/fa/ - Fashion

>>7006096
such an odd and lovely little series. The constant flow of science was pretty nifty, too.

A personal favorite. With a few exceptions I'm not really into the anime & manga stuff. I feel like I'd need to learn Japanese to find the stories and universes that would truly appeal to me.

>>6144698
Best place to start would probably be searching keywords on Flickr. Use the keyword '228' in combination with 'sticker art' and the name of your city. 228 is the number of the USPS shipping label most commonly used by street artists, but I'm not sure how many people are still on that game as the USPS has shrank the hell out of their 228's.

Stencils are a tricky thing to get right at first, so consider heading straight into wheat paste - it's a hell of a lot of fun and a good way to get large works up with minimal effort. Remember, thin paper and whole wheat flour works best. Some artists throw a bit of clear acrylic medium into the mix to add weatherproofing.

Good large blank labels can be had from UPS, if you can cadge them off of a clerk or have friends working in a mail room.

>>5929092
I like to use a 'black box' analogy, and I think it's similar to what you're talking about.
We don't really know what happens inside the Black Box, but we do know that if we feed it variable input (language, environment, lifestyle, diet, narratives) it does some unseen calculations and outputs Culture, in all its myriad forms.

Things like prayer and language are, I think, inextricable from the human condition on some level. Even the staunchest atheists have a tendency to pray when in a foxhole, right?

So there are constants to some of these unseen equations. Fear, hope, desire, survival. Perhaps all art is essentially about solving for X in some form or another... or at least getting a fleeting glimpse inside that Black Box.