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mollbabyy · 1 year ago

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celebrating palestinian science

in the face of israels' targetting of scholars, scientists and intellectuals...

saw a tumblr post by @/anarchistfrogposting that got me heavythinking about the relevance of language and culture in chemistry and science, it's unfortunate english has been accepted as its' lingua franca and most other input is lost to the globalization of this change. formulae and structure are essential and in a subject so specific, the average chemist will need to memorize hundreds of chemistry-specific words, and it becomes a barrier past entry when direct translating gets murky. deconstructing the history of science will always lead to political waters as the politicization of science and populist anti-intellectualism ethos rooted itself since the beginning of the study and these implicit biases result in a lack of consensus amongst borders.

before wwi the geographical spread of language in science was much more diverse, a lot of french and german researchers were common in research publishing, but after the allies established new scientific institutions that excluded germans and the isolationist decades that followed suit, foreign-language education was reductionist and excised globally as a result of elitism, being a language considered spoken only 'by the educated'. english-language proficiency is undeniably a prerequisite when an inexaggerated count of 99% of natural science papers are published in english, starting since 2015. this is a /heavily/ debated and discoursed topic and is terribly intimidating to sink your teeth into because of globalization of english and the complexity of modern language but getting over this hurdle will blossom a culturally rich rabbit hole to go down and it is all super interesting. there is so much great palestinian scientific practices, not as in western scientists work imagined in palestinian hands, but palestinian-born theories and practices. i think it's really integral, to always, but especially during times like these to uplift the people of palestine and their beauty just as much as funnel hatred toward their oppressors and murderers.

[image ID: a lineup of various glass pots and vases, ranging in color and size, placed in front of a plain background. end]

this is a specific sort of glass called 'hebron glass' which is an extremely renowned palestinian practice and passed down traditionally through multiple families and businesses. dating back as far as the 100~s in BCE, their technique of glassblowing was far ahead of their time and not used commonly anywhere else until much further in BCE. the /exact/ practice of hebron glass is kept a family secret amongst palestinian businesses, but a metal tool called 'kammasha' is used to blow the glass. a palestinian artisan talks about the process in more length here, i would recommend doing extended reading directly from palestine:

the colors are so vibrant and beautiful, i am endlessly impressed by how elegant these pieces have been made since the middle ages. these pieces and techniques have inspired a lot of famous modern day forms of glassblowing and glass artistry, most notably the venetian glass of venice.

i include this under science as much as it is art because it often goes unseen how much temperature and calculation goes into this craft. its highly skilled and intense work to bend over the hot flames and handle the glass in such a vulnerable state that could easily shatter. the material is more than 1800F and the palestinian kammasha is very carefully timed.

[image ID: an online video call meeting titled 'School on Synchrotron Light Sources and their Applications' at the top. end]

what you're looking at right now is the SESAME initiative run by the international centre for theoretical physics. a famous alumnus of this school was sufyan tayeh, a palestinian scientist. he was a prominent researcher and mentor and advocate for international understanding through science, introducing: SESAME, an alternative vision for the future of peaceful coexistence and cooperation and offered a meeting point around the globe to speak the common language of science, making communication possible. sufyan tayeh was an inspiration and bridge builder for all of these young students and an entry point for future scientists. he was a winner of multiple awards for his contributions to science and was appointed chair man for UNESCO (united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization) and head of physical, astrophysical and space sciences in palestine. he was regarded as a leading researched in science and applied mathematics globally, and tragically was killed in the current genocide. this is one case of many, many palestinian researchers. the impact of their contributions are insurmountable and irreplaceable.

