Guerilla gardens in newspaper boxes
Toronto street artist PosterChild has an ongoing, extensive project to convert flier and newspaper boxes into guerilla gardening boxes.
Toronto street artist PosterChild has an ongoing, extensive project to convert flier and newspaper boxes into guerilla gardening boxes.
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A similar idea:
http://gammablog.com/2009/08/01/bike-garden/
A better link (which says he's not doing it anymore, sadly)
http://www.bladediary.com/flyerplanterboxes-8/
I'm a big fan of JSB, and seeing that poster just by coincidence kinda blew my mind.
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What's up with the man with his tongue half out? He's weirding me out.
Isn't that the idea? The racks are obsolete and so they are repurposed/recycled/rethought. I actually like the aesthetic alot.
My one concern with this is that the plants are in a container instead of the ground. If you don't water them, they'll die. On the other hand, if you put the plants directly in the earth, they can grow long roots and have a shot at long term survival.
That's the corner where I take the streetcar to work every day! Yay!
Hahaha! You're too much Dorothy!
when they started dropping free daily rag boxes on my streets I called the city and asked what the official legal status was of these squatter's chattels. They weaselled and waffled (especially when I said I wpould start collecting these abandoned items off public property for scrap metal) and finally said taking them would be "theft". Yet to hear of anyone being charged.
I actually enjoy reading my local weekly from time to time. Are the boxes "obsolete" because these particular ones were no longer being used or because print media is supposedly dead?
Don't know if it was the same guy, but during the garbage strike someone was actually planting flowers into the layers of flyers stuck to utility poles at Queen and Spadina. Saw a number of people watering them. I forgot to check when I wandered through there yesterday to see whether they're still there or not.
Any response(s) to what I typed?
Just that the tie rack idea was spectacularly bad, which was the point, I know, so, point taken. :)
I have been trying to reinvent myself as a landscape artist and its not going that well. There are so many objections to my many "bright ideas." I can get depressed about it, so it is a relief to be able to look at things from a different perspective and laugh at the ridiculousness of the situation and myself, too.
I do wish people weren't so attached to the status quo, though, especially when the status quo sucks. Oh well! The real "art", of course, is learning how to negotiate the hang-ups and projections thrown at you as you move forward toward your goal! Onward!
(It is fucking hell psyching myself up for these park committee meetings. Look at the time! Gotta go!)
Is there someone who guerrilla waters them?
The city probably weaseled and waffled because most communities charge an annual license fee per box.
WOW! That is awesome, I'm also a huge JSB fan!