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Craftivism: Making a Difference in the World~ One Stitch at a Time
KnitLit group, spring 2011 Haverstraw Middle School, Haverstraw, NY
People are doing it. They are doing it on subways, in restaurants and on airplanes. They are doing it in baseball stadiums, movie theaters and in the park. They are doing Craftivism and everywhere you turn you can find people of all ages, races, creeds and religions participating in what has become a global phenomenon of making the world a better place- one stitch at a time.
The term “craftivism”, hybrid of the words craft + activism, was coined in 2003 by creator and knitter, Betsy Greer. It is a movement based upon the idea that a person’s time and talent can really make a difference in the world. Most craftivists are knitters and crocheters looking to find different and more meaningful ways to share their craft and it is being used to bring attention to a multitude of causes. Craftivists help to bring about positive change in the world through their skills.
Some of the causes targeted in the craftivism movement are environmentalism, anti-capitalism, anti-sweatshop, anti-war a well as various personal causes such as breast cancer awareness, literacy, homelessness, domestic violence and children born into poverty. Knitters and crocheters around the world participate in covert “yarn-bombing” escapades, mimicking graffiti street art only with hand knitted fabrics sewn around trees, light poles and statues using their art to beautify the things around them.
It is here that I introduce you to New Yorker Betsy Rodman, a fellow knitter and craftivist. Betsy is the founder of Project Scarf. Project Scarf is bringing knitters from all over the world to join in creating the world’s longest scarf. Separate sections of knitted scarves are sent in to and assembled by Betsy to form a larger scarf. What does one do with the world’s longest scarf, you might ask? When the project is complete, the sections will be disassembled and the individual scarves are distributed to various organizations to provide to help keep warm those who have little.
Betsy also founded the KnitLit program in her local school. This program teaches kids the skill of knitting. Squares are knitted and sewn together to form blankets which are also distributed to those in need. The kids involved in the program choose where to donate. However, this ain’t your grandma's knitting bee- these kids also listen to great books on audio and discuss them as they are knitting. Betsy has had tremendous success in her school and hopes to one day be able to bring KnitLit to schools across the nation. I got to ask Betsy a few questions about herself and her programs. (continued) community.humanityhealing.net/profiles/blogs/craftivism-c...
More about Project Scarf
I'd been looking for a personal project for a little while when about 12 months ago, one found me.
A foster parent approached me explaining about Life Books. The history of a child in care which travels through the care system and documents their lives and their experiences in the absence of a constant family member/parent.
Many children in care never have a photography session at the key stages that we typically take for granted. No newborn session, no cake smashes, often no images with siblings if they too are in care.
In my past life, I worked in social care, with street children and families in crisis and I didn't know about these life books and hadn't considered why they might be needed.
Normally, I am not permitted to release any images taken. I certainly cannot name the children, parents, foster child or foster family but this one is a little different and so permission was given.
A child voluntarily placed for adoption, and given to a couple who had been waiting many years. An open adoption where the biological family will remain in the child's life. One of the lucky ones.
The images taken this time will go to both the biological mother and also the adoptive parents. Good luck with you new family, little one. Great things await you. x
In the MBA program, I had to take a project management course where we had to complete an actual project for an external stakeholder. Our external stakeholder was the SFU School of Business, Graduate Programs, and we sent a weather balloon up to 100,000' of elevation with a camera, video camera, and some hops attached to it. When it returned to earth, we tracked it down with a triangulated radio device and recovered everything. Along the way, we got some pretty great pictures and some even better memories (although I wish I could forget about driving 3500km in the span of 72 hours).
The Eden Project is a visitor attraction in Cornwall, England. Inside the two biomes are plants that are collected from many diverse climates and environments. The project is located in a reclaimed Kaolinite pit, located 2 km (1.2 mi) from the town of St Blazey and 5 km (3 mi) from the larger town of St Austell, Cornwall.
The complex is dominated by two huge enclosures consisting of adjoining omes that house thousands of plant species, and each enclosure emulates a natural biome. The biomes consist of hundreds of hexagonal and pentagonal, inflated, plastic cells supported by steel frames. The largest of the two biomes simulates a Rainforest environment and the second, a Mediterranean environment. The attraction also has an outside botanical garden which is home to many plants and wildlife native to Cornwall and the UK in general; it also has many plants that provide an important and interesting backstory, for example, those with a prehistoric heritage.
