Some inventive re or up cycling

I am always on the look out for re cycling or up cycling where ever we go. So on holiday in Funcal (Maderia) last week I spotted 3 interesting "art" ideas.

Firstly the giant fish made of collected rubbish. It was well done and the nature of the materials really fitted the shape and colours needed in the sculpture. The eye for example was a yellow building site safety hat. What was strange was seeing it along side one of the 13 cruise ships in and out of the harbour that week. This was a "small" one. Monstrous things. Having been brought up around Southampton in the good old days when ships looked like ships (original QE and QM for example) I find these blocks of flats afloat an affront. One cruise ship was plastered with its green credentials as it was run on natural gas! 

Along one of the narrow roads (read alleyway in UK terms) there was blank wall hung with giant bunting. What a good idea! Fabric bunting would have been too small, faded quickly in the sun and not had the same effect. These were odd bits of ply board painted and hung along a painted line.  We have a blank wooden fence which is worse for wear and I am thinking it would cheer our summer view up a lot to do this!

Outside an art gallery some painted tins had been wired up to take plants. They were nice big tins (saw them in supermarket for peaches) They looked great. Or was it the fact the wall was brightly painted too?

Full of flu since returning(thanks to delayed flight with terrible air quality/cross country crowded trains) and despite some nice sunshine outside my outlook is grey, grey, grey....