{"id":583,"date":"2009-12-21T16:50:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T16:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2009\/12\/hubcap-creatures.html"},"modified":"2009-12-21T16:50:06","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T16:50:06","slug":"hubcap-creatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2009\/12\/hubcap-creatures.html","title":{"rendered":"Art Can Save The World &#8211; But Then We Need More Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"http:\/\/krisdedecker.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e0099229e888330120a763af15970b-pi\"><img  class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00e0099229e888330120a763af15970b image-full \" alt=\"Strange-fish-sculpture by ptolemy elrington\" title=\"Strange-fish-sculpture by ptolemy elrington\" src=\"http:\/\/krisdedecker.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e0099229e888330120a763af15970b-800wi\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>These days, artists have no difficulty in finding free materials to work with. The same stuff can be used over and over again, for different purposes. One artwork can be transformed into another. Why can&#8217;t our industrial production system work the same way? Because it is automated and needs standardized parts. Mass production and re-use of scavenged materials don&#8217;t match, unless the materials undergo the (mostly energy-intensive) intermediate step of recycling. <\/p>\n<p>Above: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thisblogrules.com\/2009\/10\/insanely-detailed-sculptures-made-from.html\">Hubcap creatures<\/a> by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hubcapcreatures.com\/\">Ptolemy Elrington<\/a> (also <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hubcapcreatures.com\/other_work_06.html\">see<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hubcapcreatures.com\/other_work_04.html\">his<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hubcapcreatures.com\/other_work_05.html\">lamps<\/a> &#8211; why do we need new materials to make lamps? There is enough trash in the world to make lamps for another 10,000 years).<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days, artists have no difficulty in finding free materials to work with. The same stuff can be used over and over again, for different purposes. One artwork can be transformed into another. Why can&#8217;t our industrial production system work the same way? Because it is automated and needs standardized parts. Mass production and re-use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[64,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}