26th Edition - Friday November 6th 2009

worst car advert and Most Creative Recycled Sculptures in this week's Killeen House WWW Update

1) worst car advert ever ?

What is it with the French and car adverts? This was supposed to be wacky and sinister. It showed the boxy Renault escaping from the evil clutches of the Danger Man in Portmeirion - along the lines of the 1970s TV series. But the result borders on the ludicrous with the car being pursued by a giant ball. At one point it makes the Renault look like its fuelled by methane in a large gas bag along the lines of Corporal Jones's butchers van in Dads' Army.

2) When a 3 year old is asked about monsters

3) The Irish Corner : Maximum Occupancy

Five Scotsmen in an Audi Quattro arrived at an Irish border checkpoint. Paddy the officer stops them and tells them: "It is illegal to put 5 people in a Quattro, Quattro means four."

"Quattro is just the name of the automobile," the Scotsmen retorts in disbelief. "Look at the papers: this car is designed to carry five persons."

"You can not pull that one on me," replies Paddy "Quattro means four. You have five people in your car and you are therefore breaking the law."

The Scotsmen replies angrily, "You idiot! Call your supervisor over. I want to speak to someone with more intelligence!"

"Sorry," responds Paddy, "Murphy is busy with 2 guys in a Fiat Uno."

4) The World of Tomorrow (If The Internet Disappeared Today)

5) 13 Most Creative Recycled Sculptures‏

Robert Bradford creates these life-size and larger-than-life sculptures of humans and animals from discarded plastic items, mainly toys but also other colourful plastic bits and pieces, such as combs and buttons, brushes and parts of clothes pegs. In 2002, he started to consider his children's forgotten toys as parts of something bigger. Some of the sculptures contain pieces from up to 3,000 toys and are sold for US$19,000. (Link | Photo)

Artist Stuart Murdoch replicated the Clifton Suspension Bridge using recycled Coke cans. No word yet if anyone has tried to cross the bridge. (Link)

"Broken Family" by Anthony Haywood, uses all the household waste to construct an elephant. (Link)

It's a giant skull made from recycled kitchen utensils. The sculpture was crafted by Indian artist Subodh Gupta.

Sculpture made from recycled watches and clocks, by Michael Roberts. (Link)

London Zoo's Recycled Sculpture exhibit showcases 20 works, like this plastic bag sculpture of a polar bear. (Link)

Korean artist Jean Shin created this sculpture "Sound Wave" (2007) out of melted vinyl records to connote "the inevitable waves of technology that render each successive generation of recordable media obsolete." Her sculpture and others made from recycled materials are part of The Museum of Art and Design's exhibit "Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary." (Link)

Artist Nick Sayers created this piece above called “To Live”, a shelter created from scrap real estate signs designed to create a statement about homelessness and sustainable building. Nick's recycled art is on display at The Lightbox in Woking, Surrey until January 2009. (Link)

Water Bird sculpture at the London Wetlands Centre. Recycled from ITV Fixers Plastic Bag. (Link)

The world of art is buzzing with new ideas for recycling products. The latest addition to this is the Wood And Wire Bird created from scraps of iron, cotton striping, shoe strings, wood, aluminum, glass and paper. This magnificent piece of art is the brainchild of Alabama Chanin, and is available for $735.
(Link)

Another sculpture made from vinyl records. (Link)

He's seven meters tall and weighs three metric tons. He is WEEE Man! This sculpture stands at the Eden Project in Cornwall, after his debut at the South Bank in London. The British Royal Society of Arts had WEEE Man built out of discarded electronic components and household appliances to symbolize how much of this material each person contributes to environmental waste. (Link)

Buddhist Temple from Beer Bottles - Fifty years ago the Heineken Beer company looked at reshaping its beer bottle to be useful as a building block. It never happened, so Buddhist monks from Thailand's Sisaket province took matters into their own hands and collected a million bottles to build the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple. It puts every other bottle building we have shown to shame. Link

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