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Tree-a-thon at the Getty

Marina Galperina — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:20:42 +0000

The Getty’s hefty permanent photography collection if full of trees. Their current In Focus series is a forest of branch abstractions, root daguerreotypes and many hues of green. Highlight: photos from contemporary South Korean photographer Myoung Ho Lee who treats trees to lit-up curtains like they’re very special, as if we need them to breathe oxygen or something. “Focus: The Tree,” Group Show, Feb 8 – Jul 3, Getty Center, Los Angeles

Bark This: Nature Wins Again

Marina Galperina — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:00:40 +0000

French photographer and obscure hobbyist Cedric Pollet travels the world photographing rare bark. Like photo studies of canned of dead people and magnified alcohol, this BARK’s got mad colors. Nature FTW! See the oozing boswellia elongata in Yemen, shiny birches in Russia and rainbow eucalyptus in places you’ve never even heard of.

Trees Wanna Burn

Bucky Turco — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:49:11 +0000

In what sounds like a great sequel to The Happening, according to new research, “some trees may themselves contribute to the likelihood of wildfires in order to promote their own abundance at the expense of their competitors.” In layman’s terms, trees want to burn and destroy other species, Malilbu houses included. |ScienceDaily|

Posterchild Transforms Phone Booth into Tree Farm

Will Sherman — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:40:50 +0000

Posterchild is ramping up his arboreal assault on Williamsburg. Putting an abandoned phone booth to use, the Toronto-based street artist installed another evergreen nearby the last on Bedford Ave.

Photo via Blade Diary

Posterchild’s Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Will Sherman — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:53:13 +0000

The Christmas season is starting earlier and earlier, not only in store windows but also in street art displays. Following his series of foliage-filled flyer boxes, PosterChild installed an Alberta Dwarf in an old, abandoned newspaper box off Bedford Ave in Williamsburg. If the miniature Christmas tree survives long enough, the Toronto-based artist hopes someone will festively decorate it, but based on past experience that’s not likely.

Photos via Blade Diary

Tree Casualties In Central Park Rise

Bucky Turco — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:10:50 +0000

Officials say the death toll in Central Park from Tuesday’s storm has skyrocketed after “an arboreal trauma team fanned out through the hardest-hit sections” and discovered almost 500 destroyed trees. |NYT|