OK I know you said 'no Hinduism' but seeing them right by an old synagogue in 'Jew Town' in Fort Cochin was pretty funny- especially as it was visited my an Israeli PM.

Other than that, there's an unfortunate piece of paving in Wimbledon outside the shopping mall- four dark lines intersect to form a very clear swastika. I think once they realised, the council slapped a bin on top of it.

mada wrote:What the hell is a fasces?

An axe bundled with sticks and tied with a rope. It is an ancient Roman symbol and the root of the word "fascism". It represents strength through unity. The sticks by themselves break easily but bundled together they are strong.

What's wrong wth a swastica?

Here's an artist that uses them because it's an american indian symbol - here's one there are 4 parts to the interview I think.

http://www.lulu.tv/?p=9315

amybugbee wrote:What's wrong wth a swastica?

Here's an artist that uses them because it's an american indian symbol - here's one there are 4 parts to the interview I think.

http://www.lulu.tv/?p=9315

Didn't say there was anything necessarily wrong with it. It's an ancient symbol that has been used in practically all cultures. It's just that the baggage it now carries because of the Nazis and WWII makes it seem to stick out when you come across it when it's been used as a decorative or religious symbol from an era before WWII. Nowadays it's very rare to come across it being used in a modern context as decoration or ornamenture due to this negative baggage.

The RE/Search book Modern Primitives has a section devoted to this guy:

http://www.manwoman.net/

Mark Hansen wrote:...The other was a room in a German-American restaurant on Sheffield in Chicago (now torn down, can't remember the name), which had it in woodwork detail in one of it's rooms...

You're thinking of Zum Deutschen Eck.

Wasn't there a Reader story about Zum Deutschen Eck years ago, that accused the owners of being Neo-Nazis or something? I seem to remember that, and it wasn't much longer before the place closed its doors.




Holy shit, when I saw this pic, I almost did a spit-take. That woman looks just like my ex-girlfriend. Except that she'd never be posing with a Nazi cake. She was half-Jewish and hated Nazis.

She looks a bit like Nina Nastasia when I last saw her.


Btw, how retarded on a scale from one to posting above comment a swastika cake is?

It's a pretty shitty cake, too.

Here's what a real swastika cake looks like:



And hey, did you just say my post was retarded?

The Haus der Kunst in Munich boasts a huge mosaic made out of swastika's in the roof of its portal. Not surprising conidering it was built in the 1930's, but apparently no one ever cared to remove it, which struck me when I saw it.

hopelesshomo wrote:

This looks like it should be a picture from a Richard Kern movie.