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Building Plot 2012

andytransition — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:06:51 +0200

Architecture Sans Frontieres UK and REFUNC designed and built a structure from locally harvested waste materials at the EdeN Project. The design and construction took place through a collaborative process with masterbuilders, students, architects and local individuals on Probation as part of a skills training and innovation programme. » original news

rickshow,mobile stage

cesare — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:06:18 +0200

This mobile stage was designed by 2012Architecten for floriade 2012. It consists of 3 small stages that each can be pulled by a special bike to facilitate small performances around the floriade area. » original news

Recycled Easter eggs Lamp

cowwil — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:15:42 +0200

Easter has just passed and we all have the house full of plastic Easter eggs. It 's a great opportunity to do something creative like this lamp created by a young Italian desiger. » original news

Officina Roma

jan — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:39:16 +0200

The OFFICINA ROMA is a villa entirely build out of trash. It consist of a sleeping room, a kitchen and a work shop. The plan lacks a living room, a comfort zone, instead there is an empty work shop in the center. OFFICINA ROMA is an experimental building practice, build within an one week long workshop with 24 high school students from all over Italy. Tha Villa is part of a RE-cycle exhibition in Rome and standing until April 29 2012 The building is composed as a collage: A kitchen entirely build out of old bottles, the sleeping room with walls from used car doors, the workshop using wooden windows and old furniture and the main roof set from old oil barrels and used dry wall profiles. via reclamationadministration » original news

Windshield greenhouse

PIMPILIMPAUSA — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:46:02 +0200

A greenhouse made from used car windshield. » original news

desing recycled

jacobojorgensen — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:59:33 +0200

recycled works inspired by architecture » original news

Seo Young Deok's Dystopia

theoffice — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:59:27 +0100

The human body and its formation lie at the core of the Korean artist Seo Young Deok�s work who is preoccupied with the stories told through the human figure. Seo Young Deok presented a number of nude sculptures, some lying on the ground, some hung on the walls. He used welded metal chains in order to model them linking them piece-by-piece. At first glance, when someone takes a look at his work, one cannot help but notice that the artist draws strong references from the work of the renowned British sculptor Anthony Gormley. Gormley is known for using the human figure at the core of his work who on numerous occasions used his own figure to create metal casts making his body the artwork itself. » original news

Gino Rizzi plastic sulptures

GinoRizzi — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:57:56 +0100

Sculptures by Gino Rizzi depicturing coral structures. Fully made out of PET bottles and other recycled plastic. Gino Rizzi's work, inspired in great extend by nature's beauty, expresses in a poetic way his concern about our planet or in his own words 'the plastification of nature'. » original news

Nube Lights

Chorch — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:17:55 +0100

NUBE lights are made with reclaimed materials for the lamp and packaging, thereby reducing the use and waste of raw materials, achieving a low environmental impact with a high visual impact. It uses reclaimed plastic bags as main material. Depending on the size, are used from 10 up to nearly 100 plastic bags. NOTHING is lost EVERYTHING IS TRANSFORMED. » original news

Organic Stools & benches

arjen — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:58:27 +0100

Reuse of materials is nothing new, but extention of an existing production line is. The liquid plastic overproduction that is dripping down from the machine is directly collected in molds. To create these organic benches and stools leftovers plastic are (re)used in between production line shifts. This smart design method results into unpredictable and unique aesthetics. Each product is a one off design with comparative characteristics to others. » original news

Trap Light

arjen — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:57:53 +0100

Trap Light proposes a radical new approach to lighting design. By utilising photoluminescent pigments to capture escaping light, Trap Light converts waste energy back into visible light. Using the Murano glass blowing technique, the designers were able to embed photoluminescent pigments into the glass body of the lamp. Through this process, Trap Light becomes both shade and light source, emitting, absorbing, and re-emitting light. » original news

Upcyclisted

jan — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:46:38 +0100

Seeking out unwanted materials for an artistic project or have something to give away? Get in touch (info@antoniaedwards.co.uk) and we will list it in this section. Just provide a location (e.g. London, UK), details of materials needed/offered, price if applicable and method of contact (website, email, phone number). more about this project by Antonia Edwards on the blue economy website http://www.community.blueeconomy.de/m/news/view/Upcycling-versus-Recycling » original news

reclaimed box lantern

dcdaktari — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:40:08 +0100

The box lantern, is a reclaimed piece. The base and the arm are made from bourbon barrel staves, the shade frame is from leftovers in the shop, (cherry, walnut, mahogany, etc.) The shade is a veneer of any highly figured wood I can get my hands on. Here we have a Walnut frame with Lacewood shade. The cord is retro cloth and the plug is retro too... » original news

old door turned table

michaelmaciassico — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:42:00 +0100

