Most people understand the power and strength of a flag. When it comes to a symbol, nothing can be more powerful. Flags can inspire love, rage, war, hate, pride, revolution and knowledge. Flags are designed at the most simple level, to communicate a message or an idea with a quick glance.
Flags are [...]
It’s weird there was a bit of a lull in craft actions going on around the world and now I’ve heard about three at once. Although only two of them just happened.
We got a nice mention from microrevolt (hi back!) and in the post was the wonderful knitwit crew, who do such ace stuff [...]
This week on the Craft Cartel podcast we go on a crafty travelling adventure to Uluru and check out some of the amazing Indigenous Craft collectives:
Craft Cartel Podast Episode #4 08.06.02 [57:40m]:
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I know I’m one of the few people in the world that finds government budgets exciting. Blame Marilyn Waring.
But hey bet you never thought there’d be a fusion of crafts and government budgets? Did ya? Did ya?
I bet not.
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On Wednesday Kevin Rudd apologised on behalf of the Australian Commonwealth Government to the Aboriginal People for the policy of enforced removal of Aboriginal children from their families. This was a policy with the intention of breeding out Aboriginal People and saw more than 50,000 children removed from their families. In some cases, [...]
Well given that Kevin Rudd is actually saying Sorry this week, I figured I really should get around to putting my Sorry cross stitch kit online. I put this together a couple of months ago but I have been struggling getting photos together and the time to do it.
So presenting the Sorry Cross Stitch [...]
It’s funny, in Aotearoa, there is a whole lot of people who don’t get how MMP works. It seems to be too complicated to work out. But here, I can’t even work it all out and I’m ’smart’. And to make things more fun, voting is compulsory! What kind of brilliant [...]
Created by some of my favourite people. Deadly work crew!
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Yesterday we braved the heat (ironically) and went to the Melbourne Walk Against Warming. The coppers reckoned there was about 40,000 people and the organisers reckoned 50,000 so somewhere in between probably.
It took me a while to get in to it cause I felt kinda weird being in such a mainstream thing. And [...]
We won’t ask again.
props.
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