60's Hippie Pics - View & Add or Comment

Picture yourself in a boat on a river,
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies.
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
Towering over your head.
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes,
And she's gone.

 

Muddy Waters & BB King - How hip can you get?

eace:

 

OH I love the LSD one !!!

 

ahahaha,this made me laugh.he looks so cute with the flower

 

Jim Morrison on tye die background.

 

Steppenwolf - "Magic Carpet Ride"

 

OP: is there any description you can give for the first image? i really like it, i put it as my desktop background and wanted to know something about it
thanks!

 

Sure - I'll get it to you tomorrow.eace:

 

Go to Google - Images and enter "Flower in Rifle".

Also one site is - http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/03/17/PH2007031701303.jpg

 

^ haha i did that search and thought this one was good, it made me laugh (at the soilders)



oh, and that didn't tell me anything about the picture like i wanted. but it's cool, i don't expect you to be looking it up or anything for me just thought you might know.

 

Sorry about not sending you any background. My mind wanders due to a mis-spent youth. I do know this occured during a peace rally at the Pentagon in October of '67. His name is Joel Tornabene. I think you could find out more about him online. - Dudley

 

Lennon & Ono - "Two Virgins"

 

love that one =D

 

Lenin? lol....still think that every communist at the beginning had to pumped all informations from hip ideology )

 

This is taken from "The First NZ Whole Earth Catalogue" 1972, published by Alister Taylor with help from someone called Tim Shadbolt, now Mayor of Invercargill (N.Z.). There was an extensive chapter on alternative living, with supplied material and supplied photographs drawn from a number of NZ communes. The later editions feature Moehau. The original caption reads "Cultivation of a soya crop on a Nelson commune". The name of the commune is not given, but is understood to be "Moonsilver", which has now closed down. "Moonsilver" also supplied a number of file photographs to "Mushroom" magazine (a counter-culture magazine of the time) for publicity purposes to illustrate community living. Nudity was a something not really optional at "Moonsilver" and was something the commune sought to encourage with its publicity. This is my favourite picture of the era. Gerald.

 

eace:Neat - thanks - I think I'll include that one in my album.

 

This is a montage of photographs taken of a event held at the 1978 Festival of Plenitude : a mock battle between Alf's Imperial Army and a force drawn from those attending the 1978 Festival. Alf's Imperial Army were a group of young people around the self-styled Wizard of Christchurch (N.Z.) who espoused conservative causes. One of their activities was to challenge different groups to mock battles. The photograph was first published in "Mushroom", May 1978 and illustrated an account of the festival. The battle was held on the last day, 24 January 1978. The article in "Mushroom" was put together by the organisers both as a report and to publicise any future Festivals.The event and the several other Festivals that followed were organised by those in living in alternative communal arrangements, or "communes" around Punakaiki : the nearest settlement of this type was at Fox River. The purpose of the festival was to popularise the ideas of peace, environmental sustainability and community with the young people of Christchurch and the South Island generally who had turned up in their droves. Nambassa was more of a North island affair and was held at the same time. The "Hippie" force fought naked and covered themselves in dried white mud, numbering around 15, making a a political point concerning the relationship of humankind with nature. Moving clockwise : the leaders of the "Hippie" contingent : a member of the crowd : ALF's Imperial Army dressed as British Redcoats : another member of the crowd : the fight itself involving flour and waterbombs : the drummer. The Festival attracted several thousand. The fight was apparently chaotic and involved a cannon. There were a number of injuries, so this event was discontinued. An examination of the first photograph shows the "Hippie" commander (on the right) wearing a cricket box like structure over his groin though which his penis is passed. This is a representation of the snake creation myth and required an erection. The image of the two "leaders" was taken moments after the "Hippie force" had reached the battle site after emerging from the bush. Gerald.