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Ninja October 6th, 2009

Anastassia Elias‘ precious keyhole scenes:

School, 2009
Toilet Paper Roll

Grandmother, 2009
Toilet Paper Roll

Market, 2009
Toilet Paper Roll

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Yuken Teruya’s playful forestscapes:

Toilet rolls sprouting spreading branches are hung to create a ‘forest’ hanging on the wall or hanging down from the ceiling. There is a moment when the hanging cut-out-parts start holding their branches and leaves on their own strength. It is as if I’m helping the paper awakens its ability to be an individual tree.
– Yuken Teruya

Corner Forest, 2006
Toilet Paper Rolls

Corner Forest, 2007
Toilet Paper Rolls

Corner Forest (Serendipitous-Tangents), 2007
Toilet Paper Rolls
Photo credit: Eun Young Choi

Forest Cloud (Murata&Friends Gallery), 2007
Toilet Paper Rolls
Photo credit: Manabi Murata

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Tags: Anastassia Elias, Green, Papercutting, Recycling, Toilet paper roll, Yuken Teruya

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Ninja September 30th, 2009

Atlanta-based Brian Dettmer and Helsinki-based Sami Havia breathe new life into cassette tapes.

Brian Dettmer:

Dead Bird, 2005
Altered Cassette Tapes
Photo credit: Packer Schopf Gallery

Skull Mutation 1 (Classical), 2007
Altered Cassette Tapes
15 x 16 x 20cm
Photo credit: Mito

Bull Skull, 2007
Altered Cassettes Tapes
56 x 44 x 37cm
Photo credit: Mito

Goat Skull, 2007
Altered Cassette Tapes
18 x 34 x 19cm
Photo credit: Mito

Sami Havia:

Blind Melon – Nico, 2006
aerosol acrylic & pencil on c-cassettes

Mos Def – Black On Both Sides, 2006
aerosol, paper & felt-tip pen on c-cassettes

Michael Jackson – Thriller, 2006
aerosol & alkyd on c-cassettes

DJ Krush – Code 4109, 2006
aerosol, acrylic & alkyd on c-cassettes

NOFX – Punk In Drublic, 2006
aerosol, ink & acrylic on c-cassettes

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• This One’s For The Children of Sichuan (2)
• Theo Jansen: Art of Creating Creatures (1)

Tags: Atlanta, Brian Dettmer, Cassette tapes, Finland, Green, Helsinki, Painting, Recycling, Sami Havia, Sculpture

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Ninja April 10th, 2008

Creativity and recycling!

A former city employee in the Fukushima prefecture town of Koriyama has built a 4-meter (13-ft) long canoe from thousands of used disposable chopsticks recovered from the city hall cafeteria. Bothered that perfectly good wood was going to waste after a single use, Shuhei Ogawara — whose job at city hall involved working with the local forestry industry — spent the last two years of his career collecting used chopsticks from the cafeteria. An experienced canoe builder, Ogawara spent over 3 months gluing 7,382 chopsticks together into strips to form the canoe shell, to which he added a polyester resin coat. The canoe weighs about 30 kilograms (66 lbs), which is a bit heavier than an ordinary cedar canoe, but Ogawara is confident it will float. A launching ceremony is planned for May at nearby Lake Inawashiro.

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• Wataru Itou’s papercraft castle (2)
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Tags: Canoe, Chopsticks, Crafts, Japan, Lake Inawashiro, Recycling, Shuhei Ogawara

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