“Bel & Bel is a creative studio-workshop opened in 2006. It is located in Viladecans (Barcelona). It is a seventeenth century country estate house which, after a thorough process of rehabilitation, became our creative space where developing our creations.”

Bel & Bel’s artists write: “We admire the brilliant design of classical vehicles as the legendary Vespa Scooter or our beloved SEAT 600. From that admiration we began to work with these old pieces in order to give validity to its great style.”

“We are young, creative and contemporary artists. We appreciate the Art surrounding us, we live it and we adapt it.
For us, there are other ways of approaching Art to the public apart from Museums and galleries. From this intention we decided to create an open art space.
From the opening of our space, we have tried to open our as a meeting point for other artists, film makers, musicians, etc with the aim of finding a common ground to set up and share projects.”
Have a look at Bel & Bel’s porfolio and enjoy their creative-eco minds!

Few days ago “sailing” at etsy I found this amazing artist: Ann P. Smiths. “ANN SMITH spends her days making little robotic like figurines from broken electronics and machine parts. The sculptures are sold in stores and galleries throughout the US and have been published as illustrations in magazines and brochures. Her Clients include Chevron lubricants division, Cricket Magazine, and Cicada Magazine.

“Ann’s illustrations have been selected to appear in the Communications Arts Illustration Annual #337, the American Illustration 25 Annual, and the 3×3 Illustration Annual No. 7. Recently, She has received both local and international recognition from Wired Magazine (US), PBS Boston, DPI Magazine (Taiwan), Architectural Digest (Germany), GQ (Germany), and The Discovery Channel Canada. ”

Have a look at Ann’s “burrowburrow” website to find out all the details about her creations, to buy them or simply to get inspirations about how to reuse your everyday broken electronics and machine parts.

That’s the elegant idea from Neal Bridgens handmade from brass, copper and even oak: “yes it’s real, not femo or glue or paint or found parts, it’s all hand made using jewellers techniques — it should probably outlive me (not the iPod mind you). It’s not particularly for sale, I use it and rather like it, but I’m not against offers being made…Much to my surprise about 20 people a day come by to look at this. Thanks for your interest! ”
I love deeply love that!

Don’t lose more time: have a look at the Neal Bridgens’s site to keep the great work up!

With great pleasure FreeStyle Reloaded introduce you a new Italian Eco-Artist, Paolo Lo Giudice: “Who makes intellectual work usually, in his free time, needs a manual jobs to get off from a sedentary lifestyle. I started 10 years ago looking at the pieces of broken moto bikes from my sons, combined that with a passion for modern and contemporary art. Now I use plastic, wood, leather and metal who offers more possibilities of composition and it’s very challenge!”

“I wondered if when an object ceases its original function, automatically becomes a waste. I think that the end of the objects depends on the person who takes care of them. Personally I can recover and reuse things trying to give them a new aesthetic dimension thus prolonging their life cycle”.

In 2004 Paolo started with his first exibithion to bring his unique creations all around Italy and never stopped! To find out more have a look at FreeStyle Reloaded’s site or to Paolo Lo Giudice’s gallery.

See you soon,
Cristina Savi – FreeStyle Edition.

“Computers are something we use daily. We work on them, we learn on them, we have fun on them, we explore the world on them. We make them to fit our personalties, but all you see is just your screen. The rest is pretty boring.. black boxes.. black keyboards.. (how about the years of beige, now that was awful) Still, they really don’t fit our surroundings, our decor, our homes, office or business” says the Designer Woodguy on the OldTimeComputer Atelier.

“I have been addicted to Macs for too long…since the days of the Color Classic…and I been hotrodding them internally for years.. making them faster and faster and fixing broken computers..You see I like to tinker. I am a hot-rodder… I build old Woodies (wood body cars from the 30’s) and build them from scratch. So now I cut up computers and offering these one off works to a select lucky few, they all take a long time to build, so they will not be in production. This is just a hobby and something I enjoy and put my heart into…”

Have a look at Woodguy’s shop and enjoy!

From the Royal Air Force Museum – London this amazing resource: an Eurofighter Typhoon model created for TV advert. The tools and implements from which it is made show the wide variety of career opportunities in the Royal Air Force today.
You can create this with and for your kids too, because the most important thing to win a battle is the strategy!

How many different tools can you count?

To Compare this model with the real thing in the milestones of flights visit the Royal Air Force Museum – London – it’s for free.

Have a great life.

RECYCLE EXPERIENCE was born from the willingness to make and redesign any kind of used stuffs, which their existence is not expected, become an expression media to convey the desire of explorating and inovating. Those ‘unexpected stuffs’, surround us into some Imagination Robotic Characters.

This 2 picts are just an example of what they can create re-using old stuff around. So to find out more simply have a look at RECYCLE EXPERIENCE’s blog and enjoy your green life!

“You know those things about yourself that you’re self conscious of? Those quirks that you’re trying to hide? Those are not your weaknesses, those are your strengths.” (Terry Border)

Maybe you know Terry Border, the everyday things american poet. “The Secret Life of Everyday Things” is the title of his recent photo book : 70 pictures of his excellent wacky, strange creations. I’s a kind of second and creative life of our everyday objects world. I used to play in this magic land only when i was a child. This artist let it  still live on. I’m not surprised to read in his facebook that “Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain” is one of his favourite films…
I asked Terry to tell me something about his art and about his life. These are his words: “When I have an idea about one that interests me, I add wire to show what I am thinking. A lot of the times, this means adding wire arms and legs, to create a character. I started working with wire probably a dozen years ago. I started adding objects in 2006. At first, the objects were added as a filler material, so that the sculpture could be seen more easily. After a few months, I started playing with the meanings of the objects themselves. I probably have made a few hundred Bent Objects, but maybe 120 of them have real stories that some people find amazing. I have no other job right now, although I need one. If someone has a good paying job that they can give me, it would be welcome. I’m married, and have a 12 year old daughter. My wife and daughter give me good criticism about my work.” If you’re more curious I suggest you to follow his blog: “Bent Objects“, where he post photos of his creations, and not only…

Here only a little gallery

Jane Eldershaw wrote a book about her creations with an amazing title too “junk jewelry”. In her blog she says “junk jewellery is my name for jewelry made from found objects”. Here you can see just an example of what she likes to create: a necklace from old keys, calulator and champagne tops. Earrings from keyboard buttons. You can see more on Jane’s blog.

Now create yours and write your ideas, photos and videos at refashinoso@shicon.com.

Have a great life.

Old television sets may not seem an obvious source of material for dressmaking and millinery, but Alison Bailey Smith, who has lived in Australia, Canada, San Francisco and England uses colorful recycled wire from electrical appliances as the basis for much of her work, which includes boxes, jewelry, lampshades, and clothing.

Alison loves to organize workshops to show everyone how to turn old waste wire – mostly from old televisions – into FashionArt and this is amazing!

Now enjoy to do the same joning the “Art for a digital world” contest on Shicon.com
Good luck every one.