3:16 am in artists, arts, bees, birds, Cattle, crafts, Culture & Celebrity, Design & Architecture, designers, exhibits, materials, rivers, science, Science & Technology, spain by TreeHugger
Photo Credit: Gerard Moliné
When I entered the
Gallery Art & Design in Poblenou, Barcelona, it was the odd smell I noticed first. Very faint, but it reminded me of something far away. Large pieces of art are scattered around the big white gallery space, made up of thick earthy colours and rough textures. I wasn't sure what exactly I was looking at until
Gerard Moliné himself told me the story of how, when he was 7 years old in his village in the Catalan country side, he placed
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Shibaya Designs napkin rings for candlelight dinners.
Yakitate!, means "freshly-baked" in Japanese and a special exhibit of what young designers are cooking up was on display at the
Dwell on Design event last weekend with an international accent. Selected by Birgit Lohmann of
Designboom, the innovative wares included the reuse of beautiful vintage kimonos to cover objects, exquisite moon-like globes commemorating the Japanese tsunami, and innovative furnitur...
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Photos: Rio Sao Francisco by Ronaldo Fraga.
Top Brazilian fashion designer
Ronaldo Fraga grew up thinking the
Sao Francisco (the longest that runs entirely in Brazilian territory and the fourth longest in South America) was more than just a river: every fish brought home by his fisherman father came loaded with stories and fantasies, culture, people and nature t...
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5:09 am in Design & Architecture, endangered species, exhibits, Fashion & Beauty, Travel & Nature, vintage by TreeHugger
Photo: B. Alter
Selfridges Department Store (think Saks Fifth Avenue in the USA) is having a green moment and presenting a five week campaign,
Project Ocean, to highlight the disastrous impact of overfishing the oceans.
Washed Up is part of that campaign. It is a glorious exhibit of vintage and haute couture clothes set amongst endangered coral shells. Lady GaGa's crystal-encrusted lobster hat is the...
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9:02 pm in activism, animal planet, artists, charities, Culture & Celebrity, endangered species, exhibits, fishing, oceans, Travel & Nature, whales by TreeHugger
Artwork by Jeff Soto.
More than 100 artists have donated art to benefit the
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's efforts at the fifth annual
Sea No Evil Art Show featuring works by
Gary Baseman Jeff Soto,, famed street artist and poster designer
Shepard Fairey, and more.
Captain Paul Watson and his Sea Shepherd crew members ...
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6:06 am in arts, exhibits, insects, Science & Technology by TreeHugger
Images Courtesy of China Blue
If you've lived in a city for a long time, you might be wondering if there are fewer and fewer fireflies every year. If you're young and live in a city, you might be wondering what a firefly is. Both anecdotal and scientific evidence point to
declining populations among the species due to the
increase in artificial light. This loss is the insp...
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Photo: B.Alter
Ai Weiwei is the
brave and controversial Chinese artist who has been missing and kept under "residential surveillance" for six weeks now, arrested boarding a plane in Beijing for Hong Kong on April 3. Best known in the West for his part in the iconic
Bird's Nest Stadium at the Chinese Olympics, he has been under pressure from that government because he is so outspoken on behalf of freedom of speech.
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Ayşe Erkmen's 'Plan B.' Photo: Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (
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Photo: B. Alter
It's got a frame around it; so it must be art. This street art by famed (and bankable) graffiti artist Banksy appeared earlier this week on the side of a house in north London. Within 24 hours it was covered over with plywood. And within another 24 hours it was framed and protected with plexi-glass. Does that make it art?
Earlier this month 
