plastic ocean

miwa koizumi wanted some pets. so she created PET project, a set photography and installation pieces. She created sea creatures out of plastic bottles
She said: "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"

These really resonated with me in relation to our discussion last week on the levels of plastic accumulating in the ocean.
Now let's enjoy her PETsCheck out more at http://miwa.metm.org/PET_project/

yum yum

In case anyone wanted more information on the Acorn Pig Cinema, Insa Winkler's official website is insawinkler.de. The Acorn Pig project is under the ArtEcology section.

She also has a lot of other cool projects that she's done, or that are in the works, so I recommend peeking around the site.

The F.R.U.I.T project's site is http://www.free-soil.org/fruit. 

Go grow a demonstrator! 

Sloooow

As in, I have been slow to post on our blog. Also, as in "slow prototyping." Tomas Gabzdil over at Studio Libertiny created a clever and beautiful counterpoint to the sudden profusion of rapid prototyping in the form of a simple vase. In order to make a vase, he enlisted the help of thousands...of bees. The results are quite haunting. I first saw a photograph of this work months ago, and I still can't get it out of my head.He created hives in the form of a vase, then let the bees do their work. In one week, he had a set of incredible, unique objects. It makes me think about other ways we might be able to work with animals and natural processes to create art.