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From one Southern Feminist to another

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old school Birmingham activistsMy wonderful friend Opal has started writing a column about women in Birmingham, Alabama.

Women in the Magic City, Volume 1 | pavomag.com

One of my favorite lines:  “And I can say now, after spending time transcribing the interviews and doing my own soul searching, that I learned a lesson much more beneficial than some hot-air intellectual stroking of feminist egos. What I learned was this: calling yourself a feminist means nothing to the world, and even less to Birmingham. Acting like a feminist – responding to a call for change by BEING the change – is the only measurable standard that matters.”

Underwater Microphones and Juliana Snapper

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Today I started to resolve  sound elements for The Trophy.  I love this part!  I know it will take awhile.   Part of that trendy artword trajectory is learning how you tick as an artist.  Someone once told me I was part social archivist/part geek.  I don’t know if that’s true, but I will be accumulating sound, exploiting some  technical devices, and collaborating with some family.    But there is some conceptual framework in the back of my head.  I will be doing  a lot of recording around the 4th of July.

So I started the Google chain of events and searched for underwater microphones >> learned they were called “hydrophones,”  >>> found “Aquarian Audio Products,”  >>>> and was amazed to find a testimonial from an Juliana Snapper regarding her underwater opera!    There is a good post about her on the art:21 blog.  [Read more…] about Underwater Microphones and Juliana Snapper