/fa/ - Fashion

>>6371986
Why is this posted every day?

>>6372004
why wouldn't it be?

>>6372004
Why are you new?

>>6372004
Think of it as a cultural barnacle.

>>6372004
Its an acquired taste

I want this damn shirt

>>6373644
at this point I do to, just to post in a WAYWT and gain instant cred, then smash OP's dreams by burning it and posting a vid on u2b

Flea markets

There is more than one black Bart shirt

>>6371986
in the 90's you goddamn stupid nigger

>mfw i just realized op is a nigger

>>6373694
>racism
>>>/b/

>>6373720
>replying to that copypasta
Exactly how new are you?

I tried to get it printed a while ago but the printing place said it was racist and refused to print it or refund my money

i would appreciate if you guys could stop being racist and let op get the source of the tee.

>>6373669
I remember seeing a bunch. If you were alive and in a major city at the time, you probably came across a few.
I was young and just teaching myself to draw, and I sat for hours, trying to draw bart over and over again. I would count the spikes on his head, compare the relative placement of eyes and ears, but I just couldn't get the 'feel' of Groening's character no matter how I tried.
At the time, the Simpsons IP was really blowing up, and on certain street corners, There was usually a guy hawking bootleg bart shirts. For a time, I saw them every day, walking down Flatbush Avenue in the summertime. They could most often be spotted around Court St in Brooklyn and in China Town & Harlem in Manhattan.
My inability to render the character had acquainted me with the minute anatomy of failure. I could pick out the distended heads and ungodly neon hues from across the street. I remember looking at a whole spread of bootleg bart shirts, early one summer evening. They were being hawked under an umbrella by a Nigerian wearing sunglasses and swim trunks.
There were so many fakes - so many subtle failures that just missed the essence of Groening's characters by a minute, or spoiled everything with dayglo colors that'd probably gone out of demand in the mid eighties and been bought by the printer at a steep discount.
There were several incarnations of 'Black Bart", but the legendary Mandela Bart was not at this stall (I saw it with my own eyes not long after, praise the fates).
The Black Barts on display were mostly trying to evoke the sort of ghetto-proud Naughty-By-Nature vibe that was trending at the time. They were sad shirts, because most of the time they missed the mark terribly, they looked like the tiny failures in my desk back home.
I sagged as I stood, resenting the humidity and the fading sun. It was next to a grate so I could look down many meters and feel the heat rumbling upwards when a train passed beneath. It was too hot, and I was short of breath.

>>6373740
10/10

>>6373740
why

>>6373740
you've got to be the most autistic person on the internet

>>6373740
autism

>>6373740
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL5GHMEjzt8

>>6373740
thx 4 sharing :DDDD

>>6373740
>I was young and just teaching myself to draw, and I sat for hours, trying to draw bart over and over again. I would count the spikes on his head, compare the relative placement of eyes and ears, but I just couldn't get the 'feel' of Groening's character no matter how I tried.
that feel

>>6373740
jesus fucking christ...

its not actually poet you dense teenagers

>>6373740

>>6373791
You're wrong - it is.

Not that it matters much, the point is that I'm trying to capture the original cultural context of the shirts and hopefully illuminating the very specific breed of irony that would be present in wearing such a garment today.
There are acres of subtext in the shirt - its modern meaning draws irony from racial politics, Mandela's arguable failure in South Africa, the fuzzy borders between real people and fictional characters in the media, I could go on - it's a veritable soup of meaning.

>>6373791
are u new? that's classic poet

>>6373831
hmm..

i wonder if baldchan is bald himself

>>6372027
>cultural barnacle
my sides

>>6373848
lol

>>6373848
holy fuck I lol'd

>>6373831
Have you no boundaries?

>>6373826

word. but for white people it's just "lol bart is black"

which is, you know, kind of fucked up.

>>6373848
that's the second time he has done this to me ;_;

>>6373848
dead