Recycled Goods

Newspaper furniture - your very own "reading butt-y":

Photo: David Stovell Design

Grist via Inhabitat:

"Instances of talking out of your ass are well-documented, but reading out of your ass -- now that's new."

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In Jean Shin's interactive sculpture "TEXTile", 22,528 recycled keyboard keys are embedded into a continuous fabric, complete with video projection. Yvonne Oswald on KPFK's The Aware Show recently said that our communication is 7% verbal, 38% tonal and 55% body language. Can you imagine all that gets lost in translation and interpretation in our world of email and texting? A fascinating and labor-intensive piece that investigates our virtual communication culture:

"The project speaks to the pervasiveness of email in our lives while commenting on the fact that, despite the modern technology of virtual communication, our written language is linked to the tactile sensation of moving our fingers over an outmoded typewriter system."

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Fridgehenge, a short-lived 21st century take on Stonehenge, just outside Sante Fe, New Mexico: