- A Life Study of Chernobyl Through Drawings.
After the reactor accident at Chernobyl in 1986, she found her true calling: since then, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger has been studying and drawing malformed insects, especially true bugs (Heteroptera), which she collects in fallout areas and in the periphery of nuclear facilities. Building on her 25 years of experience as a scientific illustrator at the Natural History Museum of the University of Zurich (Switzerland), she has created beautiful evidence of a threatened animal world, which has been displayed in international art galleries. Together with the former scientific editor Peter Wallimann, Hesse-Honegger has now summarized her comprehensive studies in the journal Chemistry & Biodiversity.
- Banksy on Pets and Meatssss.
Banksy, brings us his take on the future of meat from within the quiet setting of a Pet Store/ Grill.
- Limited edition Tiger. Only 399 Left.
Vladamir Putin turned 56!! What better gift then a limited edition siberian tiger. One of 400 signed editions available in the wild. “he has yet to decide between the names Mashenka and Milashka”.
- Bear Prefers Quizno’s to Subway
A bear walks into Subway and then decides there is nothing worth eating there. Then as is expected he’s hunted down and shot. I’ve walked out of Subway disappointed too, but i’ve never gotten shot.
Also, doesn’t it look the bear didn’t need the wheel chair access button? I think he used his hands.
- GMO Milk, the female edition.
Only available in small quantities, Dutch firm has created a new form of milk which includes
“the protein which is naturally present in human tears, lung secretions, milk and other bodily fluids—fights against the bacteria that causes eye and lung infections, plays a key role in the immune system of infants and adults and improves intestinal microbial balance, promoting the health of the gastro-intestinal tract.”
It’s better then taking bills everyday or eating cows, I think.
- 2k can buy a plane and a home
In Benoit, Mississipi when your home gets destroyed buy a plane! This 2k plane modified and turned into a home by Joanne Ussery is 12 year old news but still news when you’ve never seen it before. Apparently, others have begun to follow in her tracks on slightly larger budgets of $200,000. But thats if you want it with wheels too. No bad home either especially with the landing lights lighting up a half mile ahead of your yard.Apparently, it’s a viable growing population of plane inhabitants.
- Moss Graffiti invades Brooklyn
It’s about time more moss grows in brooklyn. Edina Tokodi has been creating moss figures on building sites, and other abondoned walls. I’m guessing it’s a mixture of found moss, some biodegrable glue. Hopefully they will stay, expand and grow beyond the boundaries of her figures.
- Fresh Salad available to billboard climbers
In attempt to promote it’s fresh salads, McDonalds has begun installing billboards showcasing it’s greenery. Instead of using plain bold text, it’s using plants to fill in the bold text. Very Green. I wonder what happens as the plants become part of a larger system, where the billboards become nests for birds, rodents, and insects. Could billboards be become part of an ecosystem? Probably not part of the grand plan, and besides who waters them??
- Wildlife adapts and creates new homes on the heals of morgage crisis.
It doesn’t take long for plants and small animals to move in once a bank forecloses on a home. In the time it take s the bank to find a buyer, other residents have moved in and taken advantage of the free space.source: Washington Post
- Carbon Offset? What about Everything Else????
What about all the local toxins in your house such as paints, adhesives, oils, household cleaners.Good Magazine put together a little article about which plants can be used to offset these local toxins.
- Green Porno
Using puppets, lots of felt, and a sexy voice, Isabella Rosselllini makes stunning little documentaries about insect love. Though just puppets, they procreate with astonishing detail.From the sundance channel
- Bird Song Radio! Better then Talk Radio
In the Uk, a talk radio station closed, and in its wake a new station was born that simply plays bird songs. It’s audience is tripled that of the talk radio station!
“At the time I thought it was just the sound of an ordinary garden on the edge of Salisbury Plain but now it has become famous and part of radio folklore,” he said.
“It has become the soundscape to people’s lives. I am very proud of that.” Birdsong was first heard as a filler on Classic FM’s frequency in the run-up to its launch 15 years ago and was a huge hit.”
from the telegraph:
- Free Food : Edible Urban Party Jungle Studio
Inky Muff Land III - edible urban party jungle studio (free food forest foundation)
Jogja National Museum, Indonesia. 2008 - forever.Artist Namaiki created an installation with over 200 species of local fruit trees and useful plants, sheep rabbits, over 10 tonnes of soil and compost, a pond, butterflies, lizards, chameleons, local black bamboo domes, furniture, clowns, gypsies, street kids, and “dancin’ fools”.
from vvork:
- Dam Removals and Collapses
With all the recent controversy surround dams, with the removal of the Milltown dam, and other damns in the west. Some using explosives, others by creating a bypass channel. Here’s some footage from dam explosion in china exposing the world largest dam on the Yangtze River.
- ISBN Graffiti, Suggestive of Walden Pond
” It seems that some Toronto taggers are no longer content to scrawl their own names on blank concrete canvases around the city and are trying instead to make more of a cultural statement. Last year, references to composer Gustav Mahler popped up in several places around town. This year, a more cryptic stencil has appeared on the Humber Bay Arch Bridge, boldly proclaiming “ISBN 486-28495-6″ for all to see and ponder. This International Standard Book Number turns out to be a paperback edition of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden; Or, Life in the Woods.”
-nice one!
