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Toeslayer's Dancing Shoes: The Dancing Traffic Light
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A brief history of social dance custom and shoe costume. Monday, December 1, 2014. The Dancing Traffic Light. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Modern Dance: The Waltz - The dirty dancing of its time. During the 17th century ballrooms became popular and being dressed for a ball all the more so. The best finery was the order of the day a. Kenzo World: Margaret Qualley dances in bespoke shoes. A brief history of pointe shoes. Modern Dance: The origins of Hip Hop from funk to break. Teen dances in the 195...
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Retifism and Fetishism: Andy Warhol: Retifist ?
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Thursday, May 7, 2015. Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh to Czechoslovakian immigrants. He grew up in the city and attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology. After graduating with a degree in pictorial design in 1949 he moved to New York City to work as a commercial illustrator. It was during this time that he started to draw. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Sadism and Masochism: The whole 50 shades. Relatively few sadomasochists are exclusively sadists or exclusively masochists there is...
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Retifism and Fetishism: Shoes: Protection or decoration?
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Friday, May 1, 2015. Shoes: Protection or decoration? Frugal (1930) reminds us clothing has important social significance which tells much about the personality of the wearer. Apparently our eyes react to the visual signals emitted by clothing much in the same way we do to hands and faces. This provides the safest distance to judge a stranger and the more intimate the relationship then the more important finer features and speech play. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Falanga describes a form of foot ...
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Retifism and Fetishism: Holes in their souls
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Holes in their souls. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Sadism and Masochism: The whole 50 shades. Relatively few sadomasochists are exclusively sadists or exclusively masochists there is generally a mixture with one aspect more predom. Foot torture: painful ways to gain a confession. In earlier times the desire to quell free thought and the need to elicit perceived truth were indistinguishable and achieved, in the main,. Acrotomophilia:Wannabes, devotees and pretenders. The or...
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Talking Australian: Australian Larrikins
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A blog dedicated to the origins of Australian English. Thursday, June 18, 2009. 8216;A gang of "larrikins" . had been the terror of Little Bourke-Street and its neighbourhood’. The (Melbourne) Age (1870). It took another ten years before larrikin. Something happened at the beginning of the 20th century and the negativity associated with larrikin synonymous with hooligan died out in Australia and instead became a term affectionately used to describe persons who did not always adhere strictly to polite soc...
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Talking Australian: Just add O
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A blog dedicated to the origins of Australian English. Friday, May 29, 2009. In the movies of course where stereotyping is the norm there are three main Australian accents i.e. Broad, General and Cultivated. Very few women use broad Australian accents with one notable exception ex Curtin University graduate, comedian and actress Judith Lucy. Cultivated Australian is akin to formal BBC English which is more often than not spoken by women in Australia wanting to portray a feminine and sophisticated image&#...
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Talking Australian: History of Australian Rock: Part One
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A blog dedicated to the origins of Australian English. Saturday, July 25, 2009. History of Australian Rock: Part One. By the late fifties rock and roll groups consisted of two electric guitars (one lead, one rhythm), an electric bass guitar (which replaced the double bass) , and a drum kit. In most people’s minds Bill Haley’s Rock around the clock was the beginning of the movement, but honours should go to “Crazy Man, Crazy" which first hit the American charts in 1953. Rock Around the Clock" was recorded...
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Talking Australian: Robert Stigwood: Greatest pop empresario of all time
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A blog dedicated to the origins of Australian English. Sunday, June 12, 2011. Robert Stigwood: Greatest pop empresario of all time. As John Leyton’s agent, Stigwood managed to get him cast in the role of a pop star, Johnny St. Cyr ("sincere") in a new TV soap called, Harper's West One. The role called for Leyton’s character to perform a song on the show. The single, ‘Johnny Remember me’ became an instant Number One hit in the UK. In 1973 Stigwood moved into film and produced Jesus Christ Superstar as a m...
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Talking Australian: Happy as Larry - the origins
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A blog dedicated to the origins of Australian English. Monday, May 4, 2015. Happy as Larry - the origins. The earliest printed reference to “Happy as Larry” (meaning extremely happy or content) is from New Zealand writer G. L. Meredith, dating from around 1875:. We would be as happy as Larry if it were not for the rats". When Australian middleweight boxer, Larry (Laurence) Foley. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Bodgies, Bludgers and Bogans. The origins of Flash Talk: Convict speech in the colonies.
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Talking Australian: Australian English: The influence of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
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A blog dedicated to the origins of Australian English. Friday, June 5, 2009. Australian English: The influence of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. The word cooee appears in place names like Cooee, a suburb in the Tasmanian city of Burnie. There is also the Cooee March which was staged by 35 men from Gilgandra, New South Wales as a recruiting drive after enthusiasm for the World War I waned in 1915. The men marched to Sydney calling "Cooee! Yallum which describes a natural well, denotes a slow deli...
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