craft + activism = craftivism.

This post is a weird one, admittedly. But, over the weekend, I wrote a short short story (yep, no typo) about an elderly Japanese woman who decided to stay in the 19-mile radius evacuation zone despite the warnings. The other day on Twitter, I tweeted about being messy, about scribbling in between the lines, spilling [...]

Lately I’ve found the word “busy” escaping my mouth. Too busy? Seriously? When did too busy become a synonym for I just don’t want to? A long time ago, when I was still in love with Walter Benjamin and The Arcades Project I wrote the text below: April 21, 2006: “In 1839 it was considered [...]

Here’s to the new year and all the dreams and adventures and love it may bring. As for 2010 parting, few things could be more fitting that this piece above. Why this piece, you ask? Because it depicts the juxtaposition of rough, activated and rugged (bull) vs warm, welcoming and beautiful (crochet) and how well [...]

“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 [...]

This story has made its rounds on the US craft blogosphere yesterday, but for those of you farther afield, I wanted to post about it in case you haven’t seen it, Idle Pastime: In Off Hours, Truckers Pick Up Stitching. I especially adore that when the man in the video was interviewed he was waiting [...]