Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.
Given that this week marks the anniversary of September 11th, is it really necessary to be promoting tongue-in-cheek craft that makes fun of homeland security? Personal beliefs aside about how the US government has used this rating scale (for better or worse) over the last eight years, it seems a little mean to post this during the same week when people are remembering the dead.
Becky Sternsays:
On the contrary, I think it’s exactly the right time to post, as it’s what got us the alert levels in the first place. This piece doesn’t make fun of anything. I made no tongue-in-cheek remarks about it, either, I simply found it interesting enough to share.
Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.
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Given that this week marks the anniversary of September 11th, is it really necessary to be promoting tongue-in-cheek craft that makes fun of homeland security? Personal beliefs aside about how the US government has used this rating scale (for better or worse) over the last eight years, it seems a little mean to post this during the same week when people are remembering the dead.
On the contrary, I think it’s exactly the right time to post, as it’s what got us the alert levels in the first place. This piece doesn’t make fun of anything. I made no tongue-in-cheek remarks about it, either, I simply found it interesting enough to share.