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Category: Thursday Time-Waster
Knitters Humour – Twisted Knitting Terminology
Check this out. Yes, we need these terms!
My favorite is:
Epiphknitty – the moment you finally understand a difficult pattern or knitting technique. (How true! I can feel the lightbulb come on in these moments)
Thanks to MonsterYarns for making my day.
Beauty by Adobe’
Check out the latest beauty product, exclusively from Adobe’ – called “Fotoshop.”
“Finally, look the way you’ve always dreamed.” “Beauty product used by the modeling industry.” (Just don’t take it too seriously)
Hexaflexagons
While I have been plugging away on knitting projects, my ‘day job’ is still driving me crazy, so I’ve not taken the time to photo-document WIP.
Instead, I’m taking a quick break to share with you this cool video about Hexaflexagons, which appeals to my current state of mind.
Quite entertaining presentation of something that is probably a complicated math principal of some sort. Enjoy:
Behind the Scenes – Avengers
I did not grow up with comic books, though my husband did, and he’s great for explaining the back story of these movies. I loved the Avengers movie – and most of the contributing movies that built up to this movie.
I also love the ‘behind the scenes’ segments that show how these block-buster, computer-graphics-intensive movies were made. For me, it increases the magic and wonder of the movies to show the incredible imagination and work to seamlessly integrate “real” and “fantasy.”
This clip shows how the tide-turning scene in the great battle scene of the movie was put together. I found it fascinating – I hope you enjoy it, too.
For Valentine’s Day
A Disney animated short that is a sweet romantic piece. Should get you in the mood for Valentine’s Day (which is next Thursday).
Starry Night – VanGogh Domino
Terrific video which recreates Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” in dominoes. Fascinating to see how it was built, but more fascinating to see it come to life when the artist activates the domino effect. Be sure to check out the other vantage points, and see the domino recreation superimposed on the painting.
Ode to A Yarn Bombing
Yarn bombing is such a whimsical expression of the art. Check out the full post and enjoy a few minutes escape from the world.
Knittymandias
I met a Raveller from an antique land
Who said: ‘Two vast and trunkless* legs of bronze
Stand in the town square. Above them, on the man,
Half shrunk, a soggy sweater clings, whose size,
And gathered hip, and fitted wrist band
Tell that its knitter well those contours read.
Which yet survive, draped about these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them while the town was in bed.
And on its breast these intarsia’d words appear –
“My name is Knittymandias, king of kings:
Look on these crafty works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal turtleneck, littered everywhere
The scattered strands of yarn stretch far away.’
*Not wearing pants A shameless rip-off of Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Hollywood Green Screen Magic
My illusions are gone. If mundane images like these are produced using a green screen, what about such cinematic marvels like Avatar?
A cool way to waste a few minutes on a Thursday, regardless.
Thursday Time-Waster Every Major’s Terrible
For my two seniors in high school, who are working on their college applications, and for my oldest child, now in college, and for anyone else who had trouble deciding “what I want to be when I grow up”:
The Wisdom of Knitting 