Running Through Hoops
Aubrey Longley-Cook is an Atlanta based artist working in animation and embroidery. He created this animation by editing together images of 15 embroidered pieces. He used his own dog, Gus, as the model.
See more awesome work on his website, Spool Spectrum.
August 23, 2011 at 1:35 pm
OH to be this talented.
August 23, 2011 at 4:18 pm
Oh, to be that patient!
August 23, 2011 at 6:32 pm
Fucking AWESOME!
August 23, 2011 at 7:46 pm
Seriously…this is fucking amazing…I have been sitting here, hitting the esc button to stop the action, and then refresh to start it again, and I can not believe this…I found a cure for my ADHD!
August 23, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Wow, that is one time-consuming hobby! Very impressive work!
August 23, 2011 at 1:36 pm
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August 23, 2011 at 1:39 pm
like yourself, for instance
August 23, 2011 at 1:41 pm
This making up multiple troll accounts is getting droll
August 23, 2011 at 1:47 pm
So let me get this straight.
Designing and creating original embroidery and then animating it = poor use of time.
Tapping out the ingenious and witty comment “OMG” to criticize it = good use of time.
Mmmmm hmmmm.
August 23, 2011 at 1:47 pm
The EMBROIDERED DOG THAT IS MOVING is boring?! Wow, I’d hate hear your opinion of the truly boring ebroidery that’s out there…
August 23, 2011 at 2:00 pm
I accidentally gave you a thumbs up, I meant to click thumbs down. BOO on you.
August 23, 2011 at 2:17 pm
I guess it’s back to muse school for you kiddo.
August 23, 2011 at 2:21 pm
??? Sorry Moz, that was meant for the muse abuser.
August 23, 2011 at 4:12 pm
“Muse School” – I like it!
August 23, 2011 at 2:13 pm
CUNTERY. I think that would slide into a conversation more easily and with less interruption than FUCKERY. Yeah, people will just think I’m affecting an accent.
*scribbles word into Regretsy Snarkery notebook*
August 23, 2011 at 6:38 pm
Noted as well…working on my Regretsy Snark edumication too…got a long way to goooo
August 23, 2011 at 7:06 pm
Regretsy certainly has freshened up my vocabulary. I said fuckery the other night at a bachelorette party and the girls laughed so hard on peed herself. And she wasn’t even drunk yet.
Goetse.
August 23, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone actually get a comment DELETED here! Now that takes talent.
And I concur with the “cuntery” remark.
August 23, 2011 at 2:52 pm
Then I guess you weren’t around for the Hobo Wedding post? Lots of comments got deleted there. The side of caution was erred upon, and no hurt feelings. Usually, the deletion is worded plainly. This one raises the bar.
August 23, 2011 at 4:35 pm
Oh, that’s true.
August 23, 2011 at 8:13 pm
Wow, something got deleted??
I missed that!
August 23, 2011 at 8:14 pm
oh, never mind, I saw that one and rebutted it
Sorry, carry on
August 23, 2011 at 2:44 pm
I didn’t see what this said before it was deleted but I thumbed down anyway |D
August 23, 2011 at 4:00 pm
I think the troll claimed it was boring and a waste of time–that’s going by RushGi42112 and Berge. (I try not to thumbs down a comment until I’ve read it…but this time I’m going by the comments it provoked, so thumbsy down!)
August 23, 2011 at 7:12 pm
Did the troll at least have the common courtesy to add “Goetse” to the post?
August 23, 2011 at 2:56 pm
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August 23, 2011 at 3:26 pm
I’m curious about what was said, too. I’ve worked out that it included: “OMG,” “boring,” and “waste of time.” All of which is plainly wrong, but not worthy of deletion.
I’m imagining all sorts of things now.
August 23, 2011 at 4:03 pm
That was my assessment (hee-hee, I said ass!), as well. It had to be a lot more than those lame comments, though, for it to be deleted. Oh well, we’re all the better for its deletion!
