Wow, yarnbombing.com has been quiet this past month. Sorry about that folks…Mandy has been busy with loads of knitted design work and I have been getting ready to write a new book….if you are into embroidery, check out my submission call at www.unexpectedembroidery.com.
Onwards to actual yarn bombing news:
Nice little interview and pictures of Magda Sayeg’s latest project in Austin Texas via FullyFlummoxed.
A Brooklyn knit tagger caught in the act via camera phone.
Opportunities to get involved
Einav, who writes the blog ‘girl with a crappy camera’, is making a yarn bombing documentary! She’s currently in Tel Aviv, and expects to eventually make it to North America. Check out this short clip from the film on yarn bomber Veronica Darling. Grrl+Dog will be in the film as well! If you do knit graffiti, you should get in touch with her.
Alisa is creating a yarn bombing installation at the Textile Museum of Canada, and wants you to contribute: If you are interested in submitting knitted, woven, quilted or crocheted items such as flowers, swatches, granny squares, amigarumi, etc., please mail them to the address below by May 15th!
Check out the teaser yarn bomb that she created last week. A beauty:
More information here: http://fibreperson.blogspot.com/2010/04/yarn-bombing-at-textile-museum-of.html
Corporate yarn bombing
The Vodafone offices were hit in Maastricht yesterday by ConnieLene. Funny, because Vodefone Ireland was the company who created knit graffiti cell phone commercial (seen here via Knit Hacker). I know a lot of folks in the UK were choked that knit graffiti had been co-opted this way, but in my North American perspective, as you’d never see such anything so risky and fun here, I find it charming. Maybe it’s just my love of cute accents.
There has been a bunch of knitted adverts around lately including this natural gas commercial which is beautiful and cinematic and very European (you can also watch the making of the commercial here.).
Oh wait, I stand corrected that you’d never see knit graffiti commercially co-opted in North America. PixieKnit just sent me this from Montreal:
She says:
It’s an advertising campaign for Le Lait, the dairy farmers. They organized a ‘soirée réconfortante’, so a comforting evening at the old port. They served hot coco and played a classic children movie outdoors called ‘La Guerre des Tuques’. Don’t you think that the winter hats totally coopted knit graffiti?
Definitely not hand-knit.
Knit graffiti as an advertising medium, is this the beginning of a trend?
Tags: advertising, Austin, brooklyn, co-opted, commercial, ConnieLene, Holland, Magda Sayeg, Montreal, PixieKnit, Texas, Toronto Textile Museum, Vodafone
I cringe
for the day when
companies will get yarn bombers to pimp out their art…
Guess it may happen….
*sigh*
there was some more knitted advertizing of a similar vein in 2008 in dresden, germany: http://ruhestoerung.net/lokales/ziehen-sie-ihr-haus-warm-an/.
It seems as though every art form is subjugated to corpocracy at some point or another.
I second grrl+dog’s sigh.
*sigh*
At first glance, the toque idea seems cool but upon further inspection, I got to thinking about that its sad that every original idea is pimped out to big business.
Can I please ‘third’ that *sigh*?
great news on the book Leanne!
I’m emailing a few brilliant stitchers right now.
Just wanted to tip you off about the jafagirl interview at world graffiti website:
http://www.world-graffiti.com/2010/05/corrine-nancy-aka-jafagirls-yarn-bombing-knit-graffiti/
Best of luck with the book, I am sure it is going to be as gorgesous and as inspiring as the yarnbombing book.
Aw, thanks for the well wishes guys! I cannot believe that I’m at the beginning of writing a new book already. I’m looking forward to it though. I love meeting creative people and hearing their stories.
That Jafagirl interview is great – thanks for posting it.
Knit girl – can’t wait to see what you come up with.
Hi there,
I am a British journalist writing about yarn bombing for the website for Good Housekeeping magazine, http://www.allaboutyou.com – and I’m working on a feature about yarn bombing. I’m wondering if you’d be able to kindly email me a brief comment or two for the piece? I’ve tried to contact you via your publishers but they haven’t responded yet so thought I’d try to contact you direct. I would love to mention any amazing UK yarn bombers you know of and how it’s taking off in the UK, and also to know why and how you (and other people) do yarn graffiti? Are there causes/campaigns that could benefit from resultant publicity? And are there ever legal implications?
My deadline is Friday so it would be wonderful to hear from you as soon as possible. I look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks very much in advance.
Best wishes,
Olivia
Olivia Gordon
E: olivia@oliviagordon.com
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