Rachel was here for the week and although we didn’t take very many pictures, we did spend an afternoon at Como Park, taking pictures of the flowers.

Be sure to check out the “One Minute Documentaries” by Andy and Rachel.

1. Read this post

The society that doesn’t value handwork is wrong. The magazine article that suggests you are less than human because you prefer an evening with your cat and spinning wheel to dinner at a noisy new restaurant is wrong. The company that doesn’t believe you can enjoy a knitting circle and also chair a board meeting is wrong.

This is from Franklin Habit (see below). I think I like Franklin.

1,000 Knitters is a long-term photography project undertaken by Chicago photographer (and knitter) Franklin Habit, who blogs at The Panopticon. The goal is to celebrate through portraiture a creative community whose members have historically been either overlooked or sentimentalized, and whose work is often undervalued.

In the series, self-identified knitters are photographed singly while at work on the same wool scarf.

The first knitter cast on in May, 2007. As of June 14, 2008, 928 knitters have taken part.

The final format of the work is yet to be determined. Possibilities include a book and/or a gallery exhibition. Showings of the work-in-progress will likely take place online.

2. My summer camp this week wrote me a note on the white board, because I won’t be there tomorrow. It says “Thanks Becka! You Rock!” with some accompanying artwork. (This isn’t even a class I taught, I just checked them in and dug out cool and funky materials for them.) When your class is taught by a “sassy art goddess” I think some of it must rub off.