Craft Corner Deathmatch!!

[theHandpuppet]

http://nytimes.com/2005/03/08/arts/television/08craf.html

Savage Crafters, Start Your Glue Guns!
By RANDY KENNEDY

Published: March 8, 2005


The world of crafts tends to bring to mind genteel images, like quilting bees, decoupage lampshades and the pre-prison aura of Martha Stewart.

It does not usually evoke chain-link cages, spotlights, rabid fans and a deafening announcer shouting things like "Step away from the glue gun!" and "Shut the craft up!"

But crafting and grudge-match pro wrestling may end up more closely entwined in the public imagination after tomorrow night, when the Style Network introduces "Craft Corner Deathmatch," an unconventional game show in which two amateur crafters go head to head in timed trials, trying to make the best pillow out of old couch fabric or a brooch using only candy.

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"Craft Corner Deathmatch" may seem like a blended-by-committee mixture of recent television trends - equal parts "Iron Chef," "Shabby Chic" and "American Idol" - but Mr. Taberski and Ms. Honig, former producers for "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central, said the idea came from a game in which they tried to imagine a show based on two elements so disparate that network executives in their right minds would run screaming. For example, they made a pilot for MTV called "X-tremely Old," in which a strike team of elderly women offered romantic advice and other life help to 20-somethings.

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[eleny]

1. Is nothing sacred?

The whole idea of this pisses me off royaly. Oh, never mind. :nuke:

[Starlight]

2. I saw it a couple times and I hated it.

I watch craft/decorating shows for ideas I can use. On that stupid show they only give the contestants 10 minutes to finish their project and they don't seem to be particularly creative or to make anything useful or attractive. :(

[eleny]

3. I think this is why I like Martha Stewart's programs

Unlike all the "beat the clock" home repair etc shows, hers are always so calm. I know she does some silly stuff like making marshmallows from scratch. But at least I don't get tense.

[Starlight]

4. Yes, what's with the competitive decorating races??

:wtf:

[bleedingheart]

5. Anything worth doing, is worth doing well...

I am sorry but I hate when I meet people who are "hyper-crafty"...my MIL is like that and while she is talented a lot of her stuff ends up looking like crap because she tries to do something in 1 hour that should take a day or two...