Posts Tagged "alt artist"

Berlin: Bobbing Bear-lin Luftballons – the Movie

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on Sep 30, 2011 in Berlin Book Launch, Deadly Knitshade, Germany, How We Made, Lady Loop, Movies, Shorn-a the Dead, Travelling Yarnstorms | 0 comments

In these dark and dismal times of civil unrest, crashing stockmarkets and tins of baked beans that cost an arm and a leg, the world really is in need of a bit of handmade magic. Back in March we travelled all the way to Berlin to release some of our woolly mischief overseas. Pariser Platz in front of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate saw a little bit of sneaky stitching. Well, maybe not quite so sneaky considering how many people slowed down their city shuffle to watch. Starring Knit the City, a very tall and very helpful passing giant, frogs, bears, snakes and sausages, KTC’s...

Yarnstorm the Fifteenth: Tree of Tintenfisch

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on Aug 15, 2011 in Berlin Book Launch, Deadly Knitshade, Germany, Lady Loop, Rest of the World, Shorn-a the Dead, Travelling Yarnstorms, Yarnstorms | 1 comment

What’s a graffiti knitting book launch celebration without a swarm of skybound squid (or Tintenfisch as squid are called in Germany)?

Yarnstorm on Screen: Handmade Herd

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on Feb 22, 2011 in Deadly Knitshade, London, Movies, Shorn-a the Dead, The Fastener | 2 comments

The Handmade Herd has wended its way across London Bridge and disappeared into the labyrinth of London.

Still here? Want more? A last encore? Well, button those lips and slip behind this curtain.

Let the Magic Lantern of the sorceresses of Alt Artist show you the wonders of the Handmade Herd with Moving Pictures.

Yarnstorm on Screen: Nutcracker Knitmare Before Christmas

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on Dec 24, 2009 in Deadly Knitshade, Lady Loop, London, Movies, Shorn-a the Dead, The Fastener | 3 comments

Bringing you a bit of festive fibre on film our Fairy Godmothers of Documentrydom, the Alt Artist girls, have put together a little movie of our Knitmare Before Christmas.

City Interventionists, apparently

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on Sep 27, 2009 in Deadly Knitshade, London, Movies, Yarn Corps | 3 comments

London in the summer is full of festivals. Not just the kind of festivals that see you up to your knees in fast-food flecked mud, quietly dreading the next time you have to brave the horror that is the campsite toilets, and subject to the sudden unexplained urge to get luminous dreadlocks smeared into your greasy unwashed hair. There are much less smelly festivals too. And Knit the City were invited to take part in one.