This is a 1930s solid pinewood door converted into a table using 100% found materials including bass guitar strings and bass guitar machine heads. The filled panels are Jesmonite (the only new material). original source: http://www.michaelmacias.com/1930s-Vintage-Door-Table » original news

FROM 2400 TO 15

giorgioceste@hotmail.com — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:04:54 +0100

This is an experiment of what the de-empowerment can do. what you need: -1 broken iron from garbage bin -1 15W small oven bulb -1 on-off switch to put under the original steam button -1 lamp socket -2 electric wires to connect the bulb and the switch more pics here http://www.flickr.com/photos/76692931@N02/sets/72157629331187379/ » original news

Two birds with one stone.

suisu — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:03:20 +0100

Sit down and refresh in company of cult faces on a footstool made from bottle crate. » original news

100% SALVAGED CAR PARTS

theoffice — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:19:21 +0100

Made out of 100% salvaged car parts, this temporary shed is surprisingly strong and versatile. » original news

CD HOLDER / HANGER

mr.22 — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:11:36 +0100

ever wondered what to do with those empty plastic CD holders? why don't you hang them behind your door and use them to hang some personal stuff. » original news

KEYBOARD / KEY HANGER

mr.22 — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:10:19 +0100

instead of throwing an old keyboard , i am currently using it as a key hanger. » original news

Trimay - old gloves recycle

Masha — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:06:14 +0100

Trimay is the recycle container for pencils, brushes, flowers, ecc. Made by old gloves and resin. » original news

Repurposed Kitchen Designs

fattomatodesigns — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:02:15 +0100

100% Re-Purposed Wool Potholders. All handmade w/ Original designs. Stylish & super functional. » original news

Green with Grease

Gauvin919 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:31:13 +0100

I came across this small business up in the Rocky Mountains, called Summit Soap. I found these two guys collecting used and recycled vegetable grease. They picked up the grease using a veggie powered pick-up truck, directly from all the locally owned town restaurants. They processed the thousands of gallons of grease and turn it into bio-products like biodegradable cleaners, engine lubricants, as well as true biofuels. But the coolest and most interesting part to me was the all natural biodegradable hand made soap, that they were making from the collected grease. » original news

Notebooks for Music Lovers

Katie — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:04:58 +0100

Eeco-friendly handcrafted writing journals made from recycled vintage albums. Made from environmentally friendly paper, recycled records and sleeves and are 100% made in the USA. » original news

Kurt // the belt to sit

voxel-studio.de — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:04:26 +0100

Kurt, the perfect partner for everyone who embodies flexibility and lifestyle without a loss of comfort. The system is as easy as brilliant. Safety belts from broken cars form the basic material.Integrated in a bag made from cutting scrap of convertible car decks, Kurt can be mounted to almost every backpack. Just clip it on! Sitdown, swing the belt around your legs, knees or feet, close it and by a tug, lock the belt. Just as sitting on a chair you are hold tightand can easily and comfortably lean back. Relaxed reading in the park, working on your laptop, listening to music or taking a breakfrom your tracking tour... Kurt makes it happen. For getting up, just open up the buckle and Kurt will pull back into its bag by itself. » original news

