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© Bruno Bourel (from Bruno Bourel - Parti Nagy Lajos: Fényrajzok, Budapest (Magvető, 2001)
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“Separate is not equal”
On May 17, 1954, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that separate but equal public schools violated the 14th Amendment. On May 31, 1955, Chief Justice Earl Warren issued this decree, ruling how desegregation was to be carried out. The plan directs that schools be desegregated under the control of Federal district judges “with all deliberate speed.”
Annette Kellerman in A Daughter of the Gods, 1916.
Kellerman railed against the prevailing modesty restrictions in swimwear from a young age, lambasting the impractical nature of the bathing dress and hose. This culminated in her arrest in 1907 on a charge of indecent exposure on a beach in Massachusetts as her one-piece, thigh-high swimsuit was deemed far too revealing. Kellerman’s argument that she needed to be free from cumbersome swimwear in order to achieve unrestricted movement was accepted by the judge and the case was dismissed. The ensuing popularity of her one-piece (that highlighted every curve of her body) eventually led to her own line of swimwear, and the acceptance of the style left companies like Jantzen free to pick up the mantle. … text via: Theatre of Fashion
Rehearsing the tightrope scene for The Circus. Assistant director Harry Crocker, who also portrays “Rex”, is at bottom left. Crocker said that in some of the tightrope scenes, his legs doubled for Charlie’s when he needed a rest.
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lost in a dream of her own, so still, just her slowed heartbeat…
je suis perdue by solarixx on Flickr.
Very sweet!
Custom Fisher-Price Toy Records
Instructibles guide to make your own toy records, here demonstrated with “Stairway To Heaven”:
From Fred27:
I recently stumbled across and old toy record player made by Fisher Price in the 1970s. I’m sure many of you will recognise this iconic toy … As with many 40-year old toys, it was in a bit of a sad state and a couple of the records had been lost. Technology has moved on since it was manufactured and making some new records for it seemed like a nice way to merge old technology and new.
3D printing a record might seem like the obvious choice these days, but I decided to go with CNC milling.
Why a mill you ask? Not a laser cutter or a 3D printer? Well we can’t use a laser cutter as the record needs slots in the surface but these don’t go all the way through. Laser cutters are great if you don’t need any partial depth cuts, but we do. 3D printing the record would seem to be a sensible choice and would definitely do the job. However, we will end up creating plastic pins around 1mm in size that trigger the music box hidden in the record player’s arm. I was worried about whether the extruded plastic technique used by most printers would give it the required strength.Fred27 also put together a piece of code to help edit the music for one of these disks.
You can read the whole How-To here
