Digital Young

It’s no newsflash tthat children often prove a high creativity in re-doing stuff, in transforming things that we are ready to throw away. Hotnews (www.hotnews.ro), one of the most ranked news site in Romania, did a project in collaboration with various social actors, in order to promote ecology and creativity. The link between those two? Trash.

So, they started a contest for a wide and large public to send their creations. Creations which had to have as raw material various objects that we would consider to be trash. See what came up of this. What to do with water empty bottles:

This little robot won public’s prize. And why throwing your daily newspaper when you could just make a…little horse?

Next objects really got my attention because they are variations of how to use in a creative way bottles caps:

wine bottle caps.. Murfatlar, I guess…

Refreshements bottles caps… Coca-Cola, Pepsi…

Beer bottle caps…

And what if you’re a girl and your boyfriend is a computer maniac who is making, decomposing and recomposing computers? Well, just use the caps that remain from many keyboards making a…

Yes, a BAG! Ingenious, no?

And just to think that Fanta pets are really…useless…think again…

And now…(you can hear drums)…ta ta… Jury’s big prize (I am really sorry for the quality of this picture. I know, I really screwed this up, but I just hope you’ll see something), it’s a little dog made from a cell phone acumulator. It is really…little… So, sometimes, big does not mean good.

So, you see, just put your own creativity to work and you can just make stuff that can be useful, are unique in urban space, you’re special and creative. Besides, materials don’t cost you a damn thing, just browse your parents’ garage or storage room and choose from there things that everybody put hem aside or throw them away.

In a few months, this contest will become national and will be classified in function of specific publics: amators, professionals, youngsters etc. But, in each case, handcraft, trash and ecology go well together, don’t you think?