In Media
- The American band Misfits wrote a song entitled "We are 138"
- The crew name of a group of graffiti artists originating in Somerville, MA in the 1990s.
One Thirty Eight was at one time focused on creating legal walls for their art in the City of Somerville by way of getting permission from the owners of the property. In response to this, the City of Somerville issued a law that banned graffiti style art of any kind whatsoever. If the owner of the property would not remove the art themselves, the city would remove it and fine the owner. One Thirty Eight would later be credited with the public art style known as graffilthy.
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Famous quotes containing the word media:
“One can describe a landscape in many different words and sentences, but one would not normally cut up a picture of a landscape and rearrange it in different patterns in order to describe it in different ways. Because a photograph is not composed of discrete units strung out in a linear row of meaningful pieces, we do not understand it by looking at one element after another in a set sequence. The photograph is understood in one act of seeing; it is perceived in a gestalt.”
—Joshua Meyrowitz, U.S. educator, media critic. “The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviors,” No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, Oxford University Press (1985)
“Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so—called educational system, which is nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based upon one’s ability to pledge loyalty oaths to Anglo culture. The media and the “educational system” are the prime sources of racism in the United States.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)