Rihanna is watching you, Chris…
Oh……. hi there RiRi, i didn’t see you before.. i was just… Nicki was…
CAM SUR WAS FUN!!
Just got back from the trip. I had a great time with my family. Although it was a looooo~~~ng drive to get there, it was worth it. Tired, but its only 9.45pm here„ Haha, xDD. I’ll upload pictures later. :>
ITS MORE FUN IN THE PHILIPPINES!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
lol, i should go to sleep. Cx
earlier today on the internet i saw somebody who had said something stupid and now they were getting all defensive and they said the following:
“I was JFK”
i assume they meant “i was just fucking kidding”
but i was all
These two were supposedly based on a real couple, who said they wouldn’t board a life boat as long as there were younger people still aboard the ship. They both went below deck, presumably to their room, and that’s the last time they were seen.
-cries-
That’s Isador and Ida Strauss, who died together on the Titanic the night of April 14-15, 1912. He urged his wife to board on a lifeboat but she refused and was witnessed to have said “We have lived together for many years. Where you go, I go.”
Two bodies were found in the Yangtze River, China with their hands entwined together in red twine. The couples’ family did not agree with the marriage, so the lovers took their lives.
Maybe put it on a canvas instead of someone’s property, and we can all be happy.
who paying for these canvases or the art programs so these kids can have that? Why should it matter if these run down buildings that never get fixed up anyway get graffiti’d?
Therein lies the issue. Art programs, both visual and performance based, are the first programs to be cut. Canvas ain’t cheap. Neither are the supplies. Much of the graffiti that takes place IS on buildings that are run down. The gov’t didn’t place any value on these properties and yet get pissy with dudes “vandalizing” their shit. You can’t have it both ways, ya dig.
My father was a garment contractor in LA. In the late 80s, he owned the building where he had his factory. He thought it would be a cool idea to commission local graffiti artists, usually young Black and Latino men looking to stay out of trouble, to paint murals on his buildings. After all, he runs a garment design/manufacturing company, and creative signage is great advertising.
One day, he showed up to the building and the city just painted over the murals without permission or notice.
First, the city told him he couldn’t have graffiti art on HIS building because it brought down property value. After he complained, then they said: ok you can do this, but you need a permit. After he got the permit, then the city said: ok, but you can only use these artists. Of course, these artists were all White graphic design students from USC, and of course they charged 3x more.
There is a prejudice against this type of art, and it’s racial. Banksy vandalizes folks buildings all the time, and folks treat him like the Messiah. He ain’t doing nothing new that Black and Brown folks haven’t done for decades.
My cousin was a very great graffiti artist. Like negl his shit was so dope. He sold his art sometimes for as much as $500. This one time he got commissioned to do a mural in this park in a latino community and so he did it for no pay because like, that shit is was an honor. It was a small mural but it was really nice. It depicted life as a Mexican-American, living and balancing two worlds, two cultures, two languages etc. Everyone loved the mural. It was the talk of the whole community and I was so so proud of him. Then one day, it got painted over. He was so devastated.
He couldn’t sell his art any more because he’d get stopped by cops and people always looked at him as if he were a criminal. He was gonna start teaching kids about graffiti at my old elementary school but the racist ass teachers said it would “corrupt the children”
So he gave up on his dreams of being a graffiti artist and now he’s in college studying business and managerial shit. It just sucks that society told him that his passion was corrupt and wrong. The day my cousin quit graffiti was so fucking heart breaking.
