Lance Armstrong Foundation asked Shepard Fairey to do a piece for their show Stages.?
Nike Stages Show
Shepard did the piece based on a photo of Jessica Ikenberry (by Andrena Photography) that we used early on in Waiting Room. ? He has been a great supporter of Waiting Room with his design advice and his encouragement.? Jessica has been an inspiration and a cover girl for Waiting Room. ?
The photos of Jessica on the site and on the banner are by photographer? Dave Naz? who donated the shoot.
We are lucky to have so many great people on board. New issue coming soon. Stay tuned.
It’s too late to submit to Ready Made Magazine’s Macgyver Challenge for creative uses of prescription bottles but we can work on our own crafts that make use of the remnants of cancer treatment.
From plastic, comes life.
The web is full of great recycled item craft ideas. Here are a few links that make use of some of the things we collect as patients:
CraftZine.Com has a great list of things to do with plastic bags (pharmacys, grocery stores, and doctors offices seem to always send you home with one of these).
For some great (and positively down-home) ideas on what to do with all of your prescription bottles check out this list at aboutmyplant.com, or this collection of ideas from FamilyCrafts.com - it includes this cool grow magnent (pictured), and BohemianRevolution.Com has a few great ideas as well.? Now we just need to figure out what to do with those far-out red ones from Target.
If you are handy with needlecrafts you might be interested in this Pill Needlepoint project over at Craftster.com or this headband pattern (perfect for creating the illusion of fluffy pre-chemo hair) from CraftZine.com.
Hopefully next-up on Ready Made’s Macgyver Challenge will be: nose clips, medical tubing, hospital gowns, and kytril packaging. Why not see what you can come up with?
I can’t figure out who did this anti-smoking campaign, but its pretty awesome.
I have not written about grassroots cancer organizations outside of North America since Americans & Canadians (especially Canadians in my opinion) have a lot to offer as far as creative cancer projects go. I have a long list of things to write about like the “I’m Gonna Wear it” project, Kris Carr’s Crazy Sexy Cancer film and about Tamika Felder? who is one of the coolest (like Aretha Franklin-cool) cancer survivors I have ever met. Today, however, I am putting that list aside for what I feel is a truly remarkable, awe-inspiring cancer story from the United Kingdom. The story is about Sarah Yates – tag name Sazzelli (more on the tag name later) and her fight against Leukemia.
At about age 18 Sarah was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and in her own words she knew that “life as I knew it would never be the same. I once identified myself with descriptors such as ‘graphic designer,’ ‘college student,’ and ‘daughter.’ Now I choose ‘leukemia survivor,’ ‘advocate,’ and ‘blessed.’ “. I am sure that most people reading this can identify with Sarah’s sentiments and would agree to a point that being diagnosed with cancer defines us all is one way or another. Sarah’s Cancer Diary? is well documented with photos from the day she entered Christies Hospital in for treatment all the way through to her arrival home in a ‘whig & sunnys’ nearly 6 months later.
Besides being a cancer survivor, Sarah, rather, Sazzelli? is a smoking hot graffiti artist. She’s just launched a new website called Fauna Graphic where you can? check out all her fine work and goods.?
