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How to handle storm-damaged trees? This unique solution was spotted by Field Staffer Jim: Several years ago, I gave a presentation on recycling to the Burnt Mills Civic Association. The neighborhood had recently been hit by a large storm that had knocked down a number of large old trees. After the meeting, we walked around to look at the damage. One resident stopped and commented that the tree at this house looked like a dinosaur, very large, old and majestic. When I drove by a few weeks ago, it had been transformed into this beautiful wooden totem display – a sight to behold! Reusing something from nature for art’s sake is a win!
Reuse is fun! An old sweater with worn out cuffs, a t-shirt with a nice motif, but now too small, and a trouser with holes and no elastic anymore - turned into a new sweater!
Cast off lamp rewired, repurposed some worn out cameras as accents, and created a shade from old slides.
My lint art.
Yes, lint (not the bellybutton kind) the stuff you clean out of your dryer when doing the laundry.
Sold at the Near Southside Arts Goggle September 2008. Proceeds went to benefit The Women's Center of Tarrant County.
Gymnomerus laevipes female reusing old nest of Ceratina chalybea inside Sambucus stem.
First time I see this species in the garden :-).
They could quite possibly be the best grocery bag ever!
They are identical to the typical plastic grocery bag that you find in every store...but these are not plastic. They are made from reclaimed vintage fabric making them light weight, but still super sturdy. They are cut on the fold...eliminating any seam on the bottom of the bag. All edges are serged, no raw edges. I now make them with a simple strap/snap closure. This makes them nice and tidy...easy to stuff several in your purse, car, or diaper bag. There handles easily loop over the metal holders at the grocery stores. The vintage prints are snazzy and might even make grocery shopping a little more fun.
Reduce, reuse, and recycle--i thought this was a cool way to resuse old water bottles. filled with colored water, people can just make different patterns.
Iron Man Records Reusable Bamboo Coffee Cup.
Ecoffee Cup Kerr & Napier 12oz / 350ml Black.
It's time to stop the 100 billion single use coffee cups that end up as landfill. Choose to Re-use.
ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY BAMBOO COFFEE CUPS - Travel mugs made with bamboo fibre. Our travel cup will keep your drinks tasty & warm. Your reusable cup is lovingly made with natural bamboo fibre.
SILICONE COFFEE CUP HOLDER FOR PERFECT GRIP - Your new leak proof travel mug features a non-drip lid with a resealable lip, helping to stop any shirt disasters. Our Ecoffee Cup will keep your drink hotter for longer than a single use cup so you can enjoy your coffee even longer.
LIGHTWEIGHT TRAVEL CUPS THAT CAN GO IN THE DISHWASHER - Our lightweight coffee cups only weigh 135g so you won't even know it's on your bag. All elements of the coffee cup are fully dishwasher safe too.
BEST TRAVEL MUGS SET - Our travel cup is ideal for your morning commute & filling with your favourite coffee from your favourite coffee shop. Available as 12oz coffee cups with secure lid and stopper.
Brand: Iron Man Records / Ecoffee Cup
Colour: Kerr & Napier
Item Weight: 159 g
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 9 cm
Capacity: 350 ml
Material: Bamboo
Special Features: dishwasher-safe
Notes:
Made with bamboo fibre, cornstarch and resin
Naturally sterile, no plastic after-taste
BPA, BPS and phthalate-free
High grade, latex-free silicone lid and sleeve
Re-sealable ‘no-drip’ lid
Independently tested in EU
Fully dishwasher-safe
Suitable for daily usage to +100°C
Free from animal or animal-derived products
Since the arrival of the modern single-use “paper” cup.... In three short decades, we estimate that over 3 trillion of them have ended up in landfill.
The average lifespan of a single-use cup is less than 10 minutes – and due to their plastic content less than 1% will be recycled.
