Artistic Footprint

Hippie van: a 1.2L 30 horsepower 4 speed manual, originally coined the “hippie van” during the counterculture movement of the ’60s and 70s. it gets a whopping 13 city and 19 highway miles to the gallon, which, no joke, is quite comparable to the turbo GM hummer, but almost exactly as efficient as the Cadillac Escalade – I’m not even joking, look this shit up! but of course I’m sure the hippie van has some amazing hidden features that these high end, uber-innefficient SUVs don’t… perhaps it is well sealed to allow for a better hot-box, or it’s got plenty of room to throw in your hammock, wide array of leather sachels, recycled sandals, and bamboo bed.

Hippie pot:
Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with pot – unless you smoke more than an alcoholic drinks. Ever been to Nimbin, Australia?! NOTHING HAPPENS THERE. Nimbin used to be one of many successful farming communities in the countryside near Byron Bay. When that industry began to collapse, these towns became abandoned. But not Nimbin. In order to increase tourism and income, the town decided to hold an annual Mardi Gras event, and on the premiering festival, copious amounts of “ganja” were inhaled. The reigning sherriff at the time had neither the facilities nor the staff to handle such numerous outlawed actions, and decided to do nothing about it. Little did he know that he actually created a LEGAL PRECEDENT that permitted the open sale, production, and consumption of marijauna. Now, Nimbin’s Mardi-Gras hosts an annual Nimbin Cannabis Cup, the Hemp Olympix, which includes the Bong “Throw’n’Yell”, Joint Rolling, and the Grower’s Iron Person event. Besides all of those festivities, which as I know personally, are fun… but they must be done in moderation. Because no one knows what the fuck is going on in that town, and getting a burger at one of the fine restaurants is well… never going to happen because they forgot you ordered.

Hippie hair:
Hippie hair, usually considered as dreadlocks, or “dreads” is simply a heavy matting of hair strands together that is caused by none-other than, not showering. Dreads are originally claimed to historic Europeans, certain religious worshippers or India, and Pakistanis, but has most recently been used widely by the Rastafari Movement, which, lets face it, just leads to more pot, and the rejection of Western Society, which is called “Babylon” – which put simply just means “confusion” This style has now been heavily capitalised by western fashion multinational industries including Vogue Magazine and the french fashion designer, Christian Dior. Salons now offer waxes, chemicals, and “dread perms” to create and maintain your dreads.

Hippie tofu:
a flavourless coagulate bean curd containing isoflavones, which have a significant similarity to human estrogens, and are linked to promoting breast tumors and cancer, and a known cause of pancreatic cancer in rats. Exported primarily from Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, soy (or “edamame”) the obvious ingredient, it is used more as a plant fertilizer and as sole diet for mass-produced chickens, thanksgiving turkeys, and pigs. This of course is lush Amazon rainforest being torn down to make 75 million tonnes of of soybeans every year (TAKE THAT TREE HUGGERS!) in fact, the first research of soybean production in the United States was conducted by George Washington Carver from Alabama, who concluded that the cultivation of such an exotic crop was too much for the “poor black farmers” to manage and so turned his attention to peanuts. Soybeans are also very vulnerable to a “wide array” of diseases, so of course it’s been genetically modified heavily (a total of 89% of all soybeans are genetically modified)

interestingly enough Hippies are generally indifferent to people of any race, colour, or creed, and embrace variety, and yet they like to segregate themselves with their own concepts of reality and individualism, and many of whom that I have met are openly negative towards people like me. People who are on the cusp of being hippie, but still have ties to a structured western world. I have not given up on western society just yet. YES we are fucked up, YES we did fuck up a good portion of the planet. But I truly believe that only the western capitalism, democracy and diplomacy that got us into this situation can get us out, newly run by our coming generation of intellectual people who have more than a cliche university education, but a worldly view and an understanding for all people.