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SUNDAY SHOW & TELL
vol.85

This week, we feature a whole host of bicycle and tree related art projects, all of which should bring a smile to your face.

Are you a fan of Monty Python? A big enough fan to attach a coconut clapping device to your bicycle so that it sounds like a trotting horse while you're riding? Yes, there is an app for that.

TROTIFY (video)

This 16-year-old artist uses fallen leaves as her canvases, and creates some strikingly beautiful cityscapes in paint. Her work also promotes a simple idea: we do not need to cut trees down for paper. Take a look at her inspired offerings.

PAINTING ON LEAVES (photos)

Before there were iPhones and bluetooth speakers, there were record and gramophone players. Now, thanks to the ingenuity of a couple of Dutch designers, you can turn your bike into one of the latter and rock your preferred tunes with a stroke of the pedal. Talk about a soundtrack to life!

BICYCLE THAT PLAYS RECORDS (photos)

Most of us treat cardboard as a disposable form of packaging. One artist, Evan Jospin, has given the product a profound second life. Invoking the strong and durable yet raw and impermanent qualities of the medium, which mirror those of trees, she carves intricate and dense forests by gluing several layers together and slowly excising the interior. Hers is some incredible work.

DENSE CARDBOARD FORESTS (photos)

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SUNDAY SHOW & TELL
vol.55

NASA recently announced plans to use a laser system originally designed for the International Space Station to create a 3D map Earth's forests in an effort to better understand and quantify their degradation over time. Super cool.

Another amazing technological advance has been proposed by Austrian designer Kristof Retezar. The Fontus is a bicycle bottle system that collects water from the humidity in the air as you ride. Imagine having that during a long ride through the desert!

Earlier this year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art released a vast archive of 400,000 mostly high resolution digital images for public use. What a treasure trove! We searched through their digital archive and found some fantastic paintings and drawings of trees that we had to share. Check out the link below to the album we created, and feel free to use the images at will for any non-commercial purpose!

3D MAPPING FORESTS WITH SPACE LASERS (article)

COLLECTING WATER FROM THE AIR (article)

TREE IMAGES FROM THE MET (photos)

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SUNDAY SHOW & TELL
vol.6

Think you live on your bike?  Check this guy out!  Then, spend a moment with some of the world's greatest artists, tree lovers all.  Inspirational quotes and paintings abound.  With that in mind, see the losses and gains in the world's forests from 2000 to 2012.  Bikes and trees!

THE MAN WHO LIVED ON HIS BIKE

THE ARTIST & THE TREE

GLOBAL FOREST CHANGE (2000-2012)