FIXES

Easel legs thread through bricks for stabilization of a entrance menu.

Materials: Bricks
Location: Nagoya

Lantern decoration for restaurant secured with a length of rope and a brick.

Materials: Brick, Rope
Location: Nagoya

Mailbox facing the city street latched shut with a twist of rope.

Materials: Rope
Location: Central Nagoya

Tokyo based design researcher Celine Mougenot introduces this great DIY sound system spotted in Okinawa.

Materials: Plastic Twine (?)
Location: Okinawa

Sign stabilized against wind with water filled PET bottle.

Materials: PET Bottle
Location: Minato-ku, Tokyo

Trees decorating the entrance are stabilised with plastic twine and string

Materials: Plastic Twine, String
Location: Minato-ku, Tokyo

Garden gate held together with wire.


Materials: Wire
Location: Akishima, Tokyo

Packing straps bracing two drain pipes together. A bucket forms the repository.



Materials: Packing Strap, Bucket
Location: Tachikawa, Tokyo

Train station emergency kit stored on a hook and secured with tape.

Materials: Hook, Tape
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo

A construction of traffic cones and barriers held together with wire and plastic twine supports an old awning and cordons off the unused shop front.

Materials: Plastic Twine, Wire, Traffic Cones, Traffic Barriers,
Location: Nagoya, Aichi

As I rode my kick scooter across Tokyo from Shibuya to Ochanomizu, on the way to the Tokyo Mapping Workshop in the heat of summer I turned a corner in a deserted backstreet and ran straight into these monsters…… so tall they need to be tethered to the chain link fence for support as they wither.

Materials: Plastic Twine
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo

Lots more Tokyo sunflowers [HERE] and on Tokyo Green Space [HERE]

Originally posted on Tokyo-DIY-Gardening

Signage stablized with a chain threaded through a breeze block.

Materials: Breeze Block, Chain
Location: Minato-ku, Tokyo

Commercial signage stabilized through use of simple wooden strip.

Materials: Wood
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo

A roadside barrier is held together with a LAN cable. I’m still not clear on the purpose of this barrier, however. I think it is to discourage bicycle parking, as seems to be the function of most ‘official’ barriers in the area.

Materials: LAN Cable
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo

Bricks stablize a streetside display which juts out over the curb and onto the road.

Materials: Brick
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo

The outdoor menu for this food store is secured with plastic twine taped to two bricks, the base evened out with broken paving tiles.

Materials: Bricks, Paving Slab, Plastic Twine, Duct Tape
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo

Pamphlet stand outside during business hours – tied to the pedestrian railing with plastic twine for stabilisation.

Materials: Plastic Twine
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo

This goya is being trained up and over the pathway in front of the apartment building to the balcont of a first floor apartment.

I like the way that the owner has not only appropriated the patch of earth in front of her residence but also created a physical (and visible to all) connection between the two.

Materials: Plastic Twine
Location: Akishima, Tokyo

(Originally posted on Tokyo-DIY-Gardening)

Residential fence held together with a length of rope. In a neighbourhood bordering a new subdivision.

Materials: Rope
Location: Akishima, Tokyo

[Thanks to Joseph Tame, Tokyo-based freelance marketing manager, new media producer, entrepreneur, performer and marathoner for this garden fix originally posted on his microblog]

“With the onset of string winds, I replace *Twinkle’s* ex-jewellery stand with this ex-umbrella, carefully dismembered with my favourite pair of pliers.” (Joseph adds – “I did actually ask my wife before I took her jewellery stand to use as a stake to hold the sunflowers up.”)

Materials: Umbrella, Plastic Twine
Location: Meguro, Tokyo

Trees support a laundry pole construction in Tokyo’s Tachikawa suburbs.

Materials: Laundry Pole
Location: Tachikawa, Tokyo

Trees support a bamboo pole based washing line construction in Tokyo’s Tachikawa suburbs. I love the way the structure blends in with the surroundings