January 27, 2007 – 11:17 pm
Recent announcements by Exxon-Mobil and George Bush indicate that we are now moving out of the climate change denial phase and into the sabotage-and-delay-by-spurious-solution phase (with a good dash of solutions-that-are-worse-than-the-problem like nuclear power and sunlight blocking). It all means that serious catastrophe looks increasingly likely.
We don’t really believe it will end in apocalypse but [...]
January 11, 2007 – 12:28 pm
Last year we linked to Moz, the creator of one less ute, a load bearing bicycle designed to carry up to 200kg. Given a recent random encounter with the man at a new years festival, it was hardly surprising that Moz should show up again, this time as part of the crew behind the construction [...]
January 7, 2007 – 8:05 pm
The world was does not belong only to humans, notwithstanding the deluded ravings of right wing religious extremists.
We share it with a still unknown number of other species and most of them can be pretty awe inspiring once you get to know them better.
What better way to spend your life than trying to [...]
December 28, 2006 – 9:23 pm
There can be no doubt that urban agriculture is going to get more of our attention in the future but we draw the line at the adaptive reuse of entire city buildings for intensive urban farming, a dubious idea that seems to be yet another attempt to extend corporate control of food production, an issue [...]
December 21, 2006 – 1:07 pm
The clothing tag adaptively reused for political comment (and commercial self defence?). From break.com via Reddit.
December 19, 2006 – 7:18 pm
Although the developed world is full of abandoned mining and industrial sites like the Bethlehem steel works, the problems they pose are nothing compared to the difficulties of numerous sites in the third world. Africa is now facing major pollution issues, for instance, but South America has an even longer history of western exploitation.
Now little [...]
December 3, 2006 – 4:45 pm
One way to adaptively reuse Christmas would be to move it back a day. December 24 2006 would have been the 99th birthday of Isidor (Izzy) Feinstein (Stone),
probably the greatest investigative journalist that ever lived and a birthday far more worth celebrating than Christmas - after all, at least we know Izzy Stone actually [...]
November 24, 2006 – 11:53 pm
Everyone must have seen African tin toys made from reused tin cans, and the wire frame type that are often rather unsettling in their ghostliness.
The toy influence is obvious when you see this.
It’s the maquette for a much larger work that seems to have been made in a similar way from even bigger tin [...]
November 14, 2006 – 12:38 am
It’s one thing to write about converting 747s into mansions but ultimately that’s only for an extremely wealthy minority.
Homelessness is endemic throughout the world and in the US alone approximately 3.5 million people are estimated to experience homelessness at some point annually, a million of them children. Extremist right wing governments have exacerbated the problem [...]
November 9, 2006 – 1:52 pm
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.
