How Do You Make A Belt From An Altoids Tin?
Long before the green movement took its current hold over developed society, Washington, D.C.-based artist Lord Kelvin was leading an eco-friendly life. His lifestyle wasn’t so much a function of environmental consciousness as it was a reflection of a simple belief — that one man’s waste was another man’s art. During the mid-1990s in Brooklyn, New York, Kelvin took his first steps toward tinnovation — finding new uses for old Altoids tins. He saw an old piece of furniture and rescued it for a new life in his apartment. His newfound freegan lifestyle agreed with him. Soon his home was outfitted with stuff other people no longer wanted and his friends caught on fairly quickly. He became the guy who people called when they saw an interesting chair or an old television sitting alongside garbage cans. “In a way I started to change people’s perceptions of trash,” Kelvin said i
