Least effort and least cost. Ingredients 500g strong white flour 350g warm water 1tsp salt 1 tsp easy bake yeast mixed into the flour (Or 1 tbsp dried yeast dissolved and frothy in the water mentioned above) 1. Put the flour, salt and easy bake yeast into the food processor bowl. You can useContinue reading “Austerity bread”
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Making rope
A factory film showing the mechanised braiding of rope, from the National Film Board of Canada.
Geometric animation
A beautiful geometric animation, set to Japanese koto music, from 1973. Perspectre/Perspectrum by Ishu Patel, National Film Board of Canada
Decommissioning Shapewear: videos by Empty.co.uk and Victoria Harwood
These films were made as part of the Decommissioning Shapewear project for the Feminist Times. It all began with Charlotte dangerously burning shapewear in her garden in order to ‘take it out of service’. It soon grew into a group of artists making new creations from spandex items.
Futuristic toast racks
These toast racks were designed around 1880 by Christopher Dresser.
Moorish ceiling tiles
I think Picasso would have been impressed if he had looked up to the ceiling and seen these painted tiles, especially the painting of the bull. It looks as if its eyes are painting on another plane and defy conventional representation. They are on show in the ceramic Museum in Valencia. These are drawings byContinue reading “Moorish ceiling tiles”
Shredder van on fire
A truck carrying shredded paper caught fire at the side of a road next to Clapham Common, London
Pavement (photo)
Black Tarmac around a yellow cover
Arenas
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Our daily bread: a factory film
A film maker’s record of mechanised food production at an industrial scale
Coffee Table TV 