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.”

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

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

Via Found Shit

“The characteristic feature of Bujnowski’s working method is a large number of failed or discarded paintings, rejected by the artist. In order to avoid the unpleasant feeling of squandering large amounts of materials (paint and canvas), Rafal has ordered a special press which he uses to perform this peculiar kind of artistic recycling. Hundreds of discarded canvases are pressed together into a new object - a heavy bar of canvas being both symbolical and literal record of his artistic failures.” - raster.art.pl

- Harrison, Erika.  “Roulettes in Spherical Geometry.”

These antique machines are absolutely stunning in their complexity, patina, and operation. The engineering involved in creating such a tool is mind boggling. Most are directly hand or foot powered with a gear reduction system similar to what milling and lathe equipment still use today.

After seeing the video below, I almost want to move to France for a year and ghost some old watch makers.