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August 2002 to July 2003

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Herein, you will find one of the greatest collections of links dealing with the time frame from the mid 60s to the mid 70s, covering the hippy movement and the ideals and directions of the "counterculture" . Some links are just thrown in because I feel they somehow relate to the time from.

Please note, that some links may have become inactive over the time frame in which this newsletter has been produced.

Volume 6

August 2002 - September 2002 - October 2002
November 2002* - December 2002* - January 2003
February 2003 - March 2003 - April 2003
May 2003 - June 2003 - July 2003

* - the missing issues...?

August 2002 Links

• Flashing On The Sixties
  -in their own words-
  Lisa Law has been a photographer for over fifty years documenting life as she sees it wherever she goes. In the Sixties she photographed fledgling musical bands and marched against the War in Viet Nam. In 1967, along with 10,000 others, she celebrated at the Gathering of the tribes at a Human Be-In in San Francisco... and much more!

• SHARYNE E WALKER - INTERNATIONAL ARTIST
  Immerse yourself in the stunningly beautiful artwork of Sharyne E. Walker.
  
  Sharyne has been selected by a council of international museum heads to represent our country (the US) in the 2003 Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea in the city of Florence, Italy; Dec 2003.
  
  Congratulations Sharyne!
  
  Sharyne is a subscriber to KOTRV and has donated some of her wonderful and thought provoking art to the KOTRV Gallery.

• CELEBRATING HIPPIE PAST
  An article from www.Pressdemocrat.com ... more nice memories and a special donation to the Mendocino County Museum in CA.

• The Los Angles Rock and Roll Roadmap
  This is the place to be for rock history in LA. Okay, so I have never been to LA... but I can see from this site.. the time is coming.

• Piece Unique Gallery
  Check out the "Under Fire" images from the Vietnam War.

• Memories of DROP CITY
  Adventures in the Counterculture of the 1960s
  a novel by John Curl
  
  I grew up about 80 miles from this place and never made the visit there until after it had disbanded... dang it anyway.

• Morningstar
  The Morningstar Commune website and newsletter.

September 2002 Links

• Freedom Domain
  This site is dedicated to the Freedom Loving Citizens Of The World & The Country which values it's Freedom above all else - America

• Free Speech TV (On The Web)
  -in their own words-
  Our Mission: Working with activists and artists, Free Speech TV uses television to cultivate an informed and active citizenry in order to advance progressive social change. FSTV airs primarily social, political, cultural, and environmental documentaries acquired from independent producers, and we are beginning to produce and commission original content.

• Alternative Culture Magazine
  Celebrating Nature, Culture and Spirit

• Unspeakable Visions:
  The Beat Generation and The Bohemian Dialectic
  3.1.0 - The Beat Generation in Print: The Underground Magazines and Presses

• OpenOffice
  -in their own words-
  OpenOffice.org is both an Open Source product and a project. The product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites’. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office.
  
  Best of all - it's FREE!

• Whole Earth - Access to Tools, Ideas, and Practices
  -in their own words-
  Whole Earth is committed to a vision of what's needed to challenge ingrained patterns and stale assumptions. Curiosity. Exploration. Independence. Community. Living fearlessly. Principles. Tools and ideas. Whole Earth shows you ways to take back your power and put it to use. Here you'll find information about restoring your local ecosystem, citizen advocacy, and socially responsible investing. Here are the tools for producing knowledge, and creating communities according to your own values and ideals.

October 2002 Links

• Jim Marshall's Music Photography
  THE GODS of MUSIC
  -in their own words-
  Welcome to www.marshallphoto.com. You are about to view a body of work that, for logistical reasons, has never been seen in its entirety.

• Quicksilver Messenger Service
  Official Home Page

• Who's Who of the Haight-Ashbury Era
  -in their own words-
  This is a list of short (thumbnail size) biographies of people who were somehow involved with the events of the Haight-Ashbury era, 1965-1967.

• Ellen Sander
  Sixties rock photographer and journalist.

• The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: a Web Site

• Grand Central Insanity
  As the name suggests.. crazy place but fun to visit.

• Oldies Music
  -in their own words-
  The music of the 50's, 60's and 70's holds a special memory for those of us who grew up with it. It was music you could sing along with, music you could dance to, music you fell in love with. Now, there's a special place for all of us who treasure--Oldies Music!

January 2003 Links

• BEYONDMAINSTREAM
  -in their own words-
  Alternative media for a new alternative culture. Beyond the mainstream slant on indie arts, progressive politics and holistic healing with alternative news, humor jokes, etc.