[image ID: a list documenting the 45 palestinian scholars killed by israel since october 7th: Sufian Tayeh, Mohammad Eid Shubair, Omar Ferwana, Taysir Ibrahim, Ibrahim Hamed, Naeim Baroud, Azou Afana, Mohammad Bakhit, Mahmoud Abu Daf, Salem Abu Mukhda, Mohammad Abu Asaad, Osama Al-Muzayni, Refaat Al-Areer, Wael Al-Zard, Ismail Abu Saada, Khaled Al-Ramlawi, Mohammad Al-Najjar, Saeed Al-Dahshan, Raed Qudura, Mohammad Abu Zour, Yousseff Jameh Salameh, Nidaa Afana, Moumen Shweidah, Saeed Al-Zabdeh, Saqid Nasaar, Ahmed Abu Saada, Mohammad Jameel Al-Zaaneen, Ismail Al-Ghamari, Razq Ali Arouq, Walid Al-Amoudi, Abdullah Al-Amoudi, Hassan Al-Radi, Mohammand Abu Amara, Mohammad Al-Louh, Khaled Al-Najjar, Sharif Al-Asli, Mohammad Hassouneh, Yassar Hdeib Ridwan, Jihad Al-Baz, Hazem Al-Jamali, Nasser Al-Yafaoui, and Jihad Al-Masri. end]

the fabric gauze was also invented in palestine. if you've ever stepped foot in a labratory, you will know what this is lol. used in surgery and in chemical labs for multiple functions: separating liquids and gases, strain acids from bases, filter substances at extreme temperatures, prevent contamination, and to treat water. it is also used to diffuse heat and help protect glassware, seriously, these guys influence in glassware was HUGE. i think glass would still be sand without palestinian input.

i've set this post just up as a basis summary of the sciences, i would love to give an add-on going more indepth into the scientific process of some examples i gave and also in the history of palestinian scholars listed above.. when i get the time! but i hope this was an apt introduction! may good things come in 2024. feel free to recommend things i should check out or correct. OH OH also there is a lot of palestinian sci-fi.. 'divine intervention' and 'the second war of the dog' are both good, iirc they won the international prize for arabic fiction. just random things i found while looking up things for this post haha but they're good

#free palestine #ceasefire now #chemistry #science #long post #VERY LONG POST

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al-mayriti · 8 months ago

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they just discovered an alphabet in the el turuñuelo tartessic site !!!!! this is huge !!!!!!

the tartessic culture is the oldest in the iberian peninsula, located in the southwestern corner of the peninsula and dated to around the 9th century BCE to the 5th/4th century BCE. in this map you can see in the brightest red the core of the culture, in darker red the dispersion to the north in later centuries, and in light red its cultural sphere, which spanned almost half of the peninsula.

if you are interested in the culture, i have a post about them.

el turuñuelo is an archaeological site located in guareña (guadajoz), in the northernmost point of the tartessos culture. it is with no doubt the singlemost important tartessic archaeological site, and i would even go on to say it is the biggest archaeological discovery of this century - at least in europe.

it was discovered in 2015, and it is a sanctuary or some sort of temple complex, which at first made the news because of its incredible state of preservation: a complete set of stairs and the remains of a horse hecatomb with at least 17 complete bodies were found in 2017.

it already was the most important tartessic archaeological site just because of that (there are very few tartessic sites and most of them are not very well preserved), but after the excavations halted during covid, these last few years they returned to the site and they have made amazing discoveries. the most well-known and televised one, that made it to the news and i got to see when they set up an exposition about them last summer, are the faces of el turuñuelo in 2023, the first ever representation of tartessians by tartessians. i made a post about them, if you are interested.

this year they not only found a large collection of tartessic ceramic - which lets us know that the temple was also an artisan and probably commercial center as well, as it was usual in ancient religious centers - but just a few days ago they discovered a slate plaque with human figures, that seem to be a sort of trial drawings made by some artisan

if they seem familiar, that's because it is in one of these plaques where the alphabet has been able to be traced down, being able to be confirmed only today (11/06/2024). this is only the third southwestern paleohispanic alphabet ever founded - an alphabet derived from the phoenician one - and the most recent. it is also distinct from the other two previously discovered ones, seeing some sort of dialectalism in the way this alphabet (or set of alphabets) worked. more importantly, it is the first one to note a tartessic language, which we know was not indoeuropean in nature and also distinct from the iberian languages of the mediterranean coast. this was a distinct language or languages.

this is very exciting not only because we have a tartessic alphabet, but also because we know from greek authors like strabo that tartessians were known to be scholars that had large libraries with all sorts of knowledge of the past. we also know that the greeks interacted with the tartessians. so. it is possible that, if el turuñuelo had one of these archives that strabo talked about, that more writting can be salvaged and not only that, we could find a bilingual text in tartessian and greek that could act as a rosetta stone to finally descipher tartessian, the oldest known language in the iberian peninsula.

i cannot wait to see what el turuñuelo brings us next, it's so very exciting !!!!!!!

