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This afternoon.

John L Gillen tweetz:

I made planters for my tomatoes from some of [Social Democrat] Gary Gannon posters from the European election.

In fairness.

Meanwhile…

Designed by Hiroshi Nakamura Architects, the award-winning sustainable pub at Kamikatsu in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan celebrates and serves a populace dedicated to attaining zero waste.

On offer, along with beer from the in-house brewery, are household supplies and food – all served in  a tall, eclectically furnished wedge heated by a wood burner fed by branches from the nearby forest, dominated by an eight meter high double -layered wall of windows salvaged from abandoned houses.

archdaily

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Miami-based Colombian multimedia artist Federico Uribe – drawn to the “neglected beauty of simple objects in daily use”- repurposes fragments of pencils, held together with glue and zip-ties to create landscapes, 3D figures and textured ‘paintings’.

mymodernmet/crossconnect