Hey yall,
As u know, I am a huge fan of self-expression [via arts and crafts]. It’s like you can take any object and convert it into another more meaningful object, and the transformation process will give you an outlet 4 all of ur thoughts, hopes, and desires. For those of u who didn’t go to a school that had arts+crafts activities, u can basically take household items and turn them into functional objects that look kewl.
I was browsing some of the world’s most relevant fashion & trend blogs, and saw some kewl arts + crafts that I thought I should ’shine a spotlight on.’ If u ever have any interesting craft ideas, please leave them in the comments. I honestly believe that we will only be able to find happiness through self-expression, through some method of design. But if ur not properly educated in ‘design’, then all u can really do is ‘arts and crafts.’
Art + Craft #1: Showing ur faith in The Lord by Creating a safety pin t-shirt for him (a Justice t-shirt)
Photo via thefacehunter
This bro clearly ‘loves the Lord’, and wanted to make a shirt that was a tribute to our Lord Saviour Jesus Christ. Not every1 is able to mass produce shirts with designs on them, so sometimes you need to take whatever you have around the house and ‘make it work.’ Sometimes I will squirt toothpaste on my t-shirts in kewl lil designs instead of actually buying a t-shirt that has stuff on it 4ever.
I might make this shirt as an ‘activity’ with the community Bible Study group that I lead called Teens4Christ.
Art+Craft #2: Rat Tail Extension Kid
Many of yall are familiar with ‘rat tails’, but u probably didn’t know that you could have them on any part of ur body. All u really need to do is create a rat-tail extension kit with safety pins and human hair. This is similar to black women who wear ‘weaves’, except this is for alternative people. It seems like if you put a rat tail in an ‘unexpected place’, u will get a better reaction. I have a feeling that ’safety pins’ might be one of the most important fashion accessories of the next decade.
Kinda turned on by this, like I would want a girl to use a safety pin + rat tail extension as a clitoris piercing.
Art+Craft #3: A shirt with ur own face on it
Photo via YvanRodic
I am not sure if this is a look for every1, particularly if you are ugly. It seems like ugly people might want to wear a shirt with some1 else’s face on it, but that also might make the person seem ‘uglier.’ This shirt is bold, letting the world know that u are truly ‘all about U.’ I feel like u have 2 be artistic 2 execute this shirt, or else u will end up looking like a crappy doodle.
‘This bro is me.’ – u, 2009
Art+Craft #4: Building a body suit out of duct tape and aluminum foil
Photo via drunkenstepfather
I feel like this look might only work for ‘curvy ass bitches.’ It seems like some1 else might have to make it for you by wrapping your body in duct tape. U might only be able to wear it once.
Art+Craft #5: Metaphorically Lynching urself
I have always wanted to show the world how much pain I have inside of myself, but without ‘actually killing myself.’ It seems like I don’t actually want to kill myself, because that wouldn’t really be noticed by enough people, unless I went on ’some sort of death rampage.’ I feel like I might build an art+craft where I ‘lynch myself’, and make it seem like I am dead in public. As if I am Jesus Christ or something, and I was murdered by tons of people who don’t ‘get’ me.
I love ‘living’ 2 much 2 kill myself, but I really just want the world 2 know that they don’t ‘get’ me. I want them 2 know that they are slowly killing me.
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Just want 2 create shit
& express who I truly am
2 the world around me
looking at me
analyzing me
interpreting me
‘u don’t fckng know me’
‘u don’t fckng get me’
‘I nvr thought I’d die alone.’
do u know n e fun arts+crafts activities?
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//////////Reply by Anonymous
//////////Posted September 16th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
@anon,
Welcome back, Carles.
:)
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yea crlz
kids in brooklyn utilize arts+krafts by making their own ‘i am crlz’ shirts instead of giving you the big bucks, maybe you shud verify the authenticity of the actual shirt you sell via commercials on mtv?? maybe BET to expand your target audience
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//////////Reply by Drew.
//////////Posted September 16th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
@†®åπP, Carles, he’s right.
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//////////Reply by alec
//////////Posted September 16th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
@†®åπP, the authentic shirts could be identified with a security hologram, similar to those seen on festival tickets etc…
maybe the whole shirt should be one big hologram
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pluck an assortment of feathers from live fowl (crow, bluJ, Bld Egl) – making it a meaningful collection – then ‘tar & feathr’ sum ‘old _________’.
seems like an ‘organic/dynamic concept’.
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i used ’safety pins’ on a pair of keds i had in ‘middle school’
i wasnt alt tho just ‘kind of irritating’
s0 over it
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My name is Oprah and I would like to have you on my show. You could definitely get into the zine business, carles. Your arts and crafts truly will give many alternative moms things to do between wiping baby asses. Would you like to monetize?
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this shit sucks, arts and crafts is all about middle schoolers building bongs out of 2 litters, ratchets and faucet screens…
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//////////Reply by Gainesvillain
//////////Posted September 16th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
@Gainesvillain, but the bro with his face on his shirt is pretty rad.
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damn
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//////////Reply by 88
//////////Posted September 16th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
@zachary german, agreed
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#3 for guys #4 for girls #5 for performers
saftey pins are so 2002 yall
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Popsicle sticks, glitter and glue
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lyfe
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i made a headband out of macaroni and glitter :)
also I once made a nativity scene (via xmas) out of pop cans/toilet paper rolls/construction paper. really feel this brought me closer to ‘our Lord Saviour Jesus Christ’
let me know if you wanna trade bible study ideas (also belong to Teens for Kryst)
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the-dream 4 best album ` 2k9?
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i filled up an ice kewb trey with jizz and made some earrings for this one bitch.
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//////////Reply by bill?
//////////Posted September 17th, 2009 at 9:54 am
@chizua, srsly one of the funniest things ive read on this site in a while
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do a post about kanyegate 2k9 crls, its the best meme since mjs death
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Lady Gaga:
I saw a photo of her all bloody and dressed in white, I thought she was supposed to be a METAPHORICAL TAMPON.
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as a srs young alt, i express my myriad emotions/raging hormones through lomography. xcept, all i have is this digicam so i just add c00l vignettes + weird colorz via MS paint.
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//////////Reply by elle
//////////Posted September 19th, 2009 at 8:37 am
@Lauren, i feel 4 you, fellow young alt
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CRAFT NIGHT via girls night in
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first
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CRAFT IN THE NAME OF SLACK!
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this br0 takes those big plastic record things and makes necklaces out of them
i guess its more meaningful than actually listening 2 the music right, no 1 listens 2 them anymore xcept djs
i kinda want 2 copy him and make something out of something more relevant like cds or mp3s
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//////////Reply by radtimes
//////////Posted September 17th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
@radtimes, oops vlingvling dot com
woooooooooo
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hey yall i sell nyc condom crafts (via that bowl next to the bar exit door)
u can make baloones
u can make wippits
u can make a hot water bottle 4 when it gets cold
u can make animals 4 kidz partay
u can do getto azz bitches and not get they azz pregnant
u can make a slingshot 2 hunt pigeons and rats
the possibility are only limited by ur imagination yall
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