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Jocelyn Marsh wearing headdress by Tiffa Novoa. Image: Brion Topolski, 2005 Right now all across America there is a feather shortage. In April, The Billings Gazette reported: Jewelry-makers and hairstylists have been snatching up the premium chicken feathers used in standby trout-fly patterns, creating a sudden run on a market that’s ill-prepared for significant fluctuations [...]

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In addition to writing here at Social-Creature, I’ve been working on a fiction project, and am excited to announce it is finally ready to launch! (Click the image below to go to the website…) MirrorLAnd is an adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, except Alice is now in her 20s, just out of [...]

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During their New Moon promo tour a couple of months back, the Twilight Trio was on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and at the end of the show Kimmel let a few people from the audience ask questions of the cast. A girl came up to the mic with a question for Taylor Lautner. “I really like [...]

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At Passover Seder a friend of my mother’s brought me a DVD of the movie Stilyagi (“Стиляги.”) The movie is about a counter-culture youth movement that took place in mid-1950′s USSR. These kids would listen to jazz, dress in outlandish western fashion, with zoot suit jackets and skinny pants, style their hair into pompadours, call [...]

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A visual guide to your alternative identity fashion options presented by: The Alternative Apparel Catalogue Burner: (playa dust for your face sold separately) . Circus: ahem. . Hippie: . Hipster: also, Skater, Raver, Goth: (all separate categories;  you get the idea.) and here’s a throwback– Heroin Chic: Any questions? Like this? Share it: Tweet

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Britney Spears has a new album out today, and guess what it’s called: That’s right! Britney Spears’ new album is called Circus, and this is incredibly interesting to me. Once upon a time, I used to be the production manager for a circus called Lucent Dossier– This troupe is actually part of a whole larger [...]

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“Our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.” President-Elect Barack Obama 516 Years since Columbus discovered America. 232 Years since the first democratic government was established in the United States of America. 143 Years since slavery was abolished. 138 Years since black people got [...]

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My friends over at Skin.Graft Designs just discovered some way shady thief has been blatantly recreating exact replicas of their original clothing designs and selling them on Second Life. Skin.Graft Designs Originals: Sinistyle Designs counterfeit knockoffs: Skin.Graft Designs Originals: Sinistyle Designs counterfeit knockoffs: This is the first I’ve ever heard of anything like this, though [...]

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“Deal with it. Rock’n roll.” – The Rules of Attraction, by Bret Easton Ellis While I was in New York a couple of weeks ago, it came to my attention that hipsters had managed to really piss Adbusters off. If you don’t happen to know what “hipsters” are, or if perhaps you are assuming it’s [...]

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Once you ‘got’ Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again. – Andy Warhol It is totally disconcerting to discover a book that pretty much compiles your insights and articulates them back to you. Buying In: The [...]

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