telephone book chair

jan — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:08:25 +0100

The materials for this chair are readily available and completely recycled. I used plywood from an old shipping crate for the sides, and the phone books were requested from my neighbors when the phone company came around to leave new ones on all of our doorsteps. Materials: 10-12 phone books depending on size and thickness �" plywood - two sheets sized at least 17 x 33" *(Recycled is always better! Look for a shipping crate or construction cast-offs). Threaded rod Hollow rod with 3/8" inside diameter. Tools: Band saw, jig saw, or hand router Table saw or sharp razor blade Drill press or hand drill Sandpaper and finishing supplies Clamps reaching at least 14" Angle grinder with cut-off wheel Loctite 1. Use the template to cut the chair sides out of �" plywood with a band saw, jig saw, or router. 2. Drill the holes in the sides with a 3/8" drill bit as marked. 3. Sand and finish the wood as desired before adding the phone books. 4. Cutting phone books on the table saw can be dangerous! I used a sled that will support the back of the book, and also clamped a support on the top of the book to reduce tearing and support the top edge. Cut one book at a time in half. If you don�t have a table saw, you can cut through the phone books with a sharp razor blade, although this may take you a while. If your books are different thicknesses, make sure you use one half on the seat and one half on the back to get an even chair width. Your chair should end up being no less than 14" wide. 5. After cutting the books, drill them one at a time using a drill press. Clamp plywood guides/supports to both the top and bottom of the book halves to keep them straight while drilling. On the top plywood drill guide, pre-drill the holes to match the chair sides and use it as a guide when drilling into the phone books. Drill one book at a time with a 3/8" drill bit. A hand drill will also work, but make sure you keep it aimed as straight as possible as you drill through the phone books. 6. Depending on how many books you have, and the thickness of them, cut the threaded rod to size and allow some extra length for the thickness of your plywood and for securing the acorn nuts at the ends. 7. Using 3/8" threaded rod, maneuver each phone book in place one at a time, adding to both the seat and the back at the same time, so you can put the other side of the chair onto all four rods at once. Use clamps to secure them against the chair sides. You will want them to be as tight as possible, so keep clamping and tightening as you go. 8. The best rule is to clamp the books and sides together as tightly as possible before cutting off the end of the threaded rod with a cutting wheel on an angle grinder after you secure the other side of the chair onto your rods. You may end up with more or less rod than you anticipated depending on how tightly you clamp your books, so start with more than you think you�ll need. Use acorn nuts to secure the ends of the rods and use Loctite on the threads to assure the nuts won�t work themselves loose in the future. 9. I used hollow rods over the threaded rods between the chair sides as added supports. The size of these will depend on the size of your books, and again, how tightly you clamp the books and sides together, so cut the hollow rods after you determine the final measurements between the legs. 10. Sit, enjoy, and delight in how ironic this chair will become when paper phone books are thought of as antiques! by Christy Oates www.digitalwood.com www.christyoates.com » original news

I Give Away

john — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:04:35 +0100

Ik Geef Weg - I Give Away. Is a Dutch Facebook group founded by Juul Martin. Good stuff, stuff that you don't need anymore, can be posted on the wall of this Facebook group. Join if you live in the Netherlands and give your good unneeded stuff away. You are released of the stuff and the other person will be very happy. Do it now, join today: http://www.facebook.com/groups/ikgeefweg @ » original news

Mark Langan's corrugated art

MarkLangan — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:23:45 +0100

Unique bas-relief sculpture made from nothing more than recycled corrugated boxes and non-toxic glue. » original news

pallets movie

cesare — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:45:53 +0100

If you think old wood pallets are garbage, think again. The Canadian Wood Pallet & Container Association has launched a campaign to encourage people to recycle and reuse wood packaging material » original news

Leather Belt Floor

jan — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:44:29 +0100

During the early part of her career, RCA-educated designer Inghua Ting worked in Japan "developing innovative, futuristic fabrics" before an interest in sustainability drew her towards old materials rather than new. One of the results of this shift is the now London-based designer's leather flooring created from discarded men's belts, reworked into 12- and 18-inch square tiles. [The belts] create a beautiful, glossy and hardwearing surface...suitable for table and bar tops, walls and feature areas, as well as floors. Each belt is hand selected to ensure a high grade of leather and then the belts are stripped of their metals, hand cleaned with chemical free substances and prepared for use. The vintage belts for each tile are carefully designed in-house as the colour and patterning on the belts is sensitive to each tile. This means no two tiles will ever be the same. While the leather probably isn't cheap, it is long-lived. Ting's website states that should you decide to discard the tiles in future, "We can even recycle your used tiles into a new product for you." for the website visit http://www.tinglondon.com/ via core 77 » original news

Lenin's Sarcophagus

jan — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:26:47 +0100

In 1924 Melnikov also won the competition for the sarcophagus of the Lenin Mausoleum. The sarcophagus designed by Melnikov had an unusual geometrical form. "The architectural idea of my project, - the architected explained later on, - consisted in a four-faceted extended pyramid cut with two surfaces inclined inside in opposite directions which formed by intersection a dead level diagonal. Thus, the upper glass surface turned out naturally strong against any impact. The developed construction idea eliminated the necessity for framing the joints of the sarcophagus with metal. We got the crystal with starlight play of the inner color sphere. The sarcophagus designed according to slightly changed Melnikov�s project was constructed in the wooden Mausoleum, and later on it was preserved and used in the stone Mausoleum until WWII. » original news