August 23, 2011 at 4:52 pm
I think that saying it was deleted due to “cuntery” was pretty accurate (although “assbaggery” would have worked too). If it had been a reasonable or in any way thoughtful critique, or hell, if it had been snarkily witty, that would be one thing. But it was just . . . inane. I would expect a more well-thought-out comment from my 7-year-old.
I for one am glad that in this trash-talking, blaspheming, vomit-inducing, sea of undulating penii that is our community here, there is at least ONE thing that’s off-limits: stupidity. After all, we gotta have SOME standards, right?
August 23, 2011 at 7:11 pm
See, I am just bitch enough that, of I was a mod and saw “boring” and “waste of time,” I would just edit the post to add “I am such a” to the beginning.
And that is why I am not allowed to moderate anything! {:-D
August 23, 2011 at 8:55 pm
Can I vote that, should another moderation post open up, it be given to lemon bombs?
August 23, 2011 at 3:43 pm
Not out of limits – but save the negative comments for the truly crappy pieces that are trying to pass themselves off as worthwhile. Surely, even if you are not an embroidery fan, you can see the expertise, artistry and effort that went into this. It’s well executed, original and truly a work of art.
August 23, 2011 at 4:14 pm
It becomes apparent that there are entities on the Internet that don’t know how to react to something good on Regretsy.
August 23, 2011 at 4:14 pm
@6eisha, I usually apologize if I accidentally give someone a thumbs-down. In your case, it was a thumbs-up that was a mistake.
August 24, 2011 at 2:03 pm
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August 23, 2011 at 3:54 pm
I’m always intrigued by how, when something truly nifty and original is posted on the internet, that there is at least one (and usually a few) person who shits all over it. By shitting, I mean something really lame, like “that’s stupid” or “totally not original”; comments that suggest that the poster is either incredibly immature or very jealous, or both.
What Regretsy does I would not call shitting, FWIW.
August 23, 2011 at 8:45 pm
No, it’s shitting. It’s just that there’s a difference between shitting on shit and shitting on art. We do the former here.
August 23, 2011 at 10:58 pm
“there’s a difference between shitting on shit and shitting on art.”
SAMPLER!
August 24, 2011 at 9:38 am
This kind shares a room in hell with people who read entertainment stories and comment “why is this news?” and stories about something glamorous and expensive and say “there are people dying of communism! How dare you spend your money on something that creates jobs!”
Damn, I hate MSNBC comments.
August 23, 2011 at 4:14 pm
I don’t even know what you said and I gave you a TD. Because it had to be negative, and there is NO NEGATIVE to this art. Awesome.
August 23, 2011 at 1:36 pm
Holy shit that’s awesome!
August 23, 2011 at 1:36 pm
That? Is farkin’ COOL.
August 23, 2011 at 1:38 pm
i believe you mean “barkin’ COOL”
*rim shot + crickets*
August 23, 2011 at 2:23 pm
You only hear the crickets for a second, until the joke hits, and then…applause!!!
August 23, 2011 at 10:33 pm
I’m imagining this comment in one of those CSI Miami comics.
YEEEAAAAHHHH
August 23, 2011 at 1:37 pm
When you post awesome crafts on here, you are sure to make them REALLY AWESOME. Love this!
August 23, 2011 at 1:37 pm
I love watching the ears go up and down.
August 23, 2011 at 1:39 pm
I prefer the snakey tail!
August 23, 2011 at 3:22 pm
Now I had to go back up and watch the ears and the tail
August 23, 2011 at 4:08 pm
Did you see the cheeks? The cheeks that wrinkle in the wind as he runs? The. Cheeks. Wrinkle. In. The. Wind.
Incredible!
August 23, 2011 at 6:46 pm
The background even looks like grass whizzing by as he runs along.
Coolest thing I’ve ever seen in embroidery!