1. Project 365 Day 1: Binary Day, 2. Project 365 Day 2: Behind Me, 3. Project 365 Day 3: Code, 4. Project 365 Day 4: iPhonography Part 1, 5. Project 365 Day 5: Bokeh, Sponsored by Mastercard, 6. Project 365 Day 6: In The Night, 7. Project 365 Day 7: Drops, 8. Project 365 Day 8: Sweet, 9. Project 365 Day 9: In Which The Photographer Ventures Outside, 10. Project 365 Day 10: Her Heart Is On The Floor (Binary Day 10), 11. Project 365 Day 11: Lost In Music (Binary Day 11), 12. Project 356 Day 12: Shameless Self Promotion, 13. Project 365 Day 13: Lucky For Some, 14. Project 365 Day 14: Focus, 15. Project 365 Day 15: Drops II - Electric Boogaloo [Explored!], 16. Project 365 Day 16 - The Drugs Don't Work, 17. Project 365 Day 17: Mahgeetah (iPhoneography Part II), 18. Project 365 Day 18: High Dynamic Carpark [Explored!], 19. Project 365 Day 19: Andy Worhol's disembodied floating head [Explored!], 20. Project 365 Day 20: This is Dan, 21. Project 365 Day 21: Texture I - Grain, 22. Project 365 Day 22: Urgh, 23. Project 365 Day 23: Texture II - Bricks & Mortar, 24. Project 365 Day 24: Floored, 25. Project 365 Day 25: Dark Day, 26. Project 365 Day 26: Come with me, 27. Project 365 Day 27 - Urban Graffiti War, 28. Project 365 Day 28: Tiny Bubbles [Explored!], 29. Project 365 Day 29: Off The Rails, 30. Project 365 Day 30: The Stag, 31. Project 365 Day 31: From a Moving Train.
This is a project to keep me learning and interested in photography. Suposed to put up one photo daily...so some will be good..and quite a lot of them will probably be not so good ;)
A picture I took this last weekend at the local pub. Processed in Fractalius.
The pub is a really nice place. Its made from a old fisherman wharf/house(?) and looks really old and rustic. You can sit there in front of the fireplace in the winter with your beer and listen to the waves hitting the rocks just below your feet.
Hopefully I can get some proper pictures from there sometime. Couldn't this time cause there where people that didn't want to get photographed.
The Eden Project is a visitor attraction in Cornwall, England. Inside the two biomes are plants that are collected from many diverse climates and environments. The project is located in a reclaimed Kaolinite pit, located 2 km (1.2 mi) from the town of St Blazey and 5 km (3 mi) from the larger town of St Austell, Cornwall.
The complex is dominated by two huge enclosures consisting of adjoining domes that house thousands of plant species, and each enclosure emulates a natural biome. The biomes consist of hundreds of hexagonal and pentagonal, inflated, plastic cells supported by steel frames. The largest of the two biomes simulates a Rainforest environment and the second, a Mediterranean environment. The attraction also has an outside botanical garden which is home to many plants and wildlife native to Cornwall and the UK in general; it also has many plants that provide an important and interesting backstory, for example, those with a prehistoric heritage.
Poppy project on 1st and 2nd day after installation. Photographs by Geoff Potter. If you find yourself in a photograph and do not wish for it to be there, please let us know.
Parliament buildings, snapped on the way from my office to the Old Bailey pub for pub quiz.
Tuesday, 23rd April 2019.
365: The 2019 Edition - Theme 17 - Night.
Blue Note is celebrating it's 75th anniversary this year. Blue Note is a Jazz record label home to great artists like Miles Davis , Cannonball Adderly, Art Blakely, Wayne Shorter, Lee Konitz, and many more.
I have a kickstarter project going to try and raise funds to help me finish my photogravure project. Each level will receive some of my art.
Check it out here:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/210364128/from-the-edge-of-here
Un dels projectes europeus que es desenvolupen al Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) és el projecte Montblanc.
Un ordinador és com una calculadora molt sofisticada i sovint s'utilitzen per fer càlculs que ens serveixen, entre d'altres, predir el temps meteorològic, determinar la qualitat de l'aire, simulacions de biologia molecular o simulacions de mecànica de fluids.
Malauradament aquests càlculs sovint són molt costosos. Fins i tot per a un ordinador. Això significa que suposen molt de temps dur-los a terme. A vegades, el temps no és un recurs negociable: imagineu què passaria si calcular la predicció del temps d'aquí a tres dies tardés una setmana a fer-se!
Per això existeix un segment de la informàtica anomenat «computació d'altes prestacions» (de l'anglès "High Performance Computing", sovint abreviat HPC).
En HPC el que es fa és construir i dissenyar superordinadors, que cada cop siguin més potents i per tant més ràpids. Però massa sovint un superordinador potent significa un superordinador que consumeix molta energia. A tall d'exemple, mireu la llista Top 500 que recull els superordinadors més potents del món. El primer consumeix al voltant de 7 MW (això són 7000 kW, compareu-ho amb casa vostra com a molt podeu consumir 4,4 kW), el segon en consumeix 12 MW. En canvi el número 7 només consumeix 0,8 MW.
I aquí és on vol incidir el projecte Montblanc. L'objectiu d'aquest projecte és construir un superordinador que sigui competitiu (o sigui, segurament no serà el més potent de tots) mentre manté un consum raonable.
L'estratègia per fer-ho, a Montblanc, consisteix en usar processadors similars als que es troben en els telèfons intel·ligents d'avui dia. Aquests processadors no poden gastar molt, ja que les bateries durarien poc, però cada cop ofereixen més rendiment.
A Montblanc, a més, s'utilitzen GPUs (Graphical Processing Units, processadors especialitzats en dibuixar gràfics 3D a la pantalla). Les GPUs són particularment eficients ja que poden donar molta potència de càlcul amb una despesa energètica relativament baixa.
