{"id":224,"date":"2010-05-18T00:03:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"we-are-all-buried-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2010\/05\/18\/we-are-all-buried-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are all buried treasure.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A. Laura Brody is a costume creator  by trade and a functional artist by design and desire. Images of her  Edwardian Cyborg wheelchair \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Driven\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are included in Dr. Grymm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1000  Steampunk Creations. Her Steam Walker (aka Le Flaneur) was part of the  Steampunk Form and Function show at the Charles River Museum of Industry  and Innovation. Her live performance draping event, Presque Pr\u00c3\u00aat a  Porter, won the CSPA Sustainability award for the first Hollywood Fringe  Festival.<\/p>\n<p>You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen her recent work for designer Michael  Schmidt on LMFAO at the Superbowl 46 halftime show, the last 2 Black  Eyed Peas tours, in Fergie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s LEGO dress and on Rhianna\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bottom.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I  love bringing out discarded items and materials and making them the  center of attention. Zipper teeth become lace edgings, ball bearings act  as pendants and centerpieces, remnant snap tape becomes footlights and  old tablecloths are reborn into upholstered cushions and deconstructed  finery.&nbsp; Old electric wheelchairs or thrift store walkers are buried  treasure to be discovered, renewed and re-formed. My creations help  people tap into childhood dreams of becoming heroines, kings, rock stars  and super villains. If my works are steampunk, they are in the mad  scientist mode: reconfiguring ordinary objects in hopes of making them  extraordinary.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-224\" data-postid=\"224\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-224 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A. Laura Brody is a costume creator by trade and a functional artist by design and desire. Images of her Edwardian Cyborg wheelchair \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Driven\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are included in Dr. Grymm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1000 Steampunk Creations. Her Steam Walker (aka Le Flaneur) was part of the Steampunk Form and Function show at the Charles River Museum of Industry and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}