» The North http://nothing-is-new.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:39:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 LYNDA BENGLIS http://nothing-is-new.com/2011/06/21/lynda-benglis/ http://nothing-is-new.com/2011/06/21/lynda-benglis/#comments Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:25:26 +0000 KellyR http://nothing-is-new.com/?p=7296

Y E S . Artist Lynda Benglis painting a floor with 40 gallons of bright latex and pigments at the University of Rhode Island. 1969

via LIFE

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If you like 1970s textiles and Canadians, these vids are a must see. Evelyn recycled 110 sweaters into an Environment for Living, and crocheted discarded video tape into car cozies to costumes. She also developed Family Sweater, which is basically a giant snuggie for family and friends. Note : Her knitting needles are made from drift wood. Heartbeats!

Part 1 and Part 2
Thank you Ben for emailing this gold star to me!
more Evelyn Roth

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Lambda looking good.

Gay rights demonstration, Albany, New York, 1971
photographs by Diana Davies

via NYPL

]]> http://nothing-is-new.com/2011/02/10/%ce%bb/feed/ 0 SOX & POMO http://nothing-is-new.com/2011/01/20/sox-pomo/ http://nothing-is-new.com/2011/01/20/sox-pomo/#comments Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:14:27 +0000 KellyR http://nothing-is-new.com/?p=6352

Soft, Cozy, Warm—basketry socks from the Artic! And their California-made mates, feathery Pomo basket bowls.

The name Pomo derives from a conflation of the Pomo words [pʰoːmoː] and [pʰoʔmaʔ]. It originally meant “those who live at red earth hole” …
(not hip abbr. for Post Modernism)

via Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at University of Washington
Thanks for looking out for me AS!

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Gorgeous photographs of Civil War soldiers.

1. Lorenzo Hawkins of Company I, 12th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer
2. Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with knitted stole
3. Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform and forage cap
4. Unidentified young African American soldier in Union uniform

Close to 700 ambrotype and tintype photographs highlight both Union and Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War.

via Liljenquist Family Collection – Library of Congress
Thanks to BS for the tip.

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Alaska is a beautiful land, with lush vibrant archives.
Thanks to Weird Friends for turning me onto the wonders of digital Alaska many months ago.

1. $1,250,000 clean up
2. A woman gathering walrus intestines
3. Masks on exhibit in display case with mounted birds on top
4. Robe
5. Lilly Abbot Nigh, Haines, Alaska, skin sewing, Alaska, Skin 1-2-47.
6. Pocahontas of the North

via Alaska’s Digital Archives

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