craft + activism = craftivism.

This bizarre ad clip of Kevin Bacon acting the part of “Ivan Cobenk,” obsessed Kevin Bacon fan is noteworthy because there are Kevin Bacon crafts. Kevin Bacon cross stitch, need I say more? Also incredibly cool, check out this amazing project by Travis Goodspeed, Arjan Scherpenisse and Fabienne Serriere called Multithreaded Banjo Dinosaur Knitting Adventure [...]

“Today the only works which really count are those which are no longer works at all.” -Theodore Adorno* “Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we [...]

A few slides from my talk in Oslo the other week. I’m putting them here, because the first slide, to me, is the crux of what craft’s all about. It’s a dividing line of sorts, that makes people argue if craft is this, or if craft is that. Is craft more populist? Or is it [...]

For anyone who is making their holiday crafts by hand, this may ring a bell*…. (by Franklin Habit) If the above doesn’t scare you off, I have a nice and easy pattern for fingerless gloves in Craft Hope. As someone who has given these as gifts, I can tell you that they have always been [...]

Some days are awesome. Yet some days you break your blog. And then OTHER days.. you FINALLY figure out how to fix it. Today is such a day!! Last week I had the pleasure of giving a talk about craftivism in Norway! Above is a photo of the new facilities at the Oslo National Academy [...]