I made this photomontage to accompany an article on economy and climate by Daniel Tanuro. Click on ze pic to see it bigger. The bird on top is a giant albatross.

Wow, here’s some fun news: Pam Longobardi was recently named a “coastal hero” by Coastal Living magazine – the previous recipient was the president of Ocean Conservancy. Read the full story in Coastal Living, and also check out a related story on Mom Culture. Pam has a new book out too, Drifters, published by Edizione Charta (Milan, NY). The book launch will be in conjunction with a show at Primo Piano gallery in Lecce, Italy. Pam is also one of the artists who’ll be participating in the Visible Trash – Art into Action traveling show, which is still in the works.

Let the sun shine in through the walls of your plastic bedroom – that’s what you could do in this cottage at Puerto Iguazu, near the frontier between Argentina and Brazil. A local family made it entirely with recycled materials; its walls have over 1200 PET bottles and its ceiling is made of more than 1300 Tetra Pack cartons. Click here for the full article on TreeHugger.

Don’t forget the Temple of Million Bottles . . .

via Carol Marley

Claudia Borgna is an installation and performance artist whose main medium is recycled plastic bags. Her work is a comment on the way we live and how it affects the environment, but she adds “… it’s a non-judgmental comment, since I haven’t really resolved for myself, and never will, its contradictory nature of beauty and danger.”

I discovered Claudia from a photo in the McColl Center artist’s section of Mitchell Kearney’s website.

Sangomas are African shamans. This photo of five sangomas was shot by Andy Rabagliati at a ceremony in Zululand. Click on ze pic and notice the crushed cans around their ankles . . .

I’ll be in Copenhagen Saturday December 12 to Wednesday the 16th… fun!

George Sabra is at it again. You may remember his piece matrix – this new one’s called fetus of the beast and is on display at Austin city hall. The piece is made from a chunk of tree roots he found in Austin lake and recycled computer parts.

I’ll be wearing my plastic polar bear mask in the streets of Copenhagen on December 12th. Check out Climate Justice Action for more on that subject.

Rolando Politi did it again…

In his own words:

Dearest Yanbukis from all over but especially the ones outside NYC and the nomads on the road who could not be present at the closing of this cycle of WASTE…..

It was a time to rejoice and celebrate the END OF THIS DECADE OF WASTE…..the “zeros”  as we look forward to a more exciting although faster paced and unpredictable decade, the “teens”.

ANUKI, master of prophecies was correct at the dawn of the 21st century predicting unprecedented destruction and waste thru the decade. Now he predicts the renaissance of the “teens” whereby we will witness not one not two but three suns (green) the “teen” dawns will sparkle over water at the rise of three green suns marking the beginning of each new day…

Possibly not a metaphor for a greener world but a real possibility as MOTHER NATURE has a way of inventing its own reality, a reality which humans have no way of logically getting to it…

HAPPY CONTINUING SUMMER

Recycle  and  Pray

See-through trash containers? Hell yeah! Here’s Danish artist Tue Greenfort showing off his stealth installation at Frieze 2008. Read all about it on RSA’s Arts and Ecology website – and while you’re there, check out Steinbrener/Dempf’s “Trouble in Paradise”, below. Now that’s some visible trash!