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Archive for April, 2011

Wanted to share with you an incredible performance that Dame Darcy gave for us on a rooftop in Chinatown, NYC. In this clip she sings the traditional sea chanty, Greenland Whale Fisheries and plays the saw, accompanied by her sailor/rocker friend Peter Mavrogeorgis.

Darcy is a historian of many fantastic things and she brings this knowledge to her work in comics and music. She recorded an entire album of traditional sea shanties and murder ballads Cabin Fever, with her band Death By Doll.

We LOVE love love the mermaid-y illustration on the cover!

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Being a Mermaid is not just fun and games, many we have encountered use their mermaid powers to raise awareness about the crucial environmental issue of protecting the earth’s water and its lifeforms. Makes sense, right?!

In this clip from Mermaids of New York, Mara Haseltine, environmental activist and sculptor talks passionately about why she does what she does.

Hard not to care, when you put it that way!

Mermaid Hannah, another professional mermaid, even started a non-profit which engages surfers to help protect marine life through direct action!

Not a mermaid but still interested in going blue? check out this out!

 

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