A good use for empty wine bottles. (Taken with Instagram at HCAF Point Theater)
As many of you who are connected with Unconsumption’s Facebook page know, I (Molly) recently visited Schreiner University (in Kerrville, Texas) to talk to students about upcycling.
While in the area, I spotted a couple of cool reuse examples, including this bottle tree on the grounds of the Hill Country Arts Foundation.
(If you like this bottle tree, check out others in earlier Unconsumption posts here, and more wine-related repurposing here.)
Happy wine o’clock (somewhere)!
More yard art in Austin: Robert Mace’s “bottle prairie.” Old license plates cover the side of the building in the background.
(photo by bubbaofthebubbles on Flickr)
The documentary “Humble Trash” highlights stories of six Austin residents who find creative uses for found, castoff objects.
Not surprisingly, the film’s stars — found-art artists and yardists, a.k.a. yard artists — share a love of “discovery” and seem to derive much satisfaction from both their salvaging efforts and work in displaying their finds.
One yardist, Scott Stevens, whose backyard is filled with bottle cap “snakes” suspended from tree limbs, doll and mannequin heads, crutches, and ironing boards, says working with his hands in his yard is therapeutic. (Check out this amazing panoramic/GigaPan photo of Scott’s yard. Take a moment to zoom in. Crazy, isn’t it?)
The six collections include the Museum of the Ephemerata and the Cathedral of Junk (mentioned previously here and here), which attracts some 10,000+ visitors each year; several of the collections have been stops on the annual Austin Art Yard Tour. (Held most recently last month, in case you missed it.)
Click on the above-embedded video to watch “Humble Trash” — it’s only 17 minutes long — or watch it here via the City of Austin. I think you’ll agree that producer Debbie Eynon Finley did a great job in capturing both the quirkiness and passions of this group of Austinites.
(Austin bottle tree photo via bubbaofthebubbles)
It’s wine o’clock (somewhere) — which means it’s time to share a wine-related repurposing find:
Today: “Bottle trees.” (Location: Shangri La Botanic Garden, in Orange, Texas. Photo by Greg Grant; via Felder Rushing’s Bottle Trees site, mentioned previously on Unconsumption here.)
For earlier finds, scroll through Unconsumption’s “wine o’clock” series of posts here.
Via lettersfromhere:
Stephanie Dwyer’s Bottle Trees (by Deep Fried Kudzu)
Stephanie, a Jackson, Mississippi-based metal artist, is known for her bottle tree creations. Her Web site links to that of horticulturalist Felder Rushing, who provides some bottle tree history and an array of photos of various bottle trees (a.k.a. “poor man’s stained glass”). If you look at his site, be sure to scroll down to view the photos.
For other wine-related repurposing ideas: Check out the Unconsumption “wine o’clock” series — a semi-regular series of Friday afternoon wine-themed posts — here.
Happy wine o’clock (somewhere), y’all!
