Recycling a la Steinway

This moving sale sign has some creative recycling of a Steinway top, perfect for a table top. Just add legs. Now that's an easy recipe!

Recycling Redux (is that redundant?)

Hardly as arresting as Uhuru's chair—or art direction—but sustainable nonetheless, here are new "planters," in our front yardette, made from wine crates we picked up from the curbside trash in front of a NYC liquor store. Planting in process. Photo by Pat O'Neill.

Starring Werner Herzog as a Plastic Bag

This wonderful video directed by Ramin Bahrani is making it's way along the internet this morning (via kottke, via greg, via mrdanzak).

Voiced by Werner Herzog (one of my all-time fave writer/directors and a fascinating narrator in many of his films. Also secretly, one of my best celebrity impressions).
As Kottke said,

"I didn't know it until just now, but I had been waiting all my life to watch a short film featuring Werner Herzog voicing a plastic shopping bag."

Agreed. 18 minutes long and worth it.

Speaks a bit to layering, I think.

Is Less Less?

Is using another layer of material really using less? I love what this hoarding on the Bowery, NYC, looks like, but the wood nailed atop a poster feels kinda like an unnecessary extravagance (A possible Philistine, I'm bracing for hurled tomatoes, shoes, and recycleables).