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When Seagulls Attack!
The squawking laughter is enough to send a Hitchcockian chill up anyone’s spine, though if you live anywhere near the coast – or increasingly in cities further inland – seagulls are as ubiquitous as pigeons. But bigger. And much more vicious. Every year, new reports telling similar stories rear their ugly head, with headlines shrieking warnings about gulls terrorising people, particularly in the soft underbelly of the British Isles. Hold onto your chips.
Continue reading...Green Notes at Montreal International Jazz Festival
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
The Montreal International Jazz Festival – the largest of its kind in the world – has just pulled the curtain down on its annual mix of music and visitors from all over the globe. To celebrate its 30th anniversary, this year there was something extra-special about the Jazz Fest. Not only were the jazz notes as blue as the deep sea, but the festival adopted a green ethos that matched the lushness of many of the city’s spaces.
Continue reading...Incredible Shadow Art Created From Junk
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
British born and based artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster skilfully skirt the boundaries between beauty and the shadowier aspects of humanity, playing with our perceptions as well as our notions of taste. Many of their most notable pieces are made from piles of rubbish, with light projected against them to create a shadow image entirely different to that seen when looking directly at the deliberately disguised pile.
Continue reading...Garbage Transformed into Incredible Green Art Installation
Friday, August 22, 2008
It’s an unfortunate but necessary evil that trash has to lay littering the streets until collection. It’s not clean and it’s not pretty. Well, it wasn’t until artist Adrian Kondratowicz collaborated with Renee Mlynaryk to design and produce a range of colorful trash bags which have decorated the streets of New York since May this year.
Continue reading...Beachgoers Leave 6 Million Tons of Trash
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
If you pay any attention to the media-driven vision of the beach, you understand that it’s a pristine, beautiful place that we all go to on vacation, and leave no trace of our existence on once we leave. Image from Hans Van Reenen on Flickr The Ocean [...]
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Monday, September 21, 2009
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