craft + activism = craftivism.

I’m waiting in the car dealership. My car alarm has being going off at random, pissing off my neighbors as well as myself. There’s a guy yelling at his wife in either Ukrainian or Russian and the television is on the news which is warning us (always warning us!) and informing us of war, fire, [...]

The subject line of this post is something I never even dreamed I would ever type, but, YES!, it’s true! (Text from article, click text or photo to see the whole article!) Miss Yoshino Rosalia Jasso, age 17, has been chosen as a State Finalist in the National American Miss California Pageant to be held [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]