Seven Incredible Cigarette Art Pieces Portraying People and Animals
May 11, 2011
Would you believe that stinking, old cigarette butts can be recycled and transformed into objects of esthetic beauty?
Caz Davidson
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Dissected Street Maps Transformed into Human Bodies
May 9, 2011
Discarded maps are given a new direction in the hands of artist Nikki Rosato.
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The 45-Ton Mechanical Elephant That Thundered Through the Streets of London
May 5, 2011
How Londoners fell for a robotic, three-story elephant created from junk.
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Mechanical Animals Created from Salvaged Scrap Metal Parts
December 23, 2010
The detritus of industry takes on organic form in the mind-blowing moving animal sculptures of Chris Cole.
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Religious Icons Created from Recycled Weapons
July 13, 2010
For artist Al Farrow, guns and bullets are tools for creation rather than destruction — and the medium for poignant statements about the relationship between religion and war.
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When Old Weapons Become Inspirational Sculpture
July 7, 2010
Peace Art Project Cambodia has shaped thousands of guns, left behind by decades of armed conflict in the country, into works of art.
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Rewriting the Fate of Old Books
June 8, 2010
Good artists are knowledgeable types, so it’s no surprise that they choose old books as a medium in which to work, playing with the paper to create something new — and to enrich the knowledge of others.