this is one the facts that messes with my head the most: there is really only one part of the US where “mary, merry, and marry” are pronounced differently. those are completely different words. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/9d68a219270b997983da1e21a080e1786122ea6a9c54d81519fe3bb56f7df026.file

here’s the image i drew for this thread when i later posted it elsewhere: https://hell.twtr.plus/media/2b6b5cd593f3437108c0144cf6e3e6c31a0f638067e8757b99283f3932c7aeec.file

is it possible that statistically its the most large scale under-documented phenomenon in recent memory? concerts and parties, even if they were dark, had photographers and such things. meanwhile “every kid” experienced this, but the “primary sources” may just be a few polaroids

it was a massive social phenomenon that essentially everyone remembers but to show a kid how it was today, you’d have to show them a 90s TV show or early 2000s movie - that seems like an odd cultural glitch when you presently live in an era where everything is excessively filmed.

not sure if it still exists anywhere now but the formerly massive “sea of kids” trick or treating, “how it used to be”, seems almost entirely undocumented. no one was going out at night with flash cameras or whatever you’d need. its documentation today is all tales and media.

genre of image where animals are looking at paintings https://hell.twtr.plus/media/8a6d639e5a04f87ec117ff40209a3d77e5a90d6ee3bdfec7a1e34a9d6356741e.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/687a8ac9d27848cd01b4b9f773c88fb24d695b54a5cb90b2d5b8baeea1f2cca4.file

possibly. also, possibly unrelated, but unfortunately i must betray myself and say that i vastly prefer the european style of graffiti, which is really completely different from the american style artistically and in terms of relationship to letterforms. this guy is from basel. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/6cba6c1ce626498b41e746d48ee50094f6cd9136521e78fceed55b939b752ca1.file

this is codified into a particular aesthetic. if you can look past that, what you are really looking at is really a subset of western calligraphy - a form that has, uniquely in the history of art, with a few exceptions, sacrificed any attempt at legibility in favor of dynamism https://hell.twtr.plus/media/7a06fe2abffc6b0f9f893954c24dee5c9c99cbc5e6e446e7e30e356dd701d8c1.file

i wouldnt expect anyone not of this world to get anything from images like the below, but outside of the destructive element, theres a pure line and pure dynamism and style aspect to this type of thing that is unique. the way there is music only musicians like, but for markmaking https://hell.twtr.plus/media/46fd3b85b765775526af5549fd25c8435e3f1ac1a0a1bbec43bae99a603769da.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/200a2f235d0b814e7ecab30efc3f1e74b1620b0b264c244045e60298f4d191b2.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/6bee4cc659afdc0006e5f580406525c7a84b04ce5a24c38aac2ea50e56bd101c.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/b8b9cdb82a30578cf19cf917eeab23c2a0b1ecc1e21d3789111c5c687a407f9c.file

most people here have an orientation against graffiti because its basically antisocial - that’s correct, that aspect is true. since this church / graffiti story came up, as a note i will post a guy i think is at the tail end of doing “normal graffiti” artistically: smash 137 https://hell.twtr.plus/media/59af16c95d1de239fb09df3ad31449c97146a543e891ecb195dacabc878e45fc.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/9c9c830f05ba48cc93fdf91a460b462a61ed605b8e9ef9466636362ca74ffd51.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/29c2db2988b28162cbacf04344129feda5375475335027a1e0d5e6b52c644576.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/80f92ecbe3639299657b4ff707efe4caa5242d7091bbaf74414e7a95767f24c0.file