by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 31, 2014 | Buttons, Children, Collaboration, Craft, Creative Process, Expression, Fabric, Fibre Arts, Garment, Halloween, Mister Rogers, Performance, Thrift Stores, Vancouver
What do you do when one of your closest friends is in the hospital with complications and the weather outside is the perfect visual for seasonal depression? You make!And so I devote this column to the silly business of making and make-believe in trying times. First,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 2, 2014 | Author, Betsy Greer, Books, Craftivism, Creative Process, Hot Art Wet City, Kim Piper Werker, Leanne Prain, Vancouver, Yarn Bombing
(Photo by Carlyn Yandle) What do you do when you’re suddenly confronted by a threatening sign where this year’s crop of wild blackberries were leveled along the Arbutus corridor?You yarn-bomb it, of course. That’s what one craftivist did, and...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 29, 2014 | Aluminum, Art, City As Site, Cluster, Commission, Construction, Creative Process, Exhibit, Gallery, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Project, Public Art, Rachel Lafo, Richmond Art Gallery, Sculpture, Social Engagement
It’s one thing to dream up an idea for the back end of the elevated Canada Line track and quite another to see that dream come together in a mammoth aluminum sculpture. Metal fabrication at the Select Steel shop, Delta. Carlyn Yandle photo So when I got my first...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 14, 2014 | Architecture, Building, Construction, Creative Process, Design, Industrial Design, Innovation, Invention, Street Art
Carlyn Yandle photo We were a bit of a spectacle, using survivalist technology outside our tent wedged between the humming, air-conditioned RVs, but we were aching to use our car-camping trip to finally test the BioLite.And it was good. (See 26-second YouTube review,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jul 18, 2014 | Conceptual Art, Creative Process, Critique, Film, Innovation, Installation, Mark Lewis, Perception, Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, Video
Now that we’re all carrying around the equivalent of movie cameras and photo-editing studios in our pockets and purses we are each potential blockbuster or documentary filmmakers, iMovie-ing and uploading all of life’s activities that have become...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jul 11, 2014 | Assemblage, Color, Colour, Construction, Crafts, Creative Process, Design, Fiber, Fibre, Found Objects, Industry, Installation, Knotting, Macrame, Raw Materials, Sculpture, Technology, Textile, Upcycling
Macrame-ing cable wire. Carlyn Yandle photo A big shout-out to the recycling staffer at my local Return-It depot who painstakingly went through a bin full of snarls of computer cables to select the ones with the most colourful clusters of wire for me.I find it tough...
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