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Omg yessss. Def best of sx.
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When he let down that hair I almost got down on my knees and started speaking in tongues.
This legend is Katherine Duhnam and aside from forming the first self-supported African-American owned dance company, forming her first dance school for black youth while still in high school, she taught your faves how to dance:
Her alumni included many future celebrities, such as Eartha Kitt, who, as a teenager, won a scholarship to her school and later became one of her dancers before moving on to a successful singing career. Others who attended her school included James Dean, Gregory Peck, Jose Ferrer, Jennifer Jones, Shelley Winters, Sidney Poitier, Shirley MacLaine, Doris Duke, Toni Cade Bambara and Warren Beatty.
Marlon Brando frequently dropped in to play the bongo drums, and jazz musician Charles Mingus held regular jam sessions with the drummers.
This photo of Eartha Kitt dancing with James Dean was likely taken at her studio.
She lived a remarkable life, having studied, articulated, and recorded the basis for the African, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-Latino movement in modern dance. During her studies in Haiti, she fell in the love with the country, living there for many years and eventually becoming a mambo (priestess) in Vodun religion.
She refused to perform for non-racially integrated audiences and turned down a lucrative studio contract when producers asked her to replace her darker-skinned company members.
Brazil created a law that made racial discrimination in public places illegal, because she publicized the racism she faced there, in 1950.
She went on a 47 day hunger strike in the 1992 at the age of 83 to protest the forced repatriation of Haitian refugees.
In 2006, she died peacefully in her sleep at 96 years old.
She can watch her story here.
Hers is a life I would love to see depicted on the big screen.
i love learning the history that was ignored during my schooling. bless you tumblr, and bless you katherine dunham!
I have had the original article tacked to my wall for years. I think this is the coolest idea. Whomever I get married to will seriously consider doing this, if not actually do it. Hey, maybe they can do an engagement ring with a bone growth instead of a gemstone?! Then I’d have a wedding set… the engagement ring would match the wedding band. Fantastic.
Why go to Tiffany’s for a wedding band when you have one grown from your own bones? That’s what five British couples did this spring, starting with a trip to the hospital for a quick jaw biopsy to retrieve bone cells. The idea - a romantic experiment dubbed biojewelry - is the love child of Tobie Kerridge and Nikki Stott, design researchers at the Royal College of Art, and Ian Thompson, a bioengineer at Kings College London. The trio used a four-step process (below) to coax the cells into skeletal symbols of everlasting devotion. It takes months. In September, the jewelry - plus still photos and a time-lapse video of the process - will go on display at Guy’s Hospital in London. After that, the betrothed get the rings for keeps. “I love the idea that it’s precious only to us because it is, literally, us,” says Harriet Harris, one of the participants. “It’s almost worthless to anyone else.” You can’t say that about platinum.
The process
1. Extract bone chips from jaw. Rinse.
2. Place bone cells in ring-shaped bioactive ceramic scaffold.
3. Feed liquid nutrients and culture in a temperature-controlled bioreactor for six weeks.
4. After coral-like bone forms fully around scaffold, pare down to final ring shape and insert silver liner (for engraving).Some Links about it:
http://bioartwindsor.blogspot.com/2010/11/wedding-rings-made-from-your-partners.html
‘VOGUE KOREA’ (2007)
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I love my heritage because damn awsome/crazy-ass hanbok designs (and mix it with modern fashion)
…I wonder if my old hanbok fits heh U v U
A Look at Orchid Mantes by Scott Cromwell
In the first three images [found here] Scott Cromwell skillfully captures an “ignorant fruit fly” perched upon a pink Orchid Mantis’ leg before being grabbed up and eaten. In the last image [found here] a white Orchid Mantis is seen trying to intimidate and threaten it’s own recently molted exoskeleton.