I Heart Cereal

If you know me well, you'll know that I love cereal!  I am not overly picky... I love most cereals.  So take my infatuation with cereal and then add in vintage artwork and that just puts a big smile on my face.  This is an unbelievable collection of vintage cereal boxes and I just can't get enough.  Why can't they bring these back into the stores?!  

Lori's Vintage Cereal Box Superlatives:

Favorite box (for design): The original Froot Loops

Favorite name: Sir Grapefellow (but there are so many other amazing ones!)

Creepiest box: Sugar Rice Krinkles (clown version)

Most undesirable name: Crunchy Loggs

Most hilarious name: (Be a) Mister Muscle

Oddest name: Grins & Smiles & Giggles & Laughs (huh??)

Favorite character: Corn Flake Banana-man

Most unlikely to succeed: Fruity Freakies

Thanks to The Dieline for this amazing find!

Yarn Bombing

So, it's been a month and a half since my last post, but I'm keeping with the street art theme.  This time though... its Yarn Bombing!  Yarn bombing (also called yarnbombing, yarnstorming, guerrilla knitting, or graffiti knitting) is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colorful displays of knitted or crocheted cloth rather than paint or chalk.  Yarn bombers target anything from parking meters and trees to statues, cars and buses and like most street artists, these knitters often do their work in the middle of the night. Some artists , like "The Ladies Fancywork Society", hide themselves behind crocheted masks while they work, and although it is technically illegal, there are yet to be any known arrests.  This colorful street art has become such a global phenomenon, that it even has its own day now.  June 11, 2011 was the first annual International Yarnbombing Day.  This is a movement I could get behind!

A knit bike in Brooklyn. Image by Steve Faust.  Imagine having to undue this before your ride home.

This amazing leg warmer on a Parisian statue is a piece by the Knitta Please founder and the mother of yarn bombing, Magda Sayeg.

This Parisian pothole was decorated by activist Juliana Santacruz Herrera.  For more of her work, check this out!

Agata Oleksiak's (Olek) homage to Banksy as seen in The NY Times article, "Graffiti's Cozy, Feminine Side."

This yarn bombed army tank is shown in the book, Yarn Bombing, featuring artists from Yarnbombing.com.
This is definitely one of my favorites because it takes something so tough and destructive and makes it cute and harmless looking.  The little ball of yarn coming out of the gun is amazing!

A colorful picnic by Knitta Please.

And yet another amazing piece by Knitta Please.

Now I just need to see an awesome yarn bomb in person!
Thanks to Apartment Therapy for the info!