you could hide in a bag... or microRevolt!

Have you ever painted yourself into a corner? How about crocheted yourself into a bag? Well, here's a movie of someone who has.

And now, moving from passive craft to the active (and activist), check out this video interview with Cat Mazza about her project, microRevolt, a series of art projects that combine knitting, machines, and digital social networks to educate about the sweatshop crisis.


As part of the project, the site offers a free program, knitPro, that you can use to transfer designs or logos into patterns that you can then knit, crochet, cross-stitch or latch-hook.*

While you're on the site, also sign the petition blanket that they are creating for Nike.

[Link via Rhizome via DV Blog]

(* On a completely selfish / obviously-not-as-important-as-fighting-against-sweatshops tangent, knitPro is awesome because ties into a thought that's been in the back of my mind for a few weeks now - about (A) how expensive and (B) how very ugly most rugs are, and (C) how I could possibly make my own. And if you're wondering why I am even considering making a rug - and I mean a large, several-feet-wide rug - read my post about lists below. See, I told you: there are always new projects!)