Botanical paintings are pretty

By this Vashon Artist...

Mushroom Tunnel

Re-purposing urban infrastructure is cool!!! Check out this abandoned railroad tunnel in Australia that has been converted to a mushroom farm. Rad.

Dutch Grids

These photos remind of Claire's UWT project. Original post here.

Chalk Board Questions

This is kind of what I had in mind when we made that proposal to Parks with SVR. Chalk is such a great temporary medium...

Original post from artist Candy Chang here.

Pointy Public Art

I like these creepy stalagmites by LA artist Tofer Chin. Original post about the Rio De Janiero installation here.

Biodiversity Facade

From Copenhagen...

Crazy adorable

Miniature bicycles for model making!!! If I worked for a firm, I would be eating these up...

The Grain

I really like this website flow...and so many lovely photographs!! Maybe a bit too heavy on the marketing mumbo jumbo but in terms of presentation of information, its great.

The Arts & the Environment Lecture

march 2, 11:30-1 at the OSP
put on by SAM & the CLC
(info here)

Soil Maps

"GlobalSoilMap.net s a project started by a consortium of soil scientists to create a digital soil map of the entire world. It's a wildly fantastic undertaking, one which aims to provide an easily accessible tool to address nothing less than the most challenging global issues of our time: food security, climate change, environmental degradation, water scarcity and threatened biodiversity."

Read the whole post from Pruned.

Pretty Package

I kind of love these. Does that make me a sucker for packaging?












Little hydroponic Grow Bottles made from recycled wine bottles. Cute.

Lovely Murals

A Love Letter For You - Murals by Stephen Powers.






























Love Letter is a project by Stephen Powers with the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program and is sponsored by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.

Let's move to Detroit!

The Detroit Lives project has a really sweet little video that makes me want to move there...check it out here...















and more on Detroit at Magical Urbanism.

Google Earth Engine

Google Earth Engine Overview Video Here from a post on Pruned that discusses The Institute for Augmented Ecology.