The Manchester Knit Bomber
Friday, June 17, 2011 at 1:43PM Word on the street is that the bomber is a middle aged white woman with gray hair. Not your typical bomber profile, I grant you, but then again the perp's medium is yarn, not C4.
I speak, of course, of the Manchester Knit Bomber, who began decortaing downtown parking meters, light poles and street signs with colorful yarn designs earlier this week—at least that's when this parking meter in front of the Association of Bosniaks of New Hampshire, 62 Merrimack St., was first brought to my attention:
And then, not 30 minutes later, I was informed of another such installation a block or so away in front of The ARK Church at 45 Manchester St.:
Curious, I tweeted a photo and was soon after informed by Jess Boucher that what I saw is an example of knit bombing, also known as "yarn bombing, yarnstorming, guerrilla knitting, or graffiti knitting" that, according to Wikipedia, "is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colorful displays of knitted or crocheted cloth rather than paint or chalk."
By yesterday, another, even more colorful piece was installed near the Manchester Visitors Center on the corner of Merrimack and Elm streets:
According to a couple of eye witness coworkers of mine who passed along the bomber's aforementioned physical description, shewas last seen working yesterday afternoon on a telephone poll on the corner of Chestnut Street and Monadnock Lane, across from the Manchester Police Department of all places. When I went to check it out this morning, however, it was no longer there.
But just a few feet south, on the corner of Manchester Street, I found this stop sign decorated:
If you're reading this, Knit Bomber, might I make a request? How about a knitted TARDIS like this:
Awesome.
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Reader Comments (2)
And if someone would like to knit a TARDIS knit bomb, there's a lovely light pole on Taylor and Cilley that could use a little pizzaz.
What a quite different thing, but I am sure that it puts a certain feel for the area and a sense of comfort and warmth. Very inviting and what a nice change.