member of a subgroup of the counterculture that began in the United States during the early 1960s, becoming an established social group by 1965, and expanding to other countries before declining in the mid-1970s.[1][2] Hippies, along with the New Left and the American Civil Rights Movement, are considered the three dissenting groups of the 1960s counterculture.[2]

    Originally, hippies were part of a youth movement composed mostly of white teenagers and young adults, between the ages of 15 and 25 years old, who inherited a tradition of cultural dissent from the earlier Bohemians and the beatniks.[3][4] Hippies rejected established institutions, criticized middle class values, opposed nuclear weapons, opposed the Vietnam War, embraced aspects of Eastern religions, championed sexual liberation, were often vegetarian and eco-friendly, promoted the use of psychedelic drugs to expand one’s consciousness and created intentional communities or communes. They used alternative arts, street theatre, folk music, and psychedelic rock as a part of their lifestyle, and as a way of expressing their feelings, their protests and their vision of the world and life. Hippies opposed political and social orthodoxy, choosing a gentle and nondoctrinaire ideology that favored peace, love and personal freedom,[5][6] perhaps best epitomized by The Beatles’ song “All You Need is Love”.[7] They perceived the dominant culture as a corrupt, monolithic entity that exercised undue power over their lives, calling this culture “The Establishment”, “Big Brother”, or “The Man”.[8][9][10] Noting that they were “seekers of meaning and value,” scholars like Timothy Miller describe hippies as a new religious movement.[11]

    After 1965, the hippie ethos influenced The Beatles and others in the United Kingdom and Europe, and they in turn influenced their American counterparts.[12][13] By 1968, self-described hippies had become a significant minority, representing just under 0.2 percent of the U.S. population.[14] Hippie culture spread worldwide through a fusion of rock music, folk, blues, and psychedelic rock; it also found expression in literature, the dramatic arts, fashion, and the visual arts, including film, posters advertising rock concerts, and album covers.[15] Eventually the hippie movement extended far beyond the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe, appearing in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Mexico, Brazil and many other countries.[16]

    Etymology

    Main article: Hippie (etymology)
    Lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower, the principal American editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, states that the terms hipster and hippie derive from the word hip, whose origins are unknown.[17] The term hipster was coined by Harry Gibson in 1940,[18] and was often used in the 1940s and 1950s to describe jazz performers. The word hippie is also jazz slang from the 1940s, and one of the first recorded usages of the word hippie was in a radio show on November 13, 1945; in which Stan Kenton called Harry Gibson “Hippie”.[19][20] However, Kenton’s use of the word was playing off Gibson’s nickname “Harry the Hipster.” Reminiscing about late 1940s Harlem in his 1964 autobiography, Malcolm X referred to the word hippy as a term that African Americans used to describe a specific type of white man who “acted more Negro than Negroes.”[21]

    The more contemporary sense of the word hippie first appeared in print on September 5, 1965 in the article “A New Haven for Beatniks” by San Francisco journalist Michael Fallon. In that article, 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-Ashbury district. Fallon reportedly came up with the name by transforming Norman Mailer’s use of the word hipster into hippie.[22] Use of the term hippie did not catch on in the mass media until early 1967, after San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen began referring to hippies in his daily columns.[23][24]

    Somewhat ironically, many of those in the drug scene latched onto the gratuitous use of the term hippie by the largely unhip media and began labeling each other with it in tongue-in-cheek fashion. The jest eventually became so ingrained that they came to identify with the label and could say it with a straight face (no pun intended). In the same way, non-narcotic drugs came to be called dope through the habitual imitation of those who used such catchall terminology out of ignorance. Put-ons and goofs were a common trait of hipsters, who took great pleasure in living up to bizarre stereotypes when confronting the outside world.

    Comment by KG6YPA — 9/2/2007 @ 6:32 am

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