What do you get when you give a bowl of fruit salad to a guy with OCD? This would be Ursus Wehrli’s interpretation. The Swiss comedian and artist began his career of visually tidying up a few years ago. He noticed a messy pile of red squares in American Artist Donald Baechler’s abstract art and was inspired to recreate the image with the squares stacked up neatly. This comedic alteration of modern art lead to many others which he compiled in his first book Tidying Up Art. [Read more...]
How do we solve the problem of global poverty? In the past and still today, the answer has been to drop food to hungry people world-wide at great cost to the donor countries. While that may be a good emergency solution, the number of people living in poverty continues to grow and the practice is quickly becoming unsustainable. Only The Brave, a non-profit organization, aims to eventually end food drops by providing the poor with sustainable solutions they can operate themselves. Check out their beautifully animated piece below, then head to otbfoundation.org where you can explore new solutions and even take a virtual stroll around a village they are revitalizing. [Read more...]
