I helped a friend make her first linocut today. It was loads of fun! Here’s what she made:
My friend's first linocut
I think she did a great job! I can’t wait to see what she’ll do next. She wants us to start making linocut DVD covers. It’s a bit of an ambitious project, but I think it could be really nice/fun. We’ll see!
Last Saturday, I hosted something at my house called Occupy Mailboxes. Basically, it’s a political letter writing party. It was lots of fun but also a bit disappointing (in relation to participation). My friend and I (with whom I organized the thing) were frustrated with the whole North American Occupy movement and decided to try something different that used our democratic system. I also figured anything was more effective than camping in a park, waving cardboard signs around and talking about how the “1%” are screwing us over, but I won’t get into a rant about how I disagree with how the Occupy is going about its “business”.
Anyway, my friend and I invited around 110 people of our friends via Facebook to write letters for a few hours on a Saturday afternoon and only one of these people showed up. To make things worst, one of the people I invited (I wrote personalize invitations to everyone I invited) is heavily involved in the Occupy Montreal movement, I figured he’d be the first to jump in and actually try and relay his message to politicians. I find it so frustrating, after that poor showing I see the North American Occupy movement is no more than radical slacktivism. Sure, it starts a conversation, but that’s pretty much it. Moving on before I get all worked up about this. It was an informative experience and we hope to host another Occupy Mailboxes event in January. Hopefully more people will come…
Wow that linocut is great if it’s her first attempt! Really impressive – the idea of DVD covers is good but it would be labour intensive for sure.
Don’t get too discouraged about the attendance of your first Occupy Mailboxes attempt hon ….. I get the gist of what you and your friend were trying to do and I think it’s a good way to get to a lot of people using a system that’s already in place. Maybe it’s the time of year??? People getting busy for Xmas …. decourage toi pas hon … essaies de nouveau apres les fetes pi tu verras qu’il y aura plus de gens a la prochaine rencontre!