{"id":13490,"date":"2010-06-28T07:14:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T07:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/uncategorized\/cds-recycled-and-transformed-into-a-piece-of-glittering-art-by-bruce-munro.php"},"modified":"2013-01-24T09:56:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T09:56:20","slug":"cds-recycled-and-transformed-into-a-piece-of-glittering-art-by-bruce-munro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenlaunches.com\/recycle\/cds-recycled-and-transformed-into-a-piece-of-glittering-art-by-bruce-munro.php","title":{"rendered":"CDs recycled and transformed into a piece of glittering art by Bruce Munro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/entry_images\/0610\/28\/cd_glittering_art.php\" onclick=\"window.open(&#039;https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/entry_images\/0610\/28\/cd_glittering_art.php&#039;,&#039;popup&#039;,&#039;width=634,height=286,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#039;); return false\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cd_glittering_art-thumb-450x202.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"202\" alt=\"cd_glittering_art.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWe\u2019ve used them before, to share data, watch movies, store music, play games and lots more. We\u2019re talking about CDs. With the onset of DVDs and now Blu-ray disks, the CD seems somewhat outdated, taken that they hold comparatively lesser data than the other two. And like all outdated things, CDs are slowly but surely meeting their death, most of them ending up in the dump. Artist Bruce Munro thought otherwise, using around a million of these data storage devices to create a work of art.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<object width=\"450\" height=\"271\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uO2eFFI_3v8&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x3a3a3a&#038;color2=0x999999&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\nAround 600,000 disks were sent from countries like Brazil and the state of California too, using Long Knoll Field in Wiltshire as a canvas. A man donated around 40,000 more CDs resulting in a 120 square meter carpet of glittering mirrors cross the 10-acre field. A great way indeed to use old CDs, recycling them into a piece of glittering artwork that would leave moon-dwellers astounded.<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/entry_images\/0610\/28\/cd_glittering_art2.php\" onclick=\"window.open(&#039;https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/entry_images\/0610\/28\/cd_glittering_art2.php&#039;,&#039;popup&#039;,&#039;width=634,height=286,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#039;); return false\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cd_glittering_art2-thumb-450x202.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"202\" alt=\"cd_glittering_art2.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/entry_images\/0610\/28\/cd_glittering_art3.php\" onclick=\"window.open(&#039;https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/entry_images\/0610\/28\/cd_glittering_art3.php&#039;,&#039;popup&#039;,&#039;width=634,height=286,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#039;); return false\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1190801-4202256.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cd_glittering_art3-thumb-450x202.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"202\" alt=\"cd_glittering_art3.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1289312\/Artist-Bruce-Munros-extraordinary-glittering-inland-sea--unwanted-CDs.html\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\">Dailymail<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve used them before, to share data, watch movies, store music, play games and lots more. 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With the onset of DVDs and now Blu-ray disks, the CD seems somewhat outdated, taken that they hold comparatively lesser &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/greenlaunches.com\/recycle\/cds-recycled-and-transformed-into-a-piece-of-glittering-art-by-bruce-munro.php\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Continue reading3 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2060,3168],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CDs recycled and transformed into a piece of glittering art by Bruce Munro -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/greenlaunches.com\/recycle\/cds-recycled-and-transformed-into-a-piece-of-glittering-art-by-bruce-munro.php\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CDs recycled and transformed into a piece of glittering art by Bruce Munro -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We\u2019ve used them before, to share data, watch movies, store music, play games and lots more. 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