Alpaca my things and go now.....
June 6, 2017 12:30 PM Subscribe
Pretty offensive to all the Muppets living in that area.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 12:42 PM on June 6, 2017 [14 favorites]
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 12:42 PM on June 6, 2017 [14 favorites]
It's not totally complete without felt loosies, felt malt liquor or a felt crap game in the back. and an ornery felt cat.
posted by jonmc at 12:44 PM on June 6, 2017 [13 favorites]
posted by jonmc at 12:44 PM on June 6, 2017 [13 favorites]
:( i wish i still lived in nyc. there are so many things from there i want!
posted by and they trembled before her fury at 12:44 PM on June 6, 2017
posted by and they trembled before her fury at 12:44 PM on June 6, 2017
This reminds of a time, driving through rural Texas, I was prone to stop at roadside stands. This one old lady had a table on the side with just small blocks of wood, painted white, with the word "Ivory" hand lettered on them in light blue marker pen.
"These are for when guests are coming, you don't want the soap in your washroom to look all used and sloppy. See how nice and neat these are?"
Apparently, according to the reactions of the other vendors, I was her first sale. Two for five.
posted by StickyCarpet at 12:53 PM on June 6, 2017 [18 favorites]
"These are for when guests are coming, you don't want the soap in your washroom to look all used and sloppy. See how nice and neat these are?"
Apparently, according to the reactions of the other vendors, I was her first sale. Two for five.
posted by StickyCarpet at 12:53 PM on June 6, 2017 [18 favorites]
"I had a couple of girls come in and they’d made a felt checkbook, and they tried to pay me with a felt check for their purchases, and I thought 'Yes! You get it!'"
If she didn't let them pay with a felt check, I am disappointed in her.
If she did, it was definitely heartfelt.
posted by GenjiandProust at 12:58 PM on June 6, 2017 [16 favorites]
If she didn't let them pay with a felt check, I am disappointed in her.
If she did, it was definitely heartfelt.
posted by GenjiandProust at 12:58 PM on June 6, 2017 [16 favorites]
Man, I love me some fake foods. Especially crafted ones. (Even more so when they're miniature.) But even with all that said, I think I'm going to have to buy the felt Today sponge. Yep.
posted by ApathyGirl at 12:59 PM on June 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by ApathyGirl at 12:59 PM on June 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
My question is when did she start actually producing all these items? I assume she got the idea in 1932 as that's how long it would take me to make all this stuff out of felt.
posted by GuyZero at 1:00 PM on June 6, 2017 [12 favorites]
posted by GuyZero at 1:00 PM on June 6, 2017 [12 favorites]
The space between "Wait, you mean, like, felt felt?" and "'Felt' is no longer a word my brain recognizes as a word" was amazingly short.
posted by Etrigan at 1:01 PM on June 6, 2017 [14 favorites]
posted by Etrigan at 1:01 PM on June 6, 2017 [14 favorites]
The way it describes how you can assemble a sandwich out of the felted meat makes me think you can feel the felt? Either way, I want to go to there! NYC MeFi Felt Meatup?
posted by Mchelly at 1:04 PM on June 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by Mchelly at 1:04 PM on June 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
This looks so cool, I am going to try to go tomorrow! Wonder if there's a big line?
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 1:08 PM on June 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 1:08 PM on June 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
Holy shit, I am going there as soon as humanly possible.
posted by holborne at 1:13 PM on June 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by holborne at 1:13 PM on June 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
Well, I've had the time of my life.
I never felt this way before
And I swear
It's true
And I owe it all to you...
posted by Cookiebastard at 1:20 PM on June 6, 2017 [5 favorites]
I never felt this way before
And I swear
It's true
And I owe it all to you...
posted by Cookiebastard at 1:20 PM on June 6, 2017 [5 favorites]
Needs a framed picture of Deep Throat.
posted by Capt. Renault at 1:23 PM on June 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Capt. Renault at 1:23 PM on June 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
mildly anthropomorphic meat
I don't get this part. It just looks like meat. But maybe that's always mildly anthropomorphic?
posted by paper chromatographologist at 1:28 PM on June 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
I don't get this part. It just looks like meat. But maybe that's always mildly anthropomorphic?
posted by paper chromatographologist at 1:28 PM on June 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
"I was her first sale. Two for five."
I would have been right behind you in line.
posted by komara at 1:35 PM on June 6, 2017
I would have been right behind you in line.
posted by komara at 1:35 PM on June 6, 2017
I don't actually need felt bottles of Campari and Mount Gay to go on the home bar. I don't. Really. (If I keep telling myself this, I might start to believe me.)
