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1001 Uses for a Tin Can

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Artist Bobby Hansson has worked in photography and in television, but today, he works exclusively in the tin can medium. Hansson creates music and art from tin cans and even wrote a book about it. Independent producers Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler speak with Hansson from his farm in Rising Sun, Md., about the allure of tin cans his life as an artist.

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  • By lindsay robertson

    From taos, NM, 05/26/2008

    Dear bobby,
    I am an artist. I saw the beauty in the rusted tin cans . Please answer my question, are these rusty tin cans toxic? thank you, Lindsay

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