Laura Ellis
@funambulator
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(she/her) Director of Podcasts & Special Projects, @LouPubMedia. Sound designer: @kyshakespeare. I have a GED & a Peabody.
Louisville, KY
Joined June 2008
Incredibly excited that @ayisha will be joining us here in Louisville!! Can't wait to work with her and the rest of the team on our new talk show:
lpm.org
Talk show with local focus is expected to launch in early 2025.
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Update: Preston did a fb live and said the fair removed the display and has it in storage!
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My boss/editor/Michelle Whisperer @funambulator made the most on point Mary J. Blige reference in the edit of a document today. Damn I love her. (Both Laura Ellis AND Mary J. ) There’s not hateration, holleration for either under my roof.
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The category is “parody lyrics that are so good they sometimes supplant the original in my mind”
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Louisville Public Media will layoff eight staff, joining public radio outlets across the country in reductions amid rising costs lower than expected membership growth.
lpm.org
Kentucky’s largest public radio station will cut its workforce amid lower than expected revenues and rising costs.
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Four years ago, a Louisville Metro Police officer fired pepper balls at a @wave3news crew broadcasting live on air. That night, LMPD said the incident would be investigated. Four years later, that investigation is still open. My latest:
courier-journal.com
Dusten Dean, the officer who fired the pepper balls, has seen his salary increase and has become a detective in the intervening four years.
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“Can you imagine being a baby named Judy?!?!?” —@JoneseFranklin
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Thread of surreal sculpture details 🧵 1. Water flowing over toes
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Me: Kurt Loder is 79! @funambulator: No wonder my knees hurt
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As tomorrow’s #MetGala approaches, I would like to remind everyone that while the part you may be most familiar with is the red carpet event, the *actual* department the Met Gala funds is the unglamorous thing you don’t think about the other 364 days/year…the Costume Institute.
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This thread imagines how paleontologists might reconstruct today’s animals if they only had the same level of information we have about ancient animals. And it’s delightful.
Paleo artists often "shrink wrap" fossilized animal depictions The T-Rex, Utahraptor, Triceratops—popular depictions of each of these animals shows skin so close to bone that it might be unrealistic So let's shrink-wrap existing animals🧵 Can you guess what this is?
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a request to bring back the boobquet
America. Charles James (1906-1978) "L’Sylphide," 1937. Ivory silk organza and satin, pink silk and faille, and grosgrain ribbon. ©️ @FIT
#Fashionhistory
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Oh my good lord this thread
The Polonia Wax Museum in Krakov is a thing of beauty. The best £12.50 ever spent. A thread.
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“I don’t think I’ve ever had one. ‘Cause I don’t believe in flying horses.” —#MisterGayle on Pegasus pins
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This week has felt several weeks long. Everyone in the house is either exhausted or asleep. It’s after 7 and #MisterGayle hasn’t even yelled “THE WHEEL” yet.
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Tonight I won an award for sound designing a show I was incredibly proud of my work on. When I got home and showed #MisterGayle, he said, “Well, that and a dollar and a quarter will get you a cup of coffee just about anywhere.” #hater
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An important turning point in your fashion journey is realizing you can love fashion deeply and yet spend most of your time dressed like you’ve just run to the store to buy a dozen eggs.
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(The kid yelled up to Jonese who was near the house & didn’t know what I was doing, “Your chickens?” She of course said no, and they wouldn’t let me into the yard. The chickens survived.)
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I was in the alley trying to save my neighbor’s chickens from some loose dogs by shooing the flock into our yard. A kid was mowing our grass & we have a language barrier so I yelled “¡Hay dos perros RAWR RAWR RAWR the chickens!”
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