to walk with the dreamers..........: June 2011

Sunday 19 June 2011

originality+creativity

Bike powered sewing machine-awesome!!

Laura Martínez del Pozo and Jaime Sevilla Moreno, co-founders of peSeta, launched upon the idea of a bicycle-powered sewing machine when two friends left a bike and an antique sewing machine at their shop. One day, it occurred to them that they could hook the bike up to the sewing machine and make things. With the help of Charlie Perez Mayoral of Ciclos Noviciado, a custom-bike workshop in Madrid, they rigged up a bike stand and connected the back wheel to the sewing gears.

PeSeta’s bike-powered operation is an an amazing example of ingenuity and teamwork.

The group sent their proposal to New York City’s New Museum, which now sells the bicycle caps exclusively through its brick-and-mortar and online stores. Available in several solids, plaids, and stripes, the $45 topper features the word “New” on the underside of the brim. A $90 deluxe version comes packaged in a wooden cheese box with stickers and a DVD on how it came to be.
The marriage of bicycle and sewing machine is one of raw power and unbridled creativity. It’s also a sterling example of how ingenuity meets cooperation: The cyclist has to work with the sewer to pull the feat off, neither pedaling too fast nor too slow. Although it’s far more complicated than plugging your machine into the wall, peSeta’s bike-powered operation is an an amazing example of ingenuity and teamwork.

http://www.ecouterre.com/

get to it

http://www.live-inspired.com
Compendium incorporated are an Graphic design and product company based in the US,
They have this great little thing going, little window cards, that have an encouraging and goal aspiring message inside, i for one would love one of their go-get-em books for a bit'o'inspiration.

Achieve Every Day Journal

Let's get Knitting................

Amazing Guerilla Kntting and Yarn Bombing,
I love seeing public art on display, It's there to be seen. Get knitting!

Tuesday 14 June 2011

keeping it real....

I've had such a hard day, it's been intense and disappointing. After getting results, I had to remind myself of what i've achieved this year. It's hard not to be recognised for how hard you've worked. How I've been in uni 10 hours a day but then again someone is not going to go around patting me on the bck for every little thing that I acheive.

.......so I guess this is to keeping it real, doing it for the love of it and keeping on going, with a damn big smile on your face.(and some very angry punk music!) I've loved every minuite of it and actually wouldn't change a thing.xx