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www.recyclart.org/2014/07/recycled-butterflies/
Has taken a few months but finally finished the 11 large canvasses that will be taking up residence in various places around the UK. The idea with a touring gallery is that it brings art to people in the workplace who may not ordinarily have a chance to visit galleries, providing an alternative to corporate 'art'.
Apart from the paint, the materials used for this project are made from recyclables, plastic and paper, that have been upcycled into works of art.
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Website: www.whitesnapper.com !
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Super rare white Cascade Cart at the Waste Management yard in Kennewick! They actually had quite a few back in this little hidden corner of the yard! They used these for paper recycling at schools back in the 90's!
www.recyclart.org/2012/10/recycled-magazine-art/
For a few years now I have been experimenting with up-cycling: making new creations made from old things. Just recently, I was inspired by a frame made of magazine rolls that wrapped around a mirror. I thought it was a fantastic idea with great texture, but the application could be taken further. So I began to roll magazines. I was amazed by the spectrum of color and design possibilities. I began with abstract shapes and colors, then moved on to black and white. I used eyes as my new inspiration. I love leaving peek-a-boo images and glimpses of ads in my work. A flash of a shoe or kangaroo from a magazine page allows me to create an image inside an image. From there on, ideas of structure and content flood my thoughts. I just keep making more pieces! As I continue to explore this new medium, I am not only saving waste from the dump but giving a slice of our modern culture a new purpose.
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Idea sent by Kathy Carney !
There's only one place in north-(ish) Cumbria where you can take plastic for recycling - Eden Community Recycling at Penrith. Penrith also hosts a jolly good car boot sale/market, so once we've filled the space under the back stair with plastic bottles we take a trip to Penrith, unload the plastics, and go searching for bargains at the car boot sale. A pleasant way to spend a Saturday, even if it rains.
Tenuous link: don't throw it away - recycle it!
For some reason, this did the opposite side of the road, but 4002 did the north side.
Owned by; Allied Waste
Chassis: Mack LE
Body: Labrie
Truck number: 4025
Type of truck: Recycler
Notes: There's a '"Frederick Co. Recycles" sticker on the side, so I guess this came from MD.
A nicely decorated recycle bin at Garry Point Park, Richmond, B.C. Always remember the 3 R's, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
Cazenovia, NY. September 2017.
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6-yard Recycle America cardboard recycling dumpster. One of the few remaining dumpsters with the old burgundy Waste Management/Recycle America logo.
Just started this floor mat of recycled bags. Right now I'm just playing around, trying to get comfortable with crochet again (it has been decades since I did this). I've learned that bulges from too heavy weight bags just adds a "folk art" touch (or so I'm telling myself). I went ahead and broke the "rules" and am combining different bag weights. My favorite, surprisingly enough, are the little bags the newspapers come in. After this, I'm going to try a tote using only khaki-colored bags (Cost Plus bags are my favorite ones).
Part of an art installation at Reiman Gardens at Ames Iowa. Large sculptures of sea creatures were made from ocean trash.
This sequined microskirt and top are among the oldest garments I own. I was thinking of throwing them out, but I changed my mind and recycled them. In any case, they still make me feel sexy, even after all this time!
www.recyclart.org/2016/01/recycled-art-interview-8-jennie...
We continue our series of posts interviewing "recycled art" crafters & artists. This week, we interviewed Jennie Burke from the brand FANTOME as she make beautiful accessories from recycled bike inner tubes. If you think you deserve to be featured in the next interview, please, drop us an email.
Tell us a little more about you? Who you are? Where are you from?
My name is Jennie Burke. I’m a quarter of the brand FANTOME (the little daughter of this family affair :)) and a half of the band KLINK CLOCK (rock duet). I’m from France. I spend my time between Paris’ suburbs where I live and produce my music, and Bordeaux where our FANTOME’s workshop is.
Why do you craft?
Why shouldn’t I? :D I love creating things, can’t do anything against it.
How did you learn?
I always needed to occupy my hands and my mind. Craft is doing both, hurray! My parents are always crafting, they give me the pleasure of it since I’m young! I also attended for some time a French fashion university, but couldn’t stay, didn’t move enough. Sometimes I really want to create, sometimes I’m just curious to know how to do something and somedays i have to fix or do stuff… DIY!
Since when are you working with recycled & upcycled materials?
Teenager, I started to collect everything. Every small piece of paper, every piece of fabrics, every little jar, every little nice piece of wood… and started to make fluffy dolls, animals and guitars: The FluffyJack Dolls.
You are working for the brand FANTOME that make accessories from recycled inner-tube. From where come this choice of working with recycled inner tubes?
I stopped wearing leather since 5 years, due to the animal treatment I don’t agree with. It’s not an easy thing. Finding shoes and bags can be a real treasure hunt… You always begin to buy less things because you don’t find what you’re looking for, because of the material, or because of the style.
