So I read that Solid Energy, NZBio and the arms manufacturing industry have been hiring students to pose as activists in Wellington and Christchurch.
In the SST they feature this piece about what Don Elder knew about the recent railway blockade:
Three days before the protest, seemingly out of the blue, Elder gained national media attention saying [...]
I was among the Extreme Crafters invited to participate in the Extreme Craft Exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Art. So given that Emma Goldman was originally from Lithuania, I felt sufficiently motivated to stitch that pattern up (slightly altered cause I was seriously running out of time!). I decided to make a [...]
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My new favourite website is The Nipple Project. Having found a completely new level of understanding of my own nipples recently, I do feel compelled to contribute something to this project. Might have to do a nipple cross stitch!
Submit a hand-made artistic interpretation of your nipple or of someone’s nipple you love. Send [...]
Now I’m not really a fan of knitting (’cause I can’t figure it out grrr), but I must give kudos to the knitters for being pretty cool activists. And I won’t grumble about them having an unfair advantage ’cause their craft is easier to do lasrge amounts quickly than cross stitching
Anyhoo, stumbled across a [...]
Check this out for some serious craftivism.
This is part of a house in West London that is being transformed into a giant ceramic mosaic graffiti piece. Yay for the artist Baroness von Carrie Reichardt!
And it has a serious political message. Extreme Craft has all the details.
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Yeah so, I discovered this site while looking for cool things to do in the garden using recycled materials. And I am so hooked.
Check out instructables.com
You can learn everything from how to make a broken jar to laundry detergent to understanding ICSP for PIC microcontrollers, all with step by step instructions with photos.
And it’s a [...]
It doesn’t take long when you get into Radical Cross Stitch to start leaving needles everywhere, especially in the arms of couches. My partner had started to make some subtle observations about the hazards of sitting on the couch. So when I saw this wonderful tutorial at Crafting Chaos I knew I had [...]
Now here’s a tutorial for you. Want to learn how to transform a classy wee NZ Post courier bag into a stylish document wallet?
Well not quite transform, more like copy and replace…
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I saw this in Fat Helens in Chapel Street, Prahan. And seriously, how could I resist something with a tag like this?
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