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highpulp:

Eiko Ishioka, Japanese designer (born July 12, 1938, Tokyo, Japan—died Jan. 21, 2012, Tokyo), won accolades in the worlds of theatre, film, and advertising for her sensual and compelling designs; her many honours included an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and two Tony Award nominations. Ishioka began her career (1961) in the advertising division of the Japanese cosmetics company Shiseido and in the early 1970s opened her own advertising agency, where her avant-garde campaign for the boutique chain Parco made her a star in the design world. Her work as production and costume designer on the 1985 film Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters won her an award (shared with the cinematographer and the composer) for best artistic contribution at the Cannes Festival, and she won an Academy Award in 1993 for her costume design for Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992). Her design for the Miles Davis album Tutu won her a Grammy Award for best album package in 1986, and she was nominated for the 1988 Tony Awards for set design and costume design for her work on the Broadway play M. Butterfly. Ishioka designed costumes for the musical Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark(opened 2011) and for the Cirque du Soleil show Verekai (2002). In addition, she was director of costume design of the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

humansofnewyork:

“I looked out my window and saw smoke coming from the village across the river. At first I thought it was a casual fire. But then I heard shooting, and I saw people were trying to swim across the river. We knew that our village would be next. I grabbed what I could carry and ran toward the mountain. We hid in the bushes all day. There were thousands of us on that mountain. Anyone who tried to talk was shushed. We looked down on our village and watched them burn our houses. Before they burned mine, they carried everything out. They took all my furniture. They took two hundred bags of lentils. I’m a schoolteacher, but I owned a lot of farmland. I paid taxes on my land for decades. I have all my paperwork. I have all my receipts. But they took it all from me. I wasn’t able to bring a single grain of rice with me. These papers are all I have. They are worthless now. But my hope is that one day they’ll have value again.”
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This week I’m sharing a series of first hand accounts from Rohingya refugees. The Rohingya are a persecuted ethnic minority who have been violently evicted from Myanmar by Buddhist extremists. Over the past year, nearly 700,000 Rohingya have been driven from their homes and are now residing in refugee camps in Bangladesh. Their living conditions are already dire, and monsoon season is approaching. As we share their stories, we are raising money to help build inexpensive bamboo houses for these refugees. (They are currently living in plastic tents.) Bamboo houses can be built for $600 a piece, and we’ve raised enough for nearly 1000 so far. Please consider donating: http://bit.ly/2H0w5lm