30.12.12
I'm so impressed .... GRECA
Greca is one of the "Sistema B" companies from Argentina. They recycle buttons. They are super amazing.
Greca's Website
8.11.12
7.11.12
Great Depression Cooking - Dandelion Salad
CAUTION: When picking dandelions, make absolutely certain you are getting them from an area which has not been treated with pesticides or herbicides!
94 year old cook and great grandmother, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Great Depression as she prepares meals from the era. Learn how to make simple yet delicious dishes while listening to stories from the Great Depression.
Clara's blog
13.8.12
24.6.12
Garbage Warrior - Michael Reynolds
What do beer cans, car tires and water bottles have in common? Not much unless you're renegade architect Michael Reynolds, in which case they are tools of choice for producing thermal mass and energy-independent housing. For 30 years New Mexico-based Reynolds and his green disciples have devoted their time to advancing the art of "Earthship Biotecture" by building self-sufficient, off-the-grid communities where design and function converge in eco-harmony. However, these experimental structures that defy state standards create conflict between Reynolds and the authorities, who are backed by big business. Frustrated by antiquated legislation, Reynolds lobbies for the right to create a sustainable living test site. While politicians hum and ha, Mother Nature strikes, leaving communities devastated by tsunamis and hurricanes. Reynolds and his crew seize the opportunity to lend their pioneering skills to those who need it most. Shot over three years and in four countries, Garbage Warrior is a timely portrait of a determined visionary, a hero of the 21st century.
4.6.12
Kerry Howley and human hair necklaces - recycling itself
Kerry Howley is 23 years old contemporary jeweller and jewellery artist recently graduated with a First Class BA Hons Jewellery and Accessories degree from Middlesex University. She is fascinated by the power materials have to influence our emotional response to jewellery, with a particular interest in how these emotions can be conflicting.
More about Kerry
16.2.12
31.12.11
I boycott everything that is not made by my hand!
...And if I want to I‘ll put paper trees in that street
and cardboard birds that go tweet, tweet, tweet.
And if I want to I‘ll pencil in a piece of land,
a whole farm and cardboard cows on demand....
and cardboard birds that go tweet, tweet, tweet.
And if I want to I‘ll pencil in a piece of land,
a whole farm and cardboard cows on demand....
18.12.11
Why actually handmade is the best thing in the world ?
Spisek żarówkowy - nieznana historia zaplanowanej nieprzydatności
Pupazzetti by Irene Pattarelli
Irene is good architect, great illustrator of books for children and awesome cakes seller. She lives and works in Barcelona. Ones upon a time she was making pupazzetti. Here you have some examples. Enjoy:)
15.12.11
Inge Jacobsen, Vogue and handmade photography
From the artist statement: I have created a series consisting of covers of Vogue magazines that I have cross-stitched into. The process involves making holes with a needle to prevent the paper from getting damaged when I start sewing into it. This is all done by eye. Then it’s a case of very carefully cross-stitching the whole thing. It takes roughly 50 hours to create one piece, but this does depend on the image. This process makes the covers very tactile and it creates something that is impossible to reproduce on a large scale. Each piece is unique and handmade and I feel I have taken it out of circulation and made it something of my own. (...)
Although images of these covers have ended up on many different websites around the world and have subsequently become part of the mass produced world, the originals cannot be reproduced. Experiencing this work in the flesh is quite different from looking at a scanned image. Its glossiness is gone in the flesh and is replaced with a soft cloth surface. On a conceptual level I also feel it removes the gloss and glamour from the world of high fashion and replaces it with an old fashioned homely feel.
Although images of these covers have ended up on many different websites around the world and have subsequently become part of the mass produced world, the originals cannot be reproduced. Experiencing this work in the flesh is quite different from looking at a scanned image. Its glossiness is gone in the flesh and is replaced with a soft cloth surface. On a conceptual level I also feel it removes the gloss and glamour from the world of high fashion and replaces it with an old fashioned homely feel.
21.11.11
20.11.11
Recycled toy car made in Cameroon
Afrigadget is an icredible blog written by Eric Hersman, dedicated to creativity and new inventions made in Africa. This is one of my favourite blogs and if I could I would just copy and paste some of his posts - it is sooo interesting and impressing.
In Africangadget I've found this movie about super fun car made with "discarded flip-flops (slippers), sardine tins, bamboo or raffia palm, electrical conduit (pipe), rubber and bits of string". Enjoy.
In Africangadget I've found this movie about super fun car made with "discarded flip-flops (slippers), sardine tins, bamboo or raffia palm, electrical conduit (pipe), rubber and bits of string". Enjoy.
19.11.11
Handmade Corc Castellers
Everyone should have Cork Castellers at home. Fortunately they are easy to make.
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Louise Bourgeois "Fabrics" by Germano Celant
Louise Bourgeois "Fabrics" is a new book by italian art critic Germano Celant (Arte Povera, Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona:)
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18.11.11
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