Saturday, August 24, 2013

... 'Secret Super Saiyan roots in Nuhtkayz?'...

So after years and years of being taunted by DragonBallZ I decided I hated them. I remember grade 3 being the year that I discovered I could draw. My grade3 teacher went out of her way to get me to arts classes from her own pocket outside of the school grounds, drive me there and back regularly to add. She believed in me so much at that time which was wierd for me coz I didn't know what I was doing. Than ofcourse there were all those competitive boys who were also as into drawing as I was,  all they ever drew all day everyday were Super Saiyans. Can't even count how many times I'd been challenged to a drawdown by some kid who thought they were a better artist coz they could draw me Vegitaz face in 2 minutes. DragonBallZ was everywhere I looked and I just hated them! I felt followed by them, especially because my older brother was so flipping good at graphiti and animating Super Saiyans.He'd force us to watch them n shit and I'd be so mad my mind would just wonder off imagining other stuff. Having my younger cousin obsess over them was the tip of the ice-burg for me,I remember wanting nothing to do with Dragon and Ball anywhere around me.


So years and years after this, The Super Saiyans decide to make a come back in my life. At my first Opikoppi experience in 2013,invited by a friend who had an extra ticket there.... little did I know that I was getting ready for the return of my childhood Super Saiyan taunt .

I actually didn't know how I felt about it at first, I had no idea I was that much of a sociopath until I had to spend days and days with complete strangers. It was horrifying and not because I didn't know them all personally, but because I didn't know how to act around them. I felt watched and judged and it took me 2 days to get comfortable regretting why I had agreed to go in the first place.


The highlight of the event for me though was the return of the Super Saiyan vibez!!
kats randomly decided to name me Goku because my hair grew a close resemblance to the character's hair. It didn't bother me at all, it was actually exciting to see the spectacle that I had created all by myself have that much of an effect on the world, we got tones of responses from cool folk thinking the hair rocked and just had to say something about it! I know my media lecturer would have been so proud of me having created a cultural spectacle that was that successful. Had I taken video documentation to hold on to it for the rest of my life as the first successful cultural spectacle that I'd created as an artist. It felt like success!! People were gravitating to the Super Saiyan hair and responding in human ways to the media artefact. What was really striking though was how I had no Saiyan intention in my mind when I put the hair do together.. all I knew was that I wanted a lot of daim hair on my head coz that shit is just cool to me. After Oppi it became Super Saiyan hair coz that is where Goku was born.

I eventually decided to carry the association on into my trade after weeks and weeks of thinking 'no friggin ways'but somehow turned around and thought, "Bad ass!!!"



 
So yeah, That was where the Super Saiyan roots were evident. feels like they follow me everywhere I go so for all you know I might have been one in the previous life. who knows?
or perhaps even destined to be one in this life and the next..lol,
If you can think it, surely it must exist!
 

so what we know so far though is that Nuhtkayz is a Super Saiyan by origin, lets wait and watch time reveal the rest.

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