Born Dropped Out The Hippie Kid Stories |
> A hippie interface for documentary video. Be free! Explore these unedited short videos of children of hippies answering the same 20 questions in self-interviews. This is an experiment in new interfaces for documentary video as part of an NYU Tisch ITP Masters Thesis by Caleb J. Clark, 2008 |
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Click a question to see each participant's answers.
1) Parents:What were your parents doing before they dropped out? From whence did they come? What was the catalyst? Rich or poor families? Educated?
2) Hippiedom: What is your version of hippie kid-dom? When? (rough years). Who'd you live with? (mom, dad, step?) Where? (Part of world, urban, rural, commune?). When did things get back to "normal"?
3) Health: What about health food? Did you eat strange food? Were you an inside or outside kid? How did this effect you then and now?
4) Education: Was your education different? Do you wish it was different? College?
5) Living: What's up with survival in the real world? How do you make money now? Past jobs? What do you think about money? TV? Media? Games? Toys? Clothes? Cars?
6) Freedom: Is freedom really nothing left to lose? What is your relationship to authority?
7) Good: What was the best part of your childhood? Any cool stories?
8) Bad: What was the worst part? Any not-so-cool stories?
9) Structure: What about structure, discipline and stability when you were a kid? What about raising your own kids? Have any? Want any?
10) Social: Any comments on your socialization, communication, sensitivity, and people skills?
11) Sex: What about free love? Were you around it? Did it effect your parents? Does this effect your relationships and sexuality now?
12) Drugs: Were you around drugs? Does this effect you as an adult? How do you think they affected your parents and the hippie movement?
13) Rock: Did you rock? Did you roll? Did you go to concerts, parties, festivals? What do you think of music now?
14) Politics: What about politics? Did you go to protests? Are you political now? Conservative? Liberal?
15) Religion: Were your parents involved in any religious activities? Are you religious?
16) Rebel : Did you rebel against your parents, or society? If so, how? What do you think your parents were rebelling against? Or dropping out of?
17) Drop-In: Your parents dropped out, but you just dropped in! Have you had to work out any issues that you think are from growing up in a rather rare environment? Do you think that these issues might have been different had you been raised by the same family, but in a more normal way?
18) Misunderstandings: Hippie is now an icon and even a Halloween costume in drug stores. Do you think society has any misunderstandings about hippies? Did your parents have any misunderstandings about your childhood? Do/did you have any misunderstandings (Compassion?) about what what your parents were going through?
19) Hippies: Are you, or have your ever been, a hippie? Are your parents now? Where their different kinds of hippies? Are there any hippies now? Did the hippies change the world?
20) More: Any other comments?