Making a Vinyl Bowl

Making a Vinyl Bowl, originally uploaded by DesignPlant.

Video of me making a Vinyl bowl by heating up a 12" record in the oven and pressing it into a ceramic bowl to shape it.

Moving Host

This Blog will now be continued over at wordpress.com as it has much more functionality and will allow for a better site. Click here to go there!

Platform 21's Repair Manifesto

"Platform21’s Repair Manifesto opposes throwaway culture and celebrates repair as the new recycling. With our new project, Platform21 = Repairing, we seek to make repairing cool again"


via Core77

Seriously Cool Upcycled Watch

Seriously cool watch from Design Brothers (http://www.design-brothers.com) just a concept at the moment but some nice thinking, check it out anyway. Whilst looking at their other designs I can't help but think that a wine rack for anything less than 5 bottles is a complete waste of materials, surely there's not only available storage space for one or two bottles in any house but the time they'll spend there is so short does it warrant a special design solution anyway?

Adhocism

Adhocism slide show, over at Treehugger here. Some great examples of Upcycling and Ad-Hoc structures.

Communism & Being Green

Over at TreeHugger there is an artice entitled "6 Green Lessons We Can Learn Form Communism", an interesting read, particularly for the comments at the end which highlight the fact that although Communism has proven unsuccessful in practice on many levels a little understanding of the priciples would go a long way for many people. The comments highlight that the sentiments of the McCarthy 'witch hunts' still prevail in the US where any socialist ideals are blindly rejected before any intelligent assessment can be made, leaving an entire country with fewer options because of general prejudice and ignorance.

Site Graphics

Today begins the trialling of the new site graphics intended to reflect the intent of this blog. Black and red have been chosen as the principal colours as they reflect the left-wing sentiments of the blog but more importantly, by using black as the main colour your screen will be using less energy to display the site!