Le recyclage dans le monde : où en est-on ? Le monde n’a jamais produit autant de déchets. Aujourd’hui, encore une minorité d’entre eux sont recyclés, ce qui génère des échanges, et parfois des tensions entre les pays. Où en est le recyclage dans le monde aujourd’hui ? La question des déchets au niveau mondial commence à devenir un véritable casse-tête : non seulement au niveau environnemental, avec un volume de déchets à traiter toujours croissant, mais également en termes de commerce et de géopolitique. Les chiffres de la production de déchets, et du recyclage, sont vertigineux. Des montagnes de déchets, qui posent des problèmes en termes environnementaux (pollution des sols, des eaux, menaces pour la biodiversité…) mais aussi sociaux, surtout dans les pays du Sud : émanations toxiques des déchets brûlés, effondrement de décharges sauvages… Le traitement des déchets dans le monde représente également une véritable manne financière, puisqu’il faut bien stocker, voire recycler ces déchets. Le recyclage du plastique dans le monde
NOTCOT.ORG Room Flips: 10 Pinhole Pictures Turn the World Upside Down Projected upside-down into derelict rooms of deserted homes, these images are more than mere art – they turns walls into screens and create entirely new inverted worlds within dead and abandoned spaces. No house, garden or tree is safe. Like the bright light from a nearly-extinguished candle flame, each of these photos shot by Vancouver artist and photographer James Nizman breath last life into homes on the edge of destruction. The title of the photo series is ‘Anteroom‘ as if they were the doorway to another world, but could just as easily be ‘Anti-Room’ – the opposite of a normal interior space in almost every way imaginable. Some of the scenes show generic and pretty settings – from green landscapes to suburban neighborhoods – that would be surreal enough if displayed on the walls right-side-up, but upside-down they become darkly comedic and highly provocative.
The History of the Color Blue: From Ancient Egypt to New Discoveries The color blue is associated with two of Earth’s greatest natural features: the sky and the ocean. But that wasn’t always the case. Some scientists believe that the earliest humans were actually colorblind and could only recognize black, white, red, and only later yellow and green. Blue was first produced by the ancient Egyptians who figured out how to create a permanent pigment that they used for decorative arts. First photo: Krzysztof Kowalski Egyptian Blue Egyptian Juglet, ca. 1750–1640 B.C. There’s a long list of things we can thank the ancient Egyptians for inventing, and one of them is the color blue. The Egyptians held the hue in very high regard and used it to paint ceramics, statues, and even to decorate the tombs of the pharaohs. Figure of a Lion. ca. 1981–1640 B.C. Fun fact: In 2006, scientists discovered that Egyptian blue glows under fluorescent lights, indicating that the pigment emits infrared radiation. Ultramarine Cobalt blue Cerulean Indigo Navy blue Prussian blue
Futuristic Furniture For Post-Apocalyptic Interior Designs As architectural, interior and furniture design continue to overlap as disciplines, some designers are looking into the distant future and trying to figure out what the ultimate design object might be if this trend continues unabated. Eduardo McIntosh suggests that perhaps everything we need to survive could be integrated into a single all-in-one interior-turned-furniture design – a chair, put simply, that has everything we need and replaces the traditional role of actual architecture as the essential unit of habitation. This chair would be inserted into abandoned structures, turning any semi-habitable space into a fully livable habitat, providing for poor people and disaster survivors with a luxury living option. While certainly more polemical than practical it does raise questions about what really is or is not essential to our lifestyle and what we really need out of our built environment.
Incroyables paysages brodés par Ana Teresa Barboza L’artiste péruvienne Ana Teresa Barboza recrée des paysages terrestres et marins qui sont à la fois broderie et sculpture. Ses oeuvres offrent un effet de profondeur en raison des cascades de fils qui s’échappent de la trame. Le rendu de chaque paysage est vraiment bluffant de réalisme et cette manière de faire sortir l’oeuvre de son cadre et de passer de la 2D à la 3D est très bien pensé et orchestré. Ana Teresa Barboza amène l’art de la broderie à un tout autre niveau ! Pour en savoir plus sur Ana Teresa Barboza, cliquez ici. source
Timeless Design: Past Futurism, Post-Modernism & Beyond It was once hoped and dreamed that ‘futuristic design’ might provide realistic glimpses into our actual future. ‘Futurism’ as such, however, has become a thing of the past – yet there are still ways in which the aesthetic associated with ‘The Future’ remains alluring, as these beautiful pseudo-futuristic designs from Hello Karl illustrate. But let your mind open wide for a moment, as these designs largely speak for themselves. It is a liberating yet frightening time to work and play within the ever-widening world of design. Still, in all areas of design, there are (overall) more possibilities than ever. So what is the ‘future’ of design?
Ce court métrage saisissant expose toute l'hypocrisie de la société de consommation Nominé aux Oscars du court-métrage d’animation 2011, Let’s Pollute nous plonge dans l’incohérence qu’est notre réalité moderne avec un second degrés critique effrayant. “Pourquoi se voiler la face ? Nos actes détruisent la planète, alors encourageons les !” Traiter l’écologie avec ironie, quoi de plus efficace ? Le court-métrage Source : YouTube
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