Tamara Rose
Witchy & Beatniky
Day Job: CSI, evidence & forensics
Night Job: Following along wherever my weird magpie brain leads me
Cabaret Voltaire announce farewell tour dates in US
Cabaret Voltaire have now revealed the dates and locations of most of their final US shows, after announcing their UK farewell tour in October last year.faroutmagazine.co.ukThis Transylvanian Folklore-Inspired Fashion Collection Is Every Goth’s Dream
Each haunting design tells its own story!mymodernmet.comThe Nineteenth-Century Science of Fashion - JSTOR Daily
Victorian-era color theory moved from labs and studios into women’s magazines—and into everyday decisions about dress.daily.jstor.orgHow Shaker Design Crafts Visions of Heaven on Earth
The Testament of Ann Lee and brings the “The Shakers: A World in the Making,” at Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art, celebrate Shakers.artnews.comTyping for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces
Taking dictation, revising manuscripts, typing copies, literary amanuenses often labour for little compensation and even less recognition. Christine Jacobson explores the neglected efforts of women li...publicdomainreview.orgWhat Happens to Consciousness After Death? Scientists and Researchers Are Still Debating This Age Old Question
A growing number of professional institutions are seriously looking at questions involving consciousness and what happens to it after we die.thedebrief.orgThe Radical Power of a Bookstore: On Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights
I discovered City Lights Bookstore in 1983. I was a high school sophomore in east Los Angeles on a campus so diverse that you would be just as likely to hear kids speaking Spanish or Vietnamese as …lithub.comThis Massive Hillside Figure Has Mystified Historians for Centuries. Now, Donations Have Secured the Surrounding Landscape
The National Trust has purchased the land around England's Cerne Abbas Giant, which will help protect the mysterious chalk figure and nearby wildlife for future generationssmithsonianmag.comRediscovered photograph sheds light on Jeanne Duval – Manet’s Lady with a Fan
Jeanne Duval fascinates many feminist and postcolonial scholars, partly because of how little is known about her.theconversation.com- My final sociology project was a content analysis of the music video for this song through the various lenses of conflict theory, structural functionalism, and symbolic interactionism. Listening to this song on repeat every day for just over three months, I never once got sick of hearing it.
The classic anthem Pulp nearly scrapped: “A load of rubbish”
See how one of Pulp’s greatest hits was dismissed before it became a classic. Nick Banks might have derided it, but it became a hit Britpop anthem.faroutmagazine.co.uk The shocking movie that confronts death in the most brutal way
A look at violence and death on screen and how no film has confronted the reality of it quite like Stan Brakhage with 'The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes'.dangerousminds.netDaydreamers and Sleepwalkers: Crossing the Borderlands of the Unconscious
Scientists and philosophers have spent centuries studying sleep. Each descent only deepens the mystery.thereader.mitpress.mit.eduHow Bridget Riley Redefined Abstraction in the 1960s
London's Archeus / Post Modern has assembled a rare collection of the iconic black-and-white prints by artist Bridget Riley from the 1960s.news.artnet.com800 years after his death, the legends and legacy of Francis of Assisi endure
Medieval texts and frescoes show how Francis of Assisi’s legends formed – and why his call to poverty and care for creation still resonates.theconversation.comWhat happens when we admit we don't know?
Kelly Corrigan on why humility fuels curiosity — and how to cultivate these qualities in an age of certainty.bigthink.comWhy Anne Askew was burnt at the stake for her beliefs
Lincolnshire-born Anne Askew challenged views on women and religion before her execution aged 25.bbc.com- The CCI fingerprint course was by far the most challenging training I've had. For the past two weeks, whenever I close my eyes I see nothing but fingerprint patterns.
