[Noisebridge-discuss] yarn bombs

Jack Perkins jackaperkins at gmail.com
Sat Mar 12 21:14:02 UTC 2011


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On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Rameen <emprameen at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are a large number of these in The South Berkeley/North Oakland
> Temescal area. On Martin Luther King Jr. Way there are 10 foot metal letters
> on the border that say "HERE" and "THERE," respectively, which have been
> bombed. There's a cafe across the street whose trees and signposts are
> gussied up, and all around the area random verticals and trees have been
> forcefully cozied by these terrifying yarn bombs. I've even seen humans get
> bombed. (Gruesome)  Better rig the elections, change the constitution, and
> create a new branch of police to take care of this code orange! (and yellow
> and blue and little diamond shapes, and this one has cute little zigzags...)
>
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:51 AM, L E <lexein-esc at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Two pics of a pole cozy in Berkeley.
>> http://bayimg.com/DaEgEaaDg
>> http://bayimg.com/dAEGGAadG
>>
>> From: Corey McGuire <coreyfro at coreyfro.com>
>> To: Erik Nelson <erik.nels0n99 at gmail.com>
>> Cc: noisebridge-discuss <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
>> Sent: Fri, March 11, 2011 8:05:39 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] yarn bombs
>>
>> Kids these days, always up to some kind of Knitchief!
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Erik Nelson <erik.nels0n99 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd heard of these before, but hadn't actually ever seen one. Aren't they
>>> sometimes knitted in place, with haste, and by groups of people?
>>>
>>> On Mar 11, 2011 10:15 PM, "Jared Dunne" <jareddunne at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Yes, I dig it also. I guess some of the original yarn bombers were
>>> > hitting
>>> > all these trees around some town. The local authorities sorta freaked
>>> > and
>>> > some reason found it very subversive and 'terrorist'-y. I personally
>>> > like
>>> > the idea of trees with sweaters. Perhaps it's inhumane to force them to
>>> > wear
>>> > warm clothes during global warming? Bike racks seem like fair game
>>> > though..
>>> > heh
>>> >
>>> > J-
>>> >
>>> > On Mar 11, 2011 6:46 PM, "jim" <jim at systemateka.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > my pal said "hey, stop", looking down at a
>>> > bycicle rack that was bolted to the sidewalk.
>>> > at the top of the rack was a little knitted
>>> > scarflet. "that's a yarn bomb", she said.
>>> > there's this movement of people that are
>>> > knitting things and sneaking up on doorways and
>>> > fences and trees and wrapping their knitstuff
>>> > around them and quick-binding the two ends.
>>> > yeah, even trees, some of the yarn bombs
>>> > are really big.
>>> >
>>> > 's news to me. tho't you'd like to know.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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