Shiny: The History of Glitter

Not all that glitters is gold

Susana Polo

Published: Dec 23, 2011 10:15 am

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All That Glitters: The History of Shiny Things from Etsy on Vimeo.

Nope, this isn’t a sarcastic take on that Mariah Carey movie. It’s about humanity’s historical predilection for shiny things, and making ourselves into shiny things.

Also about 1930’s era American cattle farms. Now go get rid of all the tinsel that’s static clinging to you from the tree.

(via Retronaut.)

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Susana Polo

Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.