Comments on: Moving Forest by NL Architects

By: Nom_de_Guerre

Nom_de_Guerre — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:56:05 +0000

*warning extreme nerdiness

Wasn’t there a moving forest- herded by Ents- in Lord of the Rings- The Two Towers (the book not the movie)??

By: Luca Milan

Luca Milan — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:49:28 +0000

Go Pieter go!!

By: leopoldo

leopoldo — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:57:54 +0000

excelente trabajoooooooooooo

By: michael

michael — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:09:13 +0000

Thomas:
there where actually buckets under all this gravel and the soil couldn’t wash away! It was more a problem that the mesh of the shopping cart was too wide – or the gravel to small, so that they would fall through and end up on the pavement blocking the wheels. Well you don’t think of everyhing always…

OKP:
all the trees that were not taken by people went to a school for gardening, where they are now being motherd to even better health. The project was taken place in fall, so the trees naturally lost leaves – so it appeared visually maybe not as disney as one might expect – but that’s nature.

Alfonso:
there where people doing set ups – i think there are some pictures of it on flickr. An older gentlemen told me that he spelled out the name of is grandchildren with them, because he live in the house next to it and could watch it from above…

By: thomas

thomas — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:46:56 +0000

What happens when it rains and all the soil washes away through the mesh? What a good way to kill healthy trees. I am offended by all the people saying its cool. Don’t you ever think about the consequences the art creates?

By: joycezavonlea@o2.pl

joycezavonlea@o2.pl — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:19:45 +0000

This project should be realised in many countries in order to make people realize the problem of deforestation and encourage them to care about environment.
This is something they wouldn’t simply pass in the street. It catches the attention and makes you wonder; ” What the hall is this?!”
This is what the work of all the performers and artists is about.

Pomysł jest w moim odczuciu bardzo fajny, oryginalny i uważam, że powinien być realizowany w wielu miejscach, jako że zwraca na siebie uwagę.

La idea tan original!

By: erj

erj — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:52:24 +0000

Love the mobility and urban commentary!

By: Bioz Segundo

Bioz Segundo — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:24:40 +0000

GRatis means free , they didnt sell them

By: OKP

OKP — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:44:53 +0000

i agree fully with jlbr.. its also what happened with a lot of these trees. they ended up being dead..

why cant we just focuss on more sustainible ways of making parks again. and not let green always get the last inch of where we want to make concrete.. landscape design is a great proffesion and they should look more into real work instead of a joke like a plantpot on wheels.

sad project.. that people love because its a gimmick ..

By: jlbr

jlbr — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:01:32 +0000

what a stupid idea, poor trees being put into a shopping cart in order to accomplish what? enlarge the already-too-large ego of these so-called artists? giving them away will probably mean at least half of them end up in some garbage dump because it’s too much work for many people to go and plant the trees. the people producing this should have taken the responsibility later to plant them properly.