House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural (1973)
“If you don’t enjoy our company, you can go back to where you were, Lila.”
Dir. Richard Blackburn, starring Leslie Gilb and Cheryl Smith.Combine the literary elements of H.P Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” and Arthur Machen’s “The White People”, and you arrive somewhere near the uneasy world of this cult-movie gem of a film.
It tells the story of Lila Lee, an angelic chorister in a depression era revivalist church; the depression providing a natural setting for the almost ‘folk-horror’ feel of the film. Lila’s father is a notorious mobster, so she has instead been in the care of a lecherous reverend. After Lila’s father murders his wife and her lover, and goes on the run, Lila receives a letter from someone called Lemora claiming that her father is on his deathbed and asking for his daughter. She steals away by night and boards a bus to a portentously named backwoods community where the local inhabitants are suffering from strange deformations. Awaiting her is the pale, raven-haired, black-clad Lemora, whose chiselled, angular features, bluish lips, huge dark eyes and throaty voice create a quintessential female vampire.
On this day, 8 March 1926, the predominantly female members of the Fur & Leather Workers Union in New York City went on strike, and were beaten by police. However they were undeterred and remained out until they won a 10% pay increase and a five-day working week. https://ift.tt/2Cap8OD
On this day, 20 June 1967, boxing legend Muhammad Ali was convicted for refusing the draft for the Vietnam war in Houston, Texas. Ali had been a vocal opponent of the US war, saying “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs?” To try to quell the escalating resistance to the war, Ali was given the maximum sentence of 5 years imprisonment and a $10,000 fine. But their efforts were unsuccessful, and the anti-war movement continued to grow. Despite the Nation of Islam beginning to distance themselves from Ali, demonstrations supporting him took place around the world, from Egypt to Guyana to London to Ghana. Four years later his conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court. But Ali had no regrets: “I wasn’t trying to be a leader. I just wanted to be free. And I made a stand all people, not just black people, should have thought about making, because it wasn’t just black people being drafted. The government had a system where the rich man’s son went to college, and the poor man’s son went to war. Then, after the rich man’s son got out of college, he did other things to keep him out of the Army until he was too old to be drafted.”
As well as draft resistance, resistance to the war developed within the armed services themselves. Learn more in our podcast episode with anti-war veterans: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/06/e10-the-gi-resistance-in-vietnam-part-1/ https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1150454841806331/?type=3
On this day, 26 May 1970, African American auto worker and Vietnam veteran Gary Thompson was killed at the Eldon Chrysler plant in Detroit. There had been a catalogue of safety failings in the plant which led to his death, which was sadly not unique in the factory. Many workers responded by walking out on a wildcat strike the next day, partly organised by the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. More info in this podcast about the group: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/28/e12-the-league-of-revolutionary-black-workers-in-detroit/ https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1132374730281009/?type=3
I get messages like this one every now and then. I understand if you don’t do something, you don’t really know what goes into it, so.. sure!~
Step one. Buy all the above. (Well, I mean, it doesn’t have to be that exact stuff, but you asked what I used, so there you go).
Step two. Learn to sew. Learn to digitize. Digitize your embroidery. Test. Test again. Test again. Make a bear pattern. Tweak. Make another. Tweak. Make another. And anotherrrr. And on, and on, and on.. (seriously, see the prototyping bear pile photo above). Embroider design. Cut pieces. Sew pieces. Stuff. Assemble. Add hand stitched elements.
So all that = Cap bear. The above is what I used/you need and the cost of making a Cap bear, starting from scratch. I’m sorry you think I’m charging too much for my work. I hope you find making one yourself more to your budget.Reblogging for the sake of all artisan crafters everywhere! This isn’t a charity, we are trying to make a living!
