How yarn bombing grew into a worldwide movement | Magda Sayeg
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- Опубліковано 14 лис 2024
- Textile artist Magda Sayeg transforms urban landscapes into her own playground by decorating everyday objects with colorful knit and crochet works. These warm, fuzzy "yarn bombs" started small, with stop sign poles and fire hydrants in Sayeg's hometown, but soon people found a connection to the craft and spread it across the world. "We all live in this fast-paced, digital world, but we still crave and desire something that's relatable," Sayeg says. "Hidden power can be found in the most unassuming places, and we all possess skills that are just waiting to be discovered."
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2:58 The audience reaction bring me to tears!
0:24: What must that girl be thinking?
Exactly! She looked like she'd no clue what's she doing at a TED talk xD
+runangolee lol exactly what I was thinking
+Roo Torres, well, this was one of a number of talks. Not every one of them is as interesting...
Stein-Erik Dahle Ahahah that must be it!
The girl at 25 seconds in is clearly unimpressed. Gets to go to a potentially cool Ted talk and it ends up being about yarn lol.
I just laughed out loud. Literally
I laughed so hard to this 😂
This happened a couple of years ago in LA, this woman 'yarn bombed' a couple of bicycle racks and parking meters and people like me would lock up their bikes on this yarn and it all eventually wore out, some faster than others, and now it's a bunch of dirty broken yarn collected on the bottom of each of these racks. I am not sure how much community was created but it brought a couple of baristas and workers from nearby stores together to clean up her mess.
I suppose "everything must die." Nice that it brought some people together at least
Math and fabric arts go hand in hand. When I rekindled my passion for crocheting, I realised that geometry plays a HUGE part in making anything.
Imagine all the dust and smoke sticking to the yarn as time goes on, not to mention diseases. Woah.
Somewhere a homeless person stands in the cold, looking at a tree wearing a sweater.
+Hubert Maliszewski What's actually pretty cool about the evolution of this movement is that a lot of towns (like my own hometown) make the knitting easy to remove so that, until the next rain storm, the homeless population can actually remove the art pieces and wear them as scarves or use them as blankets. The yarn bombers frequently will take down their own work (or local businesses will save the pieces before they're damaged by weather) so there isn't litter left on the streets.
Not every city's yarn bombers do this, but many of them do, at this point.
😂
+Mer M, marvellous!
+Hubert Maliszewski Some of the groups remove the yarnbombs after a few weeks, wash them, stitch them together in to blankets, and give them to shelters. Recycling artwork, pretty cool. Many of the same crafters knit hats, scarves and blankets for the homeless in their spare time.
How does she knows that she's the first one who start this thing?
Well, she's white so clearly she discovered it first, even if she discovered it while seeing some other people in some tribe in the world doing it. She gets to claim first and it goes in the book as her being first.
She may not have been the one to first come up with it but she is the one who popularized it, like Darwin and evolution (which he denounced on his deathbed btw)
0:25- "oh my god mom....shutupppp"
Perfect caption xD
+Minkailu Lamin I was laughing so hard when I saw her face.
3:57 is just too wildly awesome!
Yo tengo una frase que siempre le digo a mis alumnas de tejido,sus manos pueden hacer magia 🌟
Me, my, I, me, me, me! A legend in her own mind.
I see yarn bombing in our town Watford. My children love it! ☺
I wonder how Magda reacted to the Game Theory episode about Yarn Bombing.
I find yarn bombing a waste of time and bad for the environment. Does she not consider what happens to yarn after being exposed to rain and snow? Wet, moldy yarn does not help a community. Trees aren't meant to be bundled up in yarn. It's like tying a plastic bag to a tree.
Why not use the yarn to make blankets and knitwear for the people who need it? A sleeve for a pole can be easily be a scarf for a person.
Looks cute until the elements wear down the yarn and it gets mouldy and begins to smell :/
@@SongokuJidai you heard wrong, it just sits there getting grosser and grosser
0:24 When all the drugs hit at once and you must concentrate on not dying.
Oh my gawwwwd!!! You're like talkin like so much of like gibberish!
im in love with this lady
So, *Graffiti* basically.
No
"Yarn Bombs" are not a thing, no one does this except for a few individuals. This is not a movement, just a few person with nothing better to do with there time
That was almost perfect.