#archaeology #tartessos #spain #turuñuelo #i'm so fucking excited man #el turuñuelo is the gift that keeps on living #and not only that #they started to excavate el turuñuelo because they did a survey beforehand and found a series of tumuli along the guareña valley #and fixated in el turuñuelo just cause #but there's more sites like el turuñuelo waiting to be excavated #IMAGINE WHAT WE'LL GET IN THE NEXT YEARS

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a-risk-to-take · 1 year ago

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….you posted your tattoo (sick) and linked to house of dirk and i read it all and its unfinished. if you hadn’t posted i may have lived my life without getting fanfic blue balled for the first time since 2015. if you have any sympathy for my loss you would give me fanfic recs >:[ /lh

I feel your pain believe me 😭😭 I’m sorry I didn’t warn you at least. I’m low-key hoping the tattoo image gets to imarriedacherub and inspires them to continue the story - obviously not likely but it’s nice to dream!

I got recs for you though! I’ve got hundreds of bookmarks on my ao3 but here’s the HS stuff I love the most:

The epics:

Dayvhe’s Broken Diamond Club and everything by @unda-dsk: DBDC is my personal fave of theirs, and the best treatment of troll culture in any fic ever. If you know HS fic you are probably aware of MC Escher That’s My Favorite MC, and that one is absolutely excellent and completely deserves its status as one of the very best. And then there’s Alternate Universe, which is a perfect and beautiful magic school story. All of these are absolutely top-tier - I cannot stress this enough. They are epic and very long but some of the best stuff I’ve ever read—fanfic or otherwise—and they changed me when I read them. Despite the length, DBDC is very episodic so you can read each chapter as its own story and easily take breaks in between them without losing the flow, so you might want to start there. I promise it’s worth it!!

so we don’t kill the ones we love by @callmearcturus: I’ve never read anyone who can create an atmosphere like Arc can - this one is kind of a John Wick AU but in a really refreshing and elevated way. The characterization is so on point. Lots more I could rave about but I’ll just add that Arc’s Karkats are the hottest and most based out there. Again all his stuff is really good - this one is my favorite, but don’t miss this really cool magic artisan AU also.

The meteorstucks:

Aahhh there’s no way this is gonna be complete because I’ve read like hundreds and I get them confused but these are some that stand out. In case you haven’t notice already this list is gonna be very davekat centric!

Keep It Down by sburbanite - chef’s kiss concept and execution just read it

A Xenological Exploration of Music and Language by superbloom - super fun and well written with neat headcanon - and turned me on to some great music

I’m actually gonna just declare this section unfinished for now - I need to revisit these and remind myself what’s what - stay tuned!

Illustrated

Since you liked HoD you might be looking for more comic-y stuff with art. Definitely check out @chthonicarcher’s amazing davekats! Such as That’s All We Are

Dream a Little Dream of Me by koroke - this is just a little dream bubble comic but it’s simply the loveliest and I’m massively envious of the art style

Gonna Need Some Windex by the End of the Year by magniloquentChanteuse - more artistic storytelling just neat!

It’s About Time by @laurasauras - this is a sweet cute lovely little time travel davekat that I actually sent to a friend to read who knew nothing about HS and successfully led them into the fandom. (Followed by AU by Unda). Laurasauras is prolific and there are so many great fics written by them I can’t list them all here but they are one of my absolute favorite authors. Their understanding of the strider psyche is absolutely impeccable

The Worst Goddamn Movies Ever Fucking Made by writerbot - this fic brought me so much hilarity and joy I can’t even tell you. The Karkat voice is perfect and delightful and the social media interludes are so fucking funny and impressive. One of the first fics to show me how creative and funny this fandom can be.

I’m surely going to add to this - there are so many more meteorstucks and other authors I know I’ll think of after I post this - but I don’t want to spend too much longer on this now when you could be reading some of this great stuff! ENJOY!!

#homestuck fanfics #homestuck #davekat #fanfic recs #fan fiction

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technicolorfamiliar · 18 days ago

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"If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again."

[Photos: Alick Crosley, Sara Krulwich]

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On Sunday, January 5, 2025 The McKittrick Hotel, the home of Punchdrunk's wildly successful and groundbreaking immersive theatre production Sleep No More for 14 years, closed its doors for good. As early as 2011, they would tease that the show was going to close in a few months time. It became kind of a running joke. It was generally accepted Sleep No More would run forever, barring some major catastrophe like a meteoroid flattening West 27th Street. Then in late 2023, when a closing announcement was released in major news publications, suddenly it was real -- Sleep No More was going to close in January 2024.

But then there was an extension. Then another. Then another… And the show ran for a whole year until the final, final, FINAL_SERIOUSLY_FORREALTHISTIMEISWEAR.pdf closing date arrived.

When the initial closure was announced in 2023, going back one last time wasn't an option for me. But as the extension extended, I made it my business to get to New York to say goodbye to Sleep No More and The McKittrick Hotel in person.

A note before I continue: I have a long history with Sleep No More. I saw it six times in Boston in 2009 - 2010 and many more times in New York. I was an intern, a run crew/stage management team member, a steward, and briefly a costume artisan in the period between 2011 - 2015. My complex relationship with the show is colored by all these different experiences. But I was first someone who was deeply moved and inspired and excited by Sleep No More. I could talk about it forever, and have to anyone who would listen. When all is said and done, I am a fan above all else.

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I wound up booking a standard entry ticket for mid-October, around what would have been the 15th anniversary of my first time seeing SNM in Boston. The last time I had seen the show was in early 2019. I had gone with someone who had never seen the show and ended up being not as into it as I had perhaps hoped. I thought about asking someone to come with me this time, but it really is unreasonably expensive, especially for people traveling from out of town, especially for creatives who don't always have a lot of expendable income. So I went solo. Kevin Cafferty recently said in his podcast with original Hecate Careena Melia that SNM is an introvert's paradise, and I tend to agree. When SNM ran in Boston, I always went by myself, so a solitary journey has kind of always been part of the ritual for me.

Since 2019, I noticed there had been some changes. Arrival times were more strictly enforced due to covid-era social distancing protocols. Or so I thought before I arrived at 7:15 to find a line outside the front doors almost to the end of the block. Some of the new changes were appreciated: phones were locked in little cross-body bags, something I first encountered at Punchdrunk's London show The Burnt City in 2022; I wish this was SNM NYC had done in the beginning, it would have be amazing for audiences, crew, and performers. But between my unintentionally late arrival and the bottleneck in the Manderley Bar caused by all the added booths and tables (why??), I only got into the show right as Witches 2 was starting. And despite it still being the first loop, it was way too crowded in the Rep Bar. But I stood in my old run crew spot against the pillar beside the Jello Baby where I used to watch the audience for picture-taking and other bad behavior.

I hadn't entered the building with any real plan or expectations for what I wanted to do or see, but standing in that spot in the Rep Bar brought back all my old muscle memories of the place. I found myself being pulled to the scenes and spaces I inhabited as a crew member over 10 years ago. My pre-set had included the Hotel and so I followed the Porter for most of his loop. I followed the Cunningman, whose 1:1 I once stood inside night after night. The rest of the night was like a Greatest Hits of Sleep No More: the Party, Witches 1, Duncan and Danvers' dance to "Moonlight Becomes You", the Macduffs' bookcase duet. I lingered on the mezzanine as the Vertigo theme blared out over the Ballroom. I ran a hand over parts of the set -- walls, furniture, set dressing -- I once handled every day. Everything felt surprisingly and heart-achingly familiar.

That familiarity has always meant that I'm not really able to enjoy the show purely as a fan anymore. When the muscle memory kicked in, I became overly conscious of where I was standing so I would be out of the way of performers entering and exiting a scene, where to position myself in order to follow certain characters or catch a specific view of a specific scene. I was too aware of the loop structures and tracks to really be completely present. I know some SNM fans love having that knowledge so they can plan their show experience in advance, but what I used to love most about being an audience member was the feeling of discovery and following my gut.

I came out of the show that cold and windy October night with mixed feelings. I was already mildly annoyed by arriving late and I don't know... I got the feeling I wasn't there on a particularly good night. The cast looked amazing but there was a certain chemistry and intimacy missing in a lot of what I saw. The magic for me ended up being in inhabiting the building one last time, and all the sense memories brought up by being there -- the ghosts of every pre-set and post-show, every party and late night hang out in the bar, all the literal blood, sweat, and tears that went into helping make SNM run for a mere fraction of its existence. And of realizing how many other people have walked through The McKittrick Hotel's doors and been affected by their time and experiences there, all the audience members, superfans, staff and crewmembers, performers, everyone who was touched by the show and maybe by the friendships they forged in the Manderley Bar or backstage.

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Years ago I bought this little box. It's where I keep my immersive theater knickknacks and ephemera. In there is Luba's red string and the Watchman's seed packet from The Burnt City, Tuttle's blood moon and Conrad's ink blot from The Drowned Man, a prescription from Then She Fell's Kingsland Ward, 3D glasses and an imaginary map from The Grand Paradise, six playing cards from Sleep No More Boston, Cawdor Seeds, and tickets for the Annie Darcy Band at Oberon. That box is where I put my final playing card with a Porter ring and Cunningman charm, right next to the engraved Hotel key and DeWinter locket I was given at my last show as a crewmember. But there used to be a lot more of SNM New York in that box, a lot of stuff I threw away or lost over the years, things I wish I had held on to. There was a limited edition run of monochromatic playing cards for the very first Halloween that were very cool. One of the people on the props team gave me a vial necklace at the first Mayfair. One of the cast members gave me a small animal tooth. There were photos from various parties. But all that stuff is gone. And fuck it, it wouldn't have fit in the box, but I wish I had smuggled out my black mask after my last show. I don't know why they made me leave it behind, it was cracked and held together with gaff tape. Now it's probably sitting in a landfill somewhere.

I think a lot of those things got tossed because they reminded me too much of the bad days. Sleep No More had a way of bringing out the worst in some people, myself included. I was miserable to be around. And not to point fingers, but I don’t think I was entirely the sole person at fault for this. I mean, they hired a superfan, what did they think was going to happen? I loved the show itself too much to have ever been able to make it out the other side 100% unscathed.

Don't get me wrong, the first few months I was there were the best. There were red flags during that time, sure, but over all the vibe in the building early on was very inclusive. There was a lot of mutual respect and comradery, it felt like a big family and for the most part I felt fairly welcome. Cast and crew and stewards and staff would all hang out together after shows in Manderley or at Billymark's West (R.I.P.). But all that good feeling eventually began to shift. I was like a frog in a pot of boiling water, by the time it got really bad it was too late. There was a shift in the culture inside the building for whatever reason. It became more exclusive, more image focused, more money focused. I suddenly felt expendable, like I no longer belonged there. It broke my heart to see the show itself become less important. My physical health started to deteriorate and my mental health began to spiral. But instead of leaving while things were still semi-ok for me, I had to hit rock bottom before I finally realized I needed a change. Or at least to go home and have a safe place to recover.

So I left. I moved back home to Maryland. I was in pretty bad shape after nearly two and half years of excessive stress and really fucking bleak depression. But Sleep No More, for all its faults, was my second home that whole time. Some of the people I worked with there, though I may not see or speak to them often if at all, I will always feel bonded to because of that shared experience.

So I left. I moved back home to Maryland. I was in pretty bad shape after nearly two and half years of excessive stress and really bleak depression. But Sleep No More, for all its faults, was my second home that whole time. Some of the people I worked with there, though I may not see or speak to them often if at all, I will always feel bonded to because of that shared experience.

It took me a long time to stop feeling bitter about Sleep No More, longer than I care to admit. The BuzzFeed News article rekindled a lot of my old resentment. For years, I've consistently had nightmares about my old job. Only recently have the dreams let up, or when I have them I don't wake up in bad mood. All the stuff I just said above is like a tiny fraction of all the SNM baggage I've been carrying around since I left. For years, it was always so easy to focus just on the bullshit. It completely eclipsed all the good stuff. But because of all the outpourings of love for the show after its closure, the fonder memories, much to my surprise, have begun to resurface.

