arguchik | i love this

xtingu posted this vid awhile back. i really liked it and forgot what it was called or how to find it (without going back through all of xtingu's old posts, anyway). today i was looking at a couple of knitting instructional vids on U-tube (for the magic loop cast on and for knitting on two circular needles, in case you're curious. i had already figured out the latter over the weekend, but wanted to see how a "pro" would teach it, in case i might have missed a tip or a trick; the former is just a really cool way to start a closed tube rather than an open one, which is how circular knitting usually goes--it's good for the toes of socks and such.)... anyway, this vid came up in the "more" list. i watched it again, and it resonated in a way that it hadn't, before, because my knitting obsession post-dates my first viewing. (i learned to knit when i was 18 or 19, but did not become obsessed with it until september-ish. since that time, i have nearly doubled my lifetime total of completed projects.) here it is for your viewing pleasure, in case you haven't seen it before. even if you're not a knitter, or if you're not the least bit interested in knitting, the animation is cool. i just wish they'd rendered the mechanics of knitting more accurately...