The Points of the Creative Artists’ Code: Seventeen - The Viewpoints of Others

Code Point Article 17 looks at viewpoint from…what else? Another viewpoint.

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Armour Craft – Handy Protection Make Your Own Chain-mail Mittens

I’m sure that at some point in your life, you’ve picked up a couple of sticks and had a playful spar with some of your friends. You would have been quick to realize that whacks to the hand are painful.

Imagine for a moment that those flimsy ‘battle’ sticks you picked off the ground or tore off that poor tree are replaced with blades of tempered steel. This image casts a whole new meaning for the word pain. Read the story »

Exposing American Mythology

The word myth is defined by the Concise Oxford Dictionary as “a traditional story concerning the early history of a people or explaining a natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events; a widely held but false belief, a fictitious person or thing, an exaggerated or idealized conception of a person or thing.” Diana Secchiaroli of the Yale-New Haven Teacher’s Institute defines it as representing “a culture’s values and ideals and/or helps explain to people where they came from.” Read the story »

Artists Embedded within the Military-Industrial Complex

In 1961 U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower warned of the “unwarranted influence…by the military-industrial complex.” By the time Eisenhower uttered his speech the military-industrial complex (MIC) was 20 years old. Beginning in 1941 after the U.S. officially entered World War Two, the U.S. industrial and manufacturing industries began to produce the weapons and vehicles needed by the military. As a result of the MIC’s creation, the U.S. economy rebounded from the depression that had plagued it since the 1929 stock market crash. Read the story »