For those who don’t know Captain Planet was a cartoon about young people, called planeteers, with rings and superpowers and a green superhero that appeared when they combined their powers. Yeah, it was the 90s and stuff like this made it to TV. Also the show showcased 1990s American style diversity, which means there are non white persons as main characters that aren’t as fleshed out as the white characters that are in the majority.
Captain Planet says prejudice and hate are as toxic as any pollutant which justifies the appearance of Hitler in this cartoon. It’s true that prejudice and hate and anger can be toxic to ones self then manifested outwardly to harm others.
What’s with Hitler getting so much burn these days anyway? (more…)
Graffiti Taxonomy Print – ‘E’: Lower East Side, NYC by Evan Roth
Evan Roth (aka fi5e) is an artist who is obviously pretty brainy and likes graffiti…maybe that’s an understatement. At Parsons School The New School for Design Roth developed a project called Graffiti Taxonomy and thesis project called Graffiti Analysis. In Roth’s Graffiti Taxonomy project he “presents isolated letters from various graffiti tags, reproduced in similar scales and at close proximity. The intent of these studies is to show the diversity of styles as expressed in a single character.”
Over 4 days in April Roth photographed 2,400 graffiti tags in Paris’s 20 districts. 18 tags were used to express the diversity in character of the letters A,E,I,K,N,O,R,S,T and U “ranging from upper case to lowercase, simple to complex and legible to cryptic”. ~woostercollective.com
Anything that shows the creativity and intelligence behind graffiti and anything related to Hip Hop is aces with me. A cosign from the Wooster Collective doesn’t hurt either.
FUN FACT: “The main [Fondation Cartier] gallery space and garden have been filled with pieces and other graffiti-inspired works by artists including SEEN, JONONE, Barry McGee, Evan Roth, QUICK, and PHASE2.” ~animalnewyork.com
