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Art Lovers: Urine for An Unusual Sight

January 27, 2010

Art you can use…if you dare! The most interesting thing about this 2005 installation is that it was a fully functional facility, “open to both sexes.” Thanks to Brian Banks for [...]

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Goon Idea for Canadian Toilet Reuse!

January 14, 2010

(Note: that’s not a typo!) A tweet this week from World Toilet Day (@worldtoiletday) sought some group-think ideas on toilet reuse. Not toilet-to-tap recycled water, but actual toilets! And yes, [...]

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Drought Mneumonic Monument

January 11, 2010

In the unlikey event that local citizens forget, a public sculpture was erected in Taebaek, Kangwon-Do, South Korea, as a reminder of the hardship and pain of drought and water shortages [...]

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Public Funding Well Spent…75 Years Ago.

January 9, 2010

From the stimulus program 75 years past…this WPA Poster (Water Supply #4) was created for the Federal Art Project series on the history of civic services in New York City…in 1936, when [...]

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Best of 2009: Clean Renewable Rubber Ducky Power

December 28, 2009

We’re taking it easy the last week of 2009 with reposts of some of our 2009 faves! In case you missed it: Our April 2009 post, Clean Renewable Rubber Ducky [...]

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Something from Santa’s Photoshop?

December 14, 2009

This fab photo manipulation is tumbling through Tumblr like Santa down an icy rooftop. While we’d like to credit the creator, we can’t seem to pinpoint exactly who that it [...]

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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Questions

November 29, 2009

Via Elton J. Mello (@medindoagua on Twitter) we were directed to the incredible Flickr pool “Water…Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, Creeks” with 26,249 members and a visual feast of 360,000+ photos. Including this mesmerizing [...]

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I’m Holding My Breath for this New Museum

November 19, 2009

Soon, Cancun may be noted for something more than Spring break underage drinkers. A national park in Cancun will soon feature sculptures of human figures situated in the seabed, with the [...]

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Word Up: The Photography of Shinichi Maruyama

October 22, 2009

Born in Japan and now working in New York, artist and photographer Shinichi Maruyama engineers the collision of water and black India ink and captures the moment that the two [...]

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Surveying our Vast Plastic Landscape

October 5, 2009

Is today’s tidal wave of plastics rooted in the actions of centuries past? Ellen Driscoll’s installation FASTFORWARDFOSSIL: Part 2 (at Brooklyn, NY Smack Mellon/Dumbo Arts Center) is composed of 2600 discarded [...]

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