The Psychedelic 60's

The Psychedelic 60's
The fashion for psychedelic drugs gave its name to the visual style of psychedelia, a term describing a category of rock music known as psychedelic rock, visual art, fashion, and culture that is associated originally with the high 1960s, hippies, and the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Psychedelia generally began in 1966, but truly took off in 1967 with the Summer of Love. Although associated with San Francisco, the style soon spread across the US, and worldwide.

The counterculture of the 1960s had a strong influence on the popular culture of the early 1970s, and is well recognized even by those who are naïve to its psychedelic origins. It later became linked to a style of electronic dance music commonly known as psychedelic trance.

what is Psychedelic?

Psychedelic means soul (psyche) manifesting (delos).

What is described as psychedelic are usually things or experiences that shed the normal constraints of physical and moral structures to navigate beyond.

It is really not easy to describe with words as it is also beyond them.

how do 60's disign look like?

In the early years of the 1960s, the Americans were comfortably wrapped in post war complacency, not even suspecting the huge changes their country will go through in the coming decade. The nation’s innocence was timely shattered with the assassination of its promising young president, a growing racial divide,  and escalating military action in Southeast Asia. It was like a new era began, a new youth culture emerged as more and more teenagers rebelled against conventions of the previous generation. This was new America, and fashion, sexuality, communal living, drug use, draft dodging and sit-ins were all elements of an increasing Generation Gap.

how to make a podcast?

Steps to Making a Podcast

1. Get Inspired and Make It Your Own. If you want to make a podcast then you obviously must have some notion or idea about what you want it be about. Whether it’s cars, sports, fashion, politics, or even tech–use your interests to carry over and make a superior podcast. It’s usually a good idea to know what you want to say before going on the air so make an outline of the session’s topic and prep yourself before recording.
2. Keep a Schedule. Podcasts can be daily or weekly, or just whenever you want. Consider how much time you have and work out a schedule with yourself, and/or with who ever is doing the show with you, to allow enough time for this task.
3. Get Equipment. You will need some equipment like a microphone, a computer (with Internet connection) and some sort of audio recording software.
4. Record and Tag. Try using Audacity, which is free, to record your show, and don’t forget to label and save your information.
5. Save and Edit. Save your audio file (in MP3 format) to your computer desktop and edit out extra background noise or long periods of silence.
6. Make an Intro. You can spice up your podcasts by adding an intro like some “lead-in” music or something else that you think people will find appealing– or if you don’t care what people think then just put whatever you want, or don’t put an intro at all.
7. Create your RSS podcast feed. The feed must meet all industry standards for a valid 2.0 feed with enclosures. Use a free service such as Apply Tools.  Starting a blog is probably the easiest thing you could do, so start a blog for your podcast but don’t post anything on it yet.
8. Put your RSS podcast feed on the Internet. Go to Feedburner and type in the URL of your blog and click “I am a podcaster!” Configure your podcast on the next screen. Only add elements that directly relate to you podcast. Your feedburner feed is your podcast.
9. Go to OurMedia.org and sign-up there. Then go to your files, and upload your MP3 file.
10. Publish it. Post it on your blog or website -make the title of the post the title of that episode of the podcast and enter the URL for your audio file. Write a brief description under of the podcast’s content—make it clever and informative so people want to click on it and listen. At the end of the post, put a link directly to your media file.
11. Wait a little bit. In a few minutes, you’ll have an episode! You may want to wait before submitting it to iTunes or another podcast directory until you’re completely satisfied with your podcast and you have some experience. And don’t forget to update and announce when you have new episode coming out.
12. Get subscribers and regular listeners. Put the appropriate subscription buttons on your website so people can subscribe to the RSS podcast feed. Everybody wants “regulars.”
13. List in Directories. This is a great way to get people to notice your podcast and pick up listeners. In addition to submitting it to iTunes, you can post it on other sites like Yahoo! Audio Search.

what is a pod cast?

What is a Podcast? (Technical Definition)

A podcast is a digital audio file (usually MP3 or AAC) made available for download on the internet through an RSS 2.0 feed. The web address of the media file is contained in the enclosure tag of an item in the XML file. The enclosure tag was added to the RSS 2.0 standard in 2004 making podcasting possible.
A podcast's RSS feed is updated each time a new media file is published. An aggregator for podcasts (such as iTunes or iPodder) is used to subscribe to the RSS feed. The software automatically checks for and downloads new audio files. The file can then be synced to a digital audio player.
It is the convenience of this subscription model that sets podcasting apart from other audio available on the internet such as streaming and audioblogging. Podcasting makes it easy to create and disseminate digital audio content across the web.
The enclosure tag can be used to any type of digital file, but not all aggregators recognize and download all file types. Vidcasts have started to emerge on the internet distributing digital video files.
Podcasting offers a variety of content for listeners to consume how they want, when they want and where they want.
Hopefully this definition contained enough big words to make it a sufficiently techie definition of what is podcasting? Are you impressed?
Continue reading for a more complete explanation of podcasting.