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POPSNew kind of Art ? Crochet and Knit Graffiti Magda Sayeg, founder of the original knit graffiti crew Knitta Please, works to redefine a craft that has been relegated to the stuffy attic of people's brains and dismissed by a limited vision for knitting's purpose, its function, its practitioners. Sayeg's work repositions this granny pastime in public spaces, streets formerly dominated by a hard, masculine public art culture. The fuzzy tags invoke entirely different connotations, antagonizing expectations and initiating dialogue about community-driven art and intersections between art and craft.
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POPStransferrable quote of the dayby
mona 10-16-2009 
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This was said in the context of the development of the Large Hadron Collider, but I can think of so many applications for this quote........... :D
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POPSPencil Art Masterpieces In art, drawing is the foundation. Pencil drawing provides a more direct and intimate link to an artists’ creative process than does painting. Many artists refer to pencil drawing as ‘knitting’: this is the process where both dreams and ideas are drawn out of the unconscious mind and knitted together into a cohesive unit that is generally referred to as art. Drawing is born out of a desire to grasp the mysterious forces of nature, life and the soul. For more information on pencil drawings, go to: http://www.artacademy.com/Art%20of%20Drawing.html
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POPSGoodness! Evolution and the War between Fundamentalist Atheism and Religion
This will settle nothing, but it is a good read. The clip is a 'taster'' of an article focused on debates around evoulution and moral motivation. It ends: <<< Of course, religion doesn’t have a monopoly on awe and inspiration. The story that science tells, the story of nature, is awesome, and some people get plenty of inspiration from it, without needing the religious kind. What’s more, science has its own role to play in knitting the world together. The scientific enterprise has long been on the frontiers of international community, fostering an inclusive, cosmopolitan ethic — the kind of ethic that any religion worthy of this moment in history must also foster. William James said that religious belief is “the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.” Science has its own version of the unseen order, the laws of nature. In principle, the two kinds of order can themselves be put into harmony ...(more follows)
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POPSAre Gender Roles Socially Constructed? Most of our perceptions come from a common world of social practices and institutions so embedded in our shared reality of power, language, and identity that they are invisible to us. These shared perceptions, that is, these perceptions about which many people agree, are social constructions. Social constructions may seem to be reality, but what they truly are is a shared way of seeing something that some people have agreed upon. People who are not aware that they are determined by the specific cultural meanings, the social constructions, of their culture will not be free to be fully who they are. They will not be free to explore the many ways one can live and experience life.
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