Greenaid Seedbombs

The Common Studio presents Greenaid.

Made from a mixture of clay, compost, and seeds, "seedbombs" are becoming an increasingly popular means combating the many forgotten grey spaces we encounter everyday-from sidewalk cracks to vacant lots and parking medians.

They can be thrown anonymously into these derelict urban sites to temporarily reclaim and transform them into places worth looking at and caring for.

The Greenaid dispensary simply makes these guerilla gardening efforts more accessible to all by appropriating the existing distribution system of the quarter operated candy machine. Using just the loose coins in your pocket, you can make a small but meaningful contribution to the beautification of your city!

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Matthew Houlding: Urban Origami

Matthew Houlding's fantastical, architectural and sublime collages and sculptures are currently on show at PM Gallery & House, London. Urban Origami is a show of 7 international artists illustrating the demand for urban living space and the debris which comes along with it, making it something strangely beautiful.

PM Gallery & House

Walpole Park

Mattock Lane

London W5 5EQ

Urban Origami runs until August 29th 2010.

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'The Scream' In Cardboard

Mark Langan from Ohio, USA spent over 90 hours to create his finely detailed, 3-dimensional take on the 1910 version of Edvard Munch’s familiar painting.

He used a craft knife to cut up 30 square feet of cardboard taken from five boxes and layered them to create a three-dimensional image. Remaining scraps of corrugated cardboard were put through a heavy duty paper shredder and mixed with glue to create a pulp. Mark smeared this onto the cardboard and used his fingers to add detail to the picture, which measures 2.25 inches deep and sold for £1,600.

He creates work primarily from cardboard after a medical condition in his wrist made it difficult to hold a pen or paintbrush.

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Greener Gadgets Competition

The third annual Greener Gadgets design competition was held in New York earlier this week.
First prize went to a gadget called Augmented Living Goods. It's a concept for a cellphone app to help people choose local and sustainably produced groceries.
A user would scan the barcode of an item in a shop, and their cellphone would then inform them where it came from and whether or not it is in season, and relate its price history and comments from others who have already bought it. It was designed by Shane Blomburg, John Healy, Seth Laupus and Andrew Reeves. The other entries can be seen here.

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YayorNay?

Hunting non-endangered whales:

Simple.. either you agree or you don’t.
Leave your ‘Yay’ or ‘Nay’ comment below by clicking ‘COMMENTS’.

With increasing pressure on Japan to ban it’s scientific ‘research’ and commercial whaling operations, the ESPV team thought we’d throw this one out there for yall to respond to.. The question is, why should hunting non-endangered whales be illegal? Considering that the farming, production and slaughter of cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens and fish is legal?

If you are a meat-lover and have no issues over eating it, how can you be against whaling and animal cruelty in general but not mass-production meat served-up in our supermarkets everyday?

Additionally, if you’re a vegetarian or against animal cruelty – then surely this means you wear no makeup and take no medicines? The two most active industries using animal testing today are the medical and cosmetics industries. Is there any point being vegetarian when you still use cosmetics and medicines that are tested on animals?

So when it comes to hunting non-endangered whales, are you Yay or Nay?

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Unrecyclable Robots

This robot and his minions were made from discarded styrofoam.
So go out to all the bins, skips and rubbish tips and do something useful for the environment, build a giant robot!!

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Insane Kite Surf Jump

The weather in the UK has been mad this week, but nowhere more than in Worthing, West Sussex where Jack Scrace jumped 100Ft over the pier yesterday. Nutcase and Legend!

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