Source: A Chinese artist vacuumed up Beijing’s smog for 100 days and made a brick from what he collected
December 1, 2015
A Chinese artist vacuumed up Beijing’s smog for 100 days and made a brick from what he collected
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December 6th, 2015 at 4:39 am
We need a million more of this kind of performance artist. Thanks for sharing.
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December 8th, 2015 at 3:12 pm
-grin- That would be a million bricks! Might even clean the air out a bit.
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December 2nd, 2015 at 7:00 pm
I thought Diarrhea tended to be the one colour?
Modern art has a place I suppose for those who understand it, but bricks??? Meh !
xxx Huge Hugs xxx
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December 3rd, 2015 at 2:38 pm
-grin- Oh David! This is ‘performance art’ so the genius is in the making rather than the finished ‘work’. :p
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December 2nd, 2015 at 10:29 am
Just imagine what would happen if he tried this at a political debate!?!
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December 2nd, 2015 at 10:36 am
-giggles- Indeed. You’d have to wonder what ‘colour’ all that captured hot air would be. 😀
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December 2nd, 2015 at 6:52 am
Sadly if I collected the sweeping and vacuum dirt from one tiny city apartment for 100 days the result would be similar. And still they keep building in the inner city along the rail corridor.
Yet again we question “the obligation to endure”.
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December 2nd, 2015 at 8:49 am
-nods- Ostrich syndrome methinks. Speaking of, there was a very interesting segment on Catalyst last night about the correlation between lead in the environment and violent crime. I wonder if this will become another one of those situations where ‘people knew’ but refused to let the penny drop.
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December 2nd, 2015 at 9:23 am
a la the 7.30 Report’s coverage of Qld mining and Black Lung last night…
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December 2nd, 2015 at 10:37 am
yes! I saw that too. Unbelievable in this day and age.
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December 2nd, 2015 at 4:16 am
Ugh. Even though it says at the bottom that probably only 100 grams was pollution, it’s still a smart, symbolic gesture. The air we breathe can be toxic, and China definitely has it bad.
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December 2nd, 2015 at 8:50 am
Yes, especially now. Apparently Beijing is smothered in a blanket of pollution so thick they’ve had to cancel flights.
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December 2nd, 2015 at 9:54 am
Oh, that’s terrible.
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December 2nd, 2015 at 3:37 am
OH MY!!!
I honestly don’t know how to react to this. I went to China in 1984 and I remember asking about the exposure to jade dust in a jade factory we toured (you had to go with a group back in 1984, not choices). The guide told us that China aspired to the pollution and industrial illnesses of the West.
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December 2nd, 2015 at 8:53 am
-face palm- well, they certainly have them in Beijing now. I wonder if this is why China is finally turning itself around re Climate Change? If their aspirations of becoming the biggest green energy producer come true it will be a true rags to riches story.
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December 1st, 2015 at 10:38 pm
Could probably make blocks, let alone bricks, out of the amount of dust in my houses 😦
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