+Pat B There are groups doing this all over the world, in every major city and many small ones. It's much bigger than you think. Google "yarnbombing" and look at images.
The girl at 0:25 is like did i pay to listen to this stuff?
People here were doing this to trees YEARS ago...
I have never heard of yarn bombing.
Not a good time to be uploading stuffs with bombs in their names
I absolutely love this!
This is so cute, but I can't help thinking that the yarn would start sagging from weathering. :/
When you sew it onto the street furniture, you stretch the fabric and sew it on as tightly as possible to compensate for that. You also measure the street furniture you knitting for so that you knit to precise dimensions for a snug fit.
1:24 you're *HOOKED*??
This is just a video of her talking of something she likes... Nothing major. I'd like that TED stopped showcasing these pointless type of videos. Whilt it looks something interesting, her yarn bombing isn't an "idea worth spreading", it is just a hobby she made when she was bored.
i know that they say this is art and harmless. but in reality this is vandleism XD can you imagine how hard it would be to get all that stuff off if you needed to? it makes spray paint looks like side walk chalk in comparison
What? It just takes a couple snips with scissors or a slash of a knife.
not at all
Lone Traveler
As someone who works with yarn daily, I know it is incredibly easy to remove yarn from anything if you don't mind ruining the yarn.
but its over the entire buss! what about the edges?
i guess i could see how it would be easier than i was first thinking but wouldn't it still be kind hard? especially with as tall as the buss is?
Lone Traveler
As tall as the bus is, how you think she got it on there in the first place? If she got up there to get it on, it shouldn't be any different to get up there to get it off. And the process of getting it off would be quicker and easier than getting it on.
Doesn't it get dirty?
+Evren Uçar I was jsut about to comment that. it's really unhygienic lol
+Tomppa M
um, the whole outside is really "unhygienic" and it's ok.
+zelial3 some things are worse than others. There are surfaces that allow germs to be presenf for longer periods of time. there is a reason door habdles are usually metal
+Evren Uçar They do eventually get dirty. Then the same group comes and removes them, and washes them. They can be used again for another installation or turned into something to keep someone warm.
Judy H Thats nice to hear...
knitting has been around thousands of years. who says this chick invented it? she thinks she started a global movement because people around the world do yarn bombing.... ok.... but, out of millions of people around the world who knit or crochet, is she so arrogant to think she's the only person who ever thought to put a bit of knitting on an inanimate object for funsies? she sounds like she's humble-bragging this entire speech.
Is this a hipster thing? Feel like a hipster thing.
it is obviously
I think the girl didn't have much to say why people liked yarn bombing and went into the philosophical non answer that this is the greatest thing in connecting people and digital age being bad/exhaustive helps to connect to folksy vibe.
My answer to this can be summed up is that it is 'new' and it 'looks good'. Two fundamental qualities that capture the attention of our brains to go 'look at this' .
But what do I know? Not like I spent time to get a Art degree.
awesome, thank you so much.
so creative
guys, who is going to tell her that nobody actually parked their cars and took a picture of yarn on a stop sign
I like the yarn look. Very cool.
COMO PUEDO ENCOTRAR EL VÍDEO SUSTITULADO EN ESPAÑOL
but the weather will ruin them.
It takes a long time for the weather to take its toll, and if a piece is made to measure, it keeps its shape.
Прикольное движение! :))
"Ideas worth spreading"
Haha I doubt anyone in my area will bother knitting these works, nonetheless, a reasonably good TED talk.
As for me, I don't really like this kind of tuning. Because this bus you can use not often. he can only leave in good weather and that's it bad
Straight out of Dr.Seuss
I'm getting James Veitch vibes from this woman
Wrong day to use the word bomb lol
Not sure if TED talk or parody of a TED talk.
This is actually a good analogy for social justice warriors. Wrapping everything in fuzzy knittings.
wow, so much hatred in the comments section... and when was the last time you did something purely gratuitous that added a little bit of magic out there ?!
Magic until it gets wet and stays exposed to sun, smog, pollution, rain, snow.
I pushed through the annoying voice only to listen to a pointless talk by someone who thinks they're super influential but really has done nothing worthwhile.
Nice day for this title..
