I have a gyotaku T-shirt somewhere. There was kind of a fad for it in the '80s. I haven't seen any prints in a long time---for a while they were a staple of print and fabric-craft stalls and shops.
There's a pretty active letterpress culture in Boston and environs.
---ETA Thinking about hair color, it can be startling how people'e reactions to the same person vary depending on the person's hair color. Part of your own responses to others, may be that you are reading (unconsciously) something in their reactions to you and acting on their expectations of what kind of person you are. Perhaps, given what you associate the purple hair with (on you anyway) you bear yourself more confidently, or perhaps people in your area associate purple hair with those more-assertive types and present a slightly deferential, submissive affect to you? I don't think I'm expressing this very well (MORE COFFEE THEN).
Anyway, it takes a certain amount of gumption even in our much-colored modern era to dye your hair purple, and not everyone does it, so the color alone flags "I am a person who has the confidence and nerve to dye my hair purple and I do not care what you think!" You might be a rock star incognito after all.
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Date: 2010-09-28 05:22 pm (UTC)There's a pretty active letterpress culture in Boston and environs.
---ETA
Thinking about hair color, it can be startling how people'e reactions to the same person vary depending on the person's hair color. Part of your own responses to others, may be that you are reading (unconsciously) something in their reactions to you and acting on their expectations of what kind of person you are. Perhaps, given what you associate the purple hair with (on you anyway) you bear yourself more confidently, or perhaps people in your area associate purple hair with those more-assertive types and present a slightly deferential, submissive affect to you? I don't think I'm expressing this very well (MORE COFFEE THEN).
Anyway, it takes a certain amount of gumption even in our much-colored modern era to dye your hair purple, and not everyone does it, so the color alone flags "I am a person who has the confidence and nerve to dye my hair purple and I do not care what you think!" You might be a rock star incognito after all.