Made with natural fibre, corn starch and resin, it’s BPA, BPS and phthalate-free. The lid and sleeve are made with matte, food-grade silicone which is latex-free and designed especially for hot liquids. It has a re-sealable ‘no-drip’ lid, making it perfect to take with you everywhere you go. The whole product (cup, lid and sleeve) is dishwasher safe and should last for years if treated nicely.
Available in a classic Crusty Black, Iron Man Records Ecoffee Cup is light, bright and beautiful to drink from, with no plastic after-taste.
In this enlightened era, it’s never been easier to Choose to Re-use.
The Maison Blanche Building was constructed in 1908 to house the department store on the lower levels and offices above. The Maison Blanche Department Store was founded in 1897. The Canal Street flagship was open until 1979 when the company went through bankruptcy. It was eventually reopened in 1984. Mercantile Stores purchased the chain in 1992 and then Mercantile was acquired by Dillards in 1998. Dillards promptly closed the downtown store (as they did with most chains they acquired). The building was adaptively reused as a Ritz-Carlton Hotel and reopened in 2000.
Technically found in the French Quarter (Vieux Carre Historic District ) which is on the National Register #66000377 and a National Historic Landmark.
I like the large one by the stove, the small goes in a caddy on the table. The smaller was an ice wine bottle - they are great bottles! I want some more ice wine bottles, preferrably clear, for salad dressing/vinegar mixtures. The spouts are cheap at a local kitchen supply shop.
Mada's Place reusable snack bags are an eco-friendly alternative to plastic bags. They're water resistant and easy to clean. With more than 50 fabric choices to choose from, kids and adults of all ages will be sure to find one that suits their style.
Concept drawing for the Ford Auditorium in Hart Plaza, Detroit. Some of these are from the J. Warren Perry Collection of Photographs, ca. 1910-1971, at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
ubdigit.buffalo.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/LIB-MU...
This set is a composite of documents I'm tracking down with respect to the Ford Auditorium in Hart Plaza, Detroit. None of these are my photos.
Hart Plaza on Detroit’s waterfront is comprised of a cluster of remarkable modernist elements, defined at its west end by the Ford Auditorium. The City has announced that it would like to demolish this ca 1955 gem with its smoothly curving blue-black granite screen in May 2011, but I would suggest that it might be useful to consider options for adaptive reuse of the building before finalizing that decision.
The building looks battered, but the meat of its shell represents terrific mid century design. C. Howard Crane produced some of Detroit’s greatest buildings and theatres, including Orchestra Hall, what is now the Detroit Opera House, portions of the DIA, the State Theatre (now the Filmore), the beautiful but battered United Artists Theatre, and perhaps best of all, the Fox Theatre. His architecture firm continued as Crane, Kiehler and Kellogg who were involved in shaping this project with O’Dell, Hewlett and Luckenbach.
And typical of Detroit, the architecture was innovative, experimental and lushly crafted. The Ford incorporates fine expensive materials that would be financially impossible to duplicate today. The severely simple modernist form was softened with a curve that predicts the Danish modernist interest that would sweep America. Its smooth surfaces are ornamented by a blue-black granite screen imported from Sweden – the basket-woven stonework is a unique and subtly beautiful form. Interiors were ornamented with sculpture of nickel, aluminum, stainless steel and gilded brass by one of Detroit’s great artists, Marshall Fredericks, whose “Spirit of Detroit” sculpture is one of the city’s landmarks. And the cost of the building, roughly $4,500,000 incorporated a gift of $1,500,000 to the city by the Ford Family Fund, $1,000,000 from the National Association of Ford, Lincoln and Mercury Dealers and $2,400,000 financed by the City of Detroit – this total was an enormous amount of money in 1955.
The Ford was the embodiment of Eliel and Eero Saarinen's plan for the eastern end of Hart Plaza, mapped out in the late 1940's. This building in tandem with the Noguchi fountain and sculpture in that area of Hart Plaza anchors the plaza with an almost Danish modernist form. Brazilia is recognized for its cultural landscape of this type and Toronto's City Hall is similarly beloved for its strange fluidity.
