Category Archives: Art

Evil Mutant Recycled Tire Sculptures By Yong Ho Ji (Photos)

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Laura B.

Read the full post at Treehugger. Reincarnated into shoes, logs, mulch and laptop cases, recycled tires have been shaped into pretty much well everything, including the kitchen sink. All the better, since these non-biodegradable rubber donuts are piling up in … Continue reading →

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Sustainability Art Show Partners Creation with Science

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Laura B.

Fertilizer is rarely an inspiration for an art show, but on Feb. 5 at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Ariz., sustainability, fertilizer and phosphorus scarcity will provide fertile fuel for creative vision. The juried exhibition, with more than 20 … Continue reading →

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Here’s something I made earlier: Royal Engineer makes full-scale replica of a Harley Davidson entirely out of cardboard

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Laura B.

Read the full story in the Daily Mail. It’s from July 2010, so it’s not recent, but it’s new to me. When he saw mountains of cardboard going to waste, Kenny Scott’s creativity went into overdrive. So the art student … Continue reading →

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Broadway Green Alliance

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Laura B.

Although this effort has been around for a couple of years, just discovered it today. From the web site: The Broadway Green Alliance (BGA) is an industry-wide initiative that educates, motivates, and inspires the theater community and its patrons to … Continue reading →

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Unintelligent Design: A Bestiary

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Laura B.

Read the full post at Postcards. The assignment that Michael O’Malley gave his Sculpture 1 students was as devilish as it was direct: Take an animal and introduce an element of unintelligent design… Mr. O’Malley, an associate professor of art … Continue reading →

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From ordinary to extraordinary: Hubcaps recycled into giant creatures

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Laura B.

Read the full post and see pictures on The Design Blog. They’re amazing. Transforming the electronic waste found on the roadside into creative art, and that too without altering their scratched or scuffed state, UK-based artist and designer Ptolemy Elrington … Continue reading →

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Posters about Ecology and the Environment Before and During the 1970s

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Laura B.

Cushing, Lincoln. (2010). Posters about Ecology and the Environment Before and During the 1970s. Electronic Green Journal, 1(30). Read the full article online at http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8xc252jv. Click on the Supporting Materials link on the left menu bar to see larger scans … Continue reading →

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Extinct modern technology presented like fossils

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Laura B.

See the pictures at This Blog Rules. Artist Christopher Locke has made these modern fossils by hand, everything from cassettes and floppy disks to Nintendo and joysticks. They represent pieces of modern technology that almost has become “extinct” in these … Continue reading →

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Teen Band One Eyed Rhyno Rocks to Make a Difference

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Laura B.

Received this press release via e-mail. I don’t always plug commercial ventures, but this is a notable project because it involves teens doing something they love to raise money for a cause they believe in. Pretty cool stuff. In the … Continue reading →

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Believe It or Not! Ripley's Craziest Recycled Art

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Laura B.

Read the full story at Earth911. The next time you’re browsing your local bookstore, pick up a copy of the new book from Ripley’s Believe it or Not!, called Enter If You Dare!. While you’re flipping through the pages of … Continue reading →

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