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Last night, I caught a little documentary on the history channel that dealt with hippies. Don’t get me wrong, I hate hippies, but I was attracted to this documentary not because of it’s Grateful Dead (or just “the Dead” if you’re so inclined) footage, but because the whole surrounding aura of the LSD movement was wayyy weirder than the people who took the drugs. The government tested it on military personnel and just regular humans, and it was pretty legal for a while, so all the LSD experimentation went down without a hitch. That is until the idea of a “counter-culture” started taking shape beyond just a bunch of dirty teenagers with long hair. Anyway, I started flipping around the channels when they stopped talking about Ken Kesey (tidbit, he took a job as a security officer at a mental institution to have access to LSD. This later turned into the basis for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), but came back every now and again. The most interesting point they made happened in the last five minutes and involved the hippies influence on technology. Yes, technology. It kind of puts away all the bullshit of Mother Earth and other hippie ideals. They just had such a new and different way of seeing things that once their “bad trips” ended and they kind of grew up, they created some of the most technologically advanced products of our time. Case in point: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. You might know them better as the brains behind Apple Computers. These two probably took a ton of LSD, touched a bunch of wires together, and had their minds blown when they “saw electricity” on a screen. Then they probably danced in front of a strobe light and hung-out with the Hells Angels. And you thought all computer people were dorks.
Jobs and Woz being totally tripped out.
Philly’s Ubiq just reopened their Walnut St. location over the weekend. They apparently re-merchandised and added a Vans Concept Shop and Gallery on the second floor. I haven’t been yet, but it’s supposedly pretty killer. They’ve got some new clothing in as well including Stussy stuff. I guess the original experiment of going more women’s failed a tad. They’ve always had a decent sneaker selection and I’m excited that they have more Vans because, recently, I think Vans has been slaying the sneaker game. They’ve been keeping it pretty simple with nothing too outlandish. Frankly, I’m tired of a million materials, a million colors, and some whack ass print on my sneakers. I guess I’m started to like things simple again.