August 23, 2011 at 1:53 pm
It’s truly mesmerizing.
August 23, 2011 at 4:31 pm
It looks like my dog that passed last year. Makes me think he’s running like that on a cloud.
That is talent.
August 24, 2011 at 9:22 am
@Vinnifera, what a lovely image–running on a cloud. I’m sorry for your loss.
I sent it to a dear friend who lost a Lab just like him last year and is still grieving (she has a chocolate Lab who grew up with the vanilla Lab and misses him, too). I told her it looks just like her dear departed vanilla Lab when he was younger–and would race all over their property, especially when they went upstate camping–his favorite! She said it made her cry, but she was also a little happy to see it because it looked exactly like him.
August 23, 2011 at 1:37 pm
What is it, boy? What is it? You say little Timmy fell down the well with your embroidery needles? C’mon, boy, take me to him! C’mon, boy!
August 23, 2011 at 1:45 pm
I’m in NYC and there’s a radio commercial that may be national (it should be, for the subject). Timmy is trapped in a cage with a bobcat. He yells for help from “Sassy” (no copyright infringement!).
Sassy: “Woof! Woof!”
Timmy (translating Sassy): “You will, but first you want to point out the importance of cat adoption?”
Sassy: “Woof! Woof!”
Timmy (translating Sassy): “Two million cats are brought to cat shelters every year and they need to be adopted?”
Sassy: “Woof! Woof!”
Timmy: “OK, but save me from the bobcat, Sassy!”
Sassy: “Woof! Woof!”
Timmy (translating Sassy): “Why bother, ’cause you’ll get in more trouble tomorrow?!?”
August 23, 2011 at 3:19 pm
We have that radio ad here in Virginia too. It makes me ROFL every time.
August 23, 2011 at 4:11 pm
It seems like it would be a national commercial. They usually play it on the morning news. Makes me giggle every time.
Did you feel the earthquake in Virginia? I didn’t feel it in NYC, but I’m on a low floor of a very sturdy building. The upper floors felt it strongly. Our warehouse is in Virginia and a few boxes fell off the shelves, but no one was hurt.
August 23, 2011 at 9:12 pm
Mugsy… we felt it here in Ontario!
August 23, 2011 at 3:27 pm
We have it here in Kentucky as well. Love it!
August 23, 2011 at 3:55 pm
Sassy was the name of Dino’s tv-star crush on “The Flintstones.”
August 23, 2011 at 4:15 pm
Aw! I forgot that completely. That radio commercial is going to be even funnier the next time I hear it, thinking of a dinosaur (she was pink, wasn’t she?).
August 23, 2011 at 7:35 pm
She was pink, and wore a wig, artificial eyelashes, and at least one other bit of fakery that turned her into the dinosaur version of that girl with the wooden leg from “I’m Gonna Get You, Sucka.”
August 23, 2011 at 6:18 pm
Plays twice an hour on the sound system at work. Love the bobcat’s growl!
August 24, 2011 at 9:17 am
@Steampunk Mermaid: An editorial this morning said that there are now two groups of people–those who felt the quake and those who will go to their graves jealous of those who did. There’s a new term for it: Tremor Envy!
That commercial was on this morning and I almost choked on my coffee when it came on. Yes–the bobcat growl…and the sad, resigned-to-his-Sassy-won’t-save-him-fate Timmy make me laugh even hard now!
August 23, 2011 at 1:38 pm
That is amazing. Oh, to be even half as talented at embroidery! Alas, I am but a beginner! Woe is me! *hand to forehead, eyelids flutter, faints*
August 23, 2011 at 1:38 pm
Crafting: You’re doing it right.
August 23, 2011 at 1:38 pm
I’m amazed to speechlessness at how awesome this is
August 23, 2011 at 1:39 pm
Sweet!
August 23, 2011 at 1:39 pm
So, since Longley-Cook put all this effort into this work, is everybody just going to steal it and post it on their own websites without attribution?
