Mizutani Cable Knit Corporation
Jan. 30th, 2008 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusMe: Wow, is that what you've been knitting all this time?
Hisae: Yes, it's a woolen cable cover.
Me: It's good, I like the colours! And I always like that combination of folksy and tech styles. Like when Bless did their N°26 Cable Jewellery thing, "to transform undesired appendixes into desirable objects". And does it stop the rabbit biting your power cable?
Hisae: Yes, it does.
Me: We need a lot more of those! For the rabbit's sake and ours. Hey, you should sell them online! Why not?
Hisae: Yes, I was thinking of doing that. I spoke to Naoko and she said I should charge €90 for each one.
Me: Wow, €90!
Hisae: It sounds a lot, I know, but each one takes a week for me to knit.
Me: I think €50 sounds reasonable. The euro's pretty strong just now. That's about $75, you know. How about €50 including postage? I could announce it on Click Opera and people could pay via my Paypal account! Do you want to try?
Hisae: Okay!
Me: Okay, I'll do it tomorrow. People can order them by sending me a mail and telling me how long the cable to be covered is. Let's shoot some pictures!
Hisae: I already shot some, I'll mail them to you. What shall we call the operation? I want a good name.
Me: Hmm... Psychedelic Python? Rainbow Power? Mizutani Cable Knit Corporation?
Hisae: Yes, it's a woolen cable cover.
Me: It's good, I like the colours! And I always like that combination of folksy and tech styles. Like when Bless did their N°26 Cable Jewellery thing, "to transform undesired appendixes into desirable objects". And does it stop the rabbit biting your power cable?
Hisae: Yes, it does.
Me: We need a lot more of those! For the rabbit's sake and ours. Hey, you should sell them online! Why not?
Hisae: Yes, I was thinking of doing that. I spoke to Naoko and she said I should charge €90 for each one.
Me: Wow, €90!
Hisae: It sounds a lot, I know, but each one takes a week for me to knit.
Me: I think €50 sounds reasonable. The euro's pretty strong just now. That's about $75, you know. How about €50 including postage? I could announce it on Click Opera and people could pay via my Paypal account! Do you want to try?
Hisae: Okay!
Me: Okay, I'll do it tomorrow. People can order them by sending me a mail and telling me how long the cable to be covered is. Let's shoot some pictures!
Hisae: I already shot some, I'll mail them to you. What shall we call the operation? I want a good name.
Me: Hmm... Psychedelic Python? Rainbow Power? Mizutani Cable Knit Corporation?
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Date: 2008-01-30 09:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-01-30 09:59 am (UTC)da yo ne.
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Date: 2008-01-30 10:01 am (UTC)But it gave me my morning laugh :)
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Date: 2008-01-30 10:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-30 10:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-30 10:56 am (UTC)Sorry to rain on your parade
Date: 2008-01-30 11:31 am (UTC)wewillbecome.com
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Date: 2008-01-30 11:36 am (UTC)Re: Sorry to rain on your parade
Date: 2008-01-30 11:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-30 12:35 pm (UTC)Re: Sorry to rain on your parade
Date: 2008-01-30 01:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-30 01:14 pm (UTC)Pricing the priceless
Date: 2008-01-30 01:56 pm (UTC)Reminds me also of the knitted digestive system (http://www.strangebuttrewe.com/knitGI.htm):
Talking about pricing and patterns as digital data, I think we touch interesting issues here:
although I am/"feel" too poor to pay 50 euros for this, I think the initial 90 euros or even more would be appropriate (hisae worked a week, or at least some days on it right?)
Thinking of the object in terms of an art piece and not as a commercial product with practical functionality (frightening off rabbits, flammable) it seems somehow unpayable to me, whereas the knitting pattern - as a technique - then in turn could also be free...
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Date: 2008-01-30 02:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-30 02:42 pm (UTC)There's a video on it here. http://www.knittinghelp.com/videos/advanced-techniques.
It's in the small diameter circle knitting section. Pink is continental knitting style and blue is English knitting style.
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Date: 2008-01-30 02:56 pm (UTC)I also like the folksy colours.
But here I would need at least 50 kilometers.
