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Flotsam and jetsam

June 12, 2010 by guyhutch

Recycled Materials Hotel

As any beachcomber will tell you identifying the flotsam from the jetsam is the least of your worries. The world’s oceans are becoming choked with assorted debris that has roughly the same half life as plutonium.

Naturally the way to highlight the woe’s of the world’s ocean’s was to build a pop-up hotel from 12 tonnes of rubbish, including plastic bottles, cans and even car exhaust pipes collected from Europe’s beaches. This astonishing building is the creation of Hans-Jürgen Schult .

But the real achievement is that Hans-Jürgen went on to get the Danish supermodel Helena Christensen lined up as their first guest.

I mean the dude looks like Kim Jong-il’s aryan half-brother. If this guy can get Helena Christensen to come back to his place then I’m going to reappraise that career as a beachcomber.

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Airport security? … yeah that’s going to go well

February 7, 2010 by guyhutch

Recycled Jerry Card

It’s not like passing through airports became a more elegantprocess over the last decade. Jacket off, metal detector sweep, pat down, shoes off, jacket off, laptop into the ‘sniffer’ etc…. . It’s a little bit like having your pockets checked for chewing gum at school – but without the thrill of having a genuine chance of winning the game of deception.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I love an ethically sourced product as much as the next eco-junkie. Nearly any kind of recycled produce is good and from my side the more weird and wonderful the better. Although I suspect this one might be a step too far.
But hats off to the guys at neomansland.fr for offering this travel case made from a recycled jerry can. Available in a range of funky colours so that you wife and children can also enjoy freaking out airport security the world over. They even credit the idea to German designers. Although in the context of all the trouble this product going to get you in that’s a little like thanking the designers of the Panzer for ‘testing’ the Maginot Line.

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Shattered glass

November 21, 2009 by guyhutch

Sometimes I just type a seemingly random word into Google, not because it is a search engine but because it is a marketing machine – a roulette wheel for businesses seeking punters. I’m not searching for anything in particular, just curious about who would want to pay for that query.

Provoked by that mornings java I ended up with Colombian. Well it turns out that Colombias premier online service is colombianbride.com – tagline, ‘Colombian Brides make the best latin brides’ (wow – how did they make it sound so wholesome?). Although somehow I doubt that there is a JD Power survey to back this one up.

But all this aside those resourceful colombians are taking an interesting tack to all the wasted glass generated when car windscreens are replaced. Their recycled windshield wine glasses even retain the tint included to reduce driver glare. Not that I’m oftened dazzled by the viognier sloshing around in the thing – but a nice touch none the less. Now available at uncommongoods.com

http://bit.ly/1yY9up

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Shut up fool

May 22, 2009 by guyhutch



BA Baracus

BA Baracus

I was somewhat surprised to see last year that knitting was back with the cool young things of London (the chicks at least). I realise the credit crunch is bringing a little austerity chic back into vogue but it’s hard to know if the act of knitting or the final product is the most annoying. Actually, thats nonsense, they are both equally annoying – like being trapped in a lift with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Gwynth Paltrow.

But what are the boys to do? Well taking a leaf out of the note book of one Sargent BA Baracus it’s got to be welding. I mean in the 1980’s hardly a week went by without a tractor being converted into a tank. Yes – time for us men to getout there and weld stuff to stuff. Alternatively you could check out the gear available from The Weld House.

www.theweldhouse.com

They take all kinds of cool stuff and weld it into something that looks vaguely like it’s forebears. I for one love the 1970’s sedan hoods converted into tables. And what little lady wouldn’t want her hubby to come back from a $3,000 dollar shopping spree with a bed assembled from beautiful raw steel?

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Journey latin america

March 31, 2009 by guyhutch

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It’s hard to place where Latin America comes into the American psyche. I mean on one hand you have the Ugly Betty toying with the perennial cliché of the downtrodden second generation immigrants. On the other that super hot piece of arse Nadine Velazquez who gets at least 15 seconds of screentime per episode and single handidly makes the show completely watchable. Maxim USA certainly get it – although I’m not sure why the shoot seems to depict her escaping through a Texas cornfield. Perhaps they are making a push for realism.

But one thing you have to love about Mexicanos is a true passion for all things christian and gaudy. And, quite frankly, thats why everyhome needs a Mexican ‘Nicho’ shrine made from recycled fruit tins. Like the priest told me at Sunday School – if you pray hard enough the good lord will send Nadine Velazquez in your hour of need.

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http://www.indigoarts.com/store1_recycled67.html

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Bad day at the office honey?

February 4, 2009 by guyhutch

 

 

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In great danger of leaping across tangents I happened to watch some of the Nadal v Federer epic yesterday and thought to myself – what happens with all those used balls. I mean isn’t Rafa’s carbon footprint big enough from jetting around the world all year without demanding new balls every nine games.

 

I couldn’t manage to find anything vaguely useful made from standard tennis balls but the guys at Refinding.com in Kansas City do a funky looking wallet made from giant recycled tennis balls. That is if you can resist that 80’s tinged wallets made of trading cards.

 

I couldn’t decide if the Dukes of Hazard had more street cred than the incredible hulk. Weirdly this wouldn’t even have been a challenging question 25 years ago.

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Since when did fur go out of fashion?

October 7, 2008 by guyhutch

I’m sure I’m not the only one spending the long autumn evenings weighing up the best use of grandma’s old fur coat. I mean they don’t quite ooze glamour the way they did back in the 1930’s.

Well our Canadian cousins have found the solution to all those fur recycling issues. Furteddybears.com does exactly what it says on the tin. For only $140 dollars US they will give any dusty old fur a new lease of life as a teddy bear.

I mean surely it’s every young childs dream – a teddy bear composed from the hide of one of gods little creatures.

 

 

 

 

(The Lindsay Lohan connection is tenuous to say the least but I couldn’t bear to be the only blogger not running a Lohan story – is she, isn’t she etc …)

 

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