http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:30:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2010/11/the-half-sinking-boat.html Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:23:34 +0000 French artist Julien Berthier cruises through the sea on a functional piece of art.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/06/xavier-veilhans-sky-blue-boat.html Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:07:14 +0000 A monochrome work of art travels at 40 knots.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/07/life-size-viking-ship-is-made-of-15-million-popsicle-sticks.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:16:14 +0000 Using fifteen million popsicle sticks, five thousand school children worked together with stuntman Robert McDonald to create a life size viking ship.  The sea-worthy vessel – ‘The Sea Heart’, took four years to construct, with the children collecting and recycling a large portion of the popsicle sticks used to create the vessel.  American-born, Netherlands-based McDonad believes The Sea Heart is the biggest recycled materials project of it’s kind.  On it’s launch McDonald and four crew members sailed from the Netherlands to England in April 2008. [via Extreme Craft]]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/an-11000-mile-journey-on-a-boat-made-of-recycled-plastic-bottles.html Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:48:31 +0000 David de Rothschild of Adventure Ecology is undertaking an 11,000 mile journey from California to Australia on a boat almost entirely made out of recycled plastic. His goal is to illustrate the possibilities of material recycling, and cradle to cradle design. CNN reports: De Rothschild hopes his one-of-a-kind vessel, now being built on a San Francisco pier, will boost recycling of plastic bottles, which he says are a symbol of global waste. Except for the masts, which are metal, everything on the 60-foot catamaran is made from recycled plastic. “It’s all sail power,” he said. “The idea is to putRead more...]]>