The Rev got this great book for Xmas (literature always a good choice for gifting us) on urban art. I've only looked at the pix so far but look forward to reading it. He's already presented me with a fact I didn't know: writing on t-shirts goes back to soldiers in WWII. The text doesn't state what the words were or whether they were Pentagon or self-issued. That's something I intend to investigate now. But, this is not an unprecedented phenomenon.
Youthful generations have 'borrowed' fashions from the military, for as long as my life-time anyway. I can remember 50s girls donning their dad's bellbottoms, and we (hippies) pilfered the army jackets and boots to enhance our personae. Having put myself through college by designing for a t-shirt screen printer, I suffer a love/hate relationship with this form of art. On the one hand, 'I'm With Stupid' forces me to evaluate the wearer, while the picture of a gun with the motto 'Welcome to South Africa; Duck M!#$%r F!#$%r!' worn by a black teen somehow amuses my dark side. At any rate, I deem it highly ironic that we took the Army's propaganda and made it our own billboard.
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
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