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		<title>Video: Graffiti artist hits Mexico City &#8211; with knitting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><embed src="http://blip.tv/play/si3Z72AA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="496" height="310" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></p>
<p><a href="http://www.mexicoreporter.com/?p=1144" target="_blank">As we hinted at earlier in the week</a>, guerrilla-knitter Magda Sayeg of <a href="http://www.knittaplease.com" target="_blank">KnittaPlease.com</a> 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.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a title="Graffiti knitting attacks Mexico City by MexicoReporter, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/newcorrespondent/3025573979/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3066/3025573979_d0122b1fee.jpg" alt="Graffiti knitting attacks Mexico City" width="319" height="480" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Organ grinders get in on the tagging action</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<p style="text-align: center;"><a title="Graffiti knitting attacks Mexico City by MexicoReporter, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/newcorrespondent/3026406062/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3249/3026406062_bf17b4d898_o.jpg" alt="Graffiti knitting attacks Mexico City" width="480" height="319" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Mexico City&#8217;s Zocalo isn&#8217;t immune to Sayeg&#8217;s touch</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/newcorrespondent/sets/72157608991483702/" target="_blank">See the Flickr photo set here.</a></p>
<p>You can read more about KnittaPlease in the Art issue of Inside Mexico, <a href="http://insidemex.com/start/?page_id=4" target="_blank">which you can download here.</a></p>
<p><em>Images by Deborah Bonello.</em></p>
<p>Edited November 20th, 2008, 1:18pm local time. Link to Inside Mexico added.</p>

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		<title>Guerrilla knitting attacks Mexico City</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Magda Seyeg is a Texan artist who tags - but not with graffiti. She and her collective of guerilla knitters - who you can touch base with at KnittaPlease.com - place knitted stuff on door handles, park benches, statues, lamp posts and virtually anything else standing in the street.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Magda Seyeg is a Texan artist who tags &#8211; but not with graffiti. She and her collective of guerrilla knitters &#8211; who you can touch base with at<a href="http://knittaplease.com/KNITTA_PLEASE.html" target="_blank"> KnittaPlease.com</a> &#8211; place knitted stuff on door handles, park benches, statues, lamp posts and virtually anything else standing in the street.</p>
<p>This week, Seyeg hit the streets of Mexico City to do one of her biggest jobs yet &#8211; wrapping a bus in her trademark knitted tags. Here&#8217;s some photo evidence, and watch this space for a video-profile of the artist coming real soon&#8230;..</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a title="Graffiti knitting attacks Mexico City by MexicoReporter, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/newcorrespondent/3025574231/"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3157/3025574231_6818b38305_o.jpg" alt="Graffiti knitting attacks Mexico City" width="319" height="480" /></a></p>

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