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Female Self Perspective – Venus Figurines

Posting this article to honor Lady Day (March 25th)

Source: Toward Decolonizing Gender: Female Vision in the Upper Paleolithic by Catherine Hodge McCoid and Leroy D. McDermott American Anthropologist, June 1996

Abstract: Examining McDermott’s hypothesis that the earliest known images of the human body from the European Upper Paleolithic (Venus figurines) were self-representations by women. When examined, this proposal becomes so compelling that the only remaining question is, Why did it take so long to consider the logical possibility that a female point of view was involved?

Paleolithic Venus:

All of us look at the world and, at least partially, see what is inside our own heads. The the extent that we do not recognize this, we remain behind our cultural screens.

Beautiful Handmade Bilums (bags) of Papua New Guinea

Beautiful Handmade Bilums (bags) of Papua New Guinea

Click here to buy a unique handmade bilum on www.artfire.com now! Limited number available. The last time I spent more than a couple days in Papua New Guinea I learned how to make a bilum from a wonderful highland woman by the name of Kapaim. She was very patient with me--I was determined to ...

Digestion of Processed Vs Homemade Food

Digestion of Processed Vs Homemade Food

This video already has nearly 2 million views so maybe many of you have already seen this. Personally I wouldn't want to be swallowing one of those so called 'smart pills' but I sure do appreciate getting a look at the difference between digesting processed foods and homemade food. Those ramen noodl ...

How You Can Support Village #Occupy

How You Can Support Village #Occupy

I've been spending all the time I can lately down Village #Occupy Vancouver. It is so lovely to have a new-old village in the middle of the downtown! I have mostly been listening to people, I have heard complaints about the system from all kinds and I have heard complements about the movement from a ...

Art as Money – Spend Your Art

Art as Money – Spend Your Art

I was recently informed of this very cool project that is sweeping the globe! Art as money. Buy your money, spend your art. We do indeed need a whole different way of looking at money, it is a tool that we can use as we please, not something to be controlled by. I find this a very liberating project ...

Painting a New Vision

Painting a New Vision

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the high ...

Ai Wei Wei With Milk

Ai Wei Wei With Milk

On our trip to Portland we stopped in a couple book stores and I picked up the book Ai Wei Wei With Milk in one of them. Ai Wei Wei has recently been disappeared in China and there have been demonstrations around the world to find out where he is. After the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Ai Weiwei decided ...

Robin Hood in Queen Elizabeth Park

Robin Hood in Queen Elizabeth Park

We never seem to have much time for entertainment these days, but since coming to Vancouver, BC we have become fans of a local troupe of radical actors. The last play we saw was Death of a Clown by Sebastien Archibald. This was actually our first time at Queen Elizabeth park which was a treat in and ...

Death of a Clown

Death of a Clown

It's hard to climb the corporate ladder in size 22 shoes. Despite not being able to drink because we just started the GAPS diet two months ago, we had a very special and wonderful St. Patrick's Day this year. We spent the evening busting our sides at a play by Sebastien Archibald called The Death ...

Winter Olympic Musings

Winter Olympic Musings

As some of you may know from my snail mail New Years letter in December, I had a scheme to work for the winter Olympics and make a ton of money in a short time period. I used to work large sporting events (catered for the APGA golf tournament in 2000 and the NZ V-8 car races in 2004) and had found t ...