To Mow or Not to Mow

So, I got the mower finished. It looks even more pristine than I had envisioned it and has a real dark sterile feel about it.

As the mower is still fully functional I've been playing with idea of a performance  piece. Maybe getting hold of some turf and laying it out in a long strip, around 10 meters or so and just cutting the grass until I get to the end.
Might be a health and safety nightmare in the triangle space though!
Alternatively I could cut the grass before the show starts so all that was left was the remnants of what had happened.

Ingenius?

Pictures a bit blurry but, this guy was walking down the road with his phone cello-taped around his head.

When asked why, he simply said...  "I'm expecting an important call"

Chopchop

A commission that I was asked to do for a new bike shop opening on Old Street, London

 I chopped a dutch bike in half and had the broken back end going into the wall above the workshop door and the fully working (light included) front end coming out of the shop front.

...carrying on from re-furb the un-furbable, I been thinking a lot about how we live in such a throw away society, how it's far cheaper and easier to just buy something new that get it repaired.
I am interested in peoples ingenious interventions to over come lifes little problems. Inspired by Richard Wentworths "Making do and Getting by"

I want to make functional sculptures from abandoned bikes, I intend to focus on the transformation and alteration of these bikes to over come problems.

Trolly Bike...

 Fill it with beer, food or crap...and take it off road.

No welds!
Made with a drill, grinder, pliers and an adjustable spanner

unexpected gathering

Left a magnet on my desk for a while

Building a Tall Bike

Plans for building a tall bike

the orange lines are where I intend to put extra support.

The head tube angle of these two frames is nearly the same so extending the steer column will hopefully be straight forward.

Somehow I need to brace the top bike to the bottom bike.

You Get A Couple Of Examples and Then You Specialize

I've been thinking about collections recently and what it means to be a collector.

Why do people collect the things they do?

How does a collection start?

Is it the singular object that is admired and valued

and/or the process of collecting?

I guess in their own way collectors are striving for greatness. They want the biggest, the most complete, the rarest, the unusual, the most admirable, the oldest or most expensive collection possible. 

But most importantly they want the complete set. 

Collecting combines two passions: A love of hoarding things and the search for the unattainable.

Can a serious collectors collection ever really be complete?

Most children collect things, like toys from cereal packets or fast food restaurants, football cards etc...

Maybe people collect for nostalgic reasons, to recreate some powerful childhood emotion, or to keep ahold of the old because the new is moving so fast is hard to keep up.

But what happens when the innocence of a child collecting things manifests and and becomes an obsession in adulthood?

Adults can take collection to the next level, they can bring to their habit discipline, compulsion and of course the thing that no child has... Money!

I used to collect toy cars...now I collect real ones!  

This is a quote from Jamiroquai on MTV'S cribs.

I've started collecting hinges, predominately metal hinges. They're used everywhere, they're pretty important where ever they're used but they're never really noticed.

They're an intrinsic part to what ever they belong to.

Today I found my first hinge. i took it from a box that I made a few months ago