Pimping my awesome friends.

[nonelvis]

(Not literally, of course.)

otherwise_nyc just came back from delivering a delightful talk on guerilla knitting at the 2007 Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin. You might think that knitting has nothing to do with hacking, but you'd be wrong -- for one thing, guerilla knitters and hackers share a similar anarchic, joyful spirit, as evidenced by this excellent tank cozy (with a pompom, because it just wouldn't be right without it) and these mittens on a statue of Vladimir Lenin.

The CCC made a video of the talk available under a Creative Commons license, so I've posted a copy on MegaUpload for anyone who'd like to watch it. It's in MKV format, so you'll probably need VLC to watch it. (Though something tells me many of the people on my flist have VLC already ...)

Comments

[elliptic-eye.livejournal.com]

That tank cosy is several solar masses of awesome. Lenin is also spiffy, but he just doesn't have anything on the tank.

[nonelvis]

The pompom hanging from the gun completely cracks me up.

[mellificent.livejournal.com]

I saw the tank cozy someplace a while back (whipup (http://whipup.net/), maybe) and I adored it. It didn't make me want to knit, though, so much as it made me want to make a pink quilt - all different shades of pink, just like that. (I wonder if the artist got the same horrified reaction from people I generally do when I tell them that I'm thinking of making a pink quilt. Pink is very love-it-or-hate-it, apparently - you either get a squee or a shudder.)

Somewhere in my quilt journal there's a link to a quilted missile cozy, also. But it's much more formal than the tank cozy, and I don't like it as much. Doesn't have the same subversiveness.

[nonelvis]

You're right, the missile cozy is less interesting. But look who took this photo!