The David Bowie song that captured his revulsion of American corporations
"The aspects of America that are really magical to us are the things it seems to reject, like black music or the Beat poets"loudersound.comThe parody of religion that morphed into a real cult
A look at the weaknesses of parody and how something that people joke about, even at its expense, can become something that people take seriously.dangerousminds.netMedieval women used falconry to subvert gender norms
Hawks offered women both real and symbolic means to express gender, power and status within a male-dominated world.theconversation.comInventing the American Revolution: On Thomas Paine’s Guide to Fighting Dictatorship
Back in 2018, two years into the first Trump presidency, when the ground was shifting beneath our feet in ways that, today, might barely register on our wearied internal seismographs, political ana…lithub.comHow Activists Are Embracing Craft as a Tool of Anti-ICE Resistance | Artnet News
Today's politically charged "craftivism" is part of a longstanding tradition that has seen generations of activists embrace craft.news.artnet.comThe shocking truth behind historic anatomical art
For centuries, real dead bodies inspired great artists and science illustrators alike. A new exhibition reveals the dark stories behind these cadavers – and how they were acquired.bbc.comThe song that proves The Velvet Underground changed songwriting
Racking up at 17 minutes and 30 seconds, The Velvet Underground’s squirm-inducing answer to 'The Iliad' would go on to inspire a generation of punks.faroutmagazine.co.ukHow Baudelaire Rewired English Poetry | TheCollector
On publication in 1857, Charles Baudelaire's Les fleurs du mal caused a scandal. Its influence spread far beyond France and far beyond the 19th century.thecollector.comAn Infamous Rembrandt Makes a Cameo in the New 'Knives Out'
In Netflix's latest 'Knives Out' film, one of the Gardner Museum's missing Rembrandts makes a fleeting cameo.news.artnet.comWhat nihilism acknowledges that other philosophies don’t
"The thing that the nihilist recognizes is that the values he or she holds are not grounded in anything other than their own preferences."bigthink.comThe healing power of poisonous plants
Evolution has created plants with the power to kill and heal.theconversation.comThe biggest problem with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
In this op-ed, Chlo reflects on how a visit to the Rock Hall Museum and revising for a quiz show highlighted the fundamental shortcomings of the Hall of Fame.faroutmagazine.co.ukInjections, Makeup, Stress: The New Religion of Beauty
The beauty boom sells the dream of individuality while making faces more alike than ever. Beyond the glow, gloss and injections lies a hard new currency: appearance as capital.spiegel.deA History of Existential Anxiety - JSTOR Daily
From medieval theology to modern philosophy, dread has long been a guide for living ethically.daily.jstor.org“There Could be a Mushroom Out There Causing Fairytale-Like Visions”: People Eating These Mushrooms Claim to Have the Same Hallucinations
Science is searching for the chemical compound in these Chinese mushrooms that can cause identical hallucinations of little people everywherethedebrief.orgAndy Warhol Films, Left Undeveloped for Decades, Come to Light | Artnet News
A trove of previously undeveloped films shot by Pop icon Andy Warhol and his team is set to be screened at the Museum of Modern Art.news.artnet.comEugène Atget, Readymade Icon
An exhibition retells the story of his discovery by Berenice Abbott, leaving out the details of a life defined by failure.hyperallergic.comThe last masters: The international effort to preserve an ancient craft
The revival of Pasto Varnish shows how living heritage can survive if knowledge is passed on in time.bigthink.comHidden detail found in Anne Boleyn portrait was ‘witchcraft rebuttal’, say historians
Exclusive: Underdrawing suggests attempt to debunk myth that former wife of Henry VIII had sixth fingertheguardian.com- Reading in bed with cats on Sunday morning:
- When I put on this belt today, I realized I never posted a photo of myself wearing it after I had it custom made by local design house Throckmorton Jones. Made with a vintage hands buckle and reclaimed leather, and it's reversible! It always gets compliments whenever I wear it.
- I had some ground venison, so tonight's dinner was hunter's pie! Served with asparagus sautéed in olive oil and a dark berry clafoutis with whipped cream for dessert.
