A knitted sphere cover was installed outside Vodafone side door in Maastricht Friday 23rd April 2010 at about 7.30am The picture gallery from Connielene is here
There were 3 balls and the one closest to the road was covered with the red and white Vodafone logo knitted piece. Vodafone Maastricht Ball Cover
We are about 3 hours from Maastricht so cannot report if the knitted cover remained after 3.30pm on Friday.
A new piece of knit graffiti will be installed on Friday morning in Maastricht, before breakfast even. There are several issues for the installer – it will be daylight, and it hasn’t been tested. Best Beloved did the measurements, hope he recorded them correctly
But the question is “Will it be an Orange piece”, or Will it actually be the Red & White one? Whichever colour it is, it will be round.
Orange or maybe it will be Red & White
This was photographed on the way to the Keukenhof Gardens, on Saturday last. A globe in flowers, fantastic.
All part of the spring floral fantasia held here in the Netherlands every year, and what a celebration it is, with the annual flower parade on Saturday 24th. The parade arrives at around 9pm and the floats will be on display for good photography on Sunday.
So from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I see that
A sphere (from Greek σφαῖρα—sphaira, “globe, ball”) is a perfectly round geometrical object in three-dimensional space, such as the shape of a round ball. Like a circle in three dimensions, a perfect sphere is completely symmetrical around its center, with all points on the surface lying the same distance from the center point. This distance is known as the radius of the sphere. The maximum straight distance through the sphere is known as the diameter of the sphere. It passes through the center and is thus twice the radius.
In higher mathematics, a careful distinction is made between the sphere (a two-dimensional spherical surface embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space) and the ball (the three-dimensional shape consisting of a sphere and its interior). See the Wikipedia article here
So there we have it.
An email regarding Altered Environments, Knit Art Graffiti, Land Art, Guerilla Art, Yarn Bombing arrived in my inbox. I knew nothing of those things.
Well that is not entirely true, I had been watching from a safe distance. Now I have jumped in Boots and all – and I so want to do more of this exciting stuff.
Was I bored – no I don’t think I have ever been bored with knitting, was I down, No – have been there. No I was uplifted and transported. This was not a religious experience, so don’t take it the wrong way – I am just plain excited.
I have been considering just what Urban Art is or could be and I found a car – created from a pile of metal pieces, concrete ball covered with a Ball Warmer, and lots in between. So this will be Fibre Art in the urban environment from open spaces, concrete constructions, to vehicles and to whatever else turns up in the discovery process.
