Archive for the 'Environment' Category



From Patrick Doughterty’s website

“Dougherty’s works allude to nests, cocoons, hives, and lairs built by animals, as well as the manmade forms of huts, haystacks, and baskets, created by
interweaving branches and twigs together. Many of his works look ‘found’ rather than made, as if they were created by the natural force of a tornado sweeping across […]

Chris Drury is one of my favourite Eco Artists. He has built installations around the world working with aperature to create camera obscura architecture - basically his outdoor installations create an inverted image of the natural world outside and projected inside his installation.
Here are some pics:
Cloud Chamber for the Trees and Sky

here is the outside […]

The Eco-art of Nils-Udo

Nils Udo is a bavarian eco-artists. A quote from Nils Udo:

“Sketching with flowers. Painting with clouds. Writing with water. Tracing the May wind, the path of a falling leaf. Working for a thunderstorm. Awaiting a glacier. Bending the wind. Directing water and light. The May-green call of the cuckoo and the invisible trace of its […]

Mikael Hansen is a Danish artist that does “earth art”. Check my favourite work, an outdoor installation called “Organic Highway” below. From Mikael’s Absolute Arts profile:
Since my participation in the first earth-art project in Denmark in 1983 I have been fascinated by this mode of artistic expression (landart). Parallel to this I am working with […]

Rubbish Islands in the Pacific

There is alot of rubbish in the Pacific Ocean. Here is an excerpt from a disturbing article I found last year about this, it is aptly titled “Our oceans are turning into plastic…are we?”:
A vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, is full of a plastic stew that is entering the food […]

Here are few of the art links “World without US” - these were done by Kenn Brown of Mondolithic Studios in British Columbia Canada.
I have taken a few screenshots from Alan Weismans “World Without Us” website (Funny as I read that, I often see that as a play on words: “World without U.S.“).

World without Humans - videos

I’ve recently read Alan Weisman’s “World without US”, a book about what will happen to the earth with no people. I found the book when I was travelling in Europe this summer through Scientific American - there was an article with some very interesting graphics of what a fallen earth would look like. If […]

Just added some new tree house to the incredible tree house post I made last month. These came from top 8 most amazing tree houses post on freshome (click on image below):

Antarctica with no ice

Ever curious what Antarctica would like with no ice - see some renderings of this frigic continent without ice. Some maps below show Antarctica as an archipelago, others as a larger landmass…
What would happen if all this ice melted?
This map taken from: http://www.ig.utexas.edu/outreach/wiredantarctica/lessons/sci_lessons/lesson6s.htm

Here is one from http://www.visitandlearn.co.uk/schoollinks/faqs.asp

http://library.thinkquest.org/26442/html/terra/antarctic_noice.gif

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Antarctica_Map.png

http://www.btinternet.com/~graywallis/

What is it about tree houses that inspire such joy and childlike wonder? Is because there is an innate quality that still resides in us from when we once arboreal beings? I’ve saved a few bookmarks over the past few months of some of the most unique treehouses I have found around the world. Here […]