• Communicating with the Cultural Creatives
  An Interview with Paul Ray
  **Thanks V

• The Orion Society
  -in their own words-
  The Orion Society promotes place-based thinking, and works to nurture the shift toward sustainable living taking place throughout so many segments of our culture.

• Peace - Pass It On!
  -in their own words-
  The goal of this page is to connect people around the world. All working for world peace.

• RadioDestiny Broadcaster
  -in their own words-
  The RadioDestiny Broadcaster allows a user to broadcast live or scripted audio from a computer to anyone on the Internet. Now packaged for consumers as Pirate Radio. 

• Spirit Circle
  A wonderful community devoted to spiritualism.

Thanks to H. Michael (Mike) Cunningham, Ph.D. for this months' Cool Links!

February 2003 Links

• Ticket Stub Stories
  Every ticket stub tells a story, evoking memories of a 1978 Queen concert or a 1988 trip to the World Trade Center Observation Deck. Better than old snapshots in some ways, stubs bring back the whole story. Visitors to Stories About Ticket Stubs.org can relive their own or take someone else's trip back through time.
  
  "Tales of the ephemeral based on the flotsam of life" are found in pants pockets and under seat cushions. Here you can upload scanned images of your own lost-and-found stubs and tell the story of your first rock concert, first prom or how you got that parking ticket in Malta. Read other's stories by country, event, date or just go to the Top Ten Stories.

• Top Ten Conspiracy Theories
  Afghanistan and Enron. Merely a coincidence? Mohamed Atta's passport thrown from a cataclysmic fireball and later found in 1.6 million tons of debris. A miracle? The ten most alarming conspiracy theories about 9-11, the war on terror and the future of the world are at AlterNet.org, an independent source of alternative investigative journalism.
  
  Whether the theories are "gospel, symptoms of a traumatized culture, or anti-American propaganda" is your call. The site routinely examines current issues to engage readers in problem solving, community action and awareness. With a database of more than 7,000 stories from 200 sources - and one, maybe even two wars on the horizon - there's plenty of material to work with.

• The Ultimate Guitar Tab Web Sites
  The Ultimate Guitar Tab Web Sites is exactly that -- it has more guitar tablature than any other site on the Web, over 11,000 songs and counting. You can also find free guitar lessons and articles, all for free.

• What Happened On Your Birthday
  Ever wonder what the world was like when you were born? Did milk really sell for a nickel a gallon? Who was the President, Vice President? How old were you during the Watts riots or when Hawaii was admitted to the Union? Just put your birth date in the window when you click on this link and see what happens. It will give you an idea where you are in history..

• Earth Justice
  Ever wonder what you can do to help protect Mother Earth and all the creatures that live here? Earthjustice is a non-profit public interest law firm dedicated to protecting the magnificent places, natural resources, and wildlife of this earth and to defending the right of all people to a healthy environment. They work to bring about far-reaching change by enforcing and strengthening environmental laws on behalf of hundreds of organizations and communities. You can search their site for your pet issues. While you are there, be sure to click on the Take Action link to lend a hand. Sign up for their newsletter if you want timely reminders of the hot issues of today.

• Mod Revival
  Quadraphenia is about 1) a punk 2) a skin head 3) a rocker or 4) a mod? If you guessed 4 then you may be in on it. The Mod Revival celebrates Mod in all its glory. The site features all the information you'll ever need about mods, scooters, mod clothes, mod music, mod clothes and mod bands. The site focuses mainly on the mod revival period of the late 70's and 80's but gives excellent links to sources of "stuff" from clothes to scooters (as in Vespa, no Harleys to be found). Follow the link on the target for a year-by-year biography of a Mod from when it started at...

• GoblerToys by Ira Gobler -- King of Toys
  You have never seen anything like this site. Although it take a few minutes for the animations to download, they are well worth the wait. First you go to the toymaker's factory and can inspect some of the most unusual toys of all time. But the best part are the animations. Don't miss Kiki the fashion Tiki...a doll guaranteed to keep your little girl safe from all kinds of harm

• Sixties Universe
  This site is quite extensive, making it unfortunately slow to load but worth the wait. Their site welcomes you to the Sixties Universe, offering a nostalgic trip into that incredible decade of counterculture, music, film, TV, and Space (inner and outer). Content and links provide a tour through taste morsels such as Star Trek, the women of the 60's, bands, television programming, the peace movement (Kent State, Woodstock and more), space walking and much, much more. Check out the Psychedelic links and the Underground Garage. This is everything you ever wanted to know about the 60's and more.

