Environmental Graffiti

Kenji Yanobe’s Visions of a Post-Apocalyptic World

The future looks both bleak and bright according to Kenji Yanobe. The artist's visions come to life with a huge, fire-breathing robot Torayan, colourful orange-clad men, children in a very different kind of kindergarten class and many more thought-provoking works. Drawing inspiration from Japanese manga and science fiction, Yanobe offers glimpses into a ruined world that uses the best that human technology can offer to make sense of it all.

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Tokyo After The Armageddon

Picture this bustling street market, empty of human life, absent of familiar sounds, smells, lights. Crumbling, overgrown, silent. If you can wrap your head around that image, then you've got an idea of what Japanese artist Hisaharu Motoda conveys in his series of Neo-Ruins lithographs: exceptionally detailed, vivid representations of a futuristic, post-apocalyptic Tokyo, where humans are nowhere to be found and nature fights back in a bid to take over our concrete jungles.

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Cow Farts and their Apocalyptic Effects

image via wikipedia Scientists have managed to isolate the animal farting gene, opening new doors to cut animal methane, which is 50 times more harmful (as greenhouse gas) than carbon.

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