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Gray Metal – jewelry cast from beach plastic

LB — Sun, 06 Jan 2019 23:21:23 +0000

Well before the most recent wave of coverage of the crisis of plastic accumulating in our oceans, jeweler and artist Jesse Gray of Gray Metal started picking up beach plastic on Vancouver Island and casting some of it into jewelry.

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I Can’t Stand The Rain – Ann Peebles, 1973

LB — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 06:28:42 +0000

For friends in America in these terrible days, a favourite from my childhood, probably because of the combination of Ann Peeble’s voice and the sound effects of the production.

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The women of the cast of Hair on Broadway, 1968

LB — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 04:54:46 +0000

Back row standing: Suzannah Norstrand, Melba Moore, Marjorie LiPari, Lynn Kellogg, Emmeretta Marks. Middle row: Natalie Mosco, Lorrie Davis, Diane Keaton. Front row sitting: Shelley Plimpton, Leata Galloway

Progress isn’t a straight line, so feminism isn’t on a straight line either.

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Endangered 5000 year old ancient practice of making silk made from mollusc slime

LB — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 19:40:17 +0000

“Haste doesn’t live here,” says one sign on the door. Another inside says “Nothing in this room is for sale.” An Italian woman named Chiara Vigo is the last living master of the ancient textile tradition of spinning “baysuss” or silk produced from the fibres exuded by a giant mediterranean mollusc.

What might ancient Babylonian songs have sounded like?

LB — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 21:34:56 +0000

What did ancient Babylonian songs sound like? Possibly something close to this. Composer and performer Stef Conner and the Lyre Ensemble have put out an album of songs they believe are close to ancient Babylonian songs, using the original poetry.

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Online terrorist threats against women – Anita Sarkeesian in Utah

LB — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 17:16:52 +0000

For the record, and because it’s an artefact of our times, here’s a screenshot of the terrorist email threat against feminist activist Anita Sarkeesian in Utah. As Skepchick pointed out, we do need to call this what it is: terrorism.

Gabriella Crespi

LB — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:26:54 +0000

A quasi-surreal or space age ‘Polished Steel Coffee Table’ by Italian architect and designer Gabriella Crespi looks like a metal crystal formation of some kind.

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Nanna Ditzel

LB — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 02:47:44 +0000

Nanna Ditzel is considered the “first lady of Danish design,” which is one of those informative yet cringe-worthy labels that just highlights the whole problem of accidentally ghettoizing designers who happen to be women by the very act of celebrating the fact that they’re women designers.

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