Rietvelds Superuse

jan — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:13:26 +0100

This image shows the bathroom of the famous Rietveld Schr�der house in Utrecht. Herman Hertzberger used to show this image in his lectures telling it was made from a broken window of the house when it was just realized. Apparently there was an explosion of an army truck that blew the window out. Gerrit Rietveld liked the shape of the glass so much, he took two pieces for this bathroom. » original news

CANDELMOBIL

ooomydesign — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:32:53 +0100

Our dear friends always help! This time they do it by holding candles! An important part of my work is based on the reuse of the icons of my childhood. My favorite toy was the playmobil and I took some time thinking about the best use for them. I've finally decided to join us in giving light in the most environmentally friendly way, with candles. Candel holder made ??of three playmobil coated with latex and varnished in chrome or gold finish. Designed by OOO My Design. http://ooomydesign.bigcartel.com/product/candelmovil » original news

Road Air by Refunc

jan — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 22:56:19 +0100

The guys of REFUNC, a Dutch collective of architects and builders, created this upcycled architectural installation. The Road Air is a flexible and movable `house� that can be built in one day. An old trailer, interior windows of airplanes, fish crates and on old carpet were blended into a new highly movable shelter that looks very good thanks to the specific round shape of the airplane windows. REFUNC�s approach involves solitarily old and used materials to create crazy new architectural typologies. REFUNC�s founders Denis Oudendijk en Jan Korbes, who�ve done pretty cool other projects like Millegomme, have lots of experience with the transformation of urban left-overs into good-looking architectural forms. Rather famous is their floating capsule hotel made out of an old rescue boat, as well as the windmill container » original news

1000 doors

jan — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 22:24:59 +0100

1,000 Recycled Doors Make A Great Fa�ade 1,000 recycled doors are enough for the South Korean architect Choi Jeong-Hwa to transform a dull ten-story building into a fresh-looking landmark. This `skyscraper� in the center of the Korean capital Seoul has become a pixelated landmark, that tells the story of thousand people who once chose a fitting color for a door in their apartment. In his work Jeong-Wha uses a lot of every-day used objects to transform landscapes, interiors and urban situations. This project, presumely called �1,000 Doors�, is astonishing beautiful and brings injects the city scape with some fresh colors. The doors visually translate the diversity of a world city like Seoul, as Inhabitat explains: "Choi Jeong-Hwa�s imagery is born out his desire to let art engage with the greater population. His work is almost delusional » original news

Recycled Market

jan — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:54:08 +0100

Recycled Market is a unique online venue that encourages buyers and sellers to reduce, reuse, redesign, refashion, rework and recycle as much as possible. We are a global marketplace focused on showcasing stylish handmade and ethically manufactured pieces made from recycled materials. Our aim is to offer a wide range of recycled products, ranging from readjusted clothing, upcycled jewellery, accessories, through to artwork, toys, homewares and gifts, created from recycled or reclaimed material, supplies needed to produce recycled goods, patterns, tutorials, and so much more. Recycled Market showcases independent artisan�s creative, exclusive eco-design. Recycled Market: Promotes and sells handmade, and ethically manufactured recycled products Encourages artisans to utilise recycled materials Offers consumers the chance to purchase unique products which are friendly to our planet "We are constantly bombarded with advertisements encouraging our thirst to spend money on new products, utilising new resources. A consumer can make a difference by choosing to buy environmentally sound products; goods that are created using materials already in circulation" Erica, Recycled Market, 2011 "Our vision is for individuals to choose recycled before new" Lester, Recycled Market, 2011 Recycled Market exists to advertise goods made from materials that may otherwise unnecessarily end in landfill. For some facts about consumption and disposal, we would highly recommend watching The Story Of Stuff by Annie Leonard WHO RUNS RECYCLED MARKET? Recycled Market is run by two people with a passion for recycling and protecting the environment. Co founders of Recycled Market are Erica and Lester who have both travelled extensively, and have experienced first hand how developing countries and the environment are impacted by our fast-paced consumer driven society. Lester was raised in a developing country. As a child, he and his friends would entertain themselves through their own imagination and resourcefulness, rather than a constant supply of manufactured toys. Lester's family migrated to Australia just after his 10th birthday. After completing his Australian education, he worked in London, and travelled through Europe, Africa and Asia. He has worked in multi-national organisations, and most recently, a law firm. He has studied photography, and is currently completing a degree in Bachelor of Business Management. Erica�s working history with a renowned international volunteer organisation ignited her passion and understanding for the environment. In 2010, and 2011 Erica was nominated for an entry into Who�s Who of Australian Women. Who�s Who of Australian Women contains the biographical details and reflections of thousands of notable individuals. Erica has appeared live on the ABC radio station, discussing a sustainable approach to buying second hand and recycled gifts for Christmas, and appeared on Australian National Television, discussing second-hand fashion and sustainable shopping excursions. Erica has also featured in articles printed in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. Erica makes much of her own clothes and gifts from recycled and reclaimed material, and has tapped into an entire community of clever, talented people creating not only beautiful refashioned clothing pieces, but exquisite jewellery, art, homewares, gifts, accessories, and many other objects using materials that are reclaimed, recycled, leftover, discarded, or found. Erica and Lester could not find an online venue dedicated solely to selling products made from recycled materials, and thus the seed for their online venture was planted For further information, please contact us via email » original news