March 2003 Links

• The Environment News Service
  With so much of the world's attention on the war effort, people crave real information, not filtered by corporate America. Alternative news websites covering Iraq and the Patriot Act II have sprung up and been uncovered all over the place. It's nice to see the global environment hasn't been ignored. The Environment News Service gives you the low down on planet earth, across the globe and in your back yard. See what is happening and the public policy behind it at...

• Stuck in the 70s
  Some people just can't get up from the bean bag chair, off the shag carpet or out of the   bell-bottomed Wranglers long enough to turn off The Brady Bunch. Sound familiar? You too may be Stuck in the 70s. With memorabilia like Tom Selleck's autograph, mood rings, Afro wigs, and collectibles of Scooby Doo and Sigmund and the Seamonsters, the site is all 70s, all the time. Cars, magazines, toys, movies, music, plus 70s theme party tips, shopping sites, history (without "all the gory details about Watergate or Vietnam") and the personal diary of a genuine 70s chick who finds herself stuck in the year 2003 and its excess of gory details.

• Sing365.com
  When the Eagles' "Hotel California" comes on, do you find yourself singing "On a dark desert highway, Cool Whip in my hair" instead of "Cool wind in my hair"? Then check out Sing365.com, which may just be the largest online database of song lyrics. You can find the words to your favorite songs, from A Flock of Seagulls to ZZ Top, to sing in the shower or with the radio full blast in your car . . . and you'll never mangle another lyric again!

• The Propaganda Remix Project
  At the Propaganda Remix Project you are treated to WWII posters updated for the 21st century. They lamblast GeeDubya's war and John Ashcroft's "Patriot Act" alterations to our constitution. Great to add to your anti-war emails for a little visceral appeal.

• Meet Mr. Natural
  Meet Mr. Natural...or rather Robert Crumb, Mr. Natural's creator. This is a short biography featuring plenty of photos and some of his other works, such as Fritz the Cat and Mr. Snoid. Links take you to some of the old comic strips and other goodies. See if you can find the new element discovered at the University of Pittsburgh, Administratium and the Jerry Seinfeld trivia quiz.

• Revisiting the Psychedelic '60s
  Are we better for having experienced Timothy Leary and LSD, the Black Panthers, Kent State, the Mekong Delta and the Feminine Mystique? Were the 60s the best of times or the worst of times? At The Psychedelic '60s, the University of Virginia explores the historical, cultural and social context of the celebrated summer of love to move beyond simple nostalgia into healthy skepticism. The site traces the iconoclasm of the 60s to Thoreau's pre-environmentalism and Whitman's mysticism, and puts the issues of discontent in context with headlines, images, concert bills, posters and - at the heart of it all - the music of groups like Moby Grape, The Velvet Underground and Country Joe.

April - May 2003 Links

• grassroots.org
  Can one domain make a difference? Issues like homelessness, politics, war, and inequality seem so huge that it's easy to feel powerless. That helpless feeling seems to depart, however, as soon as you visit Grassroots.org; you discover that you not only have the power to be a solution to the world's problems, but you have the opportunity to stand up for the causes of a better world. Michael Mann, started Grassroots.org, to provide free Internet and business services, i.e. domain names, hosting, email and consulting, to qualified charities. He offers these none profit organizations help with all aspects of their business, including their Internet presence, in an attempt to link organizations and individuals who believe that common citizens working together can make a profound difference. There are  currently over 600 domain names under the Grassroots.org
  umbrella.

• Gallery of Regrettable Food
  Those long-lost images of mom's marshmallow and Jell-O salad, dad's BBQ cookbook and such forgotten reference works as "Cooking with Dr. Pepper" have been retrieved from the back of the pantry and put on display in all their repulsive glory at the Gallery of Regrettable Food, which vividly poses the questions "What were they thinking? How did they eat this bilge?"

• World Press Review
  We all tend to view world events through the tunnel of our own language, culture and national interest. At World Press.org, expand your world view by reading news, editorials and cartoons from Moscow's Izvestia, the Beijing Review, the Daily Nation of Nairobi, Die Zeit of Hamburg and more.
  
  The site is the online home of The World Press Review, for more than 30 years the only English-language magazine offering a first-hand look at the world's debates -- some of which get precious little ink in the mainstream U.S. press. The best of the world's newspapers and magazines in more than 20 languages are translated, reprinted and analyzed here, so visitors can read headlines and front pages or visit the Reading Room to view documents, national profiles and special materials for students.

• Amazing Optical Illusions
  Confusing eye candy. 

• War Profiteers Card Deck
  The War Profiteers Card Deck exposes some of the real war criminals in the US’s endless War of Terror. This is no Sunday bridge club. These are individuals and institutions that stack the deck against democracy in the rigged game of global power.
  
