Sometimes the best designs come from the simplest ideas. Take 1,500 used soda bottles, fill with different hues of colored water, and hang each from a parking canopy. Magic happens! Created by Lincoln, Nebraska based designer Garth Britzman, “(POP)culture” is a stunning installation which uses the effect of the water pooling at the bottom of the bottles . . . → Read More: “(POP) culture” takes 1500 used soda bottles filled with colored water to create a parking canopy  
The image of a large sea creature stranded inland, far from the comforts of its native habitat, the ocean, has got to be one of the most heart-wrenching sights imaginable. Created by Argentinean sculptor Adrián Villar Rojas for the 2009 Biennial of the End of the World, the life-size blue whale lies stretched in the woods . . . → Read More: A dead whale in the forests of Argentina by Adrián Villar Rojas 
Check out this enormous snow drawing created by landscape artist Sonja Hinrichsen. Hinrichsen and a team of 5 volunteers tracked a series of circles into the snow at Rabbit Ears pass in Steamboat, Colorado. What happens when the temperature rises? The San Francisco based artist said, “I’m not so into making art that lasts… The world is . . . → Read More: Snow drawing by Sonja Hinrichsen  This summer, artists Joakim Kaminsky and Maria Poll traveled deep into the Medelpad forest of northern Sweden to undertake their land art installation. Based upon observations about how the sun set and rose, how the mist came in, the intensity of the dark night, Kaminsky and Poll tied mirror-coated fabric around the trunks of a series of . . . → Read More: “Clear Cut” mirrors the forests deep inside of Sweden 
I’d love to go rafting down a river and pass by one of these installations! They are part of the ongoing Gravity Glue series created by Colorado artist Michael Grab. All the rock sculptures in Grab’s work are created without glue or any other mechanism to hold them upright, ergo the name Gravity Glue. Michael Grab sees . . . → Read More: “Gravity Glue” rock sculptures by Michael Grab  (Full view) 'San Francisco Street Shadow' in Alicante, Spain (View from below) 'San Francisco Street Shadow' in Alicante, Spain Ever wonder how much wasted paper a newspaper generates? Running down the rabbit hole of the Internet, I found that the average New York Times Sunday edition produces 8 million pounds (3.6 million kilograms) of waste paper. On . . . → Read More: Meva uses recycled newspapers to create windmills in the air 
Sometimes the best way to depict the magnitude of our waste is to lay it all out on the ground. French artist Elise Morin and architect Clémence Eliard did just that and more by sorting and hand-sewing together 65,000 discarded CD’s to create a 500-square meter (1640 square feet) undulating landscape. Eerie but splendidly conceived, the CDs . . . → Read More: ‘Waste Landscape’ an installation of 65,000 discarded CDs in Paris 
One Day on Earth – Motion Picture Trailer from One Day On Earth on Vimeo. One Day on Earth is a collection of video clips from every country around the world filmed on a single day: October 10, 2010. This trailer provides a glimpse into the diversity of our lives on the planet Earth as well as . . . → Read More: “One Day on Earth”: a movie shot in every country around the world on a single day  (detail) "Spin Cycle" see full image below The lively colors from the work of Virginia Fleck caught my eye today. The Texas-based artist collages together recycled plastic bags to create large brightly colored mandalas. I especially love how the layering of the plastic gives the work an almost painterly quality. Flecks’s mandalas have appeared in many site-specific . . . → Read More: Mandalas from recycled plastic bags by Virginia Fleck 
Oscar-nominated documentary WASTE LAND, follows Brooklyn-artist and Brazilian native Vik Muniz to the world’s largest landfill, Jardim Gramacho, located on the edge of Rio de Janeiro. There he unravels the fascinating world of the “catadores” trash pickers who sleep, live and eat in the landfill, as well as scraping out livelihoods rummaging through the refuse to . . . → Read More: ‘Waste Land’ – documentary about life in the world’s largest garbage dump in Brazil |
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