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8/30/10: Beautiful dancer, beautiful message
Check out the amazing dancer, Andrea Jerabek, a lifelong dancer and recent amputee (who opted to have it amputated in 2005 after being born with a deformed foot), who incorporates her wheelchair and creates the most beautiful lines you’ve ever seen.
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AG Video Blog: The Lucy 3+ Way Dress
Talk about a garment with multiple personalities. This “dress” can be worn as a top, a strapless top, a halter, a skirt, even a dress, and exemplifies just how fun universal fashion can be.
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Iraq vet becomes first enrollee in FDA-approved adult stem cell trial
And Cpl. Matt Cole deserves this opportunity, that’s for sure. He was paralyzed in an insurgent attack in 2005, and has been paralyzed from the chest down since. A New Orleans chef and an amazing fighter, I hope he gets some movement back. Even the tiniest improvement helps.
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Ag Apparel universal fashion blog premieres (with video reviews)
Wheelchair fashion, universal fashion, adaptive fashion, whatever you want to call it, Ag Apparel does it right. And their new Ag Blog features videos reviews of their innovative clothes.
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Video: It’s my birthday and I can post whatever I want to
It’s my birthday and that means it guilty pleasures time. Because almost no song makes me happier, I’m playing my JAM, “Weak” by SWV. Rock it, SWV. Rock it hard.
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How Do You Wear Your LegaWear: The White Jacket
For my August, How Do You Wear Your LegaWear blog, I’m highlighting the coolest piece of clothing currently in my closet (other than my reconstructed DARE t-shirt): My superfly white LegaWear jacket (get yours here), complete with a pimptastic PURPLE liner.
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What the Geron stem cell trials mean to a paralyzed girl me
If you’ve glanced at the news lately, it seems the time is nigh for a for a spinal cord injury (SCI) cure. What’s the world buzzing about? The FDA giving Geron (a bio-med corporation in California) the go-ahead to begin the first ever human trials in the United States using embryonic stem cells. Full article…
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Pledge, help make “Redneck Ninjas” a reality
Out of all the interesting people I’ve met online, Drew Bates is one of my favorites. A quadriplegic (C5, injured on a road trip in 2007), I adore this mouthy Southern boy for multiple reasons: 1) He makes me laugh (hard), 2) He’s foine (vs. fine), AND 3) He’s creative, like professionally creative. He is a voice-over actor and writer, with a super exciting project in the works. But he needs your help! His creation, Redneck Ninjas (think Blue Collar Comedy Tour, animated, and featuring a wacky family instead of whiny men), is an idea he’d LOVE to make into a 60-second short. To make it happen: Help Drew raise $10,000…
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Hate Chipotle’s high counters too? Wheelchair-user sues, wins
Whatever you do, don’t get between a man and his burrito. You’d think someone who makes burritos by the millions would know this truthitude, but no, Chipotle managed to make this faux pas with their truly thoughtless counter design. Their high counters have been getting off scott-free for years, violating every ADA law in the book, and FINALLY, finally they’re being (legally) chastised. But only in California, for now. The pissed AND hungry wheelchair-user we have to thank is San Diego State University professor Maurizo Antoinetti, who became a paraplegic in the Italian army. He began his crusade against Chipotle in 2005 after he realized he couldn’t see a damned thing.…
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Custom Battlebot wheelchairs OMG
What’s a engineer with mad skills supposed to do after his stint on Robot Wars ends (and the rest of the year when he’s not working on his insane fire sculptures for Burning Man)? I know! CREATE BATTLEBOT WHEELCHAIRS. And that’s exactly what Lance “aka Blaster” Greathouse did, from making a fire-spurting gun wheelchair to designing a beautiful gothic chair. His wheelchairs make being unable to walk look cool. And I gotta say, no lie, this is the most amazing line of fantastical wheelchairs I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been writing about custom wheelchairs for years (years!). Here’s a taste of some of the Battlebot-esque wheelchairs from…
