#pitshosting

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smoking a bowl for my trans bylers and jargyles out there 🤙

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THIS BLOG HASN’T EVEN BEEN ALIVE FOR A WEEK

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bored, sick, and kinda drunk so lemme tell u about the hole in my heart that this stranger things screenshot reopened

luv my little meowmeows. unfortunately my focus was elsewhere this time. that rainbow apple poster so suspiciously juxtaposed with the queer kids (credit to @kaypeace21 for pointing this out in 2019) reminded me to do some specific annual researching.

not to be a design nerd, but who designed the apple logo? if you look it up, the overwhelming answer seems to be rob janoff. the job of designing the logo belonged to the firm janoff worked for, however, and the more-accurate answer was that at least two other artists contributed to the final design (to which I say, how many artists does it need to take to draw an apple?)

one of the typically-unmentioned designers is carlos peréz david; he's responsible for sketching the logo, and there's a neat article and interview with him here.

the other artist, and the primary subject of my research, is tom kamifuji. hopefully it's possible to tell from his other works which part of the design he was responsible for:

kamifuji passed away in 2015, and his legacy remains obscure and mysterious. there's blog posts and twitter posts compiling his work for videogame cartridges and corporate stuff, but nothing like interviews or whatever to go off of.

anyways I guess I'm so caught up on an old apple logo popping up on my comfort show because of my personal relationship with the artist. tom is my grand-uncle; I never got to meet him, but his influence was there.

as a kid I remember his prints being up on the walls; not just in my home, but in the homes of most of my family members. the influence of japanese artforms in his work, persistent even beyond the experience of internment, didn't strike me as particularly interesting as a child. it was just the same print on the wall that I saw in the houses of all of my extended family.

by the time tom passed away, I was 14 and dealing with typical teenager bullshit. i wasn't really concerned with keeping in touch with my family members. any chance I had to ask him about his life, his work, whatever, was pretty much gone, and I regret to say that I didn't recognize the opportunity I lost at that time.

but not all is lost; tom's wife, momo, lives! my sister got in touch with her last year to discuss experiences with internment and questions about our lineage. i think if anyone would know about tom's experiences within his career, it would hopefully be her. more than that, though, i think it's time for me to thoroughly meet the kamifujis. I think I've spent so much time being nervous to interact with my extended family, but culture and heritage mean so much to me as an individual. hopefully I can find some answers and community in all of this.

so yeah, a byler screenshot reminded me to check in on my family, and to appreciate the steps my ancestors took to bring me, a silly little queer guy, to this moment. I might be mentally ill

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feeling so parasocial abt this man

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argyle would listen to ska! he would don a checkered tie and pork pie hat and skank like there's no tomorrow!!!!

jonathan doesn't really get it at first but once the mosh pit opens up they're both totally in!

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songs in my playlist that remind me of byler lol

microwave- dull

lincoln- how i survived bobby mackey's personal hell

pinkshift- i'm not crying you're crying

pup- kids

modern baseball- your graduation

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byler would celebrate her death

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question: wdym by anti communism??? i see a lot abt communism being bad or harmful or whatever but i dont really understand it and i never know whats going on lmao

oh no don't get me wrong a lot of communist states have fumbled the ball badly but we need to make a u-turn away from capitalism if we expect ourselves to live past 2050 or so tbh