“making it HANDMADE” part 3

Its been a packed few days of shooting.

Sunday, I meet up with Casey of Craft Cartel and Trashbag Rehad to do some “Cunt Fling ups”. As Casey busily added public hair to the last few vaginas, a friend of Casey’s, Tash and myself made cloth roses to represent the flower that the clitoris is!
Casey had told me she had organised a few people to come along and help throw the “cunts” over power lines but I wasn’t expecting the 15 people who turned up! There is something very powerful about a group of people walking along the street together!
Flinging the cunts proved to be more challenging than what I thought and when each person finally achieved it was greeted with jubilation! An uplifting and empowering time for craft and vaginas everywhere!
Monday night, I went off and shot some footage of “Died Pretty”, a trashbag rehab gathering to beautify swine flu masks. Some amazing creations and the final parade was hilariously MCed by Erin Tasmania, who made me laugh so much I had difficulty holding my camera still! I had to fight for space with a lovely woman, Claire from SBS’s show “Insight” and when I arrived Casey was engaged in an interview for ABC 774…what a media whore!! hee hee
As a contrast, next Monday I’m off to shoot “Brown Owls” with Pip Lincolne as they learn and share the art of embroidery. I might even drag out mine and do some stitching myself as I am in need of some manual creativity as shooting so much has left me little time to craft!

“making it HANDMADE” part 2

Yesterday, I headed out in the gale force winds to interview Pip Lincolne. I meet Pip years ago when her shop “Meet me at Mike’s” was still in Richmond, but since then she has become such a whirlawind in the indie craft scene, been extensively featured in the press and has such a huge “fan club” world wide I wasn’t quite sure who I was going to be meeting this time! Was this another person driven by money, cashing in on the resurgence of craft???

The answer is definately no! I now understand why Pip has such a huge following ( over 2000 visitors to her blog daily). Here is a woman who is passionate about craft and creating, but who isn’t precious about her “art” and is happy to share her skills and knowledge to encourage everyone to have a go at crafting even if they make mistakes or produce “crap”craft. Its so refreshing to hear this and is something I think is wonderful about the indie craft movement that its about creating and not being put off by what I call the craft nazis ( those who insist on perfect technique) and letting your creativity roam free!
Today I’ll be shooting footage of craft websites!! Thrilling I hear you yell! No not really but needs to be done for storytelling purposes!
Tomorrow I’m off to interview outspoken and fiesty crafter and designer Peta Pledger, which should be lots of fun and stir the pot up!!!