Los Rakas x Nima Fadavi x Johnny5 (Turf Fienz) in Brooklyn, NYC (April 2012)
Reblogged from Nima Fadavi
Took 5 tabs of acid (first time doing it ever) and my friend gave me a bunch of acrylic paint. Painted it with my fingers tripping out of my mind. Also I’m colorblind, and don’t work with abstract work at all (I only have ever done drawing). Thought this was pretty whacky.
i need to start taking acid if it will make me paint like this.
Reblogged from The Screams All Sound The Same.
On this date in history, February 23, 1945, the famous flag-raising on Mount Suribachi occurred during the Battle of Iwo Jima.
This battle, which began on February 19th, was vital to the American island-hopping campaign because the island possessed three key air bases, the first air bases that were within bombing range of Tokyo. If these could be captured successfully, then bombing operations could be carried out to bomb the Japanese mainland into submission.
The United States, with their massive fleet, bombarded the island for days on end, but proved to be fruitless due to General Kuribayashi, who had his troops dig miles of underground tunnels. This strategy was genius, because if the Americans took one position, the Japanese could utilize their tunnels to surround them, effectively being able to be on any point on the island at any time. Kuribayashi’s plan was not to win the battle—due to his lack of sufficient troops, naval, or air support, he and his men were aware that it would be a suicide mission. The goal was to kill as many Americans as possible; he even ordered all of his men to kill 10 Americans before dying. Because Kuribayashi had spent time in America during the inter-war era, he understood their culture. He knew that their manufacturing capacity could not be competed with, but he also knew that their will to fight was much lower than that of the Japanese. If he could inflict extremely heavy casualties on the Americans, then maybe they would reconsider trying to achieve total victory, and they would be forced to come to a settlement with the Empire.
But even knowing this, Kuribayashi still underestimated the power of the US Military and their strategy. The strategy was simple. The landing would be on the south end of the island, and the forces would cut the island in two, separating Suribachi from the rest of the island and “severing the snake”, so to speak. By the time this photo was taken by war correspondent Joe Rosenthal, the snake had been severed. The primary base of operations was cut off, and with that, the Japanese had lost the high ground and a significant amount of their artillery power.
But, nonetheless, the fighting continued on the island for over a month. Both sides fought in some of the most vicious combat in the entire Pacific War, but just as Kuribayashi knew would happen, the island fell on March 26th. 6,821 Americans were killed and 19,217 were wounded, inflicting some of the heaviest casualties ever seen in the war.
Yes, the Americans’ will to fight and their superiority was underestimated, but the American people would certainly not fight forever. The general public was beginning to sour to the idea of waking up to seeing that nearly 7,000 Americans had died, and all knew that an impending invasion of the island of Japan would result in total casualties nearing 1 million. This was hard to stomach for the public, the president, and top military advisers. Obviously, the introduction of the Atomic Bomb and the Russian declaration of war upon the Japanese were decisive in ending the war more concisely and safely than originally thought.
Reblogged from The Screams All Sound The Same.
