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WASTE LAND Official Trailer from Almega Projects on Vimeo. Jardim Gramacho, outside of Rio, is the world’s largest landfill. In a new documentary called Waste Land, Vik Muniz, a Brazilian-born, Brooklyn-based artist, returns to create portraits, made from the trash itself, of the so-called “catadores” who work there. It looks like THE BIRDS by: Aristophanes Directed by: Aaron Gonzalez Composed by: James Stewart Preview: August 8th Runs: August 10th-15th & 17th- 21st Showtimes: @ 8PM | Sat. matinees @ 3PM | Sundays @ 7PM Admission: $15 (advance) $18 (general), $12 (students and seniors with valid ID) Thank you to the 40 theatres that participated in Childsplay’s sustainable materials survey. Here are the results: The majority of respondents (20 theatres) purchase 100-500 sheets of luan plywood per year…that’s roughly 75,000 linear feet of wood that is sourced primarily from tropical rain forests. If only 20 theatres are using 75,000 linear feet, imagine 1. Rock Stackers. Your skills are amazing. You can stack rocks higher and prettier than I ever could. You’re even kinda like Andy Goldsworthy, yes, of course. And I’m sure the process is amazing for you, and that the stones talk to you, and you get that beautiful in-tune-with-nature hum. But I’ve see Remember the good ole days — back when we only had one bin for trash? In retrospect, those days were actually more wasteful that good. We sent things to the landfill that might have nourished our yards, and buried them side-by-side with materials which should have been reclaimed and put back in In the eco-art world there are few folks as significant as the collaborative duo of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison (known generally as The Harrisons). Originators of a whole systems perspective in the eco-art movement, they have worked for the past four decades with biologists, ecologists, architects, urban planners and other artists http://vimeo.com/moogaloo
ECO ART: Plastic Bottle Installation in NYC by Olivia Chen Sometimes it is hard to truly grasp how much waste we create as a society. That’s why NYC-based graphic design agency, MSLK is creating an installation that is an in-your-face visual of the amount of water bottles consumed in the United States. The This via Pruned, (which possibly does itself a disservice by calling itself merely a landscape architecture blog): Picture caption: (According to the Brookings Institution, “beneath this concrete dome on Runit Island, part of Enewetak Atoll, built between 1977 and 1980 at a cost of about $239 million, lie 111,000 cubic yards |
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