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Untitled, 2011 Digital C-print 80 x 60” / 203.2 x 152.4cm |
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Thursday, December 26, 2013
long hidden stars
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Long-hidden stars have been uncovered during the renovation of the 165-year-old Grace Church in Brooklyn: http://nyti.ms/1daWTMv |
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WOMEN KILLED IN WAR 2013
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http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=rbpe&fileName=rbpe20/rbpe205/20503100/rbpe20503100.db&recNum=0&itemLink=r?ammem/AMALL:@field%28NUMBER+@band%28rbpe+20503100%29%29&linkText=0 |
GRIM TOLL OF MILITARY WOMEN KILLED IN WAR
April 1, 2013 article link here.
civil war dead
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battle of gettysburg |
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antietam dead fence/ http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003000474/PP/ |
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confederate dead |
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Владимир Татлин и макет Башни III Интернационала, 1919г.
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Symbolically, the tower was said to represent the aspirations of its originating country and a challenge to Eiffel Tower as the foremost symbol of modernity. |
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013
gravedigger blues
I'll come running with a heart on fire
I'll come running with a heart on fire
I'll come running with a heart on fire
I wonder what made you stay
I wonder what made me stray
Baby's got a jar of cider
Used for making hearts melt
Baby knows chicken wire
Don't make no chastity belt
I'll come running with a heart on fire
I'll come running with a heart on fire
I wonder what made you stay
I wonder what made me stray
Baby's got a jar of cider
Used for making hearts melt
Baby knows chicken wire
Don't make no chastity belt
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Sunday, December 22, 2013
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Venetian-chastity
A chastity belt is a locking item of clothing designed to prevent sexual intercourse. They may be used to protect the wearer from rape or temptation. |
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YOUNG FACES OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
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VIA: http://www.kuriositas.com/2012/03/faces-of-american-civil-war.html |
Contemporary usage: Tintypes have been taken in Afghanistan during the War on Terror by U.S. Air Force airmen, apparently the first taken in a war zone since the Civil War.
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flak jackets
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Many soldiers carried a "housewife," or sewing kit, containing needles,
thread, thimbles and other items for mending clothing. Repairs made by
soldiers in camp could include sewing on buttons and insignia, mending
tears, and even replacing the lining of jackets. This kit is in the
museum's collection. via: Six questions with a Civil War material culture scholar |
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Modular Tactical Vest components |
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The Soldiers' Bullet Proof Vest, "Harper's Weekly," March 15, 1862, p. 176 |
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bang bang: nancy sinatra
I was five and he was six
We rode on horses made of sticks
He wore black and I wore white
He would always win the fight
Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, my baby shot me down.
Friday, December 20, 2013
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Monday, December 16, 2013
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Glass Menagerie stage sets
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Dogville set- Lars von Trier
The story of Dogville is told in nine chapters and a prologue, with a one-sentence description of each chapter given in the film, in the vein of such chapter headings in many 19th century novels
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
THE HANDSOME CABIN BOY- Jack London
THE HANDSOME CABIN BOY
Published in The Owl Magazine, v. 7 (July 1899)
"AND the dapper young fellow was—"
"None other than the veiled woman, of course.""O, pshaw!" I cried. "That's well enough for a Sunday newspaper, but in real life people are not so easily misled."
"Look at the authentic instances—women serving as soldiers, sailors, scouts—"
"Bosh!"
"Why, there's my little brother Bob, as clever an impersonator—"
"Bosh!"
"People are fooled every day and—"
"Stuff and nonsense," I said. "Any one but a ninny should penetrate such a make-up at a glance. I don't think much of a fellow who can't tell a man from a woman. Catch me napping that way."
"I'll catch you," cried Jack.
"I like that," was my reply.
"I'll wager I fool you within six months."
"Done! For how much?"
"The loser to foot a supper; the setting, ordering, and inviting of the same to be at the winner's discretion."
"Done!"
We shook hands, and the fellows crowded round with all sorts of advice and persiflage. Thus was the seed sown, out of which was to spring the never-to-be-forgotten romance of "The Handsome Cabin Boy."
Story continues here.
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The Handsome Cabin Boy
It's of a pretty female
As you may understand.
Her mind being bent for rambling
Unto some foreign land,
She dressed herself in sailor's clothes,
Or so it does appear,
And she hired with a captain
To serve him for a year.
