Those of you who’ve been following this site for a while will know that one of the biggest issues that concerns me is the stifling effects of land speculation on our communities and our creativity. While many of us crafty types would love to make stuff full time, it’s just not possible when we need to work so many hours a week to pay the rent/mortgage. It’s bloody frustrating that our economic system rewards those that just buy and sell for a living yet punishes those of us who actually create.
If you got your hands on a copy of the 2010 3CR Seeds of Dissent Calendar and flicked it open to everyone’s favourite consumerist month: December, this is what you’ll find:
Each of the contributing artists was asked to chose a theme and using our creative tools, discuss that issue in relation to the future. I [...]
The latest Melbourne Revolutionary Craft Circle action already got in the local paper. And to add to that I did an interview on 3CR’s fabulously awesome DIY Arts Show – which you can listen to online now.
AND today a story has appeared in The Vine about it.
Yay!
After the latest action by the Melbourne Revolutionary Craft Circle in Footscray, one of the local papers, The Star, wrote a story about it. Including a lovely bad ass guerilla crafter pic!
Do you read Get Creative? It’s the craft mag from Spotlight and it’s got some pretty cool stuff in it. While the magazine is very much targetted around promoting Spotlight products it does have a fantastic local focus and it’s a great way to learn about some of the incredible designers and artists working in [...]
Welcome to all our visitors from The Age! Please come on in, grab a cup of tea and make yourself at home. It is lovely to meet you
For you other visitors who rambled in from elsewhere, welcome too! And you might wanna look at the article ’cause it’s got lots of great people [...]
Since craft is totally the new black and recession chic is all the rage, everywhere you turn these days there seems to be a story about craft and how it’s practitioners are saving the world.
And we’ve been in some of them, yay!
Here’s an article that was in the Sunday magazine in last weekend’s Herald Sun, [...]
I’ve been finding all sorts of cool, inspiring and useful stuff online over the last day or so, and decided I’d share them.
Firstly, Sayraphim has written this great wee tutorial on how to publicise your exhibition or event. I would call this a must read for anyone putting on an event and wanting some [...]
A couple of weeks before Christmas, Melbourne radio station 3RRR invited the Craft Cartel to come on air to chat about craft ins, conscious shopping and radical craft.
It was gonna be me and Casey but Casey’s bike objected to the early morning workout so it was just me in the end. It was a [...]
I am so super lucky. I have in my hot little hands a copy of the second issue of World Sweet World. WSW is a new craft magazine that’s fresh out of Aotearoa and it’s gorgeous.
On the 28th of January 2008 Bruce William Emery was remanded in custody after appearing in a south Auckland court charged with the murder of a teenage boy. The 50 year old business men allegedly stabbed 15-year-old Pihema Clifford because he caught him about to tag his fence.
You’d expect an outpouring of indignant [...]
Check out this cool action from the Revolutionary Craft Womyn of Addington in solidarity of the ANZAC Ploughshares who gained access and casued serious damage to the Waihopai Spy Base in New Zealand. Waihopai is a key component of the global US spy system known as Echelon.
Here’s the report from Aotearoa Indymedia:
We all had [...]
For all of you zinesters, independent writers and other groovy scribblers, check out Melbourne Street Press! Aside from a fabulous lineup of workshops at the City Gallery, there’s tons of other benefits of getting involved.
An opportunity for all of those interested in any aspect of Melbourne’s buzzing Street Press from zines to comics, from [...]
Check out this amazing short vid featuring the infamous Screaming Lulu
An offbeat look at the pressures and expectations for women growing old in our society. Rather than accepting that our faces show character from the lives we have lived and should therefore be celebrated, there is developing need to stretch and paralyze our faces [...]
Here’s a very cute use of cross stitch in art. Flickr user Sparklyvodka (great name, like her already!) made these as a final project for an art course. These are all based on things the celebrities would never say. Although I wonder if there should be (in private) at the end of that statement..
Yes folks, you’ve heard the whispers and the rumours are true, the Craft Cartel is now a Podcast!
This episode we talk about the Cartel and where it all began. We talk to Melanie from Satchel. And share some fun and subversive crafty projects for you to get involved in. Plus a bit [...]
I love the BLF. This is the sort of stuff I would love to do if I was organised and clever enough. I tend to restrict my billboard liberation to the occasional scrawling on tram shelter ads. And then only when I get really incensed by offensive condescending advertising. Especially the stuff that tells me how much of a better mother I’d be if I bought more stuff*.
I know she’s ‘claiming’ not to have anything to do with it. But a big well done to Julie from Subversive Cross Stitch for getting Anne Coulter to promote your work. That’s fucking ace!!!
Warner Bros president of production Jeff Robinov has made a new decree that “We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead”.
Women respond:
We are no longer watching movies made by Warner Bros
Despite strong evidence pointing to the fact that it is indeed 2007, various Warner Bros producers think that having strong female roles [...]
I’m sure you all saw Sally Field and her super fab acceptance speech at the Emmys yesterday.
Well not if you watched it on Fox. Check this out for an amazingly shithouse piece of editing. And when I saw shit house I am referring to both the content and the style.
“If mothers ruled the [...]
"Play so that you may be serious" - Aristotle
