We’ve talked before about reusing plane parts as furniture, and the LoTek library design using aircraft fuselages is a particular favourite of ours, even if it was never built. Well, there’s more than one way to lace a boot, and there’s more than one way to skin a Boeing 747. This project by Syndesis Ltd [...]
Here’s another bicycle reuse. This time its Moz who, among other things, adapts old bicycles to become new load-bearing human powered vehicles like this one. Often this kind of adaption is a prototype for building these designs from scratch, as with the development of the long bike into one less ute.
We live midway between a number of huge abandoned industrial sites. Ten kilometres in one direction is Portland with its cement works closed since 1991, and ten kilometres in another is Lithgow blast furnace, site of the first steel production in Australia, abandoned since 1928. About thirty kilometres away as the crow flies is Glen [...]
We were delighted to get an email from Ben Denham (thanks for the kind remarks) where he sent us some links to sites about bicycle powered machines. Mayapedal produce bikes, trailers etc, but also a range of bicycles adaptively reused to power machines that perform a range of agricultural tasks like dehusking, pumping water, even [...]
The world is full of products that, for their pointless waste of the world’s resources, should have earned their manufacturers a community service sentence in an impoverished third world country to assist them in regaining a grip on reality. The battery powered pooper scooper for cleaning the cat tray is a typical example (and for [...]
Sleeping in a storm water drain, in a park, on the edge of the River Danube. That’s what I call fun. It’s what Wendy calls stupidity. Still, it would be a very elegantly done bit of adaptive reuse if it weren’t for the lack of bathroom – presumably you reuse the shrubbery. Book in now.
Like George Bush, Australia’s Prime Minister John Howard is multi-skilled, he’s a climate criminal as well as a war criminal. In fact when most thinking people have seen climate change as an urgent issue for the last ten years he has sabotaged every effort to deal with it….but we’ll leave that discussion for his trial [...]
I had never heard of the amazing “norry”, the bamboo railway of Battambang province, Cambodia, until a few nights ago when it was on ABC’s Foreign Correspondent programme, so I googled it and discovered I was probably the last person in the world to hear about it. Check out this tourist blog, for instance, where [...]
It sure is ingenious but beautiful?…..we don’t think so. This is more furniture from bike bits. There seems to be as much bike furniture in the world as there are inner tube hand bags. It’s hard to understand why bike bits inspire this much weird kitsch but at least it’s adaptive reuse. We have to [...]