  Get your own deck today! There is a free downloadable .pdf file of the deck so you can print your own if you want.

• Falling
  Warning: Do NOT view this page while drunk.

• Sixties City: British Nostalgia
  The most fun and exciting decade in history is relived at Sixties City.com, with all the music, memories and magic of the Swingin' Sixties as experienced by the Brits, in facts, features and photos about 60s TV, music, fashion, films, radio and fads.
  
  A section on TV shows recalls old faves like "Juke Box Jury" and "Thank Your Lucky Stars," even the logos and test patterns that graced British TV screens. Every record to enter the 60s British pop charts is included, as well as the price of records and a 60s Music Quiz - like this one from 1966: Who were "coming to take me away, ha-ha!"? Radio history offers sights and sounds of the offshore pirate radio rampant at the time, Youth Culture unearths dance crazes like the Freddie and the Frug, plus Carnaby Street fashions, Op art, even sporting events.

June 2003 Links

• Revisiting the Psychedelic '60s
      Are we better for having experienced Timothy Leary and LSD, the Black Panthers, Kent State, the Mekong Delta and the Feminine Mystique? Were the 60s the best of times or the worst of  times? At The Psychedelic '60s, the University of Virginia explores the historical, cultural and social context of the celebrated summer of love to move beyond simple nostalgia into healthy skepticism.
      The site traces the iconoclasm of the 60s to Thoreau's pre-environmentalism and Whitman's mysticism, and puts the issues of discontent in context with headlines, images, concert bills, posters and - at the heart of it all - the music of groups like Moby Grape, The Velvet Underground and Country Joe.

• Tom Around the World
  At Tom Around the World.com, Tom and crew are heading for rock festivals worldwide and promise to post photos, interviews, journals and tips on how universal peace and goodwill can be
  achieved through global appreciation of a sweet guitar lick. Tom has also taken on Hero Quest 2003 to meet two on his list of living rock legends, Johnny Cash and Gene Simmons. You can help by donating a dollar or, if you're tight with Johnny or Gene, by hooking Tom up.

• Polling Reports
  Since American politics have become so poll-driven, it might be patriotic to visit Polling Report.com, an independent, non-partisan source for current American opinions on the death 
  penalty, the President's latest speech, the VP's job performance, military action against Iraq and a host of other topics as reported by Gallup and various news organizations, plus analysis of the reports by pollster pundits.

• Teen Lingo
  If your teen rolls her eyes at you, sighs in disgust and says "Don't go frontin' my grill, Yo!" take heed. Communications between grown-ups and their kids is tough enough without the vocab getting in the way, so head to Jonathan's Dictionary at Teen Lingo to get down with the kids. How teens, like the rest of us, speak today comes straight from their culture and all that suggests, so some of it's not pretty. Be forewarned that much of the lingo is funny, but it also may offend in its expression of sexual activity and drug use. Jonathan created the site in good spirit, to help youth workers understand teen mentality and culture. But like the minister who tosses "bing-bing" into his sermon, use the lingo with discretion. It's one thing to understand the talk, quite another for anyone over 30 to use it with dignity.

• Flash Math Creativity
      Forget flash cards and step up to Flash Math Creativity, a gallery of beautiful, bizarre and brilliant experiments of Flash movies by designers and imaginative coders who "take little ideas and mess around with them."
      Fifteen authors' experiments are included here, and inspired visitors are invited to submit their own work. Manuel Tan, for example, works for a design shop in New York and plays with programmatic movement in Flash, experimenting with motion and behaviors through code. In others, rotation values and color schemes are altered, rectangles are broken at odd angles, and all
  manner of experiments resembling everything from architectural sketches to Oriental fan dances are created for visitors to play with and be inspired by.

• Stop Alien Abductions
  Case histories at Stop Abductions.com testify to the utility of the thought screen helmet in blocking telepathic communication from aliens attempting to control innocent earthlings. Invented by Michael Menkin in 1998 and named after the thought screens described by science fiction writer Edward Elmer Smith, the Velostat-shielded helmet can be built at home for $35 following the instructions here.

• A Long Strange Trip
      A buzzing fly guides visitors down a river, into a city of tall buildings and lands them in a therapist's office in this Danny Gomez production, Flashback, where the patient insists to the shrink that he's not crazy as he slowly descends into madness via a fully animated recovered memory therapy session.
      Once in the shrink's office and settled on the couch, the patient meets one ghoulish creature after another, each assuring him he has nothing to fear while truly fearsome images and audio take him into his primitive past to explore his inner self. Travel backward with the patient through 100 years of time into previous lives set in a rain forest populated by psychedelia: morphing mushrooms, trippy tree frogs and various mind-bending creatures set against a kaleidoscopic backdrop.
  

