Today, I made a little something for a friend of mine for Christmas. He too is an artist. He recently got a computer and a copy of
Painter, and so I'm hoping will do some experimentation with it. In any case, I thought I'd mod a flash drive for him for Christmas. So I found a small drive and set about tearing apart an old paint brush. It took a bit of effort and a flat screwdriver to get the bristles out without wrecking the ferrule. I kinda had to work on prying open the ferrule and flattening out the crimping. Eventually (only a couple of swear words later) I managed to get it. Then wth some pliers and a bit of wrestling, I managed to pull out the bristles. There was a silicone casing on the flash drive which I cut off with a knife and then jammed it into the ferrule, just far enough, so that the cap can still fit on. I had to add a bit of glue to the handle where the ferrule joins, because of all my pushing and tugging I guess I loosened it a bit. It was an old brush after all. Then I took my pliers and crimped the ferrule back down around the drive, to keep it in there. I used my dremel, to even out some of the metal (cap on the drive.. to make sure no dust or crap got in). I think it's not too bad so far. I still want to clean it up a bit, but there's the idea.
The really great thing about this particular yarn bombing is its high visibility. We first noticed it driving on Commisioners Road east toward Wharncliffe. We could see it from the road, and when we happened to get stopped at the light, just made the whole thing more enjoyable. Most yarn bombs I've seen in the city tend to be small intimate encounters, but the scale of this one really worked for me.
