13 h. ago A new room for a doomed loom – and the battle to save Australia’s slowly dying crafts

When a rare weaving device was destined for the skip, a collective of artists, teachers and students united to rescue it. They bemoan how university course changes are replacing deep skills with competency checklists“Rachel, bad news,” the text message read. “They’re disconnecting the loom tomorrow.”Rachel Halton still doesn’t know who made the decision, in October 2022, to summarily decommission the $160,000 Jacquard loom that had been a cornerstone of RMIT’s renowned weaving and textile design courses for 20 years. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Forest Hill toddler death: Neighbours 'watched in horror' as paramedics' battled to save tot

Neighbours have told how a 'numb' mother watched on as paramedics desperately tried to resuscitate her two-year-old son, who died after falling from a third-floor window

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9 d. ago PureGym tragedy as gym goer collapses and dies as staff battle to save their life

Staff used their emergency red help point in an effort to to save their life.

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1 week ago Machete attack horror as surgeons battle to save teenager's hands

The 19-year-old suffered serious injuries to his hands in the latest shocking attack, which happened on Sunday afternoon.

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1 week ago Police marksmen were on standby but farmers battled to save cattle after 'terrible' crash

The driver and his cattle are all lucky to be alive after the trailer tipped over on the A55

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1 week ago ‘I add the human touch’: the beautiful, bespoke work of Berlin’s last cinema poster artist

Götz Valien recreates promotional adverts in giant hand-painted images that add a distinct pop art flourishGötz Valien is Berlin’s last movie poster artist, for more than three decades earning a modest living producing giant hand-painted film adverts to hang at the city’s most beloved historic cinemas – a craft he says will probably die with him, at least in western Europe. The studios’ own promotional posters serve as a template, but Austrian-born Valien, 65, adds a distinctive pop art flourish to each image coupled with the beauty of imperfection – part of the reason he has managed to extend his career well into the 21st century.“Advertising is about drawing attention and I add the human touch, which is why it works,” he said. Valien’s work plays up the image’s essence: the imposing bow of a ship, the haunting eyes of a screen siren, a mysterious smile. He jokingly calls himself a Kinosaurier – a play on the German words for cinema and dinosaur. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Neighbour battled to save young boxer 'murdered' in Glasgow home

Josh Taplin, 28, was discovered dead at a property in Glasgow's Knightswood on Monday afternoon.

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2 w. ago 'I died for eight hours – what I saw I wouldn't wish on my worst of enemies'

Steve Kang, a theologist and ex-drug addict, claims to have spent eight hours in the demonic realm of Hell while surgeons were battling to save his life

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2 w. ago People are only just realising this infamous deaf musician could 'hear' using his mouth

One of the most infamous musical geniuses to ever live developed a way to 'hear' not using his ears but his mouth in a battle to save his career from hearing loss

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