Janet Lawson, MFT | November 23, 2009
** REMINDER: No workshops over the Thanksgiving weekend **
All the workshops this last weekend were incredibly focused – lots of great energy and lots of great work was done. Chelsea filmed the Friday group this week. Her documentary is beginning to take shape. She will be filming interviews in the coming weeks and plans [...]
Dan Swearingen | November 16, 2009
Lots of trial and error learning goes on in our workshops. Sometimes the emphasis is on “error.”
One of our students from an early workshop, Reggie, wanted to make a globe. We said “sure.” Our strategy was to build it out of layers of pine — and that was REALLY hard.
We all took turns rasping and [...]
Dan Swearingen | November 13, 2009
I tripped across this beautiful diorama project posted and built by Maxime Pécourt who lives in Paris, France.
What a fun idea.
Dan Swearingen | November 10, 2009
Where: UC Berkeley Art Museum Theatre, 2625 Durant Ave. Berkeley, California
When: Saturday, November 21, 2009, from 9 am to 4 pm
Sponsors: SageFemme, Ryder Foundation, Midwifery Today, Autism Recovery Consortium
Tickets: $60 until 11/20 then $75 and may be purchased through Everbrite: http://makinghealthybabies.eventbrite.com
The 2009 CIA World Factbook ranks the USA 45th among nations for infant mortality— the [...]
Janet Lawson, MFT | November 9, 2009
Time warp! It’s been well over 2 weeks since the last newsletter. We’ve been super busy around here. We had a great time at the GGRC Service Provider Fair. Lots of people stopped by the Autistry table and asked for more information. Steven’s Factory on a Cloud diorama and Sarah’s Super Robot Monkey plushie were [...]
Dan Swearingen | November 9, 2009
Pam Erwin gave us a great pointer to Wells Fargo’s Hands on Banking program which provides instructional resources and online classes in financial skills.
Courses are available in English and Spanish and four grades: Kids, Teens, Young Adults, and Adults. We are going to be drawing on these lessons and the great instructor guides (available as [...]
Dan Swearingen | November 7, 2009
This is a beautifully done video made by filming art miniatures with the band masked in. Love the killer teddy bears. The song is okay too.
Dan Swearingen | November 6, 2009
Wow, are there some serious nerds out there! They make me happy.
Diana Eng over at Make presents an awesome project taking a toy Star Trek original series communicator and making it into a bluetooth headset for your cell phone.
I actually own one of these toy communicators and this would be a great project to encourage [...]
Dan Swearingen | November 4, 2009
Phoebe made this AMV (more of an HMV since it’s set to a horror movie, not an anime) in 2007 in our early “Girls who love anime” workshop we started as proof-of-concept for the Autistry Studios idea.
Footage from the original Night of the Living Dead combined with Marilyn Manson’s cover of “Sweet Dreams.”
Dan Swearingen | November 3, 2009
We’re a gluten-free casein-free (dairy free) house and a couple years ago we added corn to the list of no-nos.
There is a very interesting article by Mark Hyman over on HuffPo about common food allergies like gluten, dairy, eggs, corn, yeast, and peanuts and sometimes soy and how there seems to be a relationship between [...]
