Lab, 10/26

Here are three different ways to tell a story about yarn bombing and street art in Pittsburgh.

1.  It would be interesting to tag Pittsburgh street art with actual physical tags that encourage people to tweet or communicate in some way about the art they are viewing. This would be a fantastic way to learn about how people interact with the art they are viewing, and Pittsburgh's Yarnover Society does something like this with their work. They tag their pieces and ask people to tweet @yarnoversociety basically anything they want, just to acknowledge that they've seen the work.

2.  A comic strip could show the construction or installation of a street art piece. The Yarnover Society, as well as other street artists, typically work under the cover of night so that it's discreet as possible. I think a comic strip would be a great way to communicate these kind of top secret, incognito missions that are more playful than really serious.

3.  If possible, it would be really interesting to use the street art media itself, whether its paint or wheat-pasting or yarn, to tell the story. Pieces could be created and installed in a particular order that tells some kind of a story though, right now, I'm not really sure how it would work. But I'm envisioning an installation each day, maybe at a new location each time, and then a picture is taken and put online. It might work well if viewers were responsible for taking and posting the pictures for others to see, and they could discuss where the story was going next, both in terms of narrative and geography.