To operate the decorative light, one must gently move the ring (containing a magnet) towards the main jewelry piece. This project is interesting to me because it expands on what the idea of jewelry is as ornamentation, making it more than just a piece of something that you decorate your ear, neck or wrist with.

Danish artist Marco Evaristti took 780 gallons of red paint, three fire hoses and a 20-member crew  to Greenland in search of a blank canvas large enough to accommodate his creative impulse. The result is a blood-red iceberg now sitting off the country’s western coast. The work is part of his Trilogy series.

“Trilogy comprises three projects that deal with the themes of territories and states. Using fruit color and fabric, Evaristti coloured an ice cube in Greenland, areas of Mont Blanc and a sand dune in the Sahara, red. He then declared them all as his territory and named it ‘Pink State’. The work is a series of transient changes in nature, touching on issues of environmental pollution, territorial demands and political methods.”

Evaristti was arrested during the Mont Blanc painting.

“This simple, yet effective concoction is an old favourite of gardeners trying to encourage moss growth and provides an excellent alternative to spray paint.”

You can create your own, slow growing, natural (organic) and impermanent murals, typography, or graffiti anywhere!

Find a suitable damp and shady wall on to which you can apply your moss recipe (I’ll provide that, via mossgraffiti). Paint your art or design onto the wall by hand or using a stencil. Eventually, as long as the conditions are good and damp, moss should form and grow into a whole rooted plant – maintaining your chosen design before eventually colonizing the whole area.

Here is the Recipe:

• 1 can of beer
• 1/2 teaspoon of sugar
• several clumps of garden moss
• You will need a plastic container with a lid, a blender and a paintbrush.

Now that you have the recipe, you are free to go out into the world and create green, living graffiti!

I find the ways in which people personalize the urban world around them fascinating – especially when it is in such a unique way! I was familiar with guerrilla gardening, but this is completely new and exciting to me! I might just go make my mark on the world this weekend!

Here is an example of a different take on the idea of “interactive” using textiles:This is the anonymous hugging wall from Keetra Dean Dixon. There are two arms sewn in into the wall, so that you can either be the hugger, or the hug-ee, depending on what side you stand, or what mood you’re in.

I like the annonymous way of connecting with people, and I love the spin on “interaction” and the use of textiles. If walls can “come alive” and give out hugs, in what other ways can we engage with our environment? And what if all normally hard, rigid surfaces (like walls) were suddenly made of fabric and textiles? Wouldn’t that be interesting….

The tattoo-me boots have changeable linings each of the linings have a different pattern on, when worn they will eventually leave an imprint on the legs, thus creating a temporary tattoo. Fellow classmate and blogger Sheila was also looking at something similar.

I’m not saying that I find either of these examples practical in any way (in fact, the idea of sitting on beaded underwear all day just so I can have an embossed backside that no one might even see sounds painful and pointless). But I do find the idea of our garments making a mark upon us extremely interesting. In fact, I started to wonder who else was exploring the idea of designed objects making temporary marks on our bodies. I stumbled upon the Sun-Tattoo blanket by Yu-Chiao Wang which I think is both amazing and ridiculous at the same time:  amazing because of the concept, ridiculous due to the impracticality of it.

And in keeping with suntanning, for those of you who have left a poolside lounge chair with unsightly marks all over your body after a day of baking in the sun, Jenny Pokryvailo has designed a more aesthetically pleasing solution.  Her chaise lounge leaves a beautiful flower temporarily embossed in your skin, instead of the usual loung chair pattern. Again, I’m not as interested in the actual products as I am in the idea of leaving temporary marks on the body with objects or garmets that touch our skin for a period of time. I wonder if there is a way to apply this same idea to communicate a bigger idea, rather than solely for decoration.