Green Pedestrian Crossing created by Jody Xiong
The China Environmental Protection Foundation developed an outdoor campaign, displayed on the street, to creatively promote this message. They decided to leverage a busy pedestrian crossing; a place where both pedestrians and drivers meet.
The campaign involved laying a canvas 12.6 metres long by 7 metres wide on the ground, thus covering the pedestrian crossing with a large leafless tree. On either side of the road, beneath the traffic lights, were placed sponge cushions soaked in green, environmentally friendly, washable paint. As pedestrians walked towards the crossing, they stepped on the green sponge, thus leaving green foot imprints on the canvas of the tree. Each ‘green’ footprint on the canvas looked like leaves growing on a bare tree, which made people feel that by walking they could create a greener environment.
The ‘Green Pedestrian Crossing’ was carried out across 7 thoroughfares in Shanghai. The campaign was then extended to 132 roads across 15 cities in China, with a participation exceeding 3,920,000 people.
Fuck Banksy…
Spring Wind House by Architecture Uncomfortable Workshop via Designboom
searching for something to celebrate the arrival of spring, hungarian architecture uncomfortable workshop have developed ‘spring wind’. for the occasion, the collective conceived a standing structure that responds to the movement of the wind - highlighting the natural effects of a sheltered environment. the concept integrates a wooden frame as the structure - with an open-ended textile cover, which reacts to the different intensities of the elements - forming into different organic shapes as the wind interacts with the envelope of the piece.
This Agnes Martin letter=How I feel about my own art right now!
Last Weekend of the ‘Beyond the Horizon’ show in Montreal. Check it out if you can and read the great little write-up on it too if you have 58 seconds to spare.
http://www.thebelgoreport.com/2013/02/alex-jowett-beyond-the-horizon-at-galerie-nicolas-robert/
Atelier 688 Manila rope Lights (on the wood posts by the interior window) in great company with Gilbert and George and Thomas Ruff art pieces at the Silver Lining Ranch in Aspen!
Falling Sun
48 x 48” ink on canvas
Alex Jowett
Beyond the Horizon opening Saturday the 26th in Montreal
