Artist Builds Homes for the Homeless… Out of Trash!
Oakland artist Gregory Kloehn takes your trash and turns it into a treasure! Photos of his miniature homes have been circling the internet, making me jealous and proud to be a human being.
Kloehn developed an interest in sustainable architecture, designing homes that ascribe to the small house movement. I guess it was a (very) small leap to even tinyer houses.
He was moved to continue his tiny house building when it occurred to him how helpful they could be to someone who previously had little more than a cardboard covering. Especially when such houses can be built for only around $100. Kloehn is proving that you can use your art to make a change.
Of course they don’t come with all the modern accouterments. These shelters for the homeless are just large enough for a person to lie down. No washer and dryer sets but Kloehn is capable of building his small homes with water storage, even a kitchen area and other such extras. All his homes come equipped with rolling casters so that inhabitants can go mobile with their homes.
Interiors are insulated against the cold, most have at least one window and have ventilation.
One woman, whose tiny house is lined with cast off pizza delivery bags, remarks how warm she can be if she doesn’t open the window. Exteriors are waterproof and saturated in loveliness and whimsy.
Gregory Kloehn goes around from street to street digging through piles of discarded scrap, picking out pieces that don’t look like anything on their own, but when cleaned up and given a little polish, come together to make some absolutely gorgeous (and efficient) structures.
When Science Meets Art
How do you reconcile science to art? It feels as though the two should never even have a nodding acquaintance with one another, but it seems as if they now do. This video gives me yet another reason to find science even sexier than it already is.
Swiss scientist, Fabian Oefner, wants to make us think about the beauty in the science that we sometimes just don’t (or aren’t able to) see. Such as sound the sound waves produced by our stereo.
Now, we can’t see a sound wave, except… we can! Oefner uses his super-scientific mind to find a way to illustrate the point, using colorized crystals.
Bravo!
It’s Not Funny, it’s Art.
Proof that you don’t need to understand art to create it.
This video about Blanca could just as well be about me! Well, I don’t go around cutting canvasses from their frames but if we’re honest… I don’t always get it. The sheer seriousness of it all. The unclear distinction between so-called ‘high’ and ‘low’ art. It can be boggling.
This cartoon (if you can dare to call it something so non-serious) represents an inner philosophical debate.
What is the meaning of art?
And how should we respond to art and creativity?
Maybe it’s because I’m not a sophisticated person, but I like a simple animation for a complicated point.
Interview with Keiler Roberts
Keiler Roberts creates the autobiographical comic series “Powdered Milk”.
She also teaches a variety of topics at a variety of colleges/universities in the Chicago area. You can visit the show notes and other episodes of the Jason Loves Life Podcast at http://www.jasonloveslife.com/keiler-roberts-episode-26/
Artist Trading Cards
Trading art? With other ARTISTS? Sign me up!
I sure do like this little video. Not only because the artist has made something full of her individuality but also there are whole groups of people out there who swap bits of their soul out to one another.
I love the personal/collaborative nature of the cards.
The video recommends you visit atcsforall.com for more info.
Check out the ‘Swap Gallery’ for images of cards past.
They’re little squares of personality!
Fun!