I pulled this image out of a National Geographic a couple of years back and came across it in my files recently. According to it managing director Billy Chau, at one point Boji exported 1.6 million trees to the U.S. … Continue reading
Situated in a concrete front yard on Fondren Drive, just beyond the intersection with Airline, the Porta Hedge (Birder’s Retreat) is currently providing one University Park household some privacy and a bit of evergreen to look at out their window. … Continue reading
This 7 foot artificial evergreen was donated by a resident of The Village, a housing development on Amesbury Drive in Dallas, Texas. It is now planted in what was a bare spot next to a bush and an air conditioning … Continue reading
In his MAKE Magazine Blog post on the Terrestrial Shrub Rover, How-Not-To: Be Seen, Matt Mets brings attention to Monty Python’s darkly hilarious comedy sketch How Not To Be Seen with its camera (audience) standing in for a military firing … Continue reading
The much anticipated prototype of the Monster Log R/C™ model is currently in early phases of testing. The Monster Log R/C™ is the first of several Monster Log™ offerings that will appeal to various market segments. Early release photos of … Continue reading
7,000 Evergreens celebrates its second anniversary with a new song by Charlie Green. Please donate your old fake Christmas tree, volunteer, or plant a tree at www.7000evergreens.org
The Terrestrial Shrub Rover’s maiden voyage is up on YouTube. Share it, embed it, send it along to all you know.
For the exhibition Engineering Eden at Allegheny College, artist Jessica Longobardo compiled three handmade booklets for three of her friends, each of whom comes from a distinct bioregion in the United States. Each booklet includes a map illustrating the distribution … Continue reading
This gift card case that I picked up at Dunkin’ Donuts this summer would seem to indicate that Dunkin’ Donuts believes their slogan America Runs on Dunkin’ has extended to Trees Run on Dunkin’, or that America=Tree. There is a … Continue reading
The Terrestrial Shrub Rover debuted this weekend at the Grounds for Sculpture. The reception was a wonderful event and celebrated the opening of the Fall/Winter Exhibition at the Grounds, which includes the 2009 Outstanding Student Achievement in Sculpture show, a … Continue reading
On its first day out in the field (and on the road), the Terrestrial Shrub Rover maneuvered well over the relatively flat terrain. One exception was an early full-speed collision with a mailbox. Luckily, neither the mailbox, nor the Shrub … Continue reading
In the 1930′s, the Addis Brush Company introduced an artificial Christmas tree whose branches were made from the same brush bristles as the toilet bowl brushes it produced. The Addis Toilet Tree Brush pays homage to the company’s ingenuity by rearranging … Continue reading
Join 7,000 Evergreens in front of EYEBEAM Art + Technology Center on 21st Street between 10th & 11th Avenues tomorrow, Saturday, October 18, between 12:00 PM and 6:00 PM to donate your old unwanted artificial Christmas tree. Now is the … Continue reading
The Porta Park debuted this past weekend at the 2008 Conflux Festival in Greenwich Village. We found a great parking spot for the first completed Porta Park unit right outside of the Center for Architecture where Conflux headquartered itself this … Continue reading
Small in scale compared to the Olympics, perhaps. But grand is the first word that comes to mind when describing this past weekend’s first ever Christmas Tree Toss World Championships. The Institute for Aesthletics did a fantastic job organizing this … Continue reading
Don’t toss your Christmas Tree out, toss it into a new composition! 7,000 Evergreens and the Institute for Aesthletics present the first ever Christmas Tree Toss to take place September 5 on Long Island in Easthampton. Participants will toss javelins … Continue reading
What a fantastic opportunity! I am pleased to announce that the city of Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts has invited our project, 7,000 Evergreens to participate in the 2008-2009 Baltimore Sculpture Project show in downtown Baltimore.
I am pleased to announce that I have been chosen by the members of the 7,000 Evergreens project to produce a series of commemorative sculptures for the 7,000 Evergreens project, to be shown at the Mason Gross Galleries in an … Continue reading