Hi Pals:
Happy Monday! So, I’m kind of a DIY person. I like the idea of being able to fix, build, and create everything that I need. But let me state for the record that I do indeed buy stuff—it’s the IDEA of making things that I like.
What I like even more is when everyday people create things I would never have dreamed of. Here are a couple of projects I recently came across that really impressed me:
Bacon Roses: http://www.instructables.com/id/Bacon-Roses/
Windowfarms Aquaponic systems: http://www.windowfarms.org/
Drawdio, a pencil that draws sound: http://web.media.mit.edu/~silver/drawdio/
When I see these things, I am amazed and inspired. It’s all in your perspective; it’s really true that one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. The thing that these projects all have in common is that the makers all took one object and transformed it into something else--something wonderful and unexpected. These projects are simple in scale but show us some of the things that are so wonderful about humanity: imagination, wonder, whimsy, the ability to make a physical object out of a concept. And, of course, bacon. : )
I hope you have a great week, and that you are able to transform the world around you, and be transformed by it.
-Meredith
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