Arguments for its demolition include references to the poor acoustics, the lack of a use, it being an eyesore within the context of the City's most vibrant square, Hart Plaza, the cost to maintain the unused structure, and the desire for an amphitheatre in that location. All of these arguments are valid, particularly within a city that has few extra resources to throw at yet another abandoned building.
But in considering a building of this caliber, it would be useful to think through other options for the site. The quality of built acoustics doesn’t really matter in auditoriums anymore. In Toronto, one of the spaces most renowned as being acoustically perfect is the Eaton Auditorium at the Carlu. Even this space was acoustically deadened with soft sound absorbent materials in the last renovation in order to accommodate current standards of digitally controlled sound. All buildings can now be made into well functioning acoustical instruments through buffering materials and sound systems that control the delivery, and the Ford Auditorium is no exception.
And a building is a flexible tool that could be altered to be repurposed - the alteration and reuse of this building would mean that whatever architectural value exists would still be part of the resources that Detroit has in its favour. The building does not have a use, but perhaps the building needs to radically change to accommodate a new use. As a large marble and granite box, it could be altered to repurpose the building, incorporating some or many of the character defining features into a new use. This could be as radical a change as demolishing a portion of the existing structure and incorporating the screen into a new structure, opening the roof and perhaps one side to the sky and plaza while weatherproofing the interior surfaces, or carving up the interior and opening the sides to allow for a completely different programme to occur. Completely demolishing the Ford would erase any potential it might have to add its finely crafted elements to the beauty of the city.
Culturally the building has great value to the people of Detroit. Malcolm X gave his last speech outside of New York here on the day his home in Queens had been firebombed, only a week before he was gunned down at the Audubon Ballroom in New York. This building was a gift from the family that became so wealthy because of the people of Detroit, in recognition of their hard labour in building this great city. This was the platform for a number of Martin Luther King Jr speeches, who first delivered his "I have a dream" speech next door – the later one that everyone remembers was just a repackaged version of the passionate delivery in Detroit. And however flawed the acoustics, the site hosted great concerts attended by everyone, even we your Canadian cousins across the way.
Detroit is at a tipping point right now. Despite the economic turmoil that the city has suffered through over the last few years, and the vast scale of demolitions that occurred in the past the city still retains enough of what made it architecturally great, an architectural powerhouse that led the nation in innovation and design. There are enough of these great but abandoned elements remaining in the city that could form the starting points in laying out schemes like improvements to the waterfront that would take Detroit to the next level, to show America how to rebuild from ashes incorporating the best of what already exists into a new better city.
But these architecturally great elements, with their fine materials, their exquisite craftsmanship and their histories, are a finite resource. With every Cooley High, every University Club, every Ford Auditorium that is scheduled to be demolished and replaced by a value engineered lower budget landscape, this potential is eroded. The city is moving in the right direction in trying to make its citizens safer and able to feel proud of their space. But in a time of fiscal constraint, perhaps some further consideration could be given to how to retain and incorporate the great elements that already exist, since there will be little money available to achieve those refined results in the present economic climate. This and the other great buildings of Detroit are a large part of what makes the city unique and memorable, and should be viewed as tools to assist in the reinvention process as part of what could make the place truly exceptional.
These matching red wood boxes can easily be identified by the customer. They are upgraded and can be reused many times because of the protective hardware. Boxes like these can house and protect products such as parts for Pressure Impact Testing Equipment like Plastic Pipe Hydrostatics.
Another area of my craft corner. I had the idea a couple of days ago to re-use a mug tree (that I didn't use anymore because I have faaaaar too many mugs now !!! LOL) to hang my scissors, and other things like the thank you gifts I send with orders, or my shop tags, etc ... I though the idea was neat & wished the mug tree was twice the size !! ahah ! (August 18th 2008)
(see notes on the photo itself for details)
This is one of my favorite wine glasses. I'm sure it's not a perfect design to appreciate the qualities of finer wine, but it's still wonderful to me.
It's made from a Rose's Lime Juice Bottle. That's the top of the bottle turned over onto the former bottom.