August 23, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Obviously, I’m not implying that’s what HK has done, since she’s quite clearly giving credit where credit is MORE than due.
August 23, 2011 at 1:42 pm
you KNOW this is going viral
August 23, 2011 at 1:43 pm
Animated = Check
Animals = Check
Viral status = Confirmed
August 23, 2011 at 1:50 pm
That’s fine, as long as the artist can get some benefit.
August 23, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Yup. Just posted on Facebook. So, that takes care of, oh, 30 or so people.
August 23, 2011 at 2:48 pm
I added it to my FB as well. Couldn’t resist sharing that major bit of coolness.
August 23, 2011 at 4:17 pm
I’ll wait until he finishes embroidering a feature-length animation, and THEN steal it.
August 24, 2011 at 8:08 am
I just had a thought about how totally awesome it would be if he (or anyone with comparable talent) made a short film using embroidery as the medium. Though it goes without saying that it would be a LOT of work..
August 23, 2011 at 1:40 pm
The details of the embroidery are wonderful. The proportions are exact and you can see the muscles moving and the fur flying in the wind as the dog runs. I’d be impressed just with the series of “flat” embroidery, but animate it and it goes into a new and higher realm of creativity. Amazeballs!!
August 23, 2011 at 9:03 pm
The thing that amazes me is that you can see all that, yet it looks like it uses four or maybe five colors. Most of the ridiculously beautiful embroidery I’ve seen relies on careful blending of a hundredish colors to get the same believable effect this artist captured perfectly in one-twentieth of that.
August 24, 2011 at 9:30 am
The first time I saw it, I was looking at the embroidering and thinking “OK, nice. He went simple with maybe four colors for the body and that was interesting. Reminds me of long-stitch embroidery. Got the details down and they look…WAIT A MINUTE–those are muscles!?! Moving muscles! And the fur! And…” then I was left mentally speechless.
You’re right–most people would use dozens and dozens of colors. He has enviable talent.
I sent the link to my insanely talented aunt (everything from petitpoint needlepoint to handpainting images on porcelain plates to making her own porcelain dolls and then sewing the clothing for them). I’m sure she will be very impressed and delighted, because she loves dogs, too.
August 23, 2011 at 11:02 pm
and the kicker really is the LEVEL of animation – this is 2-4 frames like the majority of dreck on TV.
I used to be an animation inker/painter, and that looks a hell of a lot like 10-12 frames.
A LOT of work and a hell of a lot of talent. I would love to see the pencils on this one.
August 23, 2011 at 1:40 pm
I very much enjoy the random awesome craft that’s posted among the snark and this is uber awesome.
August 23, 2011 at 1:40 pm
This makes the fact that I couldn’t embroider my initials on a laundry sack in 8th grade home-ec class even more painful.
THANKS, REGRETSY LADY! NOW I HAVE POST TRAUMATIC EMBROIDERY DISORDER!
August 23, 2011 at 3:30 pm
So that’s what PTED stands for.
August 23, 2011 at 8:33 pm
Damn Silent Bob!
August 23, 2011 at 8:34 pm
Damnit, why dont my comments go where they are intended? *sigh*
August 23, 2011 at 1:41 pm
Who needs psychedelics when you have animated embroidery?
August 23, 2011 at 2:06 pm
I do. They’re for enhancement purposes only.
August 23, 2011 at 2:33 pm
Psychedelics + animated embroidery = awesomesauce.
August 23, 2011 at 2:33 pm
At least, that’s what I’ve heard.
August 23, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Ive been staring at it for…I dont know, man.
It’s like he’s chasing a ball of forever through the vastness of space.
What if we are the dogs chasing balls through space? Whoa, I just blew my own mind.
August 23, 2011 at 5:23 pm
Noo waayy DUDE! That’s what THEY want you to think! We ARE the dog don’tgetmewrong! But there is no ball man! They want us to run for-ev-er man!
