Staff Pick of the Week
Today’s Staff Pick is Mimi Pond’s delightful book Half Off. Pond is a dedicated cartoonist, graphic novelist, and writer with writing credits that include The Simpsons, Pee Wee’s Playhouse, and Designing Women. She has also been a longstanding cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times and won an Inkpot Award in 2014 after her the release of her graphic novel Over Easy.
Half Off presents witty observational stories centered around swimming at the YWCA, bargains shopping at Woolworth’s and Capwell’s, and Pond’s years as a waitress at Mama’s Royal Café in California. The stories are accompanied by relief engravings in Pond’s distinct illustrative style and exuberant color palette. Published by Rebis Press in 1981, Half Off was designed, printed, and bound by Pond and Rebis partner Betsy Davids in an edition of 115 copies signed by both the artist and publisher. The book is joyously finished with a half-shower cap binding and bubblegum pink fishnet overlay. Of the 115 copies made, Special Collections holds number 97, signed by the artist and publisher.
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-- Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern
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US Vogue July 1988
Cordula Reyer is wearing a plaid suit and a woolen coat. By Valentino. Scarf, Chanel, gloves, Prada, suitcases, Louis Vuitton, tights, La Leg, boots at Emporium Capwell.
Hairstyle, Oribe, make-up Laura Mercier.
Cordula Reyer porte un tailleur à carreaux et un manteau en laine. Par Valentino. Écharpe, Chanel, gants, Prada, valises, Louis Vuitton, collants, La Leg, bottines chez Emporium Capwell.
Coiffure, Oribe, maquillage Laura Mercier.
Photo Steven Meisel
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6 week online course by Dr Tobias Capwell. From his post:
"'The Knight in Art : 1066-1918' runs for six weeks, with two lectures happening back to back on Thursdays. Don't worry about time-zones, if you are distant from GMT everything is recorded for student catch-up, and questions can be asked anytime through the course portal, which will also provide course resources, reading lists, course chat, etc. We are going to cover A LOT of ground in twelve lectures, from cinema, the Bayeux Tapestry, the Crusades, Tournaments, Military Saints, Henry VIII, Negroli, the Eglinton Tournament, Electrotyping, medieval revivalism in fashion, medievalism in the First World War, and of course, armour. I'll be joined by several contributing lecturers, including of course Angus Patterson, Senior Curator of Sculpture, Metalwork, Ceramics & Glass at the V&A, responsible for metals and arms and armour. Angus and I will also be presenting a series of short films as part of the course, running round the museum and discussing things that interest us."
For anyone who hasn’t yet seen the following links:
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Some advice on how to start studying the sources generally can be found in these older posts
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Remember to check out A Guide to Starting a Liberation Martial Arts Gym as it may help with your own club/gym/dojo/school culture and approach.Check out their curriculum too.
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Fear is the Mind Killer: How to Build a Training Culture that Fosters Strength and Resilience by Kajetan Sadowski may be relevant as well.
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“How We Learn to Move: A Revolution in the Way We Coach & Practice Sports Skills” by Rob Gray as well as this post that goes over the basics of his constraints lead, ecological approach.
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Another useful book to check out is The Theory and Practice of Historical European Martial Arts (while about HEMA, a lot of it is applicable to other historical martial arts clubs dealing with research and recreation of old fighting systems).
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Trauma informed coaching and why it matters
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Look at the previous posts in relation to running and cardio to learn how that relates to historical fencing.
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Why having a systematic approach to training can be beneficial
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Why we may not want one attack 10 000 times, nor 10 000 attacks done once, but a third option.
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How consent and opting in function and why it matters.
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More on tactics in fencing
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Types of fencers
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Open vs closed skills
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The three primary factors to safety within historical fencing
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Worth checking out are this blogs tags on pedagogy and teaching for other related useful posts.
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And if you train any weapon based form of historical fencing check out the ‘HEMA game archive’ where you can find a plethora of different drills, focused sparring and game options to use for effective, useful and fun training.
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Check out the cool hemabookshelf facsimile project.
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For more on how to use youtube content for learning historical fencing I suggest checking out these older posts on the concept of video study of sparring and tournament footage.
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The provoker-taker-hitter tactical concept and its uses
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Approaches to goals and methodology in historical fencing
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A short article on why learning about other sports and activities can benefit folks in combat sports
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Consider getting some patches of this sort or these cool rashguards to show support for good causes or a t-shirt like to send a good message while at training.
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Daytime Emmy Award Interviews: A Martinez of "The Bay the Series" and "Santa Barbara"
A Martinez
The 50th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards took place this past Friday, December 15th, at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel. Stars showed up to the red carpet ready to celebrate the biggest and brightest in daytime television.
We had the chance to speak with Emmy winning actor, A Martinez, who many remember from his time on, “Santa Barbara,” as Cruz Castillo. We spoke with him about his time as…
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