Hi-Tech Guerilla Gardening
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
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Vanessa Harden is like the 'Q' of the guerrilla gardening world. Her designs range from modified shoes that plant seeds to specialized flowerpot-dropping handbags. Surprisingly, those who run our cities don't look kindly on those seeking to alter the landscape without permission, so Vanessa has integrated clever gardening kit into everyday attire of the urban professional to disguise clandestine gardening activities.
In 2011, Motherboard met Vanessa in her South London studio to find out how she got involved in this "underground" scene, and why she feels her own unique brand of eco-technology may help make the metropolises of the world greener places. She showed us firsthand the different techniques and technologies she employs in her designs and what other innovations she has pioneered.
Then we headed out into the city to meet guerilla gardener guru Richard Reynolds to discover the fruits of his labor blossoming in grass verges and central conservations throughout London. The two put Vanessa's designs to use, and discussed how they have been received in the guerilla gardening community.
Originally released on Motherboard in 2011.
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Some ballsy individuals planted 25 marijuana plants in the centre divider of a road in my town...That's the kind of guerilla gardening that'll get some attention! haha
hahaha
I wanna shake that mans hand
Now just throw a few seeds in front of the police station. lol
🤣 I’ve seen many poppy fields just hiding behind it’s beauty, in plain view.
maybe they should wear orange vests so people think they are just workers
that's what i was thinking.
He said it in his TED talk that that would make him invisible, ironically. If he's wearing a vest, everyday people will feel less compelled to join him.
lmao fr. they’re so extra for those spy movie gadgets but it looks fun so I cant judge
Honestly yes, wear a high vis vest and a traffic cone and 90% of people won't mess with you
The Banksy crew of gardening all they need is the yellow vests.
this girl never got out of her childhood spy phase
You're jealous
Though this sort of activism is creative, fun and benificial, it can also be extremely dangerous.
Make sure to avoid planting any foreign and/or non-local ornamentals! Remember the Chestnut!
Love her design, thinking and products.
This reminds me of something off of the onion
Sorry, this not "guerilla gardening." This is community service.
its guerrilla gardening because its technically illegal, but yes, it should be encouraged and incentivised!!
Tyler Hayes
That's what guerilla gardening is, illicit community service
this is humanities job.
This was commented years ago but whatever. I grow and colect seeds from native plants and throw the seeds all over my small town. Especially in areas where its expected. My favorite is around old graves and buildings so they become more fairy like. The seeds are all perennials and flowers. I've by myself raised the polinator population of my farming town 50%. My friends bee farming mom LOVES me. No ones knows that im the one doing this but the flowes are beloved. Throwing vine plant seeds near fences and black eyed Susan's around my school brings me a lot of joy.
Its really interesting what is happening in other countries and how it is people worried for things that here in Mexico just don´t take care; and the most important, it is something legal in Mexico.
In my neighborhood some people plant threes in the public areas, but they are not many of them, we must learn from this kind of people to be more in touch with the nature, this is not about, being a good person, It´s about health.
Because nothing is less suspicion-raising than placing a briefcase in the middle of an open public area in America. Pretty sure you'd get a thousand calls to the bomb squad and a citizen arrest before you even step out of your house.
Lucky they weren't in America
Thank you for making me feel even better about what I do Spartacous. I will dedicate one of my thousand tree seedlings I plant on public property to you next spring. Scottie Ash Seed
Here in Chicago I have had to Gorilla treat the historic public Ash trees from the Emerald Ash Borer because the police already warned me about it. The funny thing is people will just notice a live healthy tree that I kept alive, not that it should be dead and the species extinct because not even our street department knows their Ash from a hole in the ground. DOH! I am satisfied, and that is all that counts.
Just put on a yellow jacket and a helmet and nobody will ask what you are doing
What I got from the video:
If mass produced multi-purpose items became the norm, It would be a revolutionary age for designers and very beneficial to consumers... Designers would be in greater necessity and consumers would save space (possibly money). Overall, humans would be able to imagine more things with multiple use in a world filled with it.
I watched this pretending that they are new characters for another season of the 'IT Crowd'.
great stuff.
I have been thinking about creating a walkingstick-seed-dispenser for years, but can not get it working. Does anyone know where to buy or how to create such a device?
look at the spring mechanism of a pez dispenser
Vanessa is very inspiring.
"originally released in 2011" I wonder how they are doing this now. I am really interested in doing this myself, haha. No clue about gardening. Anyone wanna chat and help me out?
Why are these people using this over-engineered technology to plant plants in a public area? I plant plants around my city all the time and I've had people thank me for doing it and never did I need a purse that would make the hole thing covert.
I wish more people did this. Specificly with eidable plants haha
I can't believe I'm saying this, but get this girl in the next James bond movie.
It's nice to see people doing something good for the earth intelligently and I do believe in keeping anonymous when you do these things because our government doesn't seem to want us to have gardens at all look at the chem trails in the sky that speaks so plainly enough anyway good luck and success with your gardening gardening
wow,so hardcore!!!glad no one caught you,might do some hard time
love this!
This is awesome!! Thank-you
I have some seeds for GIANT REDWOOD trees. I'm gonna plant them somewhere. 200 years from now, they will wonder how the heck that GIANT tree got there. I will be smiling in my grave.