August 23, 2011 at 8:35 pm
Damn Silent Bob!
You just blew everyone’s mind!
August 23, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Sure, it looks cute on the surface but what is the dog running from?
My bet is that Aubrey is working on a needlepoint Michael Vick
August 23, 2011 at 1:47 pm
So wrong, Gnomestress, so very, very wrong…but so funny, too!!
August 23, 2011 at 1:45 pm
I absolutely love this.
August 23, 2011 at 1:45 pm
Holy shit… I wish I had talent and patience like this!
August 23, 2011 at 1:48 pm
This is such an inspiration! Beautiful work, excellent detail, very creative.
Perhaps I can do something like this for my pets. Wait – perhaps animation embroidery of cats sleeping isn’t quite as exciting.
August 23, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Well, there’s always this pattern:
http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/05/caturday-crafti.html
August 23, 2011 at 3:30 pm
Aw, so cute!
August 23, 2011 at 1:48 pm
You know, I usually come here to laugh at/feel superior to the delusional and hopeless, but this just makes me sad that I will never have that kind of creativity or skill. Stop harshing on my schadenfreude buzz!
August 23, 2011 at 1:49 pm
ACK I NEED THIS!
August 23, 2011 at 1:57 pm
You beat me to saying it! This dude has wicked skills and extraordinary patience. Doing my part to make the doggie viral. Well, not sneezing on it, I mean …
August 23, 2011 at 1:58 pm
I need this one!
Gotta love artistic people with a good amount of quirk in them.
August 23, 2011 at 2:27 pm
Love. Times a hundred.
August 23, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Looking at his site and I’m surprised it took over a year for it to make it over here.
August 23, 2011 at 1:52 pm
I love the usual posts making fun of ridiculous art, but I definitely appreciate when you feature some really cool and amazing artwork. This is awesome. And as a fiber artist myself, pretty darn inspiring!
August 23, 2011 at 1:59 pm
I can’t believe it’s possible, but the animation of the BACK side of the work is even more hypnotic:
http://spoolspectrum.blogspot.com/search/label/A%20Stitch%20In%20Time
August 23, 2011 at 2:22 pm
Thanks for that link. It gave me the opportunity to read on his website “Give us this day our daily thread, and lead us knot into temptation.” Love it!
August 23, 2011 at 2:30 pm
…but deliver us from ravel. For thine is the Hobby Lobby and the Glue Gun and the Thrift Store. Now and forever, amen.
August 24, 2011 at 12:55 pm
SAMPLER!
August 23, 2011 at 2:39 pm
I love the backside even more. It’s got more character.
August 23, 2011 at 2:51 pm
Out of context comment of the day?
August 23, 2011 at 4:40 pm
The dog has jumped into the yarn basket again
August 23, 2011 at 7:13 pm
And he has a youtube video talking about how he made it! He’s sooo cute too, the dog sits in his lap thru the whole interview! Google it! Ipad hates youtube linking.
August 23, 2011 at 10:07 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDH-WXaDYGA
You’re right, he could hardly be more adorable. And the dog is cute too.
August 24, 2011 at 5:55 am
He is my Towel Mike. Cute and LOVES his dog. I’d let him thread my needle any day.
August 23, 2011 at 2:02 pm
My first thought upon seeing this: “Ooh wow, I wonder if he could do a rendition of my late cat Nikki MowMow animated like this?!” Then I realized it’d only take one frame. Okay, perhaps two extra frames for opening her legs like a Vegas stripper and licking her ass.
I love the ears AND the tail!
August 23, 2011 at 2:08 pm
Wow, just saw the reverse side, thanks for the link. I might be crazy, but I like the reverse even better!
August 24, 2011 at 5:55 am
Thanks, purpleraven. I just snorted so hard that I choked on my coffee, which then prompted my boss to come check on me to “make sure there wasn’t any dying in here.”
