Comments for modernknitting http://modernknitting.wordpress.com Modern Knitting....a new spin on an old craft! Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:36:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on The Yarn Graffiti Documentary by Mlle G.. http://modernknitting.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/the-yarn-graffiti-documentary/#comment-19 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:36:21 +0000 http://modernknitting.wordpress.com/?p=138#comment-19 this is what I meant:
http://montrealguerillaknitting.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/co-opting-guerilla-knitting/

I don’t like that. At all.

]]> Comment on About by Deadly Knitshade http://modernknitting.wordpress.com/about/#comment-18 Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:22:01 +0000 http://modernknitting.wordpress.com/?page_id=2#comment-18 Yay! An exciting new knit graffiti blog! Thanks for the link. Keep up the yarnstorming madness. :)

Deadly Knitshade x

]]> Comment on Yarnbombing and You by Inhabitant of the world http://modernknitting.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/yarnbombing-and-you/#comment-17 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 22:52:13 +0000 http://modernknitting.wordpress.com/?p=169#comment-17 Yarn bombing is lots of fun for me. It is an opportunity for me to be spontaneous with my crochet, and make dull things look pretty.
Yarn bombing always makes me feel more confident with my crochet, especially as a young person keeping an old craft as a hobby.

]]> Comment on Yarnbombing and You by Jane Friedman http://modernknitting.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/yarnbombing-and-you/#comment-16 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:04:18 +0000 http://modernknitting.wordpress.com/?p=169#comment-16 I didn’t know about yarn bombing until I met you, Rachel! To me, it looks like a form of public art that is very community oriented and positive. While I don’t think it’s something that will gain widespread participation (I will *never* learn how to knit!), I do hope it is widely appreciated.

]]> Comment on Yarn Bombing in the Media by jafabrit http://modernknitting.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/yarn-bombing-in-the-media/#comment-15 Sun, 29 May 2011 18:41:46 +0000 http://modernknitting.wordpress.com/?p=163#comment-15 The Associated Press did a story about our knit knot tree in 2008 :)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2008-03-11-knitting-tree_N.htm and then it went viral
and supposedly we beat MGM media blitz.
http://www.artsjournal.com/aestheticgrounds/2008/03/knitters_beat_mgm_mirage_in_pu.html

]]> Comment on The Yarn Graffiti Documentary by L. C.C.C. http://modernknitting.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/the-yarn-graffiti-documentary/#comment-14 Mon, 09 May 2011 03:59:55 +0000 http://modernknitting.wordpress.com/?p=138#comment-14 The use of the term ”mainstream” is pejorative everywhere in the art world and in whatever alternative social pratcice. I don’t want to necessarily bring up the old counter-culture debate, but clearly yarn bombing has something of it and allthough anyone participating in the movement might say it’d be nice to have some more, I doubt we would want as many knits on poles as tagged names on walls…
Just saying. My point was please don’t use ”go mainstream” to say we all want more knit graffiti.

In french canadian we have a saying: “Trop c’est comme pas assez” that means “too much is just like too little”

]]> Comment on The Yarn Graffiti Documentary by John Moore http://modernknitting.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/the-yarn-graffiti-documentary/#comment-13 Sun, 08 May 2011 21:13:01 +0000 http://modernknitting.wordpress.com/?p=138#comment-13 We’re not concerned with making Yarn Graffiti into a Walmart/Abercrombie and Fitch type art form. In 1982, a couple of filmmakers made Style Wars, to document the onset of Graffiti art in New York. You can watch the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ji3O5YgtRU . As a result, thousands of Taggers and bombers found their passion and continue to make elaborate murals today.

Our goal is not to exploit, but to inform about this movement. For all we know, the Da Vinci of Fiber Arts could be out there but has no clue about Yarn Bombing yet.

]]> Comment on The Yarn Graffiti Documentary by modernknitting http://modernknitting.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/the-yarn-graffiti-documentary/#comment-12 Fri, 06 May 2011 18:30:13 +0000 http://modernknitting.wordpress.com/?p=138#comment-12 Personally, I’d love for more people to enjoy and get involved with Yarnbombing.

]]> Comment on The Yarn Graffiti Documentary by Mlle G. http://modernknitting.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/the-yarn-graffiti-documentary/#comment-11 Fri, 06 May 2011 18:00:02 +0000 http://modernknitting.wordpress.com/?p=138#comment-11 Who said we wanted Yarn Graffiti to go mainstream?

]]> Comment on Yarn Bombing; is it Explosive or a Dud? Part V Streetcolor by modernknitting http://modernknitting.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/yarn-bombing-it-it-explosive-or-a-dud-part-v-streetcolor/#comment-10 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:08:29 +0000 http://modernknitting.wordpress.com/?p=126#comment-10 I’m glad that you’re interested and I really hope that I can keep giving people updates and insights into what is going on, thats the goal!!

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