Armour Craft – Handy Protection Make Your Own Chain-mail Mittens
March 28, 2008
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 more
Green Art Production - Narrowing the Gap - Increasing Efficiency
March 27, 2008
Tuesday this week saw the release of a new free online tool from Xerox to help improve efficiency with printers and copiers. CNET announced it, and now it’s here. Just thought you’d like to know you can do an online calculation that may help improve costs. That’s it. Short and sweet.
More stuff coming on being green, but not with envy, oh no, that wouldn’t do at all. Read more
M. Duchamp and His Toilet
March 23, 2008
It was shortly after the turn of the 20th century. The world seemed renewed, ending the Industrial age and moving into the age of autos, flight, and major art movements; the like of which had not been seen. People were changing, society was changing, social standards were changing. It was a time flapper girls, organized crime, and art activism. Read more
Creativity and conflict
March 23, 2008
Ah, remember the days when the summers were carefree, MTv was still cool, and whatever was on the news really didn’t matter? Well, those days are over. Oh, not just for you and me, for your kids, for their kids, for their grandkids. And it’s been over longer than you think… Read more
PEACE MARCH 20 CREATIVE ARTIST ACTIVISTS - One from the past, one from the present…
March 21, 2008
Social marketing. There are so many articles on this today it’s not funny. But the term is co-opted by business as if business is the only socializing force there is. But social marketing can mean something else and one of the first social marketers was one of the most innovative, most inspiring and in many respects his spirit inspires the Free Articulator.
Peace March 20: End the Infamous Daze of Decay
March 21, 2008
Peace March 20 is a Free Articulator initiative to mark the fifth anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq as a day of mourning and reflection. But also to urge Creative Artists everywhere to pick up the message other creative activists such as John Lennon have forwarded with creative works such as “Give Peace a Chance.” The importance of such works to move people to seek more constructive solutions than war is vital to the advance of civilization, culture and the addressing of important and pressing conditions that face the entire human race. How can you and your work help improve the world we live in today, tomorrow? Read more
Create Peace, End War, Fix Planet - March 20
March 20, 2008
On 20 March 2008 it is the 5th anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq. The Free Articulator is marking this day by hosting the Peace March 20 initiative, focusing on artists as social activists during this time of conflict. We’d like to invite all visual artists, writers, and song writers to sign up, participate, and contribute their voice and links.
Artists Embedded within the Military-Industrial Complex
March 20, 2008
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
Hollywood’s Anti-War Inactivism
March 19, 2008
What’s happened to Hollywood? Or rather, what’s happened to the society I live in today? Two days from the writing of this article is the 5 year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Whether due to that or some other reason, there has been a surge of anti-war “activism” in Hollywood in the form of movies. And everyone from Susan Sarandon to Reese Witherspoon is jumping on the band wagon. Read more
Match it for Pratchett - Support an Artist and Alzheimers Research
March 16, 2008
As you may have read recently, Terry Pratchett, who is best known for his comedic Discworld saga, has an unusual case of early-onset Alzheimer’s. Pratchett recently used the fruits of his good fortune in life to donate $1,000,000 American dollars to Alzheimer’s research, a serious and widespread condition with a severe shortage of funding to find a cure:
“I am, along with many others, scrabbling to stay ahead long enough to be there when the Cure comes along. Say it will be soon – there’s nearly as many of us as there are cancer sufferers, and it looks as if the number of people with dementia will double within a generation. In most cases, alongside the sufferer you will find a spouse suffering as much. It is a shock to find out that funding for Alzheimer’s research is just 3% of that to find cancer cures.” - Terry Pratchett
While the number of people with Alzheimer’s compared to the number of people with cancer is comparable, almost 200x as much is spent on cancer research.
Pat Cadigan has started a campaign to match Pratchett’s donation dollar for dollar or pound for pound, depending on which side of the pond you live—the goal is for 500,000 Pratchett fans to donate either a pound or two dollars.
If you enjoyed Pratchett’s books, why not ditch the can of Coke today and make a donation in the hopes for getting a few more out of him? Head to the Alzheimer’s Research Trust to help match it for Pratchett.
Photo by Myrmi, reproduced under Creative Commons License.
