craft + activism = craftivism.

The woman knitting above is Selma Miriam, a co-owner of the restaurant Bloodroot in Fairport, Connecticut. I had heard about Selma from my friend Dayna Mankowski, the Crafty Scientist, years ago and have been wanting to go to the restaurant ever since. After finding Bloodroot’s history and philosophy incredibly inspiring, I was saddened to read [...]

You’ll have to turn up your speakers to hear this properly. It’s been transferred from VHS, and is a 1993 performance by 10,000 Maniacs at the inauguration of President Clinton. This morning I read that already this year there have been 219 American soldier deaths this year in Afghanistan, up 41% from all of 2008. [...]

I couldn’t resist taking the photo below when I was at the library the other day. I like how the titles equally evoke hope and despair, respectively. In a nutshell, this photo pretty much explains the modern job search. And lately: *Art and Culture *Online drawing lessons! *GoogleLabs FastFlip! So cool! *Learn about sock machines! [...]

About a year ago, I heard that the amazing and talented Jennifer Marsh had an eye on her next project. Covering a rocket with crafted goodness and hope. After tackling an entire gas station (above) and a giant tree (below), what’s a ginormous rocket? Well, the other week, I was so excited to get an [...]

I could watch this all day long. Everytime I pass the train tracks in Carrboro, I think of her as a little girl, sitting by her Lloyd Street home watching the train go by and writing these lyrics.