Love that "family newspaper" bit.
What you'll need: plain paper, old magazines and newspapers, bits of string, sequins, leaves, flowers, sparkly bits, that sort of thing Noise level: 0 (true creativity requires concentration, so cut out the chit-chat) Mess level: 3 Number of minutes killed: anything from 30 to a couple of hours Danger level: 2 (beware of paper cuts; and don't run with scissors).
The situation is so dire in places like Kenya, for example, where a package of pads costs 60 cents – that girls are often left using leaves, newspapers, bits of mattress stuffing or even mud as a form of protection while they're menstruating, according to Project Humanity. .
A few examples are at Smack-Mellon, but only as components of an assemblage-style environment in which the artist does nothing less than tell the story of her life through thousands upon thousands of hoarded objects: photographs, drawings, religious statues, domestic items, newspaper clippings, bits of clothing, postcards and so on.
(You can get a PDF of the newspaper at bit.ly/qi05ls).ly/qi05ls
They can read local newspapers for bits of news not found in the big national dailies or on television.
The artist Liz Magic Laser's commissioned work for Performa11, "I Feel Your Pain," promised both a romance drawn from the playbook of political theater and a 21st-century version of the "living newspaper" (a bit of Russian Constructivist agitprop).
But all the while this was happening, Stephen and I were winning awards, and since then we've published the newspaper a bit less and made a few films.
If not newspapers, books, or bits of paper satisfyingly stuffed into your pocket before being half-ruined by the washing machine, then what?
Amfo admits that she didn't actually do that much student radio herself, preferring to write for the university newspaper for a bit.
