Who is Emily the strange?
Emily the Strange came to life in the early 1990's and quickly became a beloved counterculture icon all around the world. In her earliest years, she was a quiet but sharp-witted stranger, slinging philosophy and cultural observations in a series of hand-screened t-shirts and stickers. As her presence grew and became a standard in the cultural underground, Emily's own story began to emerge in a series of gift books, then comic-books and graphic novels, and now a novel series for young adults.
Today, Emily continues to be a voice for individualism and self-awareness, and her appeal is especially strong among alternative-minded young women and girls who identify with her signature singularity. Her presence in the worlds of art, pop culture, literature, and fashion celebrates non-conformist and reminds us all to cultivate that which makes us unique.
Emily is: An Artist, A Dreamer, An Inventor, A Scientist, A Skater, A Rocker and An Individual!
Emily's not your average thirteen year-old-girl. Pink is her worst nightmare...she wears the same black dress every day. She loves math and science. Her best friends are her four BLACK CATS! She's into old rock & punk, but also digs newer bands like My Chemical Romance (BTW, Gerard Way is featured in her Dark Horse comic book, "Revenge at Last!") Emily is so anticool she's cool... a subculture of one, and a follower of no one but herself.
Designers including Jean-Paul Gaultier, Valentino and Marc Jacobs have paid tribute to her, but she doesn't care! Emily wants you to be yourself, think for yourself, and DO IT YOURSELF!
Today, Emily continues to be a voice for individualism and self-awareness, and her appeal is especially strong among alternative-minded young women and girls who identify with her signature singularity. Her presence in the worlds of art, pop culture, literature, and fashion celebrates non-conformist and reminds us all to cultivate that which makes us unique.
Emily is: An Artist, A Dreamer, An Inventor, A Scientist, A Skater, A Rocker and An Individual!
Emily's not your average thirteen year-old-girl. Pink is her worst nightmare...she wears the same black dress every day. She loves math and science. Her best friends are her four BLACK CATS! She's into old rock & punk, but also digs newer bands like My Chemical Romance (BTW, Gerard Way is featured in her Dark Horse comic book, "Revenge at Last!") Emily is so anticool she's cool... a subculture of one, and a follower of no one but herself.
Designers including Jean-Paul Gaultier, Valentino and Marc Jacobs have paid tribute to her, but she doesn't care! Emily wants you to be yourself, think for yourself, and DO IT YOURSELF!
The Tract House
The Tract House is looking for new tracts!
In conjunction with the American Philosophical Society (APS) Museum and Philagrafika, The Tract House: The Darwin Addition will be distributing tracts in Philadelphia in early 2010.
For this special incarnation of The Tract House, we are specifically seeking tracts that have to do with the ideas, themes, and life of Charles Darwin!
Tracts can focus on all matter of Darwiniana, including, but not limited to: geology, theology, sexuality, asexuality, extinction, deep time, God, God-lessness, natural selection, mutation, survival of the fittest, breeding, inbreeding, observation, cannibalism, ape relatives, botany, barnacles, hermaphrodites, lost continents, heredity, and animal emotions. In addition, tract writers may want to tackle more practical issues, such as: food and hygiene on a five year journey, how to make friends with strangers living on islands, beards, pet turtles, on-board diversions, keeping specimens from accidentally being eaten, killing for science, and world travel pre-internet.
To see the online exhibition about Darwin at the APS Museum, visit APSMuseum.org/Darwin.
Do not feel the necessity of being bound simply by “facts.” The tract is the perfect vehicle for your own crackpot theory, well-reasoned idea, kneejerk rant, or stalwart manifesto. The purpose of a tract is to convince your reader of something you truly believe. Your tract can be urgent, convincing, loud, strident, scolding or simmering, genuine, soft, or ridiculous. Use the tools your language has to offer: humor, metaphor, poetics, allegory, melodrama.
Tracts can vary in length from a few choice words to a longer story. The tracts will be professionally designed by Roman Jaster. To see all tracts previously published by The Tract House, please visit TheTractHouse.com. For images of The Tract House in action, visit http://www.lisaanneauerbach.com/projects/tracthouse/index.html
{For those of you who submitted tracts for the Miami Tract House that was cancelled last October due to recession, we will try to use submitted tracts that can somehow be related to Darwin!}
Deadline for tracts: October 1, 2009. Please submit your text to TheTractHouse@gmail.com
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