El grup de «Heterogeneous Computing» del BSC estaven enregistrant un timelapse construint una versió reduida d'un supercomputador usant diversos Carma Devkit. Aquí a la foto n'han apilat quatre.
Aquest kit incorpora un processador NVIDIA® Tegra® 3 ARM Cortex A9 Quad-Core (com el que porta la tauleta tàctil ASUS Transformer Prime) i una GPU NVIDIA® Quadro™ 1000M.
For my Final Project, I decided to take 8 photos of a mountain in Squaw Valley and layer them to recreate the original scene. All of the photos were taken with the same exposure, aperture, and zoom. I added the white border around each of the individual photos to show the puzzle pieces that made this project. I am really impresses with how well the photos fit together!
The Lowbrow Tarot Project
Lowbrow Tarot Collectors Book & Deck:
auniakahn.bigcartel.com/product/lowbrow-tarot-book-deck
The Lowbrow Tarot Project showcased 23 amazing artists who used their creative genius and unique style to take on the 22 Major Arcana [+ the card back] and create 23 new works of art in the rugged glow of the lowbrow art movement that was displayed in an exhibition at La Luz de Jesus on October 1, 2010. With the completion of this project, we celebrate the 2 year anniversary with the release of the Lowbrow Tarot Book & Deck.
The books and deck features 23 new and original works, while the book has been expand to showcase 314 color & black/white works by renowned and accomplished artists: Carrie Ann Baade, Christopher Ulrich, Edith Lebeau, Cate Rangel, Kris Kuksi, Chris Mars, Christopher Umana, Chris Conn, Brian M. Viveros, Claudia Drake, Heather Watts, Molly Crabapple, David Stoupakis, Laurie Lipton, Patrick “Star 27” Deignan, Chet Zar, Jessica Joslin, Danni Shinya Luo, Jennybird Alcantara, Angie Mason, Scott G. Brooks, Aunia Kahn and Daniel Martin Diaz.
I decided to take photographs of my son's toy, a Transformer named, Optimus Prime for Project 4. This final image was made from 7 photographs of the toy. I used layer masking technique in Photoshop CC to put multiple images in to one.
Here is a mashup of my process. I used old fabric I had, bright pink yarn that was a giveaway, and some old yellow trim!
Read more here!
DandiLion macro.
GrfxDziner.com | Dandilion Project..
http://gwennie2006.blogspot.com/2009/06/grfxdzinercom-dandilion-project.html
Monadnock * Wikipedia
Mount Monadnock * Wikipedia
fiveprime.org/hivemind/Tags/mountMonadnock
This is the DandiLion Project group at flickr:
www.flickr.com/groups/DandiLionProject
...and the show:
www.flickr.com/groups/DandiLionProject/pool/show
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the DandiLion project (lol)
www.flickr.com/photos/GrfxDziner/3597543313/
Dandilions are easy to find, and you can have some fun shooting them. This one is unedited, and I may do some others. You can use it if you like. Please tag it DandiLionProject...Thanks!
fiveprime.org/hivemind/Tags/DandiLionProject/
The Mersey Gateway Project construction site on the Runcorn side at Wigg Island. (Construction of the temporary work platform / road way over the River Mersey).............Please note ALL pictures on this Photostream are Copyright Protected.
Take a stroll through Coney Island's amusement district--past, present and future--with the Coney Island History Project. Our unique walking tours are based on History Project Director Charles Denson's award-winning book "Coney Island: Lost and Found," the interviews from CIHP's Oral History Archive, and other primary sources.http://www.eventbrite.com/o/coney-island-history-project-1132126799
"I'll kill him dammit... and there aint nobody on this godforsaken island to stop me..."
The first teaser for my new series, currently named Project Sanders. The name is definitely not permanant and has no connection to the series itself that you'd understand. Also, no connection to Ultron. :) The picture features the series' main antagonist, General Oswalt Stratton. 95% of the characters in this series I have created, I know that won't make much sense now but it will once the series starts. I have already started to write a little of the story and trust me, you are going hate this guy. I'm already loving writing him though! Alright that's about it, please comment if you favorite.
The Eden Project is a visitor attraction in Cornwall, England. Inside the two biomes are plants that are collected from many diverse climates and environments. The project is located in a reclaimed Kaolinite pit, located 2 km (1.2 mi) from the town of St Blazey and 5 km (3 mi) from the larger town of St Austell, Cornwall.
The complex is dominated by two huge enclosures consisting of adjoining omes that house thousands of plant species, and each enclosure emulates a natural biome. The biomes consist of hundreds of hexagonal and pentagonal, inflated, plastic cells supported by steel frames. The largest of the two biomes simulates a Rainforest environment and the second, a Mediterranean environment. The attraction also has an outside botanical garden which is home to many plants and wildlife native to Cornwall and the UK in general; it also has many plants that provide an important and interesting backstory, for example, those with a prehistoric heritage.
Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2010 (NNF10)
Kurt Perschke's RedBall Project
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK
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