Tag: Trees
A fellow named Jack Kester who lives in an Upper West Side single room occupancy (SRO) building went on a tree-chopping rampage last Thursday, cutting down four trees on his West 94th Street block with a saw while yelling “I’m king of the world” and riding around on a Razor scooter, according to the New […]
CityLab reported on the results of an interesting study that found a correlation between urban tree canopy (UTC), which is roughly the density of trees in a neighborhood, and neighborhood median income. The study, published in the journal PLOS One and led by Kirsten Schwarz, assistant professor of biology at Northern Kentucky University, compared high-resolution […]
In the above video interview from Dezeen, self-described designer/artist/architect Daan Roosegaarde describes his latest endeavor: replacing streetlights with genetically engineered glowing trees. A small early prototype was created by merging the DNA of bioluminescent underwater bacteria with that of a houseplant. “When you have a jellyfish, deep, deep underwater, it creates its own light,” he says. “Its does not […]
How do you turn a white-walled gallery space into an underground enclave? By hanging roots from the ceiling, if you’re Sicilian artist Giuseppe Licari. Licari’s Humus (not to be confused with hummus) refers to a life-sustaining layer of soil made up of decomposed organic matter. Here’s Licari on the nature of his work: The aim is to […]
Edinburgh University scientist Dr. Ian Woodhouse hates deforestation. You like art. So how’s this… how’s your precious, precious art lookin’ now, with all the trees clear-cut? Ah-HA! Posted on his blog Forest Planet and ArtInfo, Woodhouse had the trees rather skillfully Photoshopped out of Georges Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande Jatte (1884-86), John Constable’s The Hay Wain (1821) and Vincent van Gogh’s Olive Trees with […]
