Even as we cling to cars as part of the me-first way of life, cars keep insistently trying to show us that they are a stupid choice. They ravage the landscape with highways and parking lots, they ravage our wallets, they ravage our quality of life (if you do that hellish thing we call a “commute”), they ravage the atmosphere, they ravage the planet. One less-destructive thing we can do with them, though, is recycle them as art. All of the following are built entirely or largely from used auto parts:
by sculptor Miina Äkkijyrkkä
(MORE PHOTOS AFTER THE JUMP)
Sink and vanity made by Ronen Wasserman entirely from the hood of a Volvo 240.
And of course, the venerable Carhenge.
Such a sexy red cow! That kinda thing could influence a guy, you know?
Meanwhile, speaking of parts or fragments, or whatever you call them, we have:
Fragments of Fukushima
New York Times’ Lens Blog, By Shreeya Sinha, September 25
The first time the Tokyo-based photographer Kosuke Okahara visited a town near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, he grabbed his dosimeter, a device used to measure radiation levels, and looked at his watch to see how much time he could spend at the location.
“I was very scared because of radiation,” he said. “After four to five months, I became calm, and I went back to the beginning of why I was taking pictures.”
That was August 2011, five months after an earthquake and tsunami ravaged Japan and set off the world’s worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.
Since then, Mr. Okahara has traveled to Fukushima Prefecture almost every month. On Sept. 6, at the Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival in France, Getty Images awarded him $20,000 to support his investigation of the fallout from the nuclear accident, and of those who suffered most.
“I’m collecting fragments,” Mr. Okahara said of his work, which includes both photos and audio.
Photographs at the link.
Here’s one that’s provides a little scale information: