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Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication artwork

Dress Code Cracker Episode 8: Abby Ehmann

Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - May 29, 2014 01:06 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Abby Ehmann, aka EditrixAbby, has been a pornographer and event producer, emcee and editor, copy writer and computer artist. But through it all she's been a devout costumer and theme party enthusiast. These days she crafts crowns and tiaras and recently took a millinery class at FIT. Three month...

Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication artwork

Dress Code Cracker Episode 7: Gillian G

Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - May 14, 2014 22:34 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Gillian G is a Toronto illustrator and comic. Her style influences are her 'classy' family, her Mennonite roots, and her love of offbeat colour and costumes. she said she's much more likely to take a fashion risk if she thinks she won't run into anyone she knows....cute!  She's also one of the ...

Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication artwork

Dress Code Cracker Episode 6: Aimee Beausoleil “The Undesirables, Dark Shadows, and the summer of hate"

Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - May 04, 2014 01:12 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Aimee is a social worker living in Toronto who references “satanic panic” and the end of the summer of love in describing her look. Somehow she translates an unwholesome interest in serial killers and horror movies, plus industrial and apocalyptic folk music, into a fun and often colourful retro...

Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication artwork

Dress Code Cracker Episode 5: Aaron Vilk

Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - March 07, 2014 22:11 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Aaron is a sound artist and vegan chef living in PA. He's been in the hardcore and punk scenes for about 5 years. We spoke when he was in Toronto for Not Dead Yet.  We talked about gendered and cultural expectations around fashion and grooming, the origins of his neat and vibrant mod/skinhead s...

Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication artwork

Dress Code Cracker Episode 4: Lisa Stockton Wilson AKA Lisa Hammer

Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - March 04, 2014 23:09 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Lisa Stockton Wilson (aka Lisa Hammer/Trianna Orpheus) met with me at her home in Queens NY to discuss punk, Pippi Longstocking, the hill people of Indonesia, thrift store pickings and Gothic Lolita.  She's a film maker, actor and musician--and obsessive collector of clothes. Her influences are...

Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication artwork

Dress Code Cracker Episode 2: Patricia Clayton

Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - March 04, 2014 03:59 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
I spoke to Patrice Clayton, a ahir stylist in Toronto about her fashion inspirations. They include small town Ontario, girl gangs, Tammy Faye Bakker and goth culture. These days she's is influenced by her love of history, neo Classiscist and Renaissance art, and geometry and colour blocking.  W...

Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication artwork

Dress Code Cracker Episode 3: Jenn Leyva

Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - March 04, 2014 03:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Jenn Leyva is a queer anti-assimilationist anarcho-feminist....and a fatshion blogger. I first 'met' her via her twitter @fatsmartpretty; and her blog by the same name.  Currently working as a kindergarten teacher in South Korea, we spoke via Skype about whiteness, the HRC and Jenn's anti-assim...

Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication artwork

Dress Code Cracker Episode 1: Chris O'Leary

Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - February 17, 2014 20:14 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
CHris is living the Grey Gardens dream on Long Island--a sculptor, painter, actor and hair stylist. We talked about his style evolution from goth through drag to his present incarnation as Anton LaVey lookalike.  Please check out  dresscodecracker.com for more show notes and references images....

Paul Conway: Academic, Semiotician, Communicator artwork

My God Is King

Paul Conway: Academic, Semiotician, Communicator - June 12, 2012 16:53 - 47 minutes
How do you react when a critical moment enters your life? Is God in control of your life at that critical moment, or do you work to seize the opportunity? This week we take a step back and look at what was leading up to the story of Ruth. We welcome Pastor Paul Conway back to LifePoint c...

Word and image - for iBooks artwork

Word and image

Word and image - for iBooks - June 06, 2011 00:25 - application/epub+zip ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Why does the way a page looks influence how we interpret the information it contains? This unit looks will examine how typography and images can be combined to improve literary creativity and allow a document to communicate more readily with the reader. This study unit is just one of many that ca...





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