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Date: 2008-01-30 03:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-30 03:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-30 03:53 pm (UTC)Momasu!
Date: 2008-01-30 04:18 pm (UTC)Hey, I´m in Berlin for the Transmediale and I´m wondering if there are any nice cafés that have wireless internet where I can read your blog and sip orangensaft. Any tips? I live in Mitte and walk slow.
Chu
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Date: 2008-01-30 04:27 pm (UTC)A laptop cozy.
Welcome to Capitalism!
Date: 2008-01-30 04:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-30 05:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-30 06:07 pm (UTC)Have you ever seen the crocheted coral reef? (http://www.theiff.org/reef/index.html)
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Date: 2008-01-30 06:09 pm (UTC)But yes... I'll take 10 of those please!
anything for mymomus.
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Date: 2008-01-30 06:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-30 07:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-30 07:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-30 08:41 pm (UTC)I have to remake some things in crochet.. but crochet and knit are different.
I think 50€ is a good price, maybe +10-15€ is better for the rentability and the work (i know it, a bit). I know people who sell some very cute scarves for more of 100-200€
About the crocheted coral reef, i seen a same decoration in my school with the topic of Forest with dark green, brown, etc. It was very... beautiful.. i never seen any other thing like it who was as better as it. Soon, i have a formation for making it!
Oh, i never commented to you before momus.
I add you because, i seen different topic about Shibuya-kei. I don't know a lot about it, but i like band like P5, Cornelius and now the new generation (?) like Capsule, PTSB, Coltemonikha, etc.
I saw that you know very well this topic.., also i think you are interesting? Ne?^^
And i know that your the productor of Kahimi Karie! I like her.
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Date: 2008-01-30 09:09 pm (UTC)Purl or URL
Date: 2008-01-30 09:15 pm (UTC)I think you are under-pricing Hisae's clicking at $75-00; why not contact Steve Jobs, offer to organify Apple by 45% using homespun, fire-retardant Leporidae-friendly yarns at oooh...$75-00 per linear tubular inch instead?
Introducing the iconduit!
Re: Purl or URL
Date: 2008-01-30 09:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-30 10:03 pm (UTC)Its like a baby rainbow snake eating your cords.
Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to purchase things until I get a job. and learn how to play my accordion. Self imposed rule. Very effective.
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Date: 2008-01-30 10:47 pm (UTC)Re: pathetic
Date: 2008-01-30 11:05 pm (UTC)She probably deserved it.
I don't knoiw about texas, never been, but in virginia, we were taught some manners. And to respect our elders. Shame on you. You mean little bean!
(love is the only engine of survival)
Re: pathetic rage
Date: 2008-01-30 11:09 pm (UTC)oh 1978! i was born back then...
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Date: 2008-01-30 11:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-30 11:24 pm (UTC)Re: pathetic rage
Date: 2008-01-30 11:43 pm (UTC)love is the answer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u37z8W5w8Do)
And when you feel afraid, love one another
When youve lost your way, love one another
When youre all alone, love one another...
Re: Sorry to rain on your parade
Date: 2008-01-31 01:33 am (UTC)The only *possible* risk I can see for those with animals is that, were the animal to nibble at the whole kaboodle, the extent of the damage to the actual cable might not be appreciable till it is too late. But that would only really be a fire risk if the mains part were chewed.
However, anything like a 'laptop tea cosy' which someone else on here mentioned in passing, is asking for trouble, given the heat those things chuck out and the need for ventilation. Amen. ;-)
Re: Pricing the priceless
Date: 2008-01-31 03:22 am (UTC)zoomorphic custom
Date: 2008-01-31 04:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-31 05:47 am (UTC)but did it really transpire that she knit something for a week and it didnt come up for you to ask what she was knitting? a quiet household over there!
Re: Sorry to rain on your parade
Date: 2008-01-31 11:49 am (UTC)My comment was in jest.
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Date: 2008-01-31 09:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-01 12:16 am (UTC)Instead, I am going to teach myself how to knit so I can knit a 25-footer for my vacuum's cord. My cat has a sort of chewing issue, I think he's got brain damage.
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Date: 2008-02-01 03:18 am (UTC)sorry bub, don't trust ya.