And oh my goodness, actual churned Knudsen buttermilk!
posted by Lexica at 1:37 PM on June 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
And oh my goodness, actual churned Knudsen buttermilk!
posted by Lexica at 1:37 PM on June 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
Oh man, I have to go dig up the set of play food I made for my kid's mini kitchen. Nothing I made was nearly this detailed, though. But I was pretty proud of the banana that you could peel.
posted by Liesl at 1:45 PM on June 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Liesl at 1:45 PM on June 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
Please. No real bodega sells produce that looks that good.
posted by SansPoint at 1:49 PM on June 6, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by SansPoint at 1:49 PM on June 6, 2017 [3 favorites]
It's the age of the bodega as art inspiration. Along these lines are Gabriel Orozco's Oxxo store, High Times' "pot bodega" Popaganja, sketches of bodega cats....
posted by Miko at 1:54 PM on June 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Miko at 1:54 PM on June 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
Now somebody needs to hold it up with a felt gun. I mean, they have a security camera, but it's...well, you know.
posted by PlusDistance at 1:55 PM on June 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by PlusDistance at 1:55 PM on June 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
Has anyone alerted Michel Gondry???
posted by bleep at 1:59 PM on June 6, 2017 [7 favorites]
posted by bleep at 1:59 PM on June 6, 2017 [7 favorites]
This is amazing. The detail! I enjoy making knitted food for the toddlers in my life and their play kitchens but WOW. This is something else. If I were in New York I'd be there.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 2:07 PM on June 6, 2017
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 2:07 PM on June 6, 2017
I have searched all the pictures and I do not see what the felt deli cat looks like
someone please post a link to a picture of the felt deli cat
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 2:12 PM on June 6, 2017 [14 favorites]
someone please post a link to a picture of the felt deli cat
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 2:12 PM on June 6, 2017 [14 favorites]
now let's all agree
to never be
creative again
posted by polecat at 2:27 PM on June 6, 2017 [7 favorites]
to never be
creative again
posted by polecat at 2:27 PM on June 6, 2017 [7 favorites]
The felt SPAM is probably more edible and nutritious than the real thing.
posted by NoxAeternum at 2:51 PM on June 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by NoxAeternum at 2:51 PM on June 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
"I had a couple of girls come in and they’d made a felt checkbook, and they tried to pay me with a felt check for their purchases, and I thought 'Yes! You get it!'"
Badly want to build a large muppet robber costume and go clean her out.
posted by sammyo at 3:31 PM on June 6, 2017 [5 favorites]
Badly want to build a large muppet robber costume and go clean her out.
posted by sammyo at 3:31 PM on June 6, 2017 [5 favorites]
I walked by this place last night and did not go in! I assumed it was a regular deli with clever window treatments as you sometimes see when bodega owners are artists or friends with artists. Kicking myself!
posted by (Over) Thinking at 3:40 PM on June 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by (Over) Thinking at 3:40 PM on June 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
I am sad. I went to her website, for I was going to order anthropomorphic veggies, and there were no veg to be had. The rest of the stuff is amazing, but I really wanted the veggies.
posted by SecretAgentSockpuppet at 3:42 PM on June 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by SecretAgentSockpuppet at 3:42 PM on June 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
The Plush Sausages at Berlin’s Textile Butcher Shop Look Good Enough to Eat
posted by exquisite_deluxe at 3:49 PM on June 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by exquisite_deluxe at 3:49 PM on June 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
Ah, New York, where real bodegas get priced out and artistic facsimilies with nothing of nourishment move in. Late capitalism at its finest!
Bitterness aside, the project is pretty nifty. It's particularly interesting that a British artist's felt bodega seems to have a West Coast tilt: Darigold is based out of Seattle, and NYC definitely doesn't have liquor or It's-Its in its corner stores.
posted by evidenceofabsence at 4:06 PM on June 6, 2017 [5 favorites]
Bitterness aside, the project is pretty nifty. It's particularly interesting that a British artist's felt bodega seems to have a West Coast tilt: Darigold is based out of Seattle, and NYC definitely doesn't have liquor or It's-Its in its corner stores.
posted by evidenceofabsence at 4:06 PM on June 6, 2017 [5 favorites]
In yet another sign of the Apocalypse, Mr. Hooper has returned to us in his ultimate form.
posted by Slap*Happy at 4:41 PM on June 6, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by Slap*Happy at 4:41 PM on June 6, 2017 [3 favorites]
Instagram picture of the felt bodega cat
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 4:43 PM on June 6, 2017 [7 favorites]
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 4:43 PM on June 6, 2017 [7 favorites]
*Runs hand over products* "Is this felt?"
Shopkeeper: "It is now."
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:43 PM on June 6, 2017 [15 favorites]
Shopkeeper: "It is now."
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:43 PM on June 6, 2017 [15 favorites]
If they don't have my felt Cafe Bustelo, my felt Little Debbies, and my felt Old Grand Dad, I will be seriously pissed.
