june-2012

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Herbs are best when
they’re super-fresh, so
guarantee a steady
supply by growing
your own. This Half
Pint Garden herbgrowing
kit is foolproof.
Comes with
seeds (basil, mint and
thyme) and
peat pellets. Just
add water. See
thebalconygardener.
com.
8 Holland Herald
Words: Annemarie Hoeve
Half-pint planter
PHOTOGRAPHY
DUTCH
Cat vs canine
Design n ■ Claw-tamer
Dutch designer d i EikSt Erik Stehmann h i isn’t ’t afraid f id of f reversing i the
natural order of things with his dog-shaped scratching post
for cats. Originally a one-off creation for his own moggy,
Gerrit (pictured here), it was such a hit with the feline in
question that it’s now gone into production. “Gerrit loves it.
At fi rst he was a little scared, but after a while he jumped
on top and wouldn’t get off again,” Stehmann says. The
designer claims to like dogs as much as cats.
How original?
Images ■ Flickr sunsets
The scratching sc
post is called
Opposites Oppos Attract
and can ca be ordered
via th the website
erikstehmann.nl.
erikste
Much of Penelope
Umbrico’s work
features collages
of images found
on the internet,
ranging from
universal remote
controls to dogs on
pillows, and people
called Leonard. See
penelopeumbrico.
net.
Photo courtesy Museum
of Contemporary
Photography Chicago
Proving that we’re all suckers for a bit of summer romance is artist
Penelope Umbrico. She collected thousands of portraits taken at
sunset on photo-sharing website Flickr to create a series of collages.
The title of each collage refl ects the total number of hits she gets for
the search term ‘sunset’ on Flickr at any given time. This piece, for
example, is called: Sunset Portraits from 9,807,121 Flickr Sunsets on
9/24/11. It may not be catchy, but it is informative.