My job at SNM was not glamorous, there was a lot of heavy lifting and gross stuff the run crew team had to do on top of running our tracks in the show and dealing with performer/audience safety, being on our feet almost the entire time, up and down the six floors of the building from call time to final notes. But showing up, doing the work, and connecting with people brought all these interesting and amazing opportunities both inside and outside of the building. I had barely been an intern a month and I was asked to help repaint the ballroom floor before the first Halloween parties. Much later, I was invited to come back and paint costumes for the Surrealist Mayfair. I met Pig Pen Theatre Co. because of Sleep No More and wound up being offered a few really fun illustration projects for them. I did a bunch of illustration work for performers and staff members. And through Tori Sparks I was connected to Third Rail Projects to work on the build for their first run of Then She Fell and later The Grand Paradise, one of the best experiences and teams of my professional career. I learned every stage manager and run crew track, and I helped create the original intern tracks back when there were just two of us. We would have movie nights in the empty sixth floor space that would become the restaurant. We had roof parties before they built Gallow Green. We had fun nicknames for when we were on radio. We ate a lot of cake at Cake Fridays. We celebrated people's birthdays and last shows and the 100th, 200th, 300th shows in the building. My first day as an intern I was allowed to just watch the early show as an audience member. Before I was hired, the marketing team hired me to design a postcard for a project that sadly never saw the light of day, but I got that opportunity because of the stupid and ridiculous SNM fan art I had made between the Boston show closing and the New York show opening.

All of that was a dream for me.

There were a lot of people who were really good to me, who made me feel welcome and valued, who had my back. I actually wrote down all the names of those people. It was a longer list than I expected. Through their friendship and support, a kind word or an inside joke, they gave me a reason to stay for as long as I did.

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In the days leading up to the last show on January 5, I didn’t think I would write about Sleep No More. I thought maybe I would eventually write something way down the road, long after the final closing performance, after the dust had settled. But I just ended up feeling like this meme and had to get it out of my system now.

I was hired as a SNM intern in the fall of 2011. That winter I was offered a full time run crew position. I ran the track we called Nightmare on High Street from then until I gave my notice in January 2014. I had the pleasure and honor of not only working on a show that inspires me as an artist to this day but also the privilege of working with people who were genuinely really fucking amazing. And that's what really matters in the end, that's the stuff I think about now that it's finally true: we can never go back to Manderley again, and that's all there is.

#my writing #sleep no more

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leibal · 1 year ago

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Within an industrial-style loft in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood, Italian design champion Patrizio Chiarparini founded Duplex in 2015. Curating pieces from iconic design brands, groundbreaking talents, and master artisans, Duplex recently revealed Utopia, an exhibition celebrating the revolutionary fervor of post World War II Italian design.

#minimalism #minimal #minimal furniture #minimalist exhibition #leibal

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screamsinsilver · 8 months ago

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erra lineup summary

jesse cash (2009 - present) - guitar + clean vocals + songwriting + some lyrics, has his solo side project ghost atlas, has co-written some bad omens songs and has co-produced an invent animate album and has done a bunch of vocal features

alex ballew (2009 - present) - drums, programs his drum triggers for live too, was also the plot in you's touring drummer for a while, also writes and tracks and tours drums for ghost atlas

jt cavey (2015 - present) - unclean vocals + some clean vocals + some lyrics, vocals in texas in july, also did covers on youtube and has done a bunch of vocal features, and twitch streamer (in present tense even though he hasn't streamed in two years)

conor hesse (2016 - present) - bass + tour manager + stylist, formerly I the breather, touring bass for ghost atlas

clint tustin (2022 - present) - guitar + live backing tracks and guitar tones and other gear related things + 3d visuals, formerly babymetal western kami band and galactic empire (star wars metal), does 3d graphics/music videos for other bands

adam hicks (2009 - 2012) - bass + backing vocals, left to finish school and become a personal trainer or something along those lines

garrison lee (2009 - 2013) - unclean vocals + lyrics, did all the lyric writing pre moments of clarity, left the band to become a graphic designer (but also maybe got kicked out because he "never really gave a shit" according to some vague reddit answer from jesse)

