![We’ve come across a couple of creative new uses for old slides and strips of film negatives; here’s a different one, woven by Elizabeth Morisette into art.
Fort Collins [Colorado-] based artist Elizabeth Morisette creates playful objects that re-imagine the ancient arts of weaving and basket making for the 21st century. Using recycled or re-purposed materials, she links the machine made and the handmade, transforming cast-off consumer waste into wondrous forms. (via the Fort Lewis College Art Gallery)
Pictured: Slides and cotton twine woven on a cotton warp, 33” x 40” x 2”, via Morisette on Flickr.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/e79293d5d49df98b95e0c3bb0ea57687/tumblr_mjinb2dK1g1qzv12bo1_400.jpg)
We’ve come across a couple of creative new uses for old slides and strips of film negatives; here’s a different one, woven by Elizabeth Morisette into art.
Fort Collins [Colorado-] based artist Elizabeth Morisette creates playful objects that re-imagine the ancient arts of weaving and basket making for the 21st century. Using recycled or re-purposed materials, she links the machine made and the handmade, transforming cast-off consumer waste into wondrous forms. (via the Fort Lewis College Art Gallery)
Pictured: Slides and cotton twine woven on a cotton warp, 33” x 40” x 2”, via Morisette on Flickr.
Exhibitions at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art serve as tie-making inspiration for MoMA employee Nicholas Tee Ruiz, who says:
What started off as a sustainable way to look dapper for events at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) - has blossomed into a forward thinking initiative to re-purpose everyday materials into works of wearable art. In January 2011, I challenged myself to construct 11 unique bow ties designed around the major exhibition openings and benefit events orchestrated by the Special Programming & Events department at MoMA that year.
Pictured: Bow Tie #9. Assembled October/November 2011 for MoMA Film Benefit 2011. Film negatives, MTA MetroCard, super glue. Forest Hills, Queens, New York.
For the rest of the bow tie collection, see Nicholas’s Made in Forest Hills site.
(Photos via Made in Forest Hills and Kickstarter)
Here’s another use for strips of film/negatives: bows!
(photo via undoneclothing on Etsy)
Do you remember the basket made from strips of 35mm and movie film?
Well here’s another creative new use for film.
(Shelf and photo by VU35. Spotted on TreeHugger.)
Perhaps pair it with this projector-turned-lamp?
Isn’t this basket, woven from rolls of 35mm and 16mm film, a great new use for old film?
Probably fairly easy to make, assuming you have strips of film/negatives and know how to weave your own basket (there’s a tutorial for that here).
Pictured: upcycled film basket, made by Raquel Moreno Lopez, via entupunto.
Lampshade made from photo negatives — from Apartment Therapy Re-Nest.
Related Unconsumption posts: X-ray lampshade and Kodachrome slide curtain (tutorial).
