Knitta Please, Threadbanger

Human creativity. Wonderful. Undestructive and yet interesting.

instead of spend money in some knit for the city meters, why didn't they knit socks for poor people?? much more useful isn't it?

It is seriously going to suck when the dogs in the city get to those parking meters--if ya know what I mean ;) haha but it is such a cool thing to be doing

Do the knitted pieces get all nasty after they have been out in the weather? I love the way it looks, but is regular yarn practical for outdoor art?

Lovely. I am very inspired by this.

This is so awesome! I love it!

this is so awesome and i think all the people that are saying that it sucks are just stupid playa hatahs who are to lazy to do anything like this

okay so i have a lot of stuff to say about this chick eliza and any of the haters on here 1st of all: your probably some fat ass that has nothing else better to do 2nd of all: you probably sit on your computer all day and criticize people because your OWN art isn't going any where. 3rd of all: Knitta please is awesome! Who could hate knitting brightly colored pieces?

This is so cool! I can't believe people would object! It's a parking meter for god's sake! I find the whole project really great

Wow, I can't believe the negativity of some of the comments. The first time I saw pics of a Knittaplease project it brought a smile to my face. The unexpected color amonst the city blahness just brightened my day. That is what art can do. I don't see it as a waste of time and money. It is made up of scraps. Geez, most of those small odds and ends would probably end up in the trash otherwise. Also, the process of knitting is relaxing and helps to calm the soul and lowers blood pressure. (Until you read the mean comments here, anyway.)

This is so cool! It's nice to see the mundane cement of cities being covered up with colorful creativity. Go Knitta Please!!!

these are some of the craziest comments and opinions I've ever seen on this site. When did art die ?

Two other awesome alternative street art projects: Lego patchwork (http://www.janvormann.com/testbild/dispatchwork-berlin/) and green graffiti (http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/10/24/urban-moss-graffiti-by-edina-tokodi/)

I love the Knitta Please gang. Tell 'em hi for me next time. (p.s. threadbangers, wondering how to have a nifty new icon like mine? Edit your profile or sign up on the upper right of the site!)

...Where's the threadbanger scissor sign off? I feel wierd without it :( Rob looks hot in his glasses btw

awsome dude, that is real devostion.

While this is a really neat project, I would never do it. Classifying it as a "waste of yarn" and such, however, is pretty uncalled for. Look at how you spend your time; everybody does something that's seen as "wasteful" to somebody else. I think it looks awesome, but I can say that I personally wouldn't do it. Props to Knitta Please for trying to bring colour to their streets.

hey guys, i think this is awesome, but what happens when it rains?? when a person walks down the street with their dog and wants a leak on ur art work?? i just hope it doesnt get all ruined...... xoxo

By the way, 2 hours in the knitting world is, like, crazy fast. It's not uncommon for some knitting projects to take months or years to complete. And did you see the people in the video? All the pole cozies obviously meant something to them. Which means it's not a waste!

I think that if some goes out and buys yarn with their own money, that they worked for and spends 2-3 hours of their own time and knit/crotchet a pole snuggy just for the sake of Art?!!! I say WONDERFULL!! There's allready so much pain and suffering around us... and if someone passes by a cOL0rFuLL knitted pole and makes them stop and smile!:) ...then it was so WORTH IT! Just say Hell-yah-to-art!! Art is never a waste.

I think that this sweetest and subversive idea ever. It is like grannies with switchblades or bikers with bunny ears.

so when it's wide spread and there's a leader do the authorities contact them and approve or something? I think it's cute, might be a "waste of time and materials" but it's their time and materials so what the hey. and as long as if/when they see one "failing" they remove it so it doesent BECOME litter. like I said...cute.and we need more color in the world !!

I have mixed feelings about knitta as well. People have the right to buy and do what the wish that's their choice... if some feel it to be a waste too bad. we all have our own values and that's just how it is. Art is art.... i get that and i hate to stifle but its on par to littering in my book. I'm glad they kept it to poles... when i see those on trees i annoys me. All i know is those people took that yarn knit it, and left it to the public. If someone was to lets say clip those off the poles and idk maybe knit hats for Homeless or African babies with aids i don't think anyone would stop ya... *HINT HINT*

this is really cute. too bad its such a waste of yarn. i mean one parking meter i understand. it would have been like a beacon in an iron jungle but all of them? thats just wasteful. art is art. waste is just sad. there are so many other worth while uses for all that yarn. :(

Hmmm... I kinda have mixed feelings about this whole thing... Great way to bringa bout awareness for the art of knitting... especially since World Wide Knitting in Public day is coming up - http://www.wwkipday.com/ - for more info... But I agree... what a waste of yarn and 2 hours of effort. I also hate the fact that it wasn't so much "Graffitti" culture inspired, but that they were invited and asked to do it...

"self-indulgent mess" "what a waste of yarn" "They seem to be stealing pretty freely from a culture that has nothing to do with them, and the motivation seems pretty self-centered." Well you guys are a whole bag of fun, aren't you? Since when has any kind of art been anything but self-indulgent? Art is all about the artist making something from their own ideas. It's all about self. And are people who paint or sculpt wasting paint/wood/marble? Why that wood could be used for some nice sturdy chairs for schools. It's ok to use things that are usually used for one purpose for another. It really is. Try thinking outside the box. Go on. And as for stealing freely from a culture that has nothing to do with them. Well, isn't everything inspired by something else? It's a compliment from the culture of knitting (which goes back a very long way when you look into it) to a more modern culture of...hang on, which culture are they stealing from? Not sure you said. It isn't obvious to me. All in all this is fun. It's removable. And it makes people smile. It's good to see people taking an interest in their world and putting their mark on it in a way that doesn't deface it for good. With pieces they have spent time creating with their own two hands. I'm sure you'll get your dull metal parking metres back very soon. Make sure you love them when they're all cold and grey, won't you?

This is not okay. The name is not okay and people in the neighborhood hate this shit. I know, I live there. STOP.

Am I crazy or did we not get any Decor it Yourself for June yet?

I don't think it's a neat idea in the first place, since it comes from a place of privilege while co-opting the language and action of a culture reacting to oppression. When the people in these organizations grow up and have kids, they'll be in the suburbs where they don't have to see the self-indulgent mess they made.

Seems like a very British columbia kind of thing, but I agree with hob, what happens to them afterward? It's a neat idea until you think of the after effects

Ah so that's where this came about! I've also seen it in Wellington, New Zealand, and I wondered where the idea came from.

i liked that but dont dogs pee on them? and then who cleans them or are they just left to rot? and also when i think of it what a waste of yarn. ok no i didnt like that lol

Do the people in that organization ever really think about the appropriation of culture? They seem to be stealing pretty freely from a culture that has nothing to do with them, and the motivation seems pretty self-centered.

sweet! what a great idea! does anyone know what other cities this is happening in? also, i'm the first comment-er! double sweet...