 November 2011 |
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| 1 Year of Newsletters | |
Wow!! With this newsletter we have reached one year of Anatonews! Thank you all for subscribing and sharing our newsletter with your friends! We have lots of fun putting this together every month and look forward to what the future will bring!
In case you missed any of the past issues, we now have an archive where you can find every newsletter we have published. Thanks again to everyone who has spread the word of News From Anatometal. We are excited to see our publication grow more and more! Keep all the input and ideas coming in to heather.anatometal@gmail.com, we love hearing from you. You guys are the best!
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Collaborations
| We are proud to announce that Anatometal is working with master designer Tomas Wittelsbach on some projects and have decided we will be offering his rings as early as next week. From there he and Anatometal will be creating some really insane new lines. Check back on our Facebook Page for more info!
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Meet Anatometal
|  We know how much you love your Anatometal and what it stands for: handcrafted right here in the USA, made with only the highest quality materials. There is so much that goes into each piece as it moves from our machine shop, to the polishing room, to the gold room, through quality assurance, packaging, and to our shipping department. We thought you would like to get to know the people who make that Gemmed Eyelet, Heart Navel Curve, and Nostril Screw possible! In the coming months, we will be invading all the departments here at Anatometal Headquarters and bringing our hard workers right to you!
This month we bring you...
From Packaging, meet Wendy!
Anatometal: What do you do here at Anatometal?
Wendy:
I started in polishing but now I am a packager, I package everything.
Steve: *Yells from across the room* And she makes the best coffee ever!
Anatometal: How long have you worked for Anatometal?
Wendy: Oh... Since 1999, yes from 1999 to 2011 so 12 years.
Anatometal: What is your favorite piece that Anatometal makes?
Wendy: Lots of them! *giggles her famous Wendy giggle* But I don't wear them. I do have some of our Standard Earrings, I like the Princess Earrings and the Plumeria Earrings.
Anatometal: Tell us three things about yourself.
Wendy: Three things! *giggles* I don't know three things! Let's see, I am very stubborn, I like to watch TV, and I like to work. Even when I am not at work I am working. *laughs again*
Anatometal: Ninjas or Pirates?
Wendy: They are about the same. No... Ninjas, I like ninjas better.
Thanks for letting us get to know you a bit Wendy! Who will be featured next month? Be sure to check back to find out!
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Who is Fakir Musafar?
| Last month we took at look at the life of Jim Ward, the Grandfather of the Modern Piercing Movement. This month we would like to introduce you to a man named Fakir Musafar.
Born Roland Loomis in Aberdeen, South Dakota, Fakir claims he started experiencing dreams of past lives at the age of four. By twelve he had given himself his first piercing and in his mid thirties, performed the O-Kee-Pa suspension. Despite his early interest in body modification and primitive rituals, Roland practiced these ancient rites in secret for many years. He studied electrical engineering and has a B.S.E. degree from Northern State University and an M.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. For years he held executive positions in San Francisco advertising agencies and operated his own ad agency in Silicon Valley. Loomis had a diverse career path that included such odd occupations as Instructor in  Demolitions & Explosives (U.S. Army 1952-54) and teacher of ballroom dancing at Arthur Murray's. It was not until 1977 that he made his first public coming out as Fakir Musafar at the first International Tattoo Convention in Reno, Nevada.
Since then Fakir has been known as a Shaman, Artist, Master Piercer, and Body Modifier. He has also played a significant role in the revival of body piercing, body sculpting, branding, and other body related practices for personal expression. Musafar has spent the past 50 years personally exploring and researching primitive body decoration and rituals. He has introduced concepts and practices for the "body-first" approach to explore spirituality in art, body modifications, SM and what he calls "body play". Fakir Musafar is considered by many to be the father of the Modern  Primitives Movement.
Fakir sees his "life work" as writing, speaking and teaching others what he has experienced and learned doing "body play". In the early 1990's he appeared on many mass media shows like NBC's Faith Daniels Show, CBS's People Are Talking, CNN's Earth Matters and Discovery Channel's Beyond Bizarre. In 1998 Fakir made in-depth documentary segments for London Weekend Television's Southbank Show and Playboy Television's Sexcetera. In 1999 he was subject of a documentary film, Fakir Musafar: Profile, made by CANAL + of France for their short film series La Nuit du Cyclone. In the early 2000s he appeared in documentaries for The Learning Channel, Human Canvas Part I and Part II, TBS, FX Channel and Discovery Channel, Fakir also had a major appearance in the 2001 documentary film Modern Tribalism.
Today you can find Fakir teaching courses at Fakir Intensives in San Francisco which hosts the only instruction courses of their kind in the world, and is the only such school licensed by the State of California. You can even catch our own Tod Almighty teaching there on occasion! Fakir Musafar continues to speak at universities, colleges, and new age groups, spreading his knowledge of modern primitives and inspiring a whole new generation of body modification artists.
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Fan photo of the month
| We get so many great pictures every week of our fans wearing their Anatometal, we thought this would be a great place to show em' off! If you would like our Anatoworld to see your bling, post your pictures to our Facebook page, submit them to our Tumblr page or email them to heather.anatometal@gmail.com. We can't wait to see them!
Super Teardrop Eyelets in titanium, anodized light blue; synthetic Sapphire, synthetic Faceted Opal, synthetic Blue Zircon gems
Gemmed Eyelet in ASTM F-136 titanium, anodized light blue; synthetic Faceted Opal, synthetic Sapphire gems
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Thank you guys for joining us once again and participating in all the fun we have here with the newsletter, on Facebook, Tumblr, and all over the web! We really do love you guys!
See you next month!
Sincerely,
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Your friends at Anatometal
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cast in solid 18k gold; 18ga to 8ga. All of our Threaded Bezel-set Gems Ends are hand set and guaranteed for life. Almost any of our faceted and cabochon stones can be set in this piece: see our 
