I have been looking increasingly at the bizarre side of life recently, probably because the normal world is so depressingly violent, petty and lacking in any sort of vision. I mean really, if the best we can get is David Cameron’s
‘Big Society’ (
which won’t last a minute after his premiership ends), or President Obama’s wordy flights of rhetoric (
on everything from race, genocide and gun control), but which often, doesn’t amount to a hill of beans (
he too will be soon forgotten – apart from as a footnote in history as the first black US President), then we live in a shabby age.
So if we want some excitement, or just some plain old weirdness, we have to look outside of the public arena, and to the private one … the things people do when they think no one is looking, or that they consider normal at some level. So how about these strange past times ....
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| Yarnbombing - Can Have Funny Results |
Yarnbombing (
aka guerrilla knitting): the practice of
knitting clothing for otherwise unclothed statues, then secretly
clothing said statues with the clothing. Strange results ensue, but
apart from the cost of council workers removing it, no harm is done.
Particularly popular in the US, but not seen in the UK much (
Traffic Bollards for hats seems to be our limits).
