by Russell Maier | Aug 30, 2012 | - Mandalas
Wow. I headed down across the river with some friends yesterday and was blown away by what my students had done. I’ve been training the local out-of-school youth how to make use of broken tiles and other trash and turn them into mandalic mosaics. Its pretty...
by russs.net | Aug 15, 2012 | - Mandalas, 1Mandala
Mandalas are an ancient spiritual art-form that are found around the world in a myriad of cultures and mediums. Mandalas harness the magic of circular geometry. Their creative process enables one or more folks to come together and organically unfold mesmerizingly...
by Russell Maier | Aug 14, 2012 | - Reflections
It’s been a long time since I last made blogging a part of my life. As you may be able to tell by the over 500 blogs that I have posted in the last few years, I love writing, expressing, and sharing my creations. Blogging is not only an essential part of my...
by russs.net | Aug 10, 2012 | - Reflections
Courage. This is the title of a book that changed my life. Lent to me by my friend Amie at a pivotal time in my life, it inspired me do such wildly courageous and profoundly awesome stuff that now I can only shake my head. At that moment, I had been in a...
by Russell Maier | Aug 8, 2012 | Relationships
It has been a year now, to the day, since I met my love Bianca. It all began on a moonlit night on a stroll around the village Church. A year later with this great gal and, boy, have we taken out the trash. It’s a funny thing to say, but it is true. My Dad...
by russs.net | Aug 4, 2012 | - Bottle Building, - Reflections, Trashure
We’re refining the Ecobrick methodology here in the northern Philippines. An essential part of the process is philosophical. It is essential to consider the longterm ethics of stashing plastics and potential toxics for the next 500 years into a building...
by Russell Maier | Jul 31, 2012 | 1Actions, 1Mandala
I have just returned from a rugged bike ride to check on our Guina’ang 1Book project. They say that “One good deed is greater than the grandest intention.” Well, the greatness is even greater when you’ve got hundreds of deeds AND a great...
by russs.net | Jul 29, 2012 | - Bottle Building, Trashure
Last night, this is where I slept. You see, firm in my mind at the moment, is the intention to construct dazzling sustainable structures with trash bottle bricks. The irony is that here in the village they have a deep tradition of truly sustainable homes...
by Russell Maier | Jul 24, 2012 | - Mandalas, co-creation
How do you know if your ideas are successful? When take a life of their own and turn out if even more beautiful than you had planned! This morning I took some friends down to the river to show our recycling work. To my surprise, I could see as we approached that the...
by Russell Maier | Jul 23, 2012 | - Bottle Building, - Milstein Modules, co-creation, Paintings, Trashure
This is the unfolding of a trash wall built by the village youth and I this month. It is built from bottle bricks stuffed with trash that we salvaged from the river. The humble (yet beautiful!) wall is a community showcase of the potential of this...
Russell is a regenerative artist, inventor and philosopher based in Bali, Indonesia. He is one of the principals of global the Ecobrick. His regenerative theories are inspired by his time amongst the Igorot people, his journey with plastic and his work mandalas. Russell is currently working on a new theory of Earthen Ethics and Plastic Sequestration. You can follow him on Facebook