Art
Unconventional Recycling May 14th, 2008
How rad is this “walking bike”? Check it and six other amazing recycled things here at Environmental Grafitti. Who knew Stamford had a Children’s Garbage Museum??? Summer field trip here I come. ...more
Recycling The Looking Glass: When Garbage and Art Collide May 14th, 2008
Norwegian Exhibition Highlights the Beauty in Discarded Objects
“Recycling the Looking Glass” is a traveling art exhibition that opened last month in Norway, and will be showing at various locations throughout the country through December of 2009. The show’s concept uses trash art and...more
Garbage Art -- Or The Art of Garbage? May 14th, 2008
Trash is Taking the Art World by Storm
Garbage Art, or, the technique that incorporates trash, waste, or any type of discarded refuse into artistic compositions, is rapidly growing in popularity. This trend is a prime example of art imitating life—as the call...more
Global Warming Cartoons April 22nd, 2008
Cartoonists Take On Climate Change
Although global warming is no joke, it's sometimes nice to have some comic relief on the subject to put things in perspective. And with climate change getting so much attention in the media as of...more
The Gleaners April 3rd, 2008
At dinner the other night, someone suggested I look up a film called “The Gleaners and I” about some crazy French law that says after harvest farmers must let peasants onto their land to pick...more
Les Petits Hommes Verts de Douglas Brodoff April 2nd, 2008
One of my favorite things about keeping a trash blog, as I like to mention here, is that it not only allows me to find and report on things that interest me, but for people...more
Kew Gardens to Open Botanic Gallery April 1st, 2008
With the Spring bulbs beginning to bloom there's already plenty of reasons to visit Kew Gardens, one of the world's largest public botanical gardens, yet in April the gardens will add another colorful attraction with...more
Can You Make Overconsumption Look Good? March 24th, 2008
Artist Teaches Us How and Asks Us To Use Less
I got an email with the subject line: "What does a pile of 426,000 cell phones (the number retired in the US everyday) look like?" I clicked on the link and was mesmerized by artist...more
