Posts Tagged ‘ United States ’

Specimens

Photo Specimens, Via Colossal: Photographic Specimens by Michael Mapes New York artist Michael Mapes creates elaborate specimen boxes by dissecting photographs and then compartmentalizing individual fragments within plastic bags, glass vials, magnifiers, in gelatin capsules and on insect pins. Click here for more![ READ MORE ]

CO2 Absorbing Algae Lamp

Via Treehugger: French biochemist and Shamengo pioneer Pierre Calleja has invented this impressive streetlight that is powered by algae which absorbs CO2 from the air. We have featured algae-powered lamps before but this one takes out 1 ton (!) of CO2 per year. This is as much CO2 as as a tree absorbs on average [ READ MORE ]

80-Ton Bird Nest

Enormous! Via Colossal: An 80-Ton Bird’s Nest Built at the Clemson University Botanical Gardens The Clemson Clay Nest was a public land art installation by Bavarian artist Nils-Udo that was constructed in the botanical gardens at Clemson University in South Carolina in 2005. The nest was built with the assistance of numerous students and other [ READ MORE ]

Best Made is a maker of high-end and highly stylized outdoor gear. You can also add hugely expensive to that list. But their stuff is cool enough that we’ll let them pass. Here is their new axe, the Banderole American Felling Axe. Dimensions: 35″, 7.5″, 1.5″ Head: 4 lbs. of 5160 high carbon US steel [ READ MORE ]

Cool Ways to Hang and Showcase Your Bike

Bikes are amazing. Quiet, lightweight and fast, they are the real future of sustainable transportation. But for those of us who have our bikes crowding our small apartments, stacked alongside a wall, waiting for people to trip over them, they can sometimes get in the way. Luckily, a number of designers have tackled this problem. [ READ MORE ]

Republicans and Big Oil Afraid of Bicycles

I’ve toiled whether to avoid politically-charged articles on this site, but when issues hit particularly close to home, they must be shared.  As an avid cyclist and huge advocate of a clean (and safe) transportation system in the US, this type of backwards-thinking legislation is scary. Via Treehugger: © April Streeter By now you must [ READ MORE ]

Classic L.L. Bean Covers, Recreated

Via Laughing Squid: For their 100 year anniversary celebration, Maine-based outdoor retailer L.L. Bean brought on commercial photographer Randal Ford to create modern-day photo reinterpretations of their classic catalog cover art from the past. For the photo of the 1933 catalog cover art, Ford shot the images of local residents at Maine’s Acadia National Park [ READ MORE ]

Endangered West Indian Manatees

These endangered creatures in Florida are quite graceful in the water[ READ MORE ]

2011 Was a Record Year for Extreme Weather

Via Fast Co-Exist: No, you’re not imagining it. 2011 has been rife with extreme weather events. There have, in fact, been 2,941 monthly weather records broken in the U.S. this year—549 snowfall records, 1,090 rainfall records, and 1,302 heat-related records. The NRDC’s extreme weather map (time-lapse version available here) makes the rash of weather events [ READ MORE ]

Live Blogging the NYC Marathon

Christoph Niemann has an awesome minimalism that has vaulted him to the top of print publications as an illustrator and cartoonist. His latest project, live-blogging the NYC marathon, shows just how quirky and creative he is.  While running the grueling marathon, Niemann brought along paper and pencils, and even markers and paint. He sketched his [ READ MORE ]

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