THE RADICAL CROSS STITCH GUIDE TO FENCE STITCHING
In collaboration with the realestate4ransom prankster campaign against the rampant land speculation plaguing Melbourne’s suburbs, Radical Cross Stitch and the Melbourne Revolutionary Craft Circle invite you to engage in a small piece of community beautification. This post is all about the how – make sure you read all [...]
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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.
So a couple of weeks back I was travelling past the Barkly St fence and decided to jump off the bus to check out how the wool was weathering. And to my enourmously pleaseant surprise I discovered someone had added to it!
It’s not the best photo (I realised later) but it reads “I hear U’ [...]
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Tags: Craftivism, genomics, I Want To Live Here, it's the economy stupid, Melbourne Revolutionary Craft Circle, sprawl
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The upcoming Interventionist Guide to Melbourne show has given me plenty of time to think about the role artists play in our society and how much art is constrained by our economic system.
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!
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Tags: Craftivism, geonomics, I Want To Live Here, it's the economy stupid, Melbourne Revolutionary Craft Circle, sprawl
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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!
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Readers of Radical Cross Stitch will remember last year when the Melbourne Revolutionary Craft Circle got out in Footscray and stitched ‘I Wanna Live Here’ on the fence on the corner of Barkly St and Commercial Road. Here’s the award-winning short film by Anna Brownfield as a refresher
So almost a year on and some philistine [...]
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Tags: Craftivism, geonomics, I Want To Live Here, it's the economy stupid, Melbourne Revolutionary Craft Circle, sprawl
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I bet you been hearing a whole lotta talk from the housing/building/development industry recently about how the reason housing is so expensive is ’cause there’s not enough houses. And – my favourite excuse – that the industry hasn’t got enough land to build on.
The politicians, of course lap this up. Given that the majority of them aren’t actually trained classical economists, and a fair amount of them get some pretty nifty donations from the industry and a decent percentage probably make a reasonable income from property investment. It all makes sense to them.
Goodness, seen the news recently? I’m mildly enjoying the irony of all the free marketeers crying out for state assistance. It reminds me of the old Mussollini quote “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.”
So given that we’re rapidly heading towards a global [...]
If you’ve been watching any of the news about the global economic crisis recently you’re probably wondering why all the ‘expert commentators’ are bankers, traders and politicians aka the people that got us into this mess. But if you wany to learn about what this economic crisis is really about and learn about the [...]
One of the things that bugs me about not having very much time is that I don’t get to write very much about environmental issues. So I made a video instead!
We’re trying our best to contact each one of the 450,000 New Zealanders living in Australia (and other parts of the world) to let [...]
This episode on the Craft Cartel podcast, Casey’s back!!! So we have a lovely chat about crafty South East Asia travels. And we go out on an EXCLUSIVE adventure with the Melbourne Revolutionary Craft Circle on their latest crafty night out.
We got some ace music from Boil Up and the super awesome and currently [...]
Craft Cartel Podast Episode #6 08.08.13 [56:50m]:
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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.
Check out this hilarious piece written by Thom entitled “Henry George: The Best Thing That Can Happen To Your Sex Life” (yes truly). It’s feckin hilarious. But also spells it all out really well. Most people when explaining geonomics tend to focus on your right to somewhere to sleep. Of course, completely neglecting your right [...]