Featured Cool Links

Thanks to H. Michael (Mike) Cunningham, Ph.D. for this months' Cool Links!

• History of Electronic Music
  The development from 1870 to the present of electronic musical instruments, those that synthesize sound from an electronic source, is presented at 120 Years of Electronic Music. The history of electronic music starts in the mid-19th century with the work of a German physicist who built an instrument to electronically analyze combinations of tones, and continues through experiments like the tone wheel, the vacuum tube, integrated circuitry and digital formats.
  
  Music buffs will discover cool trivia like this: Inventor Raymond Kurzweil, who had developed a revolutionary reading machine for the blind that scanned written materials and read them aloud in a
  synthesized voice, was challenged by customer Stevie Wonder to create an electronic instrument that blended the richness of acoustic sound with the control and sound modification of electronics. The result: the first ROM-based sampling keyboard to successfully reproduce the full complexity of acoustic instrument sounds.

• Bill Ham Lights
  In the fall of 1964, he began working with light - electricity. Working in his studio with live and recorded sound, Ham developed a technique of spontaneous projection painting (electric action painting) involving simultaneous composition - execution - and presentation. Oils, inks, and doubtless some solids, too, are swirled together in glass dishes and projected by light, enormously magnified, onto a screen. What I liked most about Ham's method is that it is the artist's hand at all times. It is a performance. It is action painting that ceases with the action. It relies to some degree on the unpredictable , but it is also decidedly under control. Painting with light is an old chapter in artistic utopias... today there are more technological sources for light painting than at any other period of human history.
  
  Click on the gallery link to see thumbnails of these psychedelic images.

• The Festival Zone
  Those of you with an interest in the British experience won't want to miss The Festival Zone. This site aims to eventually provide as much information as possible about all the major UK festivals, Free festivals and outdoor concerts from 1960 to 1985, as well as providing information on many of the groups who performed at the festivals. Links galore adorn the pages which provide more links to articles, pictures and descriptions of festival after festival, large and small. If you happen to have attended some of these events, this site will bring back memories. The site owners encourage anyone to contribute content and claim that they respond to every email sent in. If you are fascinated with England, check this site out. Beware, however, the popups will keep you clicking.

• National Park Guide
  Plan a summer getaway to home-grown natural treasures at the National Park Guide, from the National Parks Service, where vacationers can plan their trip to national parks in every state, literally from A to Z - from the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site in Kentucky to Zion National Park in Utah.
  
  Use the pull-down menu to find your park of choice, click on a US map to choose a state and see all its national parks, or search by interest area like American presidents, endangered species or wildlife viewing. Choose a park, then access all the info you need to plan your trip: camping, lodging, facilities, fees and permits, maps, news and events, even volunteer opportunities. Travel Basics for each park gives operating hours by season, how to get there by car or plane, the weather to expect and how to get around inside the park.

• meetup.com
  Ever wonder how to go about meeting like minded people? Want to meet others without a "meat market" atmosphere? Meet can help. This is a free service that organizes local gatherings about anything, anywhere. Almost a half-million people have already signed up for Letups about 1330 topics.Members meet at local cafes (and other places) in 580 cities across 42 countries. Topics include music, politics, and cars. Unusual topics include a vampire club, a dachshund club and , of course, hippies. Members vote on meeting sites within their city. Many groups post the topic of their next meeting. Because there are people like you in your town.
  
  Drop In: http://www.meetup.com/ 
  
  sub page... with the hippy flavor..
  
  Drop In: http://hippies.meetup.com/ 

• Infinity Lava Lamp
  A virtual lava lamp that you can control the speed, color and opacity. Just in case yours bit the dust a few years back.

• ShakingThrough.net - Pop Culture
  Humorous and insightful commentary on pop culture and its always relevant irrelevance is the promise of Shaking Through, with reviews, discussion and criticism of popular movies, music, books and comics.
  
  Head-to-Head ratings pit music releases against each other, like Johnny Cash's American IV: The Man Comes Around versus Kindred Spirits: A Tribute to the Songs of Johnny Cash, to see which wins the ratings game, or 1963's Stan Lee, creator /co-creator of Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk and The X-Men, versus Stan Lee of today. The site accepts submissions to suggest a CD, book, comic or film for review. Visitors can sign up for an e-mail newsletter or join one of many forums to chat about The Hulk, Blade 2 or The Vines.
  

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