Mass Media Massacre

So far I have managed to incorporate cunts into every Trash-bag Rehab we've held at Craft Cartel. This month we had two projects, the first involved re-censored magazines via the under-appreciated art of decoupage, blanking out bits we found offensive and inserting neglected words such as cunt where we thought appropriate. We then distributed the much-improved media items to doctors waiting offices and bus-shelters right around this fair town.

Here's a copy of the ziney low-down for anyone who missed out:









plus we were entertained by:

Alt-Burlesque artist AnAmontAna a.k.a. Diva von Dada again amused and bemused with a compelling media dissection which involved a toaster, naturally.

& Emilie Zoey Baker, spoken word queen was freaking awesome. Fannyist indeed.

The materials were simple...




(Still life with blu-stick)

But the results, for the first project at least, were super:


Yes, yes he does.

My personal favourite


Glorious.



This one was made by a professional poet (as if you couldn't tell)


The second project, where we were supposed to use junk mail to decorate the letters of a big banner spelling 'BUY LESS CRAP' which we would then display at some shopping mecca didn't really go according to plan.... people got all creative on me! They wouldn't stick within the bloody lines, bless them. So while the resulting work is a fascinating discourse on the chaotic and rampant nature of consumerism in today's society (...or something...) it isn't actually legible.

No matter. I plan to shamelessly manipulate their anti-media-manipulation work so the banner can be read & we'll display it at our next flock 'n' flog which is coming up real soon, subscribe to Craft Cartel for details.

Out.

Even I find this disturbing

I think it's the foot.

nabbed from Craftster

My first time was special

I've never said cunt on radio before. I always thought it was just absolutely forbidden but then recently a woman who is quite an expert on cunt-related matters told me that it's cool as long as you give some warning.

So I did it for the first time.

The lovely women from RRR were a little bit ruffled - they thought they might get in trouble. Not for 'cunt' though but for 'clit' (?!). Strange world. Never mind, I've heard the first time's always a little bit awkward.

cunts get flung & flickr'd

How gorgeous is this image?

Nabbed from the flickr site of Mr. Mark Burban & depicting a pair of cunts flung on the corner of Smith & Gertrude, Fitzroy

"a word you don't say on television"

Jane Fonda said 'cunt' on air. The Today show decided to apologise for this. The current top news items on the show are a baby who got a pencil stuck in its neck and the 'story' behind the release of some racey pictures of a beauty pageant runner-up. I am eagerly awaiting the apology for these.



"We would do nothing to offend the audience." Well, I find your blandness offensive, but I guess I'm not really your audience.

Intrepid cunts venture into the deep dark south

Melbourne, for those who haven't had the pleasure of visiting, is a city divided. Quite literally - down its middle flows the Yarra River and though you could swim from bank to bank through the slow coffee water in under five minutes people just. don't. cross. You'd think it was a sky-high electric barbed wire fence patrolled by cannibalistic lepers, the way we avoid it. We're Northside or we're Southside and, except for in extreme emergencies, we stick to our own turf.

Which is why I am so very impressed that two of the daring crafters who attended Trashbag Rehab took the gorgeous cunts they produced on the evening, left their beer-stained comfort zone, and bravely ventured to the spray-tanned bleached-teeth south for some flinging action.
















Well done Jade & Andrea - brilliant work.

Can I put a disco ball in the anus, Mum?

Oh good lordy that was fun. Trashbag Rehab was an exercise in cunt-making mania.

At a rough guesstimate, one kazillion freakishly gorgeous people showed up,



collected their respect-your-box kit with needle, thread and basic instructions,



kicked back to tunes from DJ Super Julie



and proceeded to create the most divinely diverse array of cunt fling-ups yet.

The results were wonderful


Though there is reason to suspect that, despite being given diagrams, some of the crafters were quite unfamiliar with the appearance of a cunt...



... they were all made with love & hot love was in the air when the evening ended with the awesome punk-knitting vid 'Marsha' by Kate Just.

My favourite quotes from the event:

"I picked up a cute boy last night but I left my vagina at the bar" -Hannah

"Who ARE these people?" - Passer-by

& from the eight year old son of Bebida Bar's owners "Mum, can I put a disco ball in the anus?" to which she replied "Yes you can, Son, yes you can". Gold.

I wanna do it all again! Which is good, because we are. The next Trashy Rehab will also be blessedly cunt-related: embroidery porn. Subscribe to Craft Cartel & we'll let you know all about it. In the meantime - give your cunt a nice fling xx