On The Road Again

jan — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:58:32 +0100

Otra (On The Road Again) was created in Montreal in February 2011 by Julie Ferrero and Guillaume Darnajou. After graduating from the Grande Tourrache design school in Toulon, France in 2007, they both decided to go overseas to pursue further studies. In 2010, they received degrees in industrial design from the Facult� of Am�nagement at the University of Montreal. The Otra workshop came to life through a common deep rooted passion to work towards sustainable development. In our over-consuming society, already struggling to solve the problems of tomorrow, design offers a new path towards more environmentally friendly products. Otra's products follow the "upcycling" movement which aims to re-evaluate the worth of waste by giving it second life. This production process maintains inherently close ties with the eco-friendly philosophy. All of our products are entirely hand-made using raw materials and never come into contact with any paint, solvents or glue. The reused materials used give our products a strong identity with unique characteristics effectively making each piece a distinct work of art. » original news

John Chamberlain dies at 84

john — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:35:43 +0100

John Chamberlain, who almost singlehandedly gave automotive metal a place in the history of sculpture. He smashed and twisted together a 'poetic fusion of Abstract Expressionism and Pop from fenders, fins, bumpers and hoods', died last wednesday, 21 december 2011, in Manhattan. He was 84. In a restless career of almost half a century, Mr. Chamberlain worked with a broad range of materials, some as pliant as foam rubber and as ephemeral as brown paper bags. But he returned again and again to the more substantial stuff of the scrap yard, explaining the attraction as one of practicality. "I saw all this material just lying around against buildings, and it was in color," he said, "so I felt I was ahead on two counts." But auto bodies also provided him with a material that could bear more than its weight in art-historical significance: as a chaotic riff on Duchamp�s readymades, as a renegade form of truth-in-materials Minimalism, as a bridge between the raw expressiveness of the New York School painters and the assembly-line deadpan of Warhol. Critics often saw his crumpled Cadillacs and Oldsmobiles as dark commentaries on the costs of American freedom, but Mr. Chamberlain rejected such metaphorical readings. He turned to making sculpture from other things partly because he grew so tired of the automotive associations. "It seems no one can get free of the car-crash syndrome," he told the curator Julie Sylvester in 1986. "For 25 years I�ve been using colored metal to make sculpture, and all they can think of is, `What the hell car did that come from?� " Years later, he said: "I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually; it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another." Mr. Chamberlain devoted his life to challenging traditional notions of sculpture and to eroding the boundaries between sculpture and painting. He was among a wave of late-modernist sculptors who put color on an almost equal footing with form, and he had an uncanny ability, as the curator Klaus Kertess wrote, "to make roundness into color and color into roundness." Donald Judd, who enshrined many of Mr. Chamberlain�s pieces at the art complex he built in Marfa, Tex., observed that Mr. Chamberlain�s colors in his early years were quintessentially American, "the hard, sweet, pastel enamels, frequently roses and ceruleans, of Detroit�s imitation elegance for the poor." Mr. Chamberlain felt that even the word "sculpture" was limiting in describing art that, while functioning in three dimensions, could be made from almost anything. "A sculpture is something that if it falls on your foot, it will break it," he said. (Well into his career, some people still had a tough time seeing his sculptures as works of art; in 1973, two 300-pound metal pieces were mistaken for junk and carted away as they sat outside a gallery warehouse in Chicago.) Mr. Chamberlain�s early influences included few sculptors. He gravitated to poets and to the Abstract Expressionist painters he met at the Cedar Tavern in Greenwich Village after moving to New York from Chicago in 1956, chiefly to Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning. "Kline gave me the structure," he once