Let´s just get on with our lives….!! Live transmission. My secret wish has always been to replace any sort of sports from the TV-screen with knitting! On 1 November 2013, NRK aired National Knitting Night, a 12-hour show depicting a non-stop knitting marathon which attempted to break the Guinness World record for knitting a sweater from beginning to end. >Slow TV, is a term used for a genre of "marathon" TV coverage of an ordinary event in its complete length. “National knitting night is among the most awesome things I’ve seen,” Hinden adds. Its biggest thrills (spoiler alert) … 2014: 200 år på 200 minutter What is National Knitting Evening? National Knitting Night; Tillatt for alle; 8 t 40 min; From midnight on we try to capture" the back to back" world record from Australia, which means that we will have to produce a sweater, from sheep's back to human's back in less than 4 hours, 51 minutes and 14 seconds. The ultimate real-time knitting adventure.
My secret wish has always been to replace any sort of sports from the TV-screen with knitting! Then, yesterday, a kind reader emailed us a link to the fabulous news that, beginning on August 1, Netflix will be streaming a selection of Norway's Slow TV programs, including National Knitting Evening (beginning on August 5). National Knitting Night – Minute By Minute By ThorNews on November 1, 2013 • ( 0) Norwegians love knitting and good entertainment.
That was until I heard about NRK´s next «minute-for-minute» production: National Knitting Night! Created by Thomas Hellum, Håvard Jensen. Approximately 1 million Norwegian viewers tuned in. Posted by 6 years ago. Its first program, aired in 2009 on state broadcaster NRK, was a recording of a seven-hour train ride from Bergen to Oslo. What an absolute thrill!!
That makes great TV. Watching it with me were over a million Norwegians; a fifth of the population. Why, it’s twelve hours of Norway’s participation … Live transmission. 8. “National knitting night is among the most awesome things I’ve seen,” Hinden adds. Slow TV started in 2009 when NRK was working on documentaries to celebrate the 100th birthday of the national train line and “an idea came up at lunch one day.” The common denominator is that a journey, like that of Hurtigruten, or a theme night, such as “National Knitting Night”, is filmed as a whole and then aired unedited on TV. I didn’t know it at the time but I had stumbled upon the embers of NRK’s ‘Nasjonal Vedkveld’ or ‘National Firewood Night’. A "National Knitting Night" started, of course, with shearing the sheep; knitting the sweater came much later in the 13-hour broadcast. Created by Thomas Hellum, Håvard Jensen. What an absolute thrill!! On National Knitting Night, “Knitting enthusiasts in Norway discuss the pastime and try to break the speed record for shearing, spinning and knitting wool into a men’s sweater”.
“There’s a lot of respect in dedicating so much time to broadcast something like knitting or wood burning. Tonight it is time for NRK’s new minute-by-minute show where a group of eight people (hopefully) will set a new world record in knitting a sweater in the shortest time possible. “There’s a lot of respect in dedicating so much time to broadcast something like knitting or wood burning. National Knitting Night; Tillatt for alle; 8 t 40 min; From midnight on we try to capture" the back to back" world record from Australia, which means that we will have to produce a sweater, from sheep's back to human's back in less than 4 hours, 51 minutes and 14 seconds.
My secret wish has always been to replace any sort of sports from the TV-screen with knitting! Then, yesterday, a kind reader emailed us a link to the fabulous news that, beginning on August 1, Netflix will be streaming a selection of Norway's Slow TV programs, including National Knitting Evening (beginning on August 5). National Knitting Night – Minute By Minute By ThorNews on November 1, 2013 • ( 0) Norwegians love knitting and good entertainment.
That was until I heard about NRK´s next «minute-for-minute» production: National Knitting Night! Created by Thomas Hellum, Håvard Jensen. Approximately 1 million Norwegian viewers tuned in. Posted by 6 years ago. Its first program, aired in 2009 on state broadcaster NRK, was a recording of a seven-hour train ride from Bergen to Oslo. What an absolute thrill!!
That makes great TV. Watching it with me were over a million Norwegians; a fifth of the population. Why, it’s twelve hours of Norway’s participation … Live transmission. 8. “National knitting night is among the most awesome things I’ve seen,” Hinden adds. Slow TV started in 2009 when NRK was working on documentaries to celebrate the 100th birthday of the national train line and “an idea came up at lunch one day.” The common denominator is that a journey, like that of Hurtigruten, or a theme night, such as “National Knitting Night”, is filmed as a whole and then aired unedited on TV. I didn’t know it at the time but I had stumbled upon the embers of NRK’s ‘Nasjonal Vedkveld’ or ‘National Firewood Night’. A "National Knitting Night" started, of course, with shearing the sheep; knitting the sweater came much later in the 13-hour broadcast. Created by Thomas Hellum, Håvard Jensen. What an absolute thrill!! On National Knitting Night, “Knitting enthusiasts in Norway discuss the pastime and try to break the speed record for shearing, spinning and knitting wool into a men’s sweater”.
“There’s a lot of respect in dedicating so much time to broadcast something like knitting or wood burning. Tonight it is time for NRK’s new minute-by-minute show where a group of eight people (hopefully) will set a new world record in knitting a sweater in the shortest time possible. “There’s a lot of respect in dedicating so much time to broadcast something like knitting or wood burning. National Knitting Night; Tillatt for alle; 8 t 40 min; From midnight on we try to capture" the back to back" world record from Australia, which means that we will have to produce a sweater, from sheep's back to human's back in less than 4 hours, 51 minutes and 14 seconds.