Started in 2008 by two young architects in Seattle, Graypants design studio creates elegant lights from discarded cardboard. They also make chic chairs, lamps and other objects from scrap materials. This company succeeds in living up to their product’s description: “Graypants scrap lights: creating a brighter now.”
In most times, and conversations for that matter, if a bit of excavation is done, one can expose many historical strata of exercises in contrast. Geologic time is intentionally being invoked—as it has to do with flow and expectations, and a certain vigilance in the examination and questioning of not only of who we are, but how we work and how we live and what we do, be that eating, sleeping, teaching, protesting, sustaining a life, etc.
The Johnny Cash Project is a global community art project crowdsourced by Google Chrome. It’s a fan-made music video for Cash’s posthumously released song, “Ain’t No Grave” illustrated by individual frames that were created by fans worldwide. See the video or contribute to it here.
I’ve always been charmed when recycled bottles are used as eco-friendly design details, but I was blown away by the school in the Philippines constructed earlier this year using bottles. How cool! According to Good Magazine, “The bottles are filled with adobe, made from local mud which sets like concrete, and layered within a steel frame. The resulting wall…is three times stronger than one built with traditional materials (wood, bamboo, and straw)—which is no small thing in a country regularly hit by typhoons.”
Can’t get enough of these surfing dogs images from the Surf City Surf Dog Contest that took place last month in Huntington Beach.
Walking down the beach in Guiones you can still find sand dollars at the waterline. These little critters are beautiful and fascinating but because they are typically pretty motionless, some tourists pick them up thinking of them like “seashells” and leave on the beach to dry out and inadvertently kill them.
Here’s a short clip showing a sand dollar moving at what I imagine to be “full speed” for your enjoyment.
Kids used to cut school to go surfing, but now that Hawaii has made surfing an official high school sport they may not have to. Earlier this week Governor Neil Abercrombie said surfing will become a state-sanctioned sport in public schools starting as early as spring 2013.
The ocean is the inspiration and essence to my work. Its size, its constant physical and visual movement, fascinates me. It’s beautiful, powerful, quiet, mesmerizing and grand. Rather than recreating something I’ve witnessed, in my paintings emotion dictates the pace.
—Wolfgang Bloch in interview with Project Be Bold
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