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  • This is pretty fascinating.

  • As I've said, tap-taps are how

  • everybody gets around in Haiti,

  • these beautifully colored painted buses

  • and they're painted by artists with icons.

  • This is Anthony, Thony, and you're from Haiti.

  • Yeah, I'm from Haiti.

  • Nice to meet you.

  • And are you an artist?

  • Yeah, I'm an artist, I'm a visual artist.

  • Tell me what you've done.

  • At 1:00 in the morning,

  • my girlfriend just broke up with me.

  • I was crying at night and I was like,

  • it's either I go out or I stay home to do what I love

  • and then I decided to make the illustration.

  • Oh my god, this is fantastic.

  • Look at this.

  • You've captured me.

  • Kind of sweaty and nervous.

  • This is really nice.

  • I would love to see this on a tap-tap.

  • That would be great.

  • It's possible.

  • That would be, we're gonna make this happen.

  • That would be great.

  • I have to because I'm up there with,

  • you think about it,

  • there's Rihanna, there's Lionel Messi,

  • Yeah, Jesus. Jesus.

  • And then Conan.

  • That's usually the four, if you think of it.

  • Right? Yeah.

  • So this all happened because you broke up.

  • Your girlfriend broke up with you?

  • Yeah.

  • Once it gets out that you've done this,

  • you're gonna have many options.

  • Okay? (laughs)

  • You are my personal portrait artist

  • here in Haiti. Thank you.

  • That's an official position.

  • Nice! And with it

  • comes great power and lots of ladies.

  • Responsibilities?

  • No, no, no.

  • With great power comes lots of ladies.

  • That's what Spiderman says.

  • No Spiderman's lying.

  • Oh you did?

  • Yeah I'm a comic book artist.

  • A Haitian superhero?

  • Yeah. Terrific, tell me about him.

  • What's his name?

  • Djatawo. Djatawo, I love that!

  • What's his superpower?

  • He can teleport himself

  • and he can also use his energy--

  • If he can teleport himself is that because

  • there's so much traffic in Port-au-Prince?

  • That's true!

  • That's why you came up with the idea, right?

  • Yeah, yeah!

  • Can I say Djatawo's greatest power?

  • He can turn a break-up with a girlfriend

  • into something positive.

  • That's Djatawo's power.

  • You are amazing.

  • Put this on your local tap-tap.

  • Anthony before you go,

  • I want to present you with something.

  • We are Team Coco and I want you to have

  • a Team Coco shirt. Oh this is so cool.

  • Now there's one problem.

  • What is it?

  • I found out that Coco has meaning

  • (laughing)

  • in Haiti that we didn't know anything about.

  • We found out here that Coco means,

  • and you can say it.

  • Yeah, yeah, yeah.

  • What's it say?

  • Vagina.

  • Don't be scared.

  • (laughing) See that's part of the reason

  • you guys broke up.

  • You were afraid.

  • (laughing)

  • Vagina.

  • I wanted to thank Nadesh Delfourt.

  • She's the one who brought me here.

  • Where is she?

  • What is your name?

  • Nadesh.

  • You are gorgeous.

  • You're beautiful. Thank you.

  • How long have you two known each other?

  • Long time.

  • Like almost 20 years, something?

  • Yeah. Wow.

  • And now he's single.

  • Are you single?

  • No, I'm not single.

  • Unfortunately, I'm not. (laughing)

  • That could change?

  • Nothing, nothing.

  • Because he is now Team Coco,

  • we looked up the word for the male part.

  • (laughing)

  • You can be Team Zozo.

  • So anyway.

  • We're gonna sell a lot of these in Haiti.

  • Always a man of my word,

  • I commissioned Anthony to execute his vision.

  • And within 24 hours I was immortalized

  • on Haitian public transport.

  • To check out Thony's artwork,

  • including his Haitian superhero,

  • go to djatawo.com.

This is pretty fascinating.

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