The Adlington Post

Today my friend Horace Williams visited & bought this clock. The face is part of an old aluminum spool from a reel-to-reel tape recorder which I found in the trash last month. See more of my clocks & recycled art at: www.martinadlington.webs.com www.martinadlington.webs.com

My front room at Glen Road is beginning to fill up with junk I have found. The walls on the south side are shown here. The Barbie Mobile is a work in progress...

On Mondays & Wednesdays the shops put out their paper for recycling. The local newsagent disposes of all their unsold newspapers & magazines from the past few days. Here my neighbour [Lily] is helping me sort out glossy magazines for collage & the Eco Games I make.

I made two small robots at the weekend from hand-held fans The fan blades have LED lights in them & make the most amazing oscillating patterns - as shown! The first robot below has lego-style arms & legs, while the other has milk-bottle caps for feet. They both have a small LED torch strapped to one arm. See mare recycled art at my website: www.martinadlington.webs.com www.martinadlington.webs.com

My good friends from the local Salvation Army thrift shop just delivered 18 old computer keyboards to my door - they were otherwise destined for landfill!! I make "leet" earrings from the keys, & necklaces from the cords & inner bits. See my new website for more trashion & recycled art: www.martinadlington.webs.com

On Sunday March 8 I attended an Eco Day at the Sustainable Living Centre in New Lynn, Auckland with my recycled artworks. There were 50 other stalls all with an environmental theme. The event was a great success for all concerned & I look forward to attending again next year. See my recycled art for sale at: www.martinadli www.martinadlington.webs.com ngton.webs.com

On Sat March 7 I held a workshop at the Lakehouse Arts Centre in Takapuna: “Using a Jeweller’s Piercing Saw”. Six people attended & after I had demonstrated the technique the class had great fun applying their new skills to cutting shapes from copper & aluminum sheet, LP’s, CD’s, plastic, coins, MDF, & paua shell.

Helen & Yudi are kindly stocking my recycled artworks in their eclectic shop [Buanu Satu - "Number One" in Indonesian] in K Rd, Auckland, & they have made a display area for the pieces...as seen below. Thanks guys - its a great showpiece for me. We see here a cross & a heart of "flowers" cut from egg cartons on real-estate sign, an eco-game, a clock - with more clocks below, 'fridge magnets on crosses cut from waste steel, 3 large robots made from tin cans, several small robots from sweet & mustard tins, a flying saucer from an old lampshade, a truck from an oil can, fish cut from jandals I found on the beach - mounted on more real-estate sign, & more clocks....see blog entries below for close-up pix of most of these works...& remember the 3R's: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - the most important being REDUCE! See more recycled & upcycled work at www.martinadlington.webs.com

Yesterday I attended a fundraising evening at the Kaipatiki environment centre, the guest speaker was comedian Te Radar who talked about environmental stability & revealed some hilarious behind-the-scenes moments from his recent TV show “Off The Radar”. I was given the opportunity to display some of my recycled artworks. This last week I have been making some new pieces in preparation for my exhibit the upcoming Eco Day on March 8th at the Sustainable Living Centre in Grey Lynn. On the tables in these pix can be seen a new jewellery range made from bicycle & car-tyre inner tubes, computer keyboards, milk bottle caps, coloured plastic A$ binder covers, rubber bands, bracelets made from plastic knitting needles I bent in my solar oven, pieces af aluminum louvre blind, packaging labels, plastic soy sauce bottle fish, ice cream spoons, old slides from the ‘50’s& ‘70’s - all found on the beach or in the trash. On the larger table is a robot, b

I have begun to turn my front room into a showplace for my recycled artworks so that visitors can see not only finished products, but works in progress as well as ideas formulating. Currently my work is also on sale in "Buanu Satu" in K Rd in Auckland, & in "Island" in Oneroa on Waiheke Island, & of course on my website www.martinadlington.webs.com

From my collection of small tins I have made some smaller robots - these guys stand around 15cm/6in high. The fat round one is made from a good old Kiwi tomato sauce bottle! ALL SOLD See more of myrecycled & upcycled work at www.martinadlington.webs.com

My name is “Varn”: my body parts came from the trash & a skip outside a garage in Wanganui. I have a fan on my head with LED’s - which makes the most amazing oscillating patterns when on. SOLD See more of my recycled and upcycled works at www.martinadlington.webs.com

. Another tin can robot....named Loata. Made from items found in the trash, on the streert, beach & charity shops.Her earrings detach & can be worn, & her antenna lights up. SOLD See more of my recycled and upcycled works at www.martinadlington.webs.com

I found this flip-flop at Raglan. It’s mounted on a piece of core-flute from a real estate sign. There's a piece of fishing line I found at Tangimoana [= "Ocean of Tears"] on the back - so the work can be hung on the wall. SOLD See more of my recycled and upcycled works at www.martinadlington.webs.com

ALL SOLD See more of my recycled and upcycled works at www.martinadlington.webs.com

I made this clock from two cans of Tui beer & a lid from a preserving jar - the essenze of NZ! SOLD See more of my recycled and upcycled works at www.martinadlington.webs.com

I found these two headless Buddha statues during the inorganic trash collection a few weeks ago. Decapitating the two Barbie dolls was a bizarre experience!! ........if only Barbie could find the Buddah within herself....... See more of my altered Barbies and recycled and upcycled works at www.martinadlington.webs.com

Last May I spent a couple of weeks at Coromandel town touring the annual arts trail. I stayed at a beach-side campground in my van, & spent several pleasant hours beachcombing. On one walk I filled my carry-bag with these knots of plastic rope. They wash ashore from the many mussel & oyster farms out in the bay. Here I have arranged them on a picnic table in the quintessential polynesian form of a lei. SOLD  See more of my recycled and upcycled works at www.martinadlington.webs.com

Another readymade - I found this fantastic piece of signage by the local creek (Taiaotea = “ocean of clouds”). It has the most beautiful aged surface - the white paint has crazed revealing blue & pink beneath.

I decided that my copper fish hook was a bit boring in plain black, so I sanded off the high points then applied some verdigris chemicals. SOLD See more of my recycled and upcycled works at www.martinadlington.webs.com