alan rigdon (2009 - 2013) - guitar, did a lot of songwriting when he was in the band, left to do his own music (the artificials) but is still erra's biggest fan to this day

sean price (2013 - 2022) - bass (early) + guitar, left the band to spend more time with his family, played guitar on erra's short run with bad omens last year, is a barista/artisan coffee specialist

ian eubanks (2013 - 2015) - unclean vocals, had filled in garrison before on tour then took over full time, only appears on the moments of clarity ep and did write vocal parts (and maybe lyrics) for drift. left due to health reasons when touring

here's the one time we had almost everyone in a photo together

(from left to right: jt, garrison, clint, jesse, alan, adam, conor, alex)

sean was there but was watching his kid at the time and ian couldn't get off work or something

#erra #jesse cash #alex ballew #jt cavey #conor hesse #clint tustin #adam hicks #alan rigdon #garrison lee #sean price #sean gregory price #ian eubanks

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manic-maniac-man · 2 months ago

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Eyescream Feb 2015

Hender Scheme

The designer, who started making shoes with the idea of replacing industrial sneakers with handmade leather shoes, one day wanted to see what was beyond that. The beautiful shoes created by the craftsmanship take time to complete, but orders continue to come in from people who realize the appeal of these shoes, which are not mass-produced.

The designer's pure interest in leather shoes as a craft began.

It's only in the past few years that we've started seeing leather shoes from a brand with a slightly odd name: Hender Scheme. When we say leather shoes, we don't just mean common shapes like plain toes, but also familiar sneaker-like shapes made of leather with a high degree of perfection, and their craftsmanship has attracted attention from the domestic and international fashion scenes. Hender Scheme is a Japanese brand founded in 2010 by shoe designer Ryo Kashiwazaki and others. Kashiwazaki, who was originally a shoe repairman, started this project to give form to something he personally wanted to make. This time, we visited the atelier in Taito Ward to see the final product series of the brand, known as iap, line.

The homage line produced by Hender Scheme is currently divided into two main products. The MID line stands for "Manual Industrial Product," and features designs that are usually produced as industrial products, but are produced by hand using leather. The ap line stands for "Industrial Art Product," and is produced with a more artisanal approach. The mIp line is the main product of this homage line, while the lap line takes a more particular approach.

"The homage line started with the idea of handcrafting mass-produced shoes, something that is easy for the average person to imagine. Even if they look the same, the atmosphere and the way they look can change depending on the environment and habits of the craftsman, which is what's interesting. That's what I call the "homage line," MID, while lap takes it a step further and approaches it from a more craft-oriented angle."

Like mip, the process of creating a sneaker-like design is the same, but the thread count, pitch, and processing of the leather edge (cross section) are all fine details.

I didn't make it with commercial intent in mind, so I think it's fine to make it if someone likes it.

In contrast, the "iap" initiative, which has shoes made by craftsmen who specialize in bespoke shoes, was originally not intended for sale on the market, but was purely a "personal experiment" for Kashiwazaki. "At first, even the craftsmen were surprised. Traditional shoe craftsmen are particular about the wonderful things they put in, the traditional manufacturing methods, and beautiful lines, but I was genuinely interested in what would come out when I tried to replace it with a more neutral perspective, so I started by persuading the craftsmen. I was very satisfied with the finished product, so I thought I'd try exhibiting it at an exhibition, and that's how the "iap" line began."

Because the design is based on sneakers, the number of parts is overwhelmingly greater than that of ordinary leather shoes, and the process is also overlapping, so the price is higher than that of regular models. Currently, only three stores in Japan wholesale them to stores. Even so, they always receive orders for several pairs per season.

"It wasn't originally made with a view to making it as a business, so I think it's fine if someone likes it and I make it. It's not completely custom-made because it's made with a wooden shoe tree, but the distinctive feature of this line is that it's not mass-produced and we can make even just one pair."

The "iap" is available in two sizes and is available in black or dark brown. It usually takes 4 to 5 months to deliver after an order is placed, but for those who are obsessed with the charm of these shoes, this time probably doesn't seem that long.

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