That's awesome!
This is some 007 shit for gardeners lol super cool :)
I love it, plant power!
awesome!! very thoughtfull ...perfect for busy cities
Lady gonna pull that camera out and someone will think it's a spy gun. Meanwhile she's spraying a full magazine of seeds.
yeah! bike touring and camping
She's like Moneypenny...
but only for unnecessarily stealthy urban gardeners.
Keep it going crazy Trevor, from Scottie Ash tree Seed! I have a lot of old shoes and always save my seeds when smoking. Look out power lines...
Agent Jack, these are Osmocote full trimester.. the multi colored pellets you have in your hand there is actually a high Nitrogen mix of Osmocote start, Osmocote 2'nd trimester and Osmocote 3'rd trimester.. They are timed release and slow releasing.. If you plant a corn bomb with these you'll get full cobs.. that is if you can have the plant escape undisturbed and watered for the full season. We know you can do it...
honestly that would be funny as fuck. people just secretly planting weed all over the place around town. you just look out your window and theres like 5 new plants overnight.
sorry coment was for the last video. but I think what they are doing here is realy cool.
Sense of humour, Jimmy. Sense of humour.
cold war spy technology for covert rebellious gardening downtown :D
Adorably badass!!
Inspirational!
so standing there in the dirt with her bag on the ground doesn't look weird? come on Vanessa.... they should make a real film about the guerrilla gardeners in PDX where they use wrist rockets to get seed balls onto areas from freeway overpasses where you can't walk to. Or what about planting something useful like pumpkins etc instead of flowers what will die with the winter.
Just dress up as a gardener ,,stealth mode activated"
yay new video!
Great job vice. When hipsters took over...
I like this
YES, GORILLA PLANT THE WEED WE SMOKE AND EAT, THERE YOU GO MC CLOUD, GREAT IDEA!
Your guerilla gardening is different from my thoughts when looking at the title
So very weird.. but yet so interesting..
Thats so cool x)!
pretty sure carrying a suitcase and pretending to pee will attract a lot more attention 4:25
Nice
Now everyone who will be cought while taking a dump in a public garden will pretend to be guerrilla gardener :-D
Very Nice hehe ;p but I don't think we have to do it sneakingly but it does look like fun ! haha ;p
White IT crowed guy awsome
That girl has some 007 shit!
yeah !
still waiting for a moustache ....lol
i think james bond will use these when he retires
This is fucked. Just plant regularly and enjoy your COMMUNITY! try plant veg & fruits over flowers for obvious reasons.
cool
but wouldn't people be walking on concrete
wow don't you think with all the drones going on today they are making these subs that are drone controlled? that is really scary. because there is no way to find them if they are gps linked with simple antiavoidence system. and I seen drones if the remote is lost gone to where they were told to go anyways. all done with cheep stuff from local store?
That guy looks like Spike from Cowboy Bebop...at least the hair.
some day someone brown is gonna try this and cause a bomb scare. that briefcase looks questionable
that was it?
I wanna marry this guy
It is illegal, but it's highly improbable that a random policeman is going to stop and arrest you.
attack of the living trendies
Yeah i grow tomatoes too. ;-)
Seeeeeed!
how is this "guerrilla"? presumably trying too hard to make a statement. Still, good effort with the planting devices.
That's why I clicked.
Looks like they have a hobby. Do you?
I urban explore, you got pull me written all over you expeshly nowadays with those gadgets, impressed what you can do though and bringing back the cold war spy stuff like that maybe go into that you could show in real life how they were made, what thoughts went behind it, have but but don't waste your talents, may get another generation into making things and not just going, durhhh I can just go buy it at the shop for cheaper.
Love the video tho
so these people have to hide the fact that they are planting regular flowers? i dont understand the concept here.
That's how graffiti started. Soon we shall have plantfiti and guys will be uprooting others plants to plant there own. Lol
i'll plant weed everywhere if i have those gadget...
all of those absurd ideas are more kitsch than actual utilitarian things. Shit like this makes us people serious about proliferating the gardening/growing experience look like assholes.
Thinking we are free is an illusion
I think shes under the impression that what she is doing is wrong in some way. I work for the parks commission where i live. If i caught someone doing this, Id be like thanks, now i can take a longer lunch break. You should "Guerilla" take out my garbage ,or "Guerilla" wash my car while ur at it
Edit out the male butt-crack 5:54 please.
haha, cool and funny
Welcome to sweet potato hill.
oohh rebels.
Yeah fuck flowers they only detoxify the air a bit
Harvest? They'er ornamental plants dude.
I why not plant fruit trees instead!
i'm gay
slowly i see close minded people describing anything creative as hipster
great. now people will think they are dealing drugs instead of gardening
fuck yeah
whos looking for people planting plants?
we are only free where money is not involved
They should be growing weed. Overgrow the world
I mean fun but stupid and inefficient.
Damn it 6:44 wasted
This makes guerilla gardeners look like clowns. Loafing around Elephant and Castle with terracotta pots? It's so middle class it hurts. It's all ego.
She should start planting pot seeds like this, it would be class that in a month there would be weed growing all over the place!!!