said. "De Kooning gave me the color." They also helped fuel a love of drink that contributed to his reputation as an art-world hellion, especially during the heyday of Max�s Kansas City, the Cedar�s successor as New York�s art-world clubhouse. At six-foot-four, with a broad, toothy smile full of mischief and menace, he looked, and sometimes acted, like a character from a Sam Peckinpah movie. In 1964, the year he represented the United States at the Venice Biennale, he was arrested in the Village after a drunken street fight with a police officer. Mr. Chamberlain�s lawyer defended his client by saying the fight was the fault of the officer, who had repeatedly and "needlessly struck Mr. Chamberlain on the head with a nightstick." John Angus Chamberlain was born on April 16, 1927, in Rochester, Ind., the son of a fifth-generation saloonkeeper. He was raised above a meat market until he was 4, when his parents divorced. His mother, a sometime waitress, took him to Chicago, where he was left in the care of his maternal grandmother, Edna Brown Waller, whom he described as a strong, voluble presence in his life. Mr. Chamberlain�s work is in the collections of dozens of museums, including the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art and Dia:Beacon in Beacon, N.Y.; this year an older piece sold at auction for $4.7 million, a record for his work. Mr. Chamberlain spoke of his work with reluctance and often humility, deriding the over-intellectualizing tendencies of his questioners. "Everyone always wanted to know what it meant, you know: `What does it mean, jellybean?� " he told Julie Sylvester, adding: "Even if I knew, I could only know what I thought it meant." But he trusted his instincts and seemed to follow them to please himself more than anyone else. "When a sculpture is nearly done, you can put things on and you take them off and it doesn�t make any difference," he said. "Stopping is the key; you have to know when to stop. If I feel so glad that a sculpture is here, and I don�t care who did it, then I figure it�s a good piece." Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/22/arts/design/john-chamberlain-artist-of-auto-metal-dies-at-84.html?hp @ » original news

Pet-bottle Xmas tree

jan — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:25:23 +0100

For the third consecutive year, the city of Kaunas in Lithuania approached artist Jolanta Smidtien? to assist with their annual holiday decorating. The author of idea, saying that she wanted to show how it is important to be different each year, show to everyone that each of us can make something beautiful from useless things. The result is an enormous 13-meter tall Christmas tree made from nearly 40,000 recycled green bottles and zip ties. At night the tree is lit from the inside resulting in a glowing, translucent, emerald green spruce that�s making headlines across the country. via » original news

qwerty-wall

jan — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:19:49 +0100

Artist Sarah Frost creates found object and found form sculpture. Her Qwerty Sculptures consist of thousands (and thousands...) of keys from old qwerty keyboards...It�s a multifaceted ScrapHack, filled with any kind of meaning you want it to be. Sarah�s Qwerty work travels the world, a permanent installation can be found @ The James hotel in NYC. via recyclart.org » original news

Occupy: Pedal for Power

john — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:22:03 +0100

Back in November New York�s fire brigade confiscated all of the gas (or bio-diesel) generators from Occupy Wall Street protesters in Zuccotti Park. Apparently the Fire Chief cites the generators as a fire hazard. Instead of going without, the movement received help from a neighboring protest group in Boston. Bicycle power replaces the missing generators as volunteers pedal to produce electricity. Students from MIT plied their technical skills to help design multiple charging stations that can be used by the community. It won�t be enough to provide heat for the ongoing occupiers, but it does let them charge their electronic devices which helps ensure that current information is still flowing out of this epicenter of activity. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5KFpwAgVJuk#! Project: Bike generators Superused: Bikes and a lot of other stuff Location: Boston and New York Text is copied and edited: http://hackaday.com/2011/11/02/occupy-rigs-up-human-power-after-generators-are-confiscated/ » original news