In 1978, self-taught artist Bob Verschueren created beautiful Wind Paintings by laying down pigments like crushed charcoal and rust on the ground and letting the wind do the "painting."

Among his most ground breaking works are the Wind Paintings from the 1970s and 1980s which involved painting the landscape of empty and desolate places with the help of wind.

He “painted” these canvasses with crushed charcoal, iron oxide, chalk, terra verte, flour, yellow ochre, terre de Cassel, burnt and natural umber. Each time, after a specific material was laid out in a linear motif on the land, Verschueren would wait for the wind, a hand that sublimates the art to the materials to distribute the variously coloured pigments and materials over the land. The resulting works usually only last a few hours, whereupon the wind that created them likewise blows them away.

I Love Belgium blog has the pics: Link - via Design*Sponge

A mother duck and twelve ducklings deal with a strong wind. This will have you on the edge of your seat, so be sure to watch through to the end. If you think this video would be better with music, there’s always this. Or this. -via Metafilter

Suppose your apartment has a little balcony that’s serving no particular function? Put it to work knitting you a scarf! Just attach this wind-powered knitting machine to the side of a building, feed it some yarn and let the wind do the work.

Designers Merel Karhof and Emiel Steenhuizen thought up this device, which isn’t actually available in stores. They call it the Wind Knitting Factory, and they’ve installed it in South Kensington Station, London. Their machine creates a continuous tube of knitting — it’s like a giant version of those the wooden knitting spools I used to play with as a kid. (They’re apparently called knitting nancies and you can still buy them).

This knitting machine is not to be confused with a crane-powered knitting machine that Neatoramanauts might recall from a while back, where artist Dave Cole used two construction excavators and gigantic knitting needles to knit an American flag– this one is ever so much more Earth-friendly! Link

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Marilyn Terrell.

On March 1st 2008, passengers aboard an A320 had a close call when their plane nearly crashed landed during severe crosswinds as they approached a Hamburg airport.

Link: LiveLeak