This may be one of the strangest uses of knitting I’ve ever encountered.
Greg Climer, a fashion designer and member of the faculty at Parsons New School of Design has developed a method to turn film into knitting and back again, and is working on a short film knit in scarf form that can be played using the scarf as a film reel.
The pieces are knit in a New Jersey knitting factory (Climer himself doesn’t knit), with each stitch on the knitting bed counting as a pixel in the finished “frame.” The project uses four colors, and the 19-second test project he developed took a year to make and is about the length of a city block.
He’s now writing a long piece, which he said will be a thank you to the people who bullied him in art class in middle school, because they are part of the reason he has ended up where he is.
He says he doesn’t know how long (literally) the finished piece will be, but it sure is a good place to take a nap.
[Photo via Fast Company.]
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