Art & Multi-Media

Visual Artists

• Beach Plastic: the project of artists Judith Selby Lang and  Richard Lang who for over ten years have collected plastic trash from the beach at the Point Reyes National sea shore and incorporated it into beautiful works of art to highlight the environmental issues of plastic pollution.
• Deep Deep Trouble: Bay Area artist who creates small plastic sculptures that convey literal messages about our plastic pollution problem and culture.
• Dianna Cohen: L.A. artist who paints with plastic bags and other trash to create beautiful abstract pieces that comment on our disposable society. Read Dianna’s profile on Fake Plastic Fish here.
• Kathleen Egan: Bay Area surfer who creates mosaics and sculptures from plastic beach trash, notably a giant plastic bottle wave that can be “surfed” by members of the public. Read Kathleen’s profile on Fake Plastic Fish.
• Martin Waters Environmental Art: U.K. artist inspired by nature and the detritus found at Spurn Point,  “a fast disappearing stretch of the East Yorkshire coastline.”

Audio/Video

This totally addictive, hilarious video makes me so happy I could cry. Too bad about the commercial that shows up beforehand on the YouTube site.

Check out how this woman can create five reusable bags from one T-shirt!

Other Videos:

• BBC News Report: Plastic is being eaten by animals throughout the food chain
• Point of Return (learn where our recycling goes)
• Sky News Report: Green Britain — Are You Poisoning China?
• Synthetic Sea
• Comedy Central: Stephen Colbert vs. No Impact Man
• The Buggles — “Living in the Plastic Age” music video
• Micah Wolf’s “One by One” music video

Music:

Aeode, Blue Gold, beautiful song about plastic pollution. Listen to song and visit site.