sznz projects

*svbject to change

(moderator’s guide, will be edited in time)

date posted: 22 May 2022

“NEW ROME” VSA/ GLOBAL RENAISSANCE

  • [SZNZ] graphics

    • ancient civilization influence

    • Colosseum sports:

      • New Rome, VSA sports (football, hockey, basketball, baseball - roman numeral jerseys)

      • world sports (soccer, tennis, MMA, racing - sport specific design)

  • ceramics x [SZNZ]

  • [SZNZ] projects

    • unofficial collabs with American based brands

    • unofficial invasive designs on non-American based brands

    • signs of times - biblical references

    • neo-renaissance paintings

    • obelisk surfboard project

    • graffiti goodwill paintings

    • stuffed animals (taxidermy) x lux brands

SKATE/ BMX/ SURF/ SNOW

  • [SZNZ] graphics (exclusive)

    • modern VSA, European, & Asian street influence

    • skate (fall), snow (winter), bmx (spring), surf (summer)

  • [SZNZ] products

    • decks, bmx decor, surf bag, etc.

    • shoe collabs (top 3: Adidas, Nike, Vans)

    • collab with vintage skate brands (Matix, Shorty’s, 4Star, Popwar etc.)

SEAZVNAL COLORS & APPAREL

  • SEAZVNZ graphics (universal/inclusive)

    • color of the sznz (fwss)

    • season specific apparel (hoodies, beanies, shorts, tanks, etc.)

      • color-changing shirts

      • holographic, glow-in-dark, & color-changing graphics

  • JULETONES tie-dye design

    • colors of zodiac

    • drops on specific zodiac dates

    • SEAZVNZ zodiac specific graphics on JULETONES tie dye background

    • Aries - 1st Zodiac sign (drops March 20, 2024)

    • ig: @juletones2020

Fil-Ams in Hip-Hop

date posted: 27 April 2020

"Many Filipino Americans experience a kind of social invisibility," she said. "The Philippines were ruled by the Spanish for over 400 years before the country was handed over to the U.S. in 1898. Filipino Americans look Asian, but have Spanish last names. Most Filipinos arrived in the U.S. knowing how to speak English, as it was the official language in the Philippines." 

As a result, many Filipinos are mistaken as having other racial and ethnic backgrounds. 

"How do you create your own identity when other people don't see it or refuse to recognize it?" asks Pisares. "We are hard-wired to express ourselves. Filipino Americans are very good at taking cultural materials and reordering them to find their own identity. Turntablism is just one example of taking the condition of social invisibility and turning it to their advantage."

-National Geographic

make sense of nonsense

date posted: 23 April 2020

“De La Cruz Name Meaning. Spanish (De la Cruz): from the second element of a personal name formed with the religious suffix de la cruz 'of the cross' (Latin: crvx).” -Ancestry.com

“The Romans meant V as V, which they might sometimes write as U.

They had only one letter, V, where we have two letters, U and V. They also had only one letter, I, where we have I and J.

According to Latin alphabet - Wikipedia, “only after the Renaissance did the convention of treating ⟨I⟩ and ⟨U⟩ as vowels, and ⟨J⟩ and ⟨V⟩ as consonants, become established. Prior to that, the former had been merely allographs of the latter.” -Martin, wife taught grammar and wrote a book on it

“The Romans later renamed months after Julius Caesar and Augustus, renaming Quintilis as "Iulius" (July) in 44 BC and Sextilis as "Augustus" (August) in 8 BC. Quintilis was renamed to honour Caesar because it was the month of his birth.” -Wikipedia

“Countries which do not use the Gregorian calendar include Afghanistan and Iran (which use the Solar Hijri calendar), Ethiopia (Ethiopian calendar), and Nepal (Vikram Samvat).” -Wikipedia

"Enkutatash (Ge'ez: እንቁጣጣሽ) is the first day of the New Year in Ethiopia and Eritrea. It occurs on Meskerem 1 on the Ethiopian calendar, which is 11 September (or, during a leap year, 12 September) according to the Gregorian calendar.” -Wikipedia

“Based on the ancient Coptic calendar, the Ethiopian Calendar is seven to eight years behind the Gregorian calendar, owing to alternate calculations in determining the date of the birth of Jesus Christ.” -The African Report

2020 - 8 = 2012

2020 is 2012 in Ethiopian Calendar.

Apocalypse (ἀποκάλυψις) is a Greek word meaning "revelation", "an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known and which could not be known apart from the unveiling". -Oxford Dictionary

n: /’see-sinz/: SZNZ. SEAZVNZ.

(1a): time characterized by a particular circumstance or feature -F. A. Christie

(1b): a suitable or natural time or occasion -John Milton

(1c): an indefinite period of time -Francis Hackett

(2a): a period of the year characterized by or associated with a particular activity or phenomenon

(2b):  period marked by special activity especially in some field

- Merriam Webster Dictionary [seasons]