Lizard’s Mouth Gets Yarnbombed

Very cool! Just dont read EdHat for the old fogies and curmudgeons of SB will be poo pooing this as soon as the news hits their grumpy eyes...

I love Lizard's Mouth and the incredible views. What a super cool place to yarn bomb. Thanks for the picture. I'm so pinning that!

@ someguysb. The verb is "pooh-pooh," not as you've written it. "Poo-poo," as we all know, is #2.

Speaking of #2, I prefer my nature without the acrylic coloring. To me it is just another version of graffiti; some putz displaying his ego, saying "Hey! Look at me! I can disfigure nature and you have to look at it, like it or not."

Uh-uh.

Oh that is such BS, you can go to lizard's mouth the other 340 days of the year and see it as it is naturally, there are plenty of other places for you to go and enjoy for those two weeks that won't be yarn bombed..everything doesn't have to be the way you want it all the time and this is nothing like graffiti that is pretty much permanent.

This is a really cool idea, I will probably go and check it out. I think as long as you "leave no trace" except for maybe some footprints or bike treads in the end people should be able to do whatever they want out in the wilderness including putting up cool art displays for a week or two.

Thank you, @loonpt! Exactly! People who have been on the trail will know that many of the rocks that are to be part of this TEMPORARY installation are already covered in graffiti, so the "don't humanize my nature" argument is just nonsensical.

Also, @chilldrinfthenight, it's not "some putz displaying his ego" at all. If you read the article, or bothered to do any research, you would see that the piece isn't even made up of his own work, but rather a collaboration of hundreds of people from all over the world that have come together out of a common interest, which is a pretty awesome thing.

Since it is pretty whimsical and colorful, I'm hoping many families with young children come out to see, climb, touch, and explore this very cool, one time only exhibit. I know I'll be there! :)

Right, the natural landscape is so god-damned ugly on its own, it needs to be improved by wrapping it in your grandmother's lap blanket.

^There are hundreds of thousands of acres of wilderness back there, and this is only going up for 2 weeks as a temporary art project in a very tiny area. How can you possibly complain, unless you only like to complain for the sake of complaining (I find that rather common around here)??

It's not like they are yarn bombing the entire wilderness and it's not like it is going to be there for a long period of time. Do you really require going to that very particular piece of wilderness on a weekly basis and even then would it be that painful to look at the art work ONE TIME while you are there?? It will be back to normal in a week or so.. Do you have a terminal illness? I mean, really, this is ridiculous. You've seen in it's natural state before and you will see it again...but no, to have two weeks with an art project up is just soooo horrible!!

In fact the terminal illness from which some people suffer is the arrogant narcissism that calling something "art" entitles them to supposedly enhance our appreciation of the natural world by intruding their dim and dreary constructions into it. It's the people who consider this a cool or worthwhile "art project" who should have been wrapped in macrame and left on a boulder for a couple of weeks.

You really need to get over yourself and chill out.

Yeah, maybe a walk in some part of the natural world not yet tarted up by would-be improvers and their witless condescending enablers.

Go pk (strong agree!): "the arrogant narcissism that calling something "art" entitles them to supposedly enhance our appreciation of the natural world by intruding their dim and dreary constructions into it" and foisting it on others. The yarnbomb looks like crap, and perhaps over in Rocky Nook Park or another place in town somewhere would fit better.

"Yeah, maybe a walk in some part of the natural world not yet tarted up by would-be improvers and their witless condescending enablers."

Wow, yes, this is a fantastic argument!! As we all know the entire wilderness areas are completely over-run with what some people describe as "art" and the trash and by-products that they leave behind, so it is completely impossible nowadays to find a trail where you can actually go into the "natural untarted" world around here!! What we need is more nature and less art covered nature!! I mean, have you seen the Cookie Monster diorama on Rattlesnake Trail? Every time I go by there I want to scream and vomit, I can't believe somebody would go and tart it up on MY trail!!

Ok, as you can probably tell that was complete sarcasm, your argument is still horrible, why don't you go protest the painted caves and the centuries old native americans had to go tart up YOUR "natural environment"

Holy mackerel, chill out, it is going to be GONE after 2 weeks. Just go somewhere else, there's plenty of space out there and plenty of room for people to express their creativity in a non-permanent way and as far as I'm concerned they can do it wherever the hell they want if it's going to be completely gone and cleaned up in 2 weeks..

Never said the natural environment is MINE. But it also doesn't belong to you or those macrame-loving souls who like to "express their creativity" by decorating it. The actions or reasons of centuries-old native americans are irrelevant to what people with no recognizable claim or relationship to the landscape are doing right now.

You deserve a special macrame cap for having won every argument in which you've ever been engaged.