I don't know how to feel about this. I believe in freedom of expression, but I don't like the idea of doing it on public property. Public property is meant to be owned by everyone, and not everyone likes a sequence of mismatched, multi-colored street poles. I for one am one who prefers uniformity in color and plainess (to make it simple, I find a white wall more aesthetically appealing than one filled with artsy graffiti). If she did yarn bomb on her own stuff, or stuff other people own (private) and who asked her to do it, I wouldn't mind. But not public stuff.
Isnt it a crime to deface stop signs...?
The Mighty Bee predicted this movement...
Bit of an insensitive title, given what happened today in Brussels...
So we're in the business of banning words now? I understand what happened was awful but this is what the "movement" is called, for christ's sake.
Hunter Harris Well, yes, we are banning words.
+fizz113 Nope, I'm pretty sure we're not. Maybe in your PC mind, we are.
wooow soooo creative !👍
1:57 she vandalized a statue owned by either the government or a private buisiness
'Vandalised' LOL. Get over yourself. No damage done.
These audience's faces! Hahahaha!!! 😂
grangur not grander
Hipster Hippies... Hipster Hippies everywhere.
Somebody get Cartman on the phone.
omg she is so crazy i like her uwu (๑╹ω╹๑ )
Meanwhile in Aleppo
Try it there
what the fish , do yarn bombing for people not for tree.
yarn bombing is vandalism
+anthony ferraro Is it really? Nothing is being damaged
+Parodyst1 well the definition of vandalism states that it is an action involving destruction of property in the private of public sector. but it also states that graffiti and defacement directed towards any property is also vandalism.
@@PDog69 it damages the trees
Boredom breeds creativity
think big, do an airplane!
Why not knitting for the homeless people? This thing gets nasty pretty fast after a week of rain, sun, smog…
lamest ted ever... YOU'RE LITTERING THE STREETS IN THE END!
+Chris Locke
Birds and squirrels can use it for nests. Also, they might remove it after a while.
+Spotted Hyena wow...so I'll toss my old newspapers all over your lawn next time it rains... ugh.
That's really not a good analogy.
Certainly is, except to those with delusions of grandeur... good day.
What does delusions of grandeur have to do with it? Thinking yarn bombing is real art has nothing to do with your ego.
Waste of time, waste of money, not environment friendly, cruel to animals. In a world where we're already addicted to excess and wastage there's these people.
Not cool. Your accent is also very pretentious
it doesnt last
Neither will your boring life.
hello :)
I wonder what it looks like after numerous dogs and homeless guys urinated on it.
Yarn bombing is dangerous and useless. Better off making clothes the homeless, like people did at Christmas time that one year.
'Dangerous' LOL, what are you on? And how do you know yarnbombers don't also make clothes for homeless people? I'm knitting a blanket right now.
@@vermilliongecko Update (4 YEARS later - lol): Dangerous *for the trees and plants that get wrapped up in it. As mould and other fungal bodies that grow on the yarn, cotton, or wool come into sustained contact with trees and other plants (that normally they would not) it can potentially lead to problems for the tree and the surrounding ecosystem depending on the introduced species. Also it gets soggy and gross and is a mess to remove from the plants regardless. Decorate inaninmate objects in towns and cities all you like, there's still potential issues but no more than the standard pile of dumped clothing you'd find anyway, to start doing it to plants and in the countryside just shows a person thoughtlessly disregarding nature.
But hey, who am I to judge - well certainly not the same person I was FOUR YEARS ago - so you do you my oddly aggressive new friend and have a glorious day continuing to knitt - making a blanket is an impressive skill to learn, it certainly requires a lot of patience, so I hope it goes well for you! And if you knitt for the homeless then that's an amazing and selfless use of your time, go you! Now as to answer what I was on at the time that was written... I believe it was anti-depressants, anti-anxieties, and given the aforementioned probably adrenaline too! Haha. Always take the time to look after your mental health chuck and take care lovely! :)
This looks so useless... And the philosophy behind it is opposing technical progress? Damn hippy's!
Did she get in trouble for the bus?
Does this remind anybody else of the knitter. That made-up batman villain that knits things and does crime. This stuff is the kind of thing I Picture him doing
Who is here from Mathew santaro
I'm gonna report that to the police if you don't stop
Well guess what. She's still going after 15 years, so I guess the police don't think it's a big deal.
knit a door handle to change your world forever :)
Лол, неплох
complete waste of materials don't need talent to be called artist these days,
What is her accent ?
smh
the eff is this
this is boring.
gross
Yawn..
tasteless timing for this video TED