Comments on: Rainbows of trash http://boingboing.net/2011/05/10/rainbows-of-trash.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 23 May 2013 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/05/10/rainbows-of-trash.html#comment-1105932 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1105932 Reminds me of some of Tony Cragg's work Reminds me of some of Tony Cragg’s work

]]> By: Michael Smith http://boingboing.net/2011/05/10/rainbows-of-trash.html#comment-1105946 Michael Smith Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1105946 Hey! Thats an old MIL key in the Darabin Creek. I wonder what it opens? Hey! Thats an old MIL key in the Darabin Creek. I wonder what it opens?

]]> By: Bill http://boingboing.net/2011/05/10/rainbows-of-trash.html#comment-1105951 Bill Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1105951 Cool. This work is very similar to the work of Robert Rindler - currently on exhibit at PAAM (Provincetown Art Association and Museum). Check it out: http://blog.swelldwellonline.com/bid/52343/One-Person-s-Trash Cool. This work is very similar to the work of Robert Rindler – currently on exhibit at PAAM (Provincetown Art Association and Museum).

Check it out: http://blog.swelldwellonline.com/bid/52343/One-Person-s-Trash

]]> By: MorganHopes http://boingboing.net/2011/05/10/rainbows-of-trash.html#comment-1105989 MorganHopes Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1105989 This reminds me of the colour sorting of scrap in Jasper Fforde's 'Shades of Grey'. Not sure whether that's awesome or a bit scary. This reminds me of the colour sorting of scrap in Jasper Fforde’s ‘Shades of Grey’. Not sure whether that’s awesome or a bit scary.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/05/10/rainbows-of-trash.html#comment-1107034 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1107034 http://www.thegathering-artscouncilcollection.org.uk/artists/tonycragg - Tony Cragg from 1979. http://www.thegathering-artscouncilcollection.org.uk/artists/tonycragg – Tony Cragg from 1979.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/05/10/rainbows-of-trash.html#comment-1106800 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1106800 That's exactly what I thought. They have to mine old dumps for residual colored objects, which they refine into dyes. People in the book can only see a restricted range of color or are colorblind, and their whole society is ranked by which colors you see and how strongly. I think it's Fforde's best work, and I'm eagerly awaiting the sequel. That’s exactly what I thought. They have to mine old dumps for residual colored objects, which they refine into dyes. People in the book can only see a restricted range of color or are colorblind, and their whole society is ranked by which colors you see and how strongly. I think it’s Fforde’s best work, and I’m eagerly awaiting the sequel.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/05/10/rainbows-of-trash.html#comment-1106036 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1106036 And it was nice 30 years ago when Tony Cragg did this: http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/work_detail.php?id=28&artname=&page= And it was nice 30 years ago when Tony Cragg did this:
http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/work_detail.php?id=28&artname=&page=

]]> By: Zagrobelny http://boingboing.net/2011/05/10/rainbows-of-trash.html#comment-1106058 Zagrobelny Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1106058 Tony Cragg's been doing this exact thing since 1978. Tony Cragg’s been doing this exact thing since 1978.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/05/10/rainbows-of-trash.html#comment-1106113 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1106113 @MorganHopes That was my first thought as well. @boingboing eds Go read Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde. It's bloody good! @MorganHopes That was my first thought as well.
@boingboing eds Go read Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde. It’s bloody good!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/05/10/rainbows-of-trash.html#comment-1106630 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1106630 That's right! Who cares if it's been done before, almost all art is a rehash, remix (whatever) of things gone by, surely how Liz Jones defines her work is what makes it interesting? What spin she puts on it? It's not EXACTLY the same as the work of Robert Rindler or Tony Cragg, but it probably owes a lot to it. Should that diminish it in any way? That’s right! Who cares if it’s been done before, almost all art is a rehash, remix (whatever) of things gone by, surely how Liz Jones defines her work is what makes it interesting? What spin she puts on it?

It’s not EXACTLY the same as the work of Robert Rindler or Tony Cragg, but it probably owes a lot to it. Should that diminish it in any way?

]]> By: Gloria http://boingboing.net/2011/05/10/rainbows-of-trash.html#comment-1106127 Gloria Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1106127 Coming up: BB post about cool pottery. "The Mesopotamians did this ages ago. Pfft." Coming up: BB post about cool pottery.

“The Mesopotamians did this ages ago. Pfft.”

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