[The captain's wife she being on board,
She seemed in great joy
To think the captain had engaged
Such a handsome cabin boy,
That now and then she'd slip him a kiss,
And she'd have liked to toy,
But 'twas the captain found out the secret
Of the handsome cabin boy.]
Her cheeks they were like roses
And her hair rolled in a curl.
The sailors often smiled and said
He looked just like a girl.
But eating of the captain's biscuit
Her colour did destroy,
It was in the bay of Biscay
And the waist did swell of pretty Nell,
The handsome cabin boy.
Our gallant ship did plow.
One night among the sailors
Was a fearful flurry and row.*
They tumbled from their hammocks
For their sleep it did destroy,
And they sworn about the groaning
Of the handsome cabin boy.
"Oh doctor, dear, oh doctor,"
The cabin boy did cry.
"My time has come, I am undone,
And I will surely die."
The doctor come a-runnin'
And a-smilin' at the fun.
To think a sailor lad should have
A daughter or a son.
The sailors when they saw the joke
They all did stand and stare.
The child belonged to none of them,
They solemnly did swear.
The captain's wife, she says to him,
"My dear, I wish you joy,
For 'tis either you or me's betrayed
The handsome cabin boy!"
[Now sailors, take your tot of rum
And drink success to trade,
And likewise to the cabin boy
That was neither man nor maid.
Here's hoping the wars don't rise again
Our sailors to destroy,
And here's hoping for a jolly lot more
Like the handsome cabin boy!
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Monday, December 9, 2013
Friday, December 6, 2013
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Miami Project Art Fair Dec 3-8th
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At David Shelton Gallery's booth #117 |
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At Conduit Gallery's booth |
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Female Marine Corps recruit goes through urban warfare training at the United States Marine Corps recruit depot in Parris Island, South Carolina. |
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Walt Whitman
Whitman wrote two volumes of poetry about the Civil War: Drum Taps (1865) and Sequel to Drum Taps
(1866), after witnessing first-hand the suffering, bravery,
wastefulness, heroism, and tragedy of war while working in hospitals
during the Civil War.
’’Unnamed, unknown, remain and still remain the bravest soldiers. Our manliest, our boys, our hardy darlings: no picture gives them. Likely, the typical one of them (standing, no doubt, for hundreds, thousands) crawls aside to some bush-clump or ferny tuft on receiving his death-shot; there, sheltering a little while, soaking roots, grass, and soil with red blood; the battle advances, retreats, flits from the scene, sweeps by; and there, haply with pain and suffering…the last lethargy winds like a serpent round him; the eyes glaze in death;…and there, at last the Bravest Soldier, crumbles in Mother Earth, unburied and unknown.’’- Observations of poet Walt Whitman, in 1865
’’Unnamed, unknown, remain and still remain the bravest soldiers. Our manliest, our boys, our hardy darlings: no picture gives them. Likely, the typical one of them (standing, no doubt, for hundreds, thousands) crawls aside to some bush-clump or ferny tuft on receiving his death-shot; there, sheltering a little while, soaking roots, grass, and soil with red blood; the battle advances, retreats, flits from the scene, sweeps by; and there, haply with pain and suffering…the last lethargy winds like a serpent round him; the eyes glaze in death;…and there, at last the Bravest Soldier, crumbles in Mother Earth, unburied and unknown.’’- Observations of poet Walt Whitman, in 1865
Friday, November 22, 2013
'twice oppressed' often become 'twice militant.'
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Lorraine Hansberry |
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A new TV documentary on Britain’s BBC4 “Fabulous Fashionistas” features six women of advanced years who share a love for style and a “screw that” attitude to the standard dictates of age.
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Thursday, November 21, 2013
"Content where they're at"
Women Pass Marine Training, Clear First Hurdle To Combat Role
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Pfc. Katie Gorz (center) served as a squad leader during the training at Camp Geiger, N.C. |
Sojourner Truth- Ain't I a Woman
Sojourner Truth (c. 1797 – November 26, 1883) was the self-given name, from 1843 onward, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man. Her best-known extemporaneous speech on gender inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?", was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. During the Civil War, Truth helped recruit black troops for the Union Army; after the war, she tried unsuccessfully to secure land grants from the federal government for former slaves.
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
crinoline
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The Crinoline Shop,1860, by Eugéne Atget |
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Cotton printed voile day dress, American, ca. 1850 KSUM 1983.1.72. Kent State University Museum Pinterest http://www.pinterest.com/ksumuseum/ |
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