Death Never Looked this Cosy!

February 24, 2010 2:48 PM

Killing Time. Daniela Edburg's (previously) series of photographs about compulsive knitting and death.
posted by Emanuel (10 comments total)

Compulsive knitting? Ha. That ain't no compulsive knitting.

(says the knitting book author and ex- knitting mag editor)

Compulsive knitting is when you have to knit 'til your fingers bleed to make a deadline. But otherwise, this is pretty awesome! Thanks for posting!
posted by bitter-girl.com at 3:14 PM on February 24, 2010

pretty great. Thanks. I wish I knew more about the story behind El Pescador; it's pretty much perfect as far as setting a mood via knitting ethnography goes (wow, did I really just type that sentence?). The cat, the storm, the open-gauge net like knitting, awesome.
posted by peachfuzz at 3:19 PM on February 24, 2010

We borked the site, apparently.
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies at 3:24 PM on February 24, 2010

Ah, it's back.
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies at 3:25 PM on February 24, 2010

I just noticed that the site I posted is sometimes having errors. If you have trouble, try this instead. In fact, check it out anyway because it has a few more pictures from the series.
posted by Emanuel at 3:27 PM on February 24, 2010 [1 favorite]

This is so very cool. Thank you. The one of the mental patient happily knitting spiders is creepy and beautiful.
posted by cereselle at 3:45 PM on February 24, 2010

I love this one. It's so hard to intergrate that kind of hot pink into a whole without making it overbearing.
posted by The Whelk at 5:41 PM on February 24, 2010

It's like Jeff Wall meets BoingBoing but with bad lighting and even worse Photoshop. Which could really go either way, depending on what you like.
posted by infinitefloatingbrains at 6:03 PM on February 24, 2010

I like these - thanks for posting.
posted by harriet vane at 5:31 AM on February 25, 2010

v cool - thx
posted by the_very_hungry_caterpillar at 7:01 AM on February 25, 2010