I purchased it years ago from the now-defunct garden.com. They gave out gift certificates for $15 of free merchandise to attract buyers. I used mine to get this and some seeds or something else I don't recall. I should have immediately bought a few more, but I didn't. And now after searching, I cannot find anymore. I did find someone with an etsy shop who might be able to replicate this glass. Let's all hope!
Came upon these amazing houseboats whilst walking in Shoreham today. This one has a bus attached to the boat.
The reformed HDPE bags were weak from overheating, and did not have much elasticity left. Too bad... maybe if I'd been more careful making them they would have fit over the shoe-shaped template.
Are you ready to flip the switch? I am newly branded for Voltra 53/54 and looking smart in this livery also advertising this all Electric vehicle coming soon for Voltra 53/54 calling at Newcastle - Gateshead and its surrounding areas - Saltwell Park and back one does the route clockwise and the other anti clockwise seen here in Riverside depot undergoing final preparations for service
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Read all about the 2010 Chicago Renegade Craft Fair + check out the vendor list: www.renegadecraft.com/chicago
June 2021
Memories from the 2019 House Party!
After setting up our show & tell display and greeting friends, we settled down to this vintage P&O poster jigsaw, which had taken so long to find at home. It is housed in a large reused brown box, with no information about the jigsaw other than 'RMS Strathaird 600 pieces'. The pieces are very large and quite roughly cut, with the backs unsanded. The blank has mainly been dissected with long vertical cuts with tight rounded zigzags and the pieces have been separated off with similar cuts - giving complex pieces which look like very complex versions of those of Chad Valley. The cutter must be an unknown amateur, probably in the 1930s.
The first photo, taken at 11.47am, shows David working on the border on a 1000pc portapuzzle. In the first photo in this collage, taken at 13.55 some 2hrs 15min later, we have moved to the table top and are about a third way through. At 16.15 the main jigsaw was complete and we were wrestling with the tiny push-cut filling of the large P&O letters. We didn't know if this filling would work out. - the seller had given up in this area and the selling image showed it incomplete. The photo on the right includes the cutter Genest Desfosses, Le Colimacon and his granddaughter Leia.
People liked the colourful jigsaw very much (partly because several difficult push-fit alternatives filling the tables were rather dull in colour). They were pleased to see a jigsaw with a new image on a liner. I'd bought it about two years ago, inspired by the wonderful travel poster jigsaws in a lecture at the 2017 House Party. It was designed by James Greig - as was my favourite at that 2017 lecture.
My REI backpack does far more than just carry hygiene kits for homeless during my homeless outreaches. It also carries my groceries home from the store
This building, and many others adjacent were once the hub of the tobacco industry in Durham. They are now being converted, with good results, to residential, entertainment, retail and office uses.
This building was originally constructed as a tobacco warehouse; the fresh product was hauled in, dried and cured, and then shipped out
American Tobacco Warehouse District website:
www.americantobaccohistoricdistrict.com/
West Village website:
These are two of the largest and most significant adaptive reuse projects active in the U.S. currently.
Durham, NC is a *very cool* place. I encourage you to visit if you ever have the opportunity.
Panel discussion exploring possibilities for Contemporary Reuse in the Mediterranean Basin. Syracuse University in Florence - January 29, 2015
(Photo: Francesco Guazzelli)
This 20-foot-tall roadrunner stands over I-10 west of Las Cruces, NM, and is made of old shoes, cell phones, bike parts, and other recycled materials.
Reduce:
1. the amount of packaging by buying products in bulk
2. the amount of paper consumption in the office, school, etc. DON'T BE A TREE-KILLER!
Recycle:
1. all aluminum cans and plastic bottles
2. newspapers, magazines, junk mail, and paper
3. all old electronics and clothing at specific facilities and/or donation centers instead of dumping them in the trash
4. yard waste: leaves, branches, grass, etc.
Reuse:
1. buy products that are made from recycleable materials
2. find creative ways to reuse paper and boxes