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Making art out of found plastic on the beach

January 2, 2012 @ 11:12 pm

Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang recover plastic toys and objects from a beach in Northern California and take it all home to clean and make new art out of it. The couple is using the art to make people … Continue reading →

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Erato – Call Your Girlfriend (Robyn cover)

December 17, 2011 @ 12:44 pm

Using cottage cheese containers and their beautiful voices, the Swedish vocal group Erato sings a cover of Robyn’s “Call Your Girlfriend”.

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Gold playing cards made of plastic

November 20, 2011 @ 10:35 pm

The A+R Store is selling this deck of plastic gold playing cards. If only they were printed on USPCC 808 stock…then I’d buy these. Still cool though. Maybe somebody can steal this idea and bring it to the people at … Continue reading →

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Floating sculpture shipwrecks on Rikers Island

November 6, 2011 @ 4:47 pm

I’ve been sitting on this article for a week now and I just keep forgetting to write about it. The sculpture you see above is called The Harvest Dome and it’s made up of broken umbrellas and plastic bottles collected … Continue reading →

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The pizza box “package saver” patent

August 17, 2011 @ 1:04 pm

Here’s some trivia for you. Claes just found out that the little plastic “table” that sits at the center of a large pizza pie when it gets delivered is officially known as a “package saver”. It was patented on February … Continue reading →

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Colorful all-plastic bike design by Dror Peleg

July 26, 2011 @ 12:12 am

This bicycle here designed by Israeli design student Dror Peleg is called Frii. It is made of recycled plastics and meant to be mass-produced in areas where resources are scarce and production facilities limited. I can’t say this is the … Continue reading →

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