Video: Graffiti artist hits Mexico City – with knitting
MexicoReporter | Nov 17, 2008 | Comments 7
As we hinted at earlier in the week, guerrilla-knitter Magda Sayeg of KnittaPlease.com hit the streets of Mexico City to take on her biggest challenge yet. It was her task to cover an entire bus with knitting, as is her style, and we caught up with her just as she was completing her task.
Organ grinders get in on the tagging action
Mexico City’s Zocalo isn’t immune to Sayeg’s touch
See the Flickr photo set here.
You can read more about KnittaPlease in the Art issue of Inside Mexico, which you can download here.
Images by Deborah Bonello.
Edited November 20th, 2008, 1:18pm local time. Link to Inside Mexico added.
Filed Under: art • ciudad de mexico • culture • freedom of speech • knittaplease • mexico • mexicoreporter.com • multi-media • video
About the Author: MexicoReporter.com is the personal website of Deborah Bonello, a multi-media journalist based Mexico City. Deborah is a freelance journalist who spends the majority of her time working as a contract blogger, news assistant and video journalist for the Los Angeles Times Mexico City bureau.
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