The inner tube is a very good alternative for bags and accessories, it’s elegant, easy to wash, and for the « re-use » part, it was completely out of mind to use new inner tubes. Our planet is covered with trash… we definitely wanted to do things the best way we could. So we collect the inner tubes near our Bordeaux’s workshop, where everything else is done : washing, sorting, storage and sewing!
What are the specify of working with inner-tubes? Any advice to our reader who would like to work also with inner-tubes?
All our products are made with bicycle inner tubes, which is very different from trucks inner tubes (cars and motorcycles in France don’t use it anymore): it’s thiner and lighter, but difficult to sew ! It took us a while to tame it :) But you can also use it to fix parts together, more like a rope.
Where did you find used inner-tubes for your creations, are they free or did you buy them?
We collect it directly at the repair shops for free. If it wasn’t, FANTOME would not exist. It needs too much preparing time before starting to cut and sew. We can not afford to pay the material, our bags and accessories would be too expensive !
Why the name « FANTOME » which in English means « Ghost »?
We are a french brand and every FANTOME is 100% made in France so we wanted to choose a french word with the spirit of « second life » and which sticks with the dark color of the material.
Have you ever thought to make accessories with other recycled bike parts?
Of course! Giant wheel-dream-catchers! But we have already so much things to work on with FANTOME, we will see this later! We use it in two different ways: the first one is the « sewing » one and we use it for all our bags, cases and purses etc... The second one is the « wickerwork » and we use it for all our baskets.
How would you describe your style? Are there any crafters/artists/designers that you particularly look up to?
I like our articles to be functional, simple, completely urban, a bit unisex and a little punk by nature.
Vivienne Westwood: never too late!
Amanda palmer: never too creative ;)
Jon Almeda: never too little ;)
What are your can’t-live-without essentials?
A train (or whatever) station and a water stream nearby, cats, good music, the sun and avocados.
What sorts of things are inspiring you right now? Where do you look for inspiration?
People and all what they do are inspiring me just about every day.
We live in such a mass-produced, buy-it-now society. Why should people continue to make things by hand?
To learn, create and teach. It’s a simple way for our society to improve. It forgot that it needs both « knowledge » and « know how ». We should try to live slower and better.
What are your tips for people who'd like to start crafting?
Start! Whatever you do, it’s going to be unique, fun and rewarding :) and if it’s not, try it again!
What is your guilty pleasure?
Cheese and beer!
What is your favorite thing to do (other than crafting)?
It depends on the mood … playing music, go for a bicycle ride, go to concerts, read comics, cooking, cat cuddling, hiking, and doing nothing :)
Anything else you would like to tell to the « recycling community »?
Everything is possible thanks to you, curious and conscious crafters! Feel free to share your project with me on facebook, instagram and twitter, it would be a pleasure to discuss about it :)
Have a nice crafting time!
Thanks a lot Jennie for this interview! :)
To find more on the brand FANTOME:
Klink Clock: www.facebook.com/klinkclock
fluffyjack dolls: fluffyjack.blogspot.fr/
Sneak preview of the commissioned 1.5-metre diameter sphere sculpture I've made by bolting together 120 machine-cut silhouettes of final-year pupils from Stourfield Junior School in Bournemouth.
The silhouette components are cut from 100% recycled agricultural plastic (silage bags etc). The sheet material is usually used to line horse boxes and livestock sheds.
The masking tape name tags will be removed in the final piece.
Unveiling of the final artwork will take place on 13 July...
I have never seen "shower hats" for recycling boxes before - good idea! I'm guessing that the occupant of this house has only recently moved in, as the bags look so clean.
I liked the coloured light reflecting of these bins. I decided to try a shallow depth of field shot and I'm quite happy how it turned out. I only just downloaded this off the camera last night. pretty much 1 month after taking it! I was so disapointed with Vivid this year that I hadn't even bothered to download the photos from the second session I went out on!
One of my all time greatest hits. Currently at over 19000 views. Here's the original caption from when I posted it, almost 10 years ago:
A bale of mashed beverage cans that have been collected and sold to an aluminum recycling company. In this view we're seeing most of one side of a single bale. The bales -- each weighing about 700 pounds -- are stacked up in preparation for being sent to a smelting plant, where they'll be converted back to pure aluminum ingots. It -- the recycling, that is -- is a long and winding road. Mundane a business as it is, though, it provides opportunities for money to be made at various stages along the way. And eventually results in a cleaner environment, thank goodness.
Incidentally, based on a really rough estimate, one such bale may contain as many as 20,000 cans.
In Cassel, CA is Packway Materials which has landscape materials, rock, equipment rentals and more. We enjoyed looking at the creations made from old materials. Right now the Hat Fire is burning near there, although 85% contained as of yesterday, it has burnekd 1900 acres. This is about 10 miles from where our oldest daughter lives. When she moved in Jan, fires were my main concern about CA mountain living.
28-30/03/2017, Royal Radisson hotel, 825 delegates, annual forum&expo since 2004 (photos by Anvar Galeev), mir-expo.com , lom.rusmet.ru