Up-Cycled Screwfix catalogue: mix palette.

A really useful re-use of all those catalogues that end up being pulped...Simply use each page as a clean sheet for mixing your filler, paint or whatever. Tear off the used page when you need a fresh mix area, easy. Perfect!

Utility Bike Vernacular:

This simple and functional update to the freight carrying capacity of a push bike is both elegant and practical. An old wire shopping basket gets a second life. Up-cycled hardware saved from landfill if not re-cycled. Maidenhead Town centre.

Clear Skies…

“Clear skies for you my friend that you may see this night's end” - Astronomers shanty (anon).

Utility Bike Innovation Competition:

 
Gorgeous design detail meets high engineering standards as the most versatile transport form evolves:

Davis University deodorant; Amazon review:

When those pesky students start getting their own ideas and radically linking arms fairly quietly and frankly, stinking the joint out. Try the following product: A biting Amazon user review, with link after the image:

5 out of 5 stars Accept no substitutes when casually repressing students, November 21, 2011

This review is from: Defense Technology 56895 MK-9 Stream, 1.3% Red Band/1.3% Blue Band Pepper Spray (Misc.)

Whenever I need to breezily inflict discipline on unruly citizens, I know I can trust Defense Technology 56895 MK-9 Stream, 1.3% Red Band/1.3% Blue Band Pepper Spray to get the job done! The power of reason is no match for Defense Technology's superior repression power. When I reach for my can of Defense Technology 56895 MK-9 Stream, 1.3% Red Band/1.3% Blue Band Pepper Spray, I know that even the mighty First Amendment doesn't stand a chance against its many scovil units of civil rights suppression.
When I feel threatened by students, no matter how unarmed, peaceful and seated they may be, I know that Defense Technology 56895 MK-9 Stream, 1.3% Red Band/1.3% Blue Band Pepper Spray has got my back as I casually spray away at point blank range.
It really is the Cadillac of citizen repression technology.
Buy a whole case!

Sound Suits:

With an alluring title this blog story combines costume, sculpture, (e)motion interaction and recycled found materials.  These figures literally rustle, clatter and joculate through space carried by their bearer:

Standing Desk:

Intrigued by various Tweets on tall and standing desks I thought my recent sculpture workstation fitted the bill rather well. Fully height adjustable and rotates for 360 degree work access (note the up-cycled screw adjust stool and tripod base made from scraps). The accompanying side table for tools and materials is simply a wood board scrap screwed on a quick release foot on a Camera tripod, simple and very effective. The sculpt is of my latest loudspeaker, a reworking of my classic African Mask Speaker:

Tact:

In Baisers volés, Delphine Seyrig explains to her young lover the difference between politeness and tact: ‘Imagine you inadvertently enter a bathroom where a woman is standing naked under the shower. Politeness requires that you quickly close the door and say, “Pardon, Madame!”, whereas tact would be to quickly close the door and say: “Pardon, Monsieur!”’ It is only in the second case, by pretending not to have seen enough even to make out the sex of the person under the shower, that one displays true tact.

Mountbatten Pink