Nicola's No Ordinary World is made from recycled objects and gourds.: Simple Solutions to the Worlds Problems

Monday, 9 July 2012

Bees and Insects

I know this has nothing to do with my art or my books BUT I am VERY passionate about this. Albert Eienstein quoted (something like)

"When the last bee dies the world has 4 years of life left."

Humans pour out poision into the air and soil and chop down trees and flowers like there is no tomorrow. ONLY a few of us try to do 'something'.

I think that the only way this world can be saved from the people on it is by getting one person at a time to do 'something' to change the world they live in. Sometimes that one person gets other people and a group of people do 'something' and that is great but other times I feel the indivual person feels "What can I do? I am only one person."

Well here do this. Make or buy an insect hotel and hang it in a tree, hang it at the back of a shed.
Check out You Tube there are lots of people doing this. It is very inspiring to see. I am going to do another post with two videos.

Thursday, 10 May 2012

Simple Solutions to the Worlds Problems - Light

This is amazing! Can you imagine yourself living in a house that has no light at all unless you want to pay more money than you can afford just to switch the light on for a minute or two. Crawling around in the dark looking for things. Well they always say the simplist solution is the best and this could not be any simplier and there is no reason why we can not use it here in our modern electric filled world.
http://www.wimp.com/lightenup/

No Ordinary World

The world is awash with the refuse of the human race, but what if some of it could be reused?

In years gone by a place of sanctuary was required to hide from the fears infesting the mind. A world of fantasy grew all around comforting the spirit. Then imagination was not enough. It was necessary to touch what was once thought, tread the paths woven in the mind, to feel the essence of one's dreams, to walk through what was no ordinary world.

But how?

With gourds in one hand and decades of casts off from a life of hording in another, order grew. With plastic, string, balloons and more, plants, fungi and creatures appeared beneath the fingers that wove them into existence. Homes appeared, small, delicate and secretive, filled with the waste thrown away by human beings. Layers of life surrounded them. A touch of nature was added. The earthiness of the gourd embodied them with an essence that made one believe that this could all be real.

As stories began to be told through the written word, the models, entwined within, both grew in size, width and depth.

Strangers looked upon a world that was like no other. It was tactile, full of layers, it drew them in and, with their imaginations ablaze they too now wandered the paths that lay before them lost in the innocence of a childhood long since gone.

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Monday, 9 July 2012

Bees and Insects

Thursday, 10 May 2012

Simple Solutions to the Worlds Problems - Light