August 23, 2011 at 2:03 pm
Holy. Shit.
August 23, 2011 at 2:13 pm
Turns out he does have an Etsy shop. Unfortunately, it is empty, but perhaps he’ll do special orders.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/SpoolSpectrum
August 23, 2011 at 2:20 pm
that is amazing!
August 23, 2011 at 2:23 pm
completely mesmerizing!
reminds me of a zoetrope.
August 23, 2011 at 2:31 pm
I would watch this while meditating.
August 23, 2011 at 2:41 pm
*jaw drop*
That. Is. Amazing.
August 23, 2011 at 2:42 pm
I can’t stop going back to look at that animation. This guy has wicked talent for embroidery, then to add the animation….very cool!
August 23, 2011 at 2:46 pm
I don’t say this a lot but… FUCKING EPIC!
Seriously. Animating computer drawn stuff can be hard enough but this..! This guy is seriously talented ;_; (<- jealous tears)
August 23, 2011 at 2:55 pm
I’m adding this to my file of things to show to anyone that says beadwork takes too much patience. Talk about being dedicated to your hobby!
August 23, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Good grief – I can think how to do this right off the bat (aside from the fact that I don’t know how to embroider), but the sheer time involved…and here I am, too damn lazy to just plain draw some animation in my spare time.
August 23, 2011 at 5:15 pm
Not just the time but the thumb cramps! My hands developed carpal tunnel syndrome AND tendonitis just from IMAGINING someone doing this. My mind is blown.
August 23, 2011 at 3:43 pm
“Green Lantern” would have been better like this.
August 23, 2011 at 8:21 pm
Green Lantern would have been better in ANY WAY other than how it was
August 23, 2011 at 9:16 pm
Like say in comic book form. The way it was intended?
@DC you’ll never beat Marvel now, not with the Disney corp. and their stockpiles of money.
Love ya DC, but just stop while your a head. And not a cryogenically frozen head.
August 23, 2011 at 3:45 pm
And the tightening screw at the top fascinates me.
August 23, 2011 at 3:52 pm
I know what you mean. It has a life all its own.
August 23, 2011 at 3:53 pm
the shading and detail is beautiful. how lovely, and what a loving tribute to what is certainly a best friend. fantastic.
August 23, 2011 at 4:06 pm
I live in Atlanta, so I got a little stalkery.
His boss took the photo of a guy from my high school that was on a magazine cover.
I feel such a bond…
August 23, 2011 at 4:15 pm
I like how if you look at the top of the hoop, it looks like the little metal pieces are clapping for him.
August 23, 2011 at 4:19 pm
I noticed them…thought that I couldn’t criticize for that minor point…and now you’ve put a wonderful spin on it! Yes, they are clapping for him!
August 23, 2011 at 4:38 pm
You made me look! They’re funny =P
August 23, 2011 at 9:19 pm
clapping is NOT what I saw when I looked at the top! (but we’ll go with that since this is so freaking amazing!)
August 23, 2011 at 10:48 pm
I was thinking that it looks as though the force of the dog’s running is shaking the hoop.
August 24, 2011 at 6:17 am
As a person who’s done some independent animation, I have to say that the hoop shaking like that just makes me more impressed with how clean the registration is on the dog animation, and with how seamless the loop is. It would be a bitch to get it looking that smooth without being able to use the hoop as a firm guide for placement under camera.
August 23, 2011 at 4:22 pm
Now I’m obsessed with the idea of a feature-length embroidered animation, and I have a vision of a factory in Asia somewhere where there are scores of women embroidering stuff in hoops. Next door to this factory are the animation studios that do the stuff we see on TV all the time…
August 23, 2011 at 6:27 pm
I saw someone do a knitting-based animation once; I wish I’d saved the link, as it was pretty amazing.
August 24, 2011 at 6:19 am
Was it the one with the old woman and the magical little animal with yarn for hair? Or is there more than one animation like that?
