As a whole, the readings assigned from Part Three of the Sixties Reader remind me a lot of the image I used for my semiotics paper. The image I chose to write about was of a young man placing a flower in the barrell of an officer's gun at an anti-war rally. The most famous relation to this image is of a woman doing the same thing... which I believe actually took place at Berkeley.
Just as these students were demonstrating and protesting, the young man in that picture was practicing his right to freedom of expression. It is his way of expressing his free speech.
"Hey Mr. Newsman" also reminds me of the video we watched dealing with the Haight Ashbury district and how people flocked there to take pictures of them like they were in an exhibit. Kampf writes, "Hey, Mister Newsman, how come you're taking pictures of me? Is it 'cause of my long hair or 'cause of my boots up to my knees?" (199). The tone here of disgust and annoyance echos the same as most of the people who were interviewed in the Summer of Love videos about how it felt to be gawked at and objectified as a tourist attraction. They truly felt they were serving a purpose and those outsiders were coming in for amusement.
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