The Mini desk reminded me that few years back I’d seen a DC3 wing desk in one of those house porn magazines so I went looking for it and here it is.
You can get a single wing
or if you are particularly obese you can get a double winger
and you can accessorize - a nose cone [...]
that’s what it says, honest, go see for yourself. Although the site does seem to have lost something in the translation, or at least adaptively reused the english language.
However, we did like the way the bell was described as “The latest foppery equipment” and that morse key mouse has a strange appeal. We found it [...]
spam, spam, spam, spam…what good is it? Well, believe it or not it can be adaptively reused.
You can make a t-shirt from it,
you can make poetry and pictures with it
or you can make sculpture with it
and plants.
But the site where the images above come from is very annoying because alex dragelescu has made something wonderful [...]
We love the Yes Men and we love the way they adaptively reuse, for good, the stolen identities of some of the biggest bastards on the planet.
Andy of the Yes men once appeared before a Sydney accountancy conference as a World Trade Organisation representative to announce a new direction. As they explained….
The World Trade Organisation [...]
The most extreme adaptive reuse of mobile phones is to detonate bombs
(And if you need more proof of the militaristic brainwashing that has infected parts of the US, read the rest of that site.).
But a better use of old mobiles is to recycle them. Smile Plastics recycle anything made of plastic into solid plastic sheets,
from [...]
I always thought that Picasso’s bull’s head made from a bike seat and handles was his most banal work. These guys do much more interesting things with bike parts. But they’ll be out of business if the spokeless hubless bicycle takes off.
Anything can be reused and that includes software, imagery and ideas. In fact adaptive reuse is really another way of describing the process of evolution, a process that applies to all activities. One of the reasons Microsoft is beginning to falter as a business is because it operates on an “intelligent design” model while open [...]
I have mostly resisted writing about my favourite architects like LacatonVassal architectes or Adam Kalkin or the late great Samuel “Sambo” Mockbee but this week Sydney had a visit from Teddy Cruz. I want to write something about Teddy Cruz on the Open Source Art School so I’ll just recommend you check out the link, [...]
Repeatedly at auctions I have passed up tyre swans and more importantly tyre urns because they weren’t exactly what I wanted so now I find myself still swanless and none appear at auction anymore. I was forced to think about this when I came across this site selling bus brake planters. I have some [...]
