Showing posts with label film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label film. Show all posts
The Star Wars alphabet
Joe Wight has created the Kawaii Star Wars alphabet, with a different character for each letter of the alphabet. D, of course, is for that mean-looking fella above.
HT (and a full list of the letters in alphabetical order) Designers Couch.
The Soloist
Just don't bother.
How America banned marijuana
I'm watching Ron Mann's 1999 Grass, narrated by Woody Harrelson. Some of the propaganda films depicted are astonishing - did people really believe that stuff? I don't want to hear anyone ever say again that modern America is an immature society.
And here is something I didn't know - the artful way in which marijuana possession was made a federal crime:
The Marijuana Tax Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt in 1937. The act prohibited possession of marijuana anywhere in the United States without a special tax stamp from the Treasury Department, and the Treasury Department didn't give out any stamps, effectively making marijuana illegal.
Genius. It is also telling how that such an elaborate arrangement had to be dreamt up to achieve criminalisation of marijuana: the power to ban a product was a new-found one.
