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Fish scale bags
….not really, they are made of pop tops from aluminium cans, but they are made by a partnership called Escama, which means fish scales in Portugese. The three partners are based in San Francisco and...
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Through a glass darkly
Here is proof that the silly season, when we celebrate the cult of consumerism, is almost upon us again. We all know how the beer goggles can get us into trouble, and never more so than at this time of...
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Celebrate Our Monkey Ancestors Day
Another Christmas will soon be upon us and this year there doesn’t seem much point to the usual compulsory fake bonhomie. We’re so sick of violent loonies and their imaginary friends that we look...
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Reindeer droppings
Decorate your tree with adaptively reused circuit boards, then buy presents like this American Gulag bracelet from richterstudios inc, or wineglasses from the Eden Project store or a paper pot maker...
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Sit anywhere
We commented recently about the growing incidence of products that facilitate the adaptive reuse of other products. Here is the latest, a bottle stool (found on treehugger). The Footstool by...
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Fun bags
So you’re down at the butchers buying a steak or two, a few sausages, then you whip off your bra and pop them inside. It’s gotta be worth a discount? That’s how adaptive reuse can be economically...
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The most sincere form of flattery
Let’s be even more critical than usual. This stuff is just plain bloody awful. Since we are not interested in shaming we won’t even tell you where it comes from, the point is that it is indicative of...
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Where’s walley?
The old milk carton wallet has worn out from recent over-use. How about a new one, this time made of adaptively reused plastic bags? Maybe just a rubber band? Or perhaps made of duct tape? You can even...
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A bitch about rich kitsch
“Avant-garde and kitsch“, an early essay by the once almighty US art critic Clement Greenberg, defined kitsch as “ersatz culture” manufactured for the urban masses … who, insensible to the values of...
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Breathe easy
Appropedia is a wiki that has been slowly bubbling along collecting a range of material around appropriate technologies. At times it feels a bit hokey, a bit neo hippy, but that’s what the open source...
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