Sculptures Made From Tires

By Johnny Cat in Art, Auto & Transportation on Oct 15, 2009 at 6:09 pm

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Recycle, reuse, rethink how we look at garbage. Tires are an especially volatile item, as they take up space and emit terrible fumes when burned. Check out Oddee‘s collection of creative sculptures made from discarded tires.

Link | Above example found at mo_metalart’s Flickr set.

Previously on Neatorama – Tired.

Update 10/15/09 by Alex: The artist is Mirko Siakkou-Flodin, and this particular tire sculpture is at the Jumeirah Beach Residence in Dubai, UAE. Oddee is a great source of many interesting things, and they usually credit their photos, so I wonder why they didn’t do it in this instance.

Tags: pollution, sculptures, tires, vulcanized rubber

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generic uname
Oct 15th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Is that Noel Gallagher?
Mektoub
Oct 16th, 2009 at 4:35 am
Aah lol, yes, he’s running away from his brother and the fury of his fans after having cancelled the show in France.

More seriously, there’s a lot of hype about using discarded materials to create pratical or decorative objets, the idea is obviously good, I think however that these items should sell for a fair price.
Remember the tinny tin can cars, planes and motos made in Africa? I thought that when these items were in shops the overprice was due because the shops paid the creators a good one, but not. The shops just make enormous profits by taking advantage of press covers and customers who think they do a good action like for fair trading…
Mektoub
Oct 16th, 2009 at 5:22 am
See for example :
http://www.meublesindustriels.com/collection-ecolo-chic-c-3365.html?la nguage=en

But this one is quite cool :
http://www.fairesadeco.tv/leblog/objets-insolites/%E2%80%9Cre-tyre%E2% 80%9D-la-chaise-pneu-par-carl-menary
BamaChris
Oct 16th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Wow, that is neat.
Kalel
Oct 16th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
That poor horse looks tired.
Mirko Siakkou-Flodin
Oct 19th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
http://picasaweb.google.com/mo.metallkunst/TireArtKunstAusReifenAktion skunstDubai?feat=directlink#

more pictures of the tire horse in progress by german artist Mirko Siakkou-Flodin

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