Art-A-Tech

06/19/2016

Recycled tragedy into beauty.

04/11/2016

All from a slab of wood and a bit of creativity!

10/15/2015

Eco-friendly fashion!

Searching for unusual and odd fashions, Orlando My Way stopped by the Ripley's Believe It Or Not! headquarters in Orlando, Florida.

04/10/2015

That requires some serious steadiness and precision!

Brian Dettmer, a New York-based artist known as the Book Surgeon, uses tweezers, knives, scalpels and other surgical tools to dissect and carve old books into intricate and beautiful sculptures. Dettmer's work has a sort of vintage touch to it because he uses old books – maps, encyclopedias, textboo…

04/07/2015

Such an amazing use of plastic bottles. This garden doesn't even need watering!

Czech artist Veronika Richterová takes recycled plastic PET bottles and transforms them in to creative objects and sculptures including light fixtures, plants, and even animals! "When I found out by chance, that plastic bottles could be deformed by h

09/26/2014

Absolutely!

08/06/2014

Great idea until it rains!

Ripley’s buys Wearable Words Jori Phillips was going to Denman Island Readers and Writer’s Festival and wanted to get into character. I was asked to ...

06/09/2014

Staying Sharp-ie on art...

Between spring and summer classes, I was asked to do a tree for family members to sign at a family reunion. If anyone knows my love of art, they’ll know that I’m a big fan of drawing trees. I’ll credit that love to Bob Ross and all the happy trees out there. Anyway, this was my final product. I thin…

05/06/2014

Imagine repurposing some shelves to a make this? Storage and recycling!

For all the , lounge chair that can hold 300 books -> http://bit.ly/1qarP8r

05/02/2014

Daffodils are a good reminder...

Grad school has consumed my life. While I’m so thankful that I’m getting the chance to expand my knowledge, I’ve been down about all the sacrifices I’ve had to make in my social life. Today, however, I got a massage and relaxed. During that time, as the sun shone through the blinds, I saw a lovely y…

04/28/2014

All mix tapes lying around can finally be put to artistic use!

BrianDettmer, whose book sculptures we have shown you in the past, also has a series of human and animal skulls constructed from meltedcas...

04/18/2014

Functional art AND all made from recycled material!

If you’ve never thought of a skillet as a work of art, you’ve probably never seen a Borough Furnace skillet.