August 24, 2011 at 1:32 pm
It wasn’t that one; it was more strange. I want to say it was Swedish or something.
August 24, 2011 at 1:33 pm
I think it was this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO0-1GKXZEA
August 23, 2011 at 7:37 pm
I’m thinking of Banksy’s “Simpsons” opening, only with cute bunnies being skinned to make yarn for embroidered animation panels instead of stuffed Bart dolls.
August 23, 2011 at 4:25 pm
Is it wrong to want to see him in the Regretsy Beefcake Calendar?
He looks pretty cute…
And the talent is a plus.
August 23, 2011 at 5:17 pm
Good idea! He’s 100% Regretsy material.
August 23, 2011 at 4:34 pm
GLINGERS!
August 23, 2011 at 4:35 pm
That is from Longley-Cook’s website, btw.
August 23, 2011 at 4:35 pm
I’ve been seeing a lot of this kind of thing on deviantArt and other sites recently. I think it’s really cool
I’d never have the patience to make something like this, ha ha…
August 23, 2011 at 4:36 pm
So cool! And the movement looks so natural. This is some pure talent.
August 23, 2011 at 4:43 pm
Looking at it again, the backside looks like a new take on the Aha video. And now I’ve got the song playing on a loop in my head.
August 24, 2011 at 9:34 am
Thank you!!! It reminded me of something, but I couldn’t put my finger on what. (And I loved that song and video…one of the few videos that play in my head when I hear a song. I didn’t watch a lot of MTV (no cable), so I didn’t see a lot of videos, but that one I loved.)
August 23, 2011 at 4:44 pm
Why am I waiting for it to stop and pop a squat? It’s so real. lol
August 23, 2011 at 5:24 pm
August 23, 2011 at 8:22 pm
haha, this cracked me up.
I wonder how many other ‘net-based expressions we could do that way?
August 23, 2011 at 6:41 pm
This was a found object, but….
..says “tae-kin-do”
August 23, 2011 at 8:37 pm
Ha-dou-ken!
August 23, 2011 at 7:31 pm
If it was a cat it’d be perfect.
Yes, I realize it’s a pun.
August 23, 2011 at 8:22 pm
I love this, love the guy’s site, and I really love that a guy is doing needle crafts.
August 23, 2011 at 8:38 pm
That pooch is hypnotic..
They should have this image in waiting rooms everywhere..
August 23, 2011 at 9:22 pm
LOVE THIS
August 23, 2011 at 11:55 pm
This reminds me of when I would draw little stick figures on post-it note pads and flick through the pages — except like 10,000 times harder and 50,000 times more awesome.
August 24, 2011 at 12:20 am
That is fucking beautiful.
August 24, 2011 at 6:01 am
Suddenly I feel utterly ashamed to have taken something like 3 years to get almost halfway through a counted cross stitch kit. This is gorgeous work.
August 24, 2011 at 8:12 am
This IS cool, yet somehow, this still seems appropriate:
Also, I just want a reason to use it.
August 24, 2011 at 11:58 am
So that is what would happen if you crossed an ewok with a cat..AWESOME!
August 24, 2011 at 10:20 am
To quote the 80s: “Totally awesome!”
August 24, 2011 at 11:08 am
I have been stalking this site for weeks now but I had to register to ask if y’all noticed the video he posted right after the back of the dog post? WOW. http://spoolspectrum.blogspot.com/2008/12/like-it-or-not.html
August 25, 2011 at 4:24 am
Amazing! How did they even do that?
August 24, 2011 at 12:05 pm
That is awesome.
My dog mostly licks his crotch, so I don’t think I’ll be embroidering his activities any time soon
August 24, 2011 at 12:35 pm
Oo-oops, did you just bring etsy down?
August 24, 2011 at 12:46 pm
I’ve been wanting to make an animation using cross stitch, I just haven’t gotten around to it yet. This has totally inspired me!