The much anticipated prototype of the Monster Log R/C™ model is currently in early phases of testing. The Monster Log R/C™ is the first of several Monster Log™ offerings that will appeal to various market segments. Early release photos of the Monster Log R/C™ are included below.

7,000 Evergreens celebrates its second anniversary with a new song by Charlie Green. Please donate your old fake Christmas tree, volunteer, or plant a tree at www.7000evergreens.org

This Christmas marks the second anniversary of the 7,000 Evergreens project. And to celebrate the project’s efforts, we’re back in north Georgia, where the project began, to film a promotional music video that features 7,000 Evergreens’ new mascot, Charlie Green. You can watch Charlie Green’s premier on Christmas day!

Blue Bird Flyby

Baby Christmas Tree

Charlie Green's Guitar

The Terrestrial Shrub Rover’s maiden voyage is up on YouTube. Share it, embed it, send it along to all you know.

I currently have a show at The H Gallery in Houston TX of 18 photographs documenting recent projects, inclduding the Porta Hedge tour, the Terrestrial Shrub Rover, and 7,000 Evergreens. The show runs Dec 5 – Jan 4 and the gallery is situated in a wonderful bistro called Hungry’s, just off of the Rice University campus.

The H Gallery
2356 Rice Blvd.
Houston, TX 77005
Phone: 713-962-5767

Photographs from 'Field Work', now up at The H Gallery in Houston, TX

The Porta Hedge will take a hiatus from road touring this holiday season. And what better time than now to wrap the Hedge, so that it might partake in the holiday spirit while sited in the deep snows of western Pennsylvania this December.

Although we found early in the Summer Tour that having the Porta Hedge wrapped while traveling at high speeds had adverse effects, it does add a certain element of mystery to the object…

Porta Hedge Partially Wrapped for a Pennsylvania Winter

The Porta Hedge contributed briefly to the holiday cheer in the Oak Grove at Indiana University of Pennsylvania as students prepared for finals and the holiday break. IUP grad student Bifei Cao helped decorate the Hedge with LED Christmas lights and we successfully field tested the Porta Hedge solar system’s capabilities to power Christmas lights in addition to its internal power demands. For a quick look at the benefits of using LED lights, see Gizmodo’s review The Pros and Cons of LED Christmas Lights or the Washington Daily Globe’s LED Christmas: Lights offer holiday glow, energy savings.

Many thanks to Kyle Houser, the gallery director at IUP who brought the Porta Hedge to campus!

For the exhibition Engineering Eden at Allegheny College, artist Jessica Longobardo compiled three handmade booklets for three of her friends, each of whom comes from a distinct bioregion in the United States. Each booklet includes a map illustrating the distribution of tree species in a specific region and drawings of those trees’ leaves.

Longobardo then tattooed each of her friends with the leaves representing the trees native to each person’s home region. For the exhibition, Longobardo photographed the tattoos and displayed the photos along with the booklets.

As the exhibition’s closing event, Longobardo set up a temporary tattoo parlor in the Porta Hedge (which is technically native to no region, but available to any region with roads) on the Allegheny College campus and invited passersby to find out what trees grow in their hometown, and then to select one of those trees as a basis for a leaf tattoo.

More photos at the Porta Hedge Travel Blog

Ginko Leaf Tattoo in the Porta Hedge (A Non-Native Request)

Handmade Leaf Booklet by Jessica Longobardo

Sugar Maple Tattoo by Jessica Longobardo