Posted in Art, Environment, Recycling, The Stuff of Life, tagged Art, atlanta, Environment, garbage, public art, Recycling, sunken garden park, trash on June 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Somehow, I managed to miss all pre-press about The Bottle Project in Atlanta, an installation in a park walking distance to my house. Last night, I was walking over there, and happened upon part of it that remains - it was supposed to be installed through September, but it looks like the Department [...]
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Posted in Environment, Movies, Recycling, The Stuff of Life, Video, tagged waste, Environment, The Story of Stuff, Annie Leonard, stuff, consumption, production, disposal, trash on February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
If you have not yet seen The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard, I highly recommend it. It’s a clever 20-minute video about the production/consumption/disposal cycle and what it is doing to the earth and to people. A la An Inconvenient Truth, you can sign up to host a screening (some schools have [...]
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This article in yesterday’s New York Times about concert pianist Soyeon Lee’s efforts to raise awareness about recycling and reusing was really neat. She wears gowns made from recycled juice pouches and plays pieces that have been “recycled”. After watching the Story of Stuff together, my daughter and I decided not to use juice boxes [...]
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Posted in Art, Craft, Crochet, Environment, Ocean, Recycling, tagged coral reef, Craft, Crochet, hyperbolic crochet, institute for figuring, knitting, mathematics, wool, yarn on November 2, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve been following the work of Margaret and Christine Wertheim, founders of the Institute for Figuring, for a few years now. I tried my own hand at hyperbolic crochet, and was invited by Margaret to contribute to her coral reef project. At one point, I had intended to make something of the collection [...]
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Finally, some more trashy art! Via the NRDC magazine, OnEarth, I learned of StartMotions a studio that generates stop-motion animation films of animals made from trash!
The studio’s mission is:
We create fun and entertaining animations that inform and enthuse audiences around the world about animals, plants, and the environment. We explore current events and environmental [...]
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Photo by R.W. Scott
This morning, a beautiful hummingbird came to my kitchen window to inquire as to why I had not yet provided the customary sweet water? So, I promptly corrected the error, of course! I normally feed the hummingbirds sugar water (1 part sugar to 3-4 parts water) from May through September.
Did you [...]
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These beautiful trash cans were designed by artists commissioned by TRASHed for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. I’m sorely tempted to try to decorate my city-issued trash can thusly.
From the TRASHed website:
The TRASHed campaign is a year long trash education program developed by Fashion Peace that redefines the way people and [...]
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Posted in Art, Recycling on April 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Trashballs
An interesting artist was featured in today’s New York Times. Christopher Goodwin is a junk truck driver who scavenges for interesting pieces of trash, packages them in round plastic balls, and fills gumball dispenses with them. People buy these mementos for fifty cents a apiece. According to the NYT:
Though some admirers see [...]
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Posted in Recycling, Urban Nature on April 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
How beautiful is this?
Miwa Koizumi is an artist, and one of her projects is the PET project, a re-use of plastic containers to create sea creatures and arrange them in aquarium-like settings.
Koizumi says:
I love the idea of using liquid containers to make water animals. Contained/containing, trash/not-trash, like the jelly-fish or anemone: Living/non-living
She has [...]
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Posted in Environment, Recycling on April 5, 2007 | 4 Comments »
In semi-followup to my earlier post, I want to talk about take-out containers, one of my biggest pet-peeves. Restaurant portions being what they are, we usually end up taking leftovers home. And they almost always come in those horrific styrofoam or polystyrene containers. So, it’s a quandry: waste the extra food [...]
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