Living Lime

vegetable orchestra

June 16, 2009 at 11:33 pm Leave a comment

These folks are combining two of my favourite things: art and food. It’s strange and quirky and beautiful. How did I not see this before?

More interesting, though, is the controversy in the comments on youtube. Their statement:

just one word to all the people who are concerned about people dying of starvation:
we are concerned too. but not doing this project does change nothing. it doesn’t make the world a better place.
if you are really concerned about the distribution of wealth then do something about it! read books about the real cause of hunger. talk with your friends and family about it. change your own life and try to change politics. buy and support the right things. it is not people using vegetables differently than usual that make the world a bad place. it’s all of us wanting too much. our own car, a new cellphone, a bigger house with air condition, more money…
sending the vegetables to africa does not help. on the contrary it destroys the markets there, so people can not sell their own produce, because the imported one is too cheap.

and by the way: people have used vegetables for music for centuries. also in africa.

Entry filed under: Arts, Food. Tags: Arts, beautiful, creative, Food, music, orchestra, strange, vegetable.