Also, I'm clearly not the only one who expected those vegetables to start singing.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 6:01 PM on June 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
Also, I'm clearly not the only one who expected those vegetables to start singing.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 6:01 PM on June 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
...metafelter
posted by Jon_Evil at 6:29 PM on June 6, 2017 [9 favorites]
posted by Jon_Evil at 6:29 PM on June 6, 2017 [9 favorites]
I don't get this part. It just looks like meat. But maybe that's always mildly anthropomorphic?"Among her favorite items in the shop are the sausages and other products in the meat case, all of which have eyes and faces," according to this AP article.
Putting eyes on sausages seems like a truly weird choice and the weak point in the piece. . . but I suppose my vision of the ideal felted bodega probably isn't canon that anyone else should be expected to accept. (To be clear, I'm a big fan of anthropomorphic meat. I just don't get it in this context.)
posted by eotvos at 6:39 PM on June 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
meatfelter: someone please post a link to a picture of the felt deli cat
posted by eotvos at 6:42 PM on June 6, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by eotvos at 6:42 PM on June 6, 2017 [3 favorites]
I'm a big fan of anthropomorphic meat
*watches video*
Ooh, that'll put a damper on the evening's festivities.
posted by Greg_Ace at 6:58 PM on June 6, 2017
*watches video*
Ooh, that'll put a damper on the evening's festivities.
posted by Greg_Ace at 6:58 PM on June 6, 2017
I love my fellow crafters. We are weird and wonderful.
posted by Sophie1 at 8:23 PM on June 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by Sophie1 at 8:23 PM on June 6, 2017 [2 favorites]
I walked by this place last night and did not go in! I assumed it was a regular deli with clever window treatments as you sometimes see when bodega owners are artists or friends with artists. Kicking myself!
posted by (Over) Thinking at 19:40 on June 6 [1 favorite +] [!]
Eponysterical.
posted by Meatbomb at 11:42 PM on June 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
If you want anthropomorphic vegetables, look no further than IKEA.
posted by batter_my_heart at 12:03 AM on June 7, 2017
posted by batter_my_heart at 12:03 AM on June 7, 2017
Does she stock felt?
posted by flabdablet at 5:16 AM on June 7, 2017
posted by flabdablet at 5:16 AM on June 7, 2017
Oh man, my 4 year old niece lurves fake food. She would just delight in this. Of course, she might be less delighted if she wasn't allowed to take everything off the shelves, tell you that a chicken leg was a piece of cake and that you had to sit on the floor and "eat" it because we are having a picnic.
posted by jacquilynne at 5:35 AM on June 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by jacquilynne at 5:35 AM on June 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
Ah, New York, where real bodegas get priced out and artistic facsimilies with nothing of nourishment move in. Late capitalism at its finest!
I mean, that's at least in part the point of this installation: "Sparrow says the project arose out of her love for Mom & Pop shops, which are often threatened by bigger chains. "I want the work to make people think about the loss of community spaces when these small corner shops disappear; to remind them how valuable these corner shops really are and the color they bring to our lives.""
posted by Itaxpica at 6:31 AM on June 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
I mean, that's at least in part the point of this installation: "Sparrow says the project arose out of her love for Mom & Pop shops, which are often threatened by bigger chains. "I want the work to make people think about the loss of community spaces when these small corner shops disappear; to remind them how valuable these corner shops really are and the color they bring to our lives.""
posted by Itaxpica at 6:31 AM on June 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
Maybe, but I don't know that people wandering into the Standard Hotel to pay $60 for felt Doritos is doing anything to save mom and pop stores.
posted by evidenceofabsence at 3:53 PM on June 7, 2017
posted by evidenceofabsence at 3:53 PM on June 7, 2017
I dunno, I pay more to shop at my local deli because I like it and want it to stay. I'd save a ton by going to Stop & Shop instead... like people with money are in fact totally helpful for mom and pop stores? At least in NYC.
posted by (Over) Thinking at 5:51 PM on June 7, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by (Over) Thinking at 5:51 PM on June 7, 2017 [2 favorites]
I made it and it's SO COOL. Everything is so detailed and cheery, I could have looked forever. No line, but lots of people looking and shopping- I can't imagine how there'll be anything left at the end of June. The artist was there and I was so happy I got a chance to tell her how cool the whole thing was. I was so tempted to buy everything, but the things I really wanted were the huge wall designs and sadly I haven't thousands to spare at the moment. Only thing I bought was a $5 token for the egg machine- got a sushi keychain! My photos here- the second to last one is a shoutout to Mefi.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 8:22 PM on June 7, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 8:22 PM on June 7, 2017 [4 favorites]
Also, TheWhiteSkull, you'll see I found your bananas!
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 8:24 PM on June 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 8:24 PM on June 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
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Alternatively, I can make a purchase here, which is really tempting. It's hard to pick out a favorite though.
posted by Fig at 12:38 PM on June 6, 2017 [1 favorite]