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Kira Wiedemann turns her love for the endangered sea creatures into award-winning T-shirt artwork.
A10-year-old artist, an elementary school art teacher, a hotel and sea turtles all came together at the right time in the right place and pitched in to help each other.
The artist was Kira Wiedemann, who - until her May 19 fifth-grade graduation - was a student at Tommie Barfield Elementary.
The art teacher was Kathy Anderson, who saw a terrific opportunity for a community-based extracurricular activity that would help wildlife and support the skills of blossoming artists.
The hotel was the Marco Island Marriott Resort, whose marketing director, Mark Vaughan, came up with the idea and brought all the people together.
And the sea turtles - who haven't the foggiest clue of how all this happened, but may survive longer and live healthier because of it - are the females who come ashore to lay their eggs and propagate their progeny, then take off, leaving tiny hatchlings to fend for themselves.
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Fashion trends weren't on Stephan Bohle's mind as a guard patted him down for his first visit to Germany's largest prison last year.
The inmates there were making tables, chairs and mirrors, and the wardens were wondering if the inmates could make some extra money for the prison by selling the products.
"I brought my team back into the prison, and everyone had the same reaction. They jumped. We all knew it could be interesting."
Thus was born the fashion world's latest killer label. By last summer, Bohle was offering prison shirts and pants online. When "people bought the hell out of them," he knew it was time to bust out.
He decided to sell not knockoff prison wear, but clothes that were designed, cut and sewn by murderers, rapists and thieves.
By December, Bohle and his group had come up with a label, Haeftling (it means "inmate" in German) and an advertising campaign that included mug shots of former inmates holding booking placards that say, for instance, "Shirt 32.50 Euro."
They even decided to join "Design May," a fashion event in which designers open temporary storefronts in Berlin to show off their new lines to customers and reviewers.
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Selina King has worked for Elle magazine and Dolce & Gabbana. Meg Ryan and Natalie Portman have purchased her wares, and Britney Spears shops at one of the boutiques she sells to.
Now, Blufftonians have a chance to get that star style - at prices that are more Lowcountry than Big Apple.
King will sell vintage clothing at The Store throughout the summer, and said she hopes to coordinate with Jamie Guscio of Scuppernongs to have some vintage trunk shows with wine tastings.
"I want girls to understand that you can get the high fashion look at a reasonable price," she said. "I try to bring in what you can see in all the magazines, but my stuff is very affordable - from about $15 to $70."
King, a graduate of Parsons School of Design in New York City, said she also designs customized invitations; sells reconstructed vintage jewelry and will do personal shopping.
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Starting next year, U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq won't be sporting red, white and blue American flag patches on their uniforms. As part of the first redesign of Army battle dress in more than two decades, Old Glory will be colored a muted tan and black.
"The red, white and blue patch was a target at night," explains Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Myhre, a designer of the new uniform.
It's an example of how functionality -- and safety -- trumped all other concerns when a small group of engineers, scientists and soldiers from a special Pentagon team began meeting 18 months ago to remake the traditional on-duty garb of American soldiers.
The Army unveiled the new uniform Monday as part of its 229th birthday celebration.
There uniform received 31 major design changes. Gone are buttons and belts. The waist features a drawstring, and the shirt zips up. The muted camouflage pattern is a pixelated light green and tan. Velcro is used to fasten cuffs, insignias, badges and patches.
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Scientists believe they have discovered proof that ancient Chinese craftsmen were using complex machinery to work jewelry long before such machines were previously believed to have been invented.
The earliest known historical references to compound machines come from writings attributed to Hero of Alexandria that are dated to the first century AD, but spiral grooves on 2,550-year-old jade rings must have been made by a precision "compound" machine, according to Dr. Peter Lu of Harvard University.
Carved decorations on jade from ancient China were thought to have been made by hand or with simple machines that worked with a single movement. But ornamental jade burial rings reported in Science magazine that date from 771 to 475 BCE excavated from hoards and tombs belonging to ancient officials and nobles indicate that machinery was used.
The jade was worked with compound machines - two or more machines with different motions linked together to perform precision work.
The machine that carved the grooves would have linked rotational and linear motion, perhaps using a stylus suspended over a rotating turntable, says Dr. Lu.
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