Cans Seurat, by Chris Jordan [60" X 92"]

Tia thought we should post these, they depict 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds.

Bullfrogs

We had made friends with bullfrogs yesterday and we named them Sirius, Regulus, and Roar, Roar had named himself here are some pictures:

Tia and I made friends at Vassar's Sunset Lake Yesterday

Today, Tia and I went walking around the lake, finding frogs and naming them. Billy bob, Fred, Ed, Mostly Martha, Pierre, etc., etc. After about half an hour of this, we decided to sit and rest at the bench under the willow tree at the far end of the lake next to the small waterfall. We had been tickling some of the larger frogs with this long piece of grass we had found... (not the baby's, as we didn't want to make them afraid for life... only the big old frogs that looked like they could handle it...hahah..) Here we found this frog a huge frog, he was mostly black. We decided to name him Sirius. Sirius Black.



When Tia tried to tickle Sirius Black with the piece of grass, however.... We both got a BIG surprise.... It all happened so fast, but Sirius turned towards it, and BIT THE END entirely OFF! Moments after this happened, we found a make shift fishing pole on the bench. It was made simply with a stick, tied to a long nylon cord and a short stick was tied to the end of it... perhaps as frog bait. It had no hook, of course, but was perfect for what we did next. We tied some weeds to the end of it, to see how Serius would react. Here's Tia, with the frogging pole, and if you look carefully, another frog, who "told us his name is ROAR." (click on any of these pics and they will enlarge to fill the page.)



Roar:


Before we knew it, more frogs came to play. Here, Roar is joined by Regulus. (side note: we couldn't think of a name for Roar, and when we asked him what we should name him, he immediately replied with his deep bull froggy voice.... "ROOO-OARRR." Hence, the name...)



The rest of the photo's need no explanation - but this is what we did for the next half hour or so. It was hysterical, and a lot of fun, for all of us, I think! Clearly the frogs knew this was not food, but they had a blast, or so it seemed, from the smiles on their faces!

NY Times; Water, Water Everywhere, but Guilt by the Bottlefull

I can't remember how to make the post title a link.... so here is the link to the article. If it doesn't work, try cutting and pasting it into your browser!

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/fashion/12water.html?_r=1&oref=login

More reason to RECYCLE and REUSE....

So, I want to show you some more photographs taken by Chris Jordan, that show us something very important. We, as a country, need to really start thinking about the impact of the things we do every day and take for granted! (Remember to click on each picture to enlarge it, to get the FULL effect.)

Here's reason to buy canvas grocery bags that you can re-use every day. These photographs depict 60,000 plastic bags, the number used in the United States,
E V E R Y
F I V E
S E C O N D S:





And these pictures depict 426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell phones RETIRED IN THE US, EVERY DAY.





To see more pictures depicting our consumption habits, visit the link to his website we have on the right margin.

Where you get Supplies

You can get the eyes on: ebay or amazon
You can get the felt & sewing supplies at any art store in your area
You can get Fabric at any art or fabric store in your area
thats where you can get supplies! if theres any questions you have post a comment for us!

Love = Creatures

We thought that the Love= Creatures were so nice we started to make some ourselves so we're doing mine first.
I thought to make a monkey and we already started on my monkey, we've cut out the body, the eye pieces and the mouth.
our eyes we orderd have indeed come weeks ago so now we are just waiting for a good day to do it on. if you would like to make one this is what you'll need: 1 yard of fabric, needles, pins, felt, eyes, and a brilliant imagination!
I'll show you where to get this stuff on a seperat post!
Thanks!
Tia Mayer