One Plastic Beach

2013-05-02T13:01:24.166Z

Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang have been collecting plastic debris off one beach in Northern California for over ten years. Each piece of plastic Richard and Judith pick up comes back to their house, where it gets cleaned, categorized and stored before being used for their art. The couple make sculptures, prints, jewelry and installations with the plastic they find washed up, raising a deeper concern with the problem of plastic pollution in our seas.

To learn more about their work, visit:

http://www.beachplastic.com/
http://www.plasticforever.blogspot.com/

and to learn more about the Gyre:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch

Camera / Edit - Eric Slatkin ericslatkin.com
Producer - Tess Thackara

Gyre Footage Courtesy of Macdonald Productions

Hexagonal Pewter Stool, poured into the sand

2013-01-15T21:41:54.309Z

Inspired by a childhood spent on the beaches of Cornwall building castles, boats and tunnels in the sand, I decided to return to my favourite beach at Caerhays on the south coast of Cornwall to produce a stool using a primitive form of sand-casting. Molten pewter was poured into a sand mould sculpted directly into the beach by hand, and once cooled the sand was dug away to reveal a pewter stool.

By Max Lamb

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One Plastic Beach

Hexagonal Pewter Stool, poured into the sand