Talking about the London Cycle Show 2010 I’d like to remember you the Caz Nicklin’s philosophy about the importante of Cycle Chic: “We hope to keep pushing people’s perceptions of cycling and encourage more women to take to wheels by providing products and advice that make sense to the modern woman.”

As you already know, at Refashinoso we are addicted to “Be Eco-Fashionoso” and Copenhagen Cycle Chic is one of the most amazing inspiration site talking about how to cycle chic!. I’m going to show you just an examble of the “Guide they’ve created so far!

On the Copenhagen Cycle Chic’s site you can read: “Here in Copenhagen, our bicycles are just tools that we use to get around. We don’t give them names or fetishize about them, we just use them. However, if you going to spend half your life on your bicycle, you may as well personalise it a bit. We see the bicycle, above, quite often around Copenhagen and it is the ultimate personalised example. Simply gorgeous.

I suppose this isn’t really a How To Guide but more of a source of inspiration from the cyclists of Copenhagen to you. With love.

There are different reasons to personalise your bike. To make it look a bit nicer, to make it match your personal style, to hide the rust, to make it less attractive to thieves. Whatever the case, the sky is the limit and only you can make it your own.”

And now have a look at Copenhagen Cycle Chic’s site to find out all the ideas they’ve collected to personalize your bicycle right now! have a green life.

That’s the amazing idea by Michael Johansson: to get everything, regular and irregular, to turn into regularly ArtWorks. A kind of Tetris Art.

“I am intrigued by irregularities in daily life. Not those that appear when something extraordinary occurs, but those that are created by an exaggerated form of regularity. Colours or patterns from two separate objects or environments concur, like when two people pass each other dressed in the exact same outfit. Or when you are switching channels on your TV and realize that the same actor is playing two different roles on two different channels at the same time. Or that one day the parking lot contained only red cars” he writes.

“These irregularities, these coincidences, are another focus of my artwork.” And now have at Michael Johansson’s site to find out all his amazing ideas.

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.

The lottery ticket creations were sculpted by Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom, for their exhibition “Ghost of a Dream”: the two graduates in 2004 & 2005 from the Rhode Island School of Design were fascinated by the perpetual discarding of lottery tickets, and decided to turn fascination into art.

To know about Ghost of Dream upcoming exibithion have a look at their website!

Enjoy now your green life reusing your bus, train, daily tickets to create your own piece of art!

Look at this funny and simple idea by Heidi Borchers: a smashed soda or aluminum can becomes a funny cow, pig, bear … and for the other animals simple use you fantasy!

You simply need – Materials (for 3 animals):
3 aluminum soda or cola cans
Matte spray paint: peach, white, brown
Acrylic paints: peach, lavender, turquoise, rose, yellow, white, brown
Paintbrushes
Cotton swab (cotton removed from one end)
Scraps of felt: off-white, tan, brown, rose, red, black, pink, white
Aleene’s® Original Tacky Glue™
Scrap of black paper
1/8” diameter hole punch
2 (3/8”) wiggle eyes
1/16” wide satin ribbon: 1 (8″) length print
2 (1/2” diameter) brown bear eyes
Fine-tip permanent black marker
12” length of ¼” wide print ribbon
2 (1/4” diameter) black beads

And now have a look at the Heidi’s tutorial and start to create that with your kids

Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz became a creative team in 1996. Their art is based on a combination of traditional disciplines and experimentation with dimension and the use of unconventional materials. For this sculputers and installations they used huge quantities of reclaimed textiles, in particular old ties: “Snakecharmer Portrait”.

Their figurative sculptures are always deeply ambitious in scale for the exceptional handicraft details and because they address difficult actual themes live violence, war, waste, consumerism….

Enjoy the amazing Guerra de la Paz website.

KIDS BASKET:

She writes: “My son D had his birthday on Wednesday. He wanted a bike basket. Walmart’s cheapest basket was $15.00, and with my sons being so close, I knew that my other one would eventually want one as well. So that’s why I decided to make one instead!” I give a pic of what you need to create this:

and then have a look at A Lemon Squeezy Home’s site for the tutorial details! But this is not finish:

VINTAGE BASKET:

“I remember finishing boy basket, and thinking how pretty it could be for a girl with a few changes. So I re-designed the entire thing to fit an adult vintage style bike. *This basket actually fits my son’s child size bike, so it doesn’t even have to be only for an adult bike!”

I give a pic of what you need to create this and then have a look at A Lemon Squeezy Home’s site for the tutorial details!

have a green life!

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.

If it’s true that we, human beings, in 2010 spend more time on computer than reading a “classic paper book”, we can’t forget that books have plenty of life within them yet! And that’s the stunning idea from Mike Stilkey “Book Sculptures”

“Los Angeles native Mike Stilkey has always been attracted to painting and drawing not only on vintage paper, record covers and book pages, but on the books themselves.Using a mix of ink, colored pencil, paint and lacquer, Stilkey depicts a melancholic and at times a whimsical cast of characters inhabiting ambiguous spaces and narratives of fantasy and fairy tales. A lingering sense of loss and longing hints at emotional depth and draws the viewer into their introspective thrall with a mixture of capricious poetry, wit, and mystery. His work is reminiscent of Weimar-era German expressionism and his style has been described by some as capturing features of artists ranging from Edward Gorey to Egon Schiele.”

Have a look at Mike Stilkey’s Exhibitions to definitively fall in love with his mind!