London: Olek and the Elephant Family

23 Thursday May 2013

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I need to go to Covent Garden!!!!! According to this website, the elephants will be in 17 Floral Street, Covent Garden from 21 May to 3 June.

Currently on display in London Covent Garden are two multi-coloured crocheted
elephants by NYC Street artist Olek.

The Elephant Family – an initiative that aims to protect Asian elephants and their
habitat – enlisted the help of a host of leading artists, designers, photographers and creatives like Christian Lacroix, Matthew Williamson, Mario Testino, Missoni,
Fabergé, Cartier to participate in their charity event named the Animal Ball at the Lancaster House.

Artists have been tasked to create a bespoke pair of masks that reflect their
interpretation of an endangered animal, as well as bespoke elephant sculptures that
will be auctioned for charity on 9 July. In addition, each of the 24 rooms of the
Lancaster House will be transformed into a magnificent indoor jungle, including a
crochet rainforest by Olek.

View the full set of pics here

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Olek is right – happiness is an inside job

07 Thursday Mar 2013

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Source: blog.makezine.com via Natasja on Pinterest

Once you realise that your joy comes from within, rather than in response to what goes on around you, life is easy, life is good and all good things come to you.

(The latest Olek exhibition is called The End is Far. You can see more of her crochet writings here.)

Terrific Tuesday

08 Tuesday Jan 2013

Posted by Natasja in Other people's crochet, Terrific Tuesdays

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On a Monday I can still remember the fun I had over the weekend, Wednesday is the middle of the work week, on Thursday I start getting hopeful and on a Friday I can taste the weekend. But what about a Tuesday? It’s so…. just there. Weekend memories are too far away and the upcoming weekend might as well be a year away.

What we need is a bit of colourful inspiration to get us going on a Tuesday, don’t you think? A pretty picture, beautiful scenery or colourful imagery. Yup, that’ll liven up Tuesdays and turn it into a terrific day!

From now on I will go through my photos and Pinterest likes every Tuesday and find us a pretty picture to add colour and joy to the day.

xxxxxx

Boo sent me a link to this crochet alligator by Olek. Olek created the ‘crocheted jacaré’ installation in São Paulo, around the alligator shaped playground on the SESC grounds for the SESC 2012 arts show.

Isn’t it amazing? It must have taken her and her team days to complete this. You can see more photos here.

(Images by lost art)