Month: April 2008

The eight wonder of the world

Nestling in the foothills of the Alps in northern Italy, 30 miles from the ancient city of Turin, lies the valley of Valchiusella. There you can visit what the government calls the eight wonder of the world. These ‘Temples of Damanhur’ are not the great legacy of some long-lost civilisation, they are the work of a 57-year-old former insurance broker from northern Italy who, inspired by a childhood vision, began digging into the rock.
Read the full article about this amazing story here.

Irina Davis

“Because of the devastation of World War II, Russian girls in the ’40s and ’50s were taught to be tough and work hard. I am saddened by the fact that Russia never had the chance to enjoy the happy pin-up times of America’s postwar period. (…) By photographing exclusively Russian immigrant women in traditional all-American pin-up poses, I am inventing my own genre of Russian pin-up.”
– Irina Davis –

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Sarah Kate Burgess

Jewelry anticipates a collaboration between wearer and maker. Questions of authorship and value led Sarah to make the Do it Yourself Rings series. Often the preciousness of an object, especially jewelry, has little to do with its market value. She has designed these rings to be made from an inexpensive and fragile material-paper. The preciousness of these rings will come from the experience of making them, and from your own hands.

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