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Sanamama Founder Gabi Torres Works With a Medium to Create Intention-Filled Jewelry Loved by Taylor Swift

Sanamama Founder Gabi Torres Works With a Medium to Create Intention-Filled Jewelry Loved by Taylor Swift

Spiritual and sparkly! Jewelry designer Gabi Torres has created pieces loved by Taylor Swift, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Madelyn Cline, and it’s not just because they shimmer in every light. The rings, necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and ankles from her brand, Sanamama, double as intention-setting tools thanks to Torres’ process of sourcing rare gemstones from around the world before handcrafting each item in 18k and 14k gold. The Florida native, who began her career as an art therapist, used her healing background to create something that could be worn, and experienced, daily. Gustavo Marmol “I was working with crystals for a while and placing them in my client’s homes as energetic interior design. I felt like jewelry was lacking that same magic, so I custom designed a piece for myself. That piece sparked orders to come in and created a demand for what I was making,” she tells ET. And it didn’t take long for celebrities to gravitate towards the designs, drawn to both their beauty and their energy. “We use stones that carry a higher …

Why Lego is our most powerful art medium

Why Lego is our most powerful art medium

Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d type: The propaganda coming out of Iran is having a moment. Since the first days of the U.S.-Israeli attack on that nation, a group calling itself Explosive Media has been releasing AI-generated memes excoriating Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the president’s closest advisers. This in itself isn’t extraordinary, especially when one of the most prolific generators of hyperbolic, incendiary digital misinformation is the White House. In the battle for hearts and minds, the president’s social media team has, among other affronts, ripped off Studio Ghibli’s animation style to cutesify its deportation efforts. More recently, it ran afoul of Pokémon’s legions by cribbing that franchise’s signature font and imagery. The Iranian Lego team, as they refer to themselves, is a small group that has found broad appeal by capitalizing on Millennial and Gen Z nostalgia for a toy central to their upbringings. None of it has been as broadly embraced as the public’s reaction to Explosive Media’s Lego-style memes portraying Trump as a crybaby, Netanyahu’s puppet …

‘Spiritual medium’ gets jail for sexual assault on teen girl during private lessons

‘Spiritual medium’ gets jail for sexual assault on teen girl during private lessons

SINGAPORE: A spiritual medium who sexually assaulted a teenage girl under the pretext of giving her one-to-one wushu lessons was sentenced to nine years and four months’ jail on Wednesday (Dec 31). Tan Beng Kwee, 63, had earlier been convicted of sexual offences against the victim, who was then between 14 and 15 years old.  The charges are one count of attempted sexual penetration of a minor under 16, one count of sexual penetration of a minor under 16, and one count of procuring an indecent act from a young person.  Tan claimed trial and was found guilty of all three charges by Principal District Judge Toh Han Li, who dismissed the accused’s bare denial. The victim cannot be named due to a gag order.   OFFERED PRIVATE LESSONS Tan founded the Ang Mo Kio home temple in 2007 and lived there with his then-girlfriend.  He acted as a spiritual medium who invited a Taoist god to possess him during sessions with temple members. During one such session, Tan told the victim to learn wushu, …