Yarnbombed!
Now that’s a lot of work. But it seems to be catching on:
Hundreds of knitters around the world have begun wrapping their huge woolly creations around public property like trees, street signs and lampposts.
They then take photos of their colourful “art” and post them on internet sites for fellow knitters to view and comment on.
The bus in question is in Mexico City, and this video of guerrilla knitter Magda Sayeg might explain everything. Or it might not.
(Seen at Finestkind Clinic and fish market.)
Dr. Weevil »
24 January 2009 · 11:16 am
Maybe I should follow the link before asking this, but I’m too lazy: if the bus is in Mexico City, how come the destination sign is in Chinese or Korean or Japanese?
CGHill »
24 January 2009 · 11:48 am
This puzzled me also, but in the video Sayeg makes clear that she’s in Mexico City while she’s working on the bus, and the linked Telegraph article refers to a “disused” bus. This doesn’t explain why a Pacific Rim bus would end up in Mexico, so I’m going to operate under the assumption that the destination sign was also tweaked by the artist, though it doesn’t look knitted.
Jan »
24 January 2009 · 12:25 pm
Now that’s a cozy.
Tatyana »
24 January 2009 · 1:19 pm
yes, but would you want to keep a bus hot under a cozy, in Mexico’s climate?
unimpressed »
24 January 2009 · 4:07 pm
This woman has a severe case of “too much time on my hands”.
fillyjonk »
24 January 2009 · 5:04 pm
Wow. I like to knit and all but I’d rather spend the limited time I have to do that sort of thing to make stuff for myself – or make stuff like preemie hats that are more practical in their uses.
And some of the stuff on that bus looks like crochet. (I HAVE to make that correction whenever necessary. It’s in the Guild rules…)
Oh, and the destination sign could have been done using either intarsia or stranded knitting, but a person would have to be mad to want to do that, I think.
Lynn »
24 January 2009 · 9:55 pm
It’s not very clear but it looks to me like the lettering on the tire is in the same alphabet as the destination sign.
Lynn »
24 January 2009 · 9:58 pm
Oh, one more thing… The bus and the car behind it are parked on the left side of the street.
Dr. Weevil »
24 January 2009 · 10:55 pm
Left-side parking? That means that the sign is almost certainly Japanese. That fits with the mixture of symbols: the last two are much simpler than the rest, which I think happens a lot in Japanese, where Chinese symbols are nearly all very complex and Korean ones moderately complex. (Something to do with using Chinese symbols to represent an entirely different language, I think, so some Japanese symbols represent whole words, while others just represent syllables and are much simpler.)
McGehee »
25 January 2009 · 2:45 pm
Unless it’s a one-way street.
McGehee »
25 January 2009 · 2:47 pm
…or, you know, a reversed photo. With Asian-language characters, who in this hemisphere would know?