Not to lift posts from VBS/Vice, but the video of artist and designer Ernesto Oroza is worth watching if you’re at all interested in DIY culture and technology.

From VBS -
In the 1970s, a group of scientists and mechanics inspired by Che Guevara formed the National Association of Innovators and Rationalizers (ANIR) as a way of organizing and strengthening this homebrew culture, uniting the ethos of the hacker with the needs of an isolated economy and the call of a socialist revolution. Oroza showed us his meticulous collection of these machines, which he has contextualized as art pieces in a movement he calls “Technological Disobedience.”

“The work, which is shaped like a place of shelter, is a symbolic representation of the human search for protection against the elements. The anatomical figure and the landscape were borrowed from an illustration in the book Humani Corporis Fabrica which was authored by the Sixteenth Century Flemish artist and anatomist, Andreas Vesalius. The billowing backdrop was modeled after the pleated robes that can be found in renowned sculptures from the Italian Renaissance.”  - www.skor.nl

Debra Baxter, Crystal Brass Knuckles (I am going to realign your chakras motherf*****), 2009

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NASA’s robot will be destroying boarding the ISS soon.

It would be interesting to hear the designers of R2 discuss the project, I wonder how they came up with the face plate design.

See Saw Bike has a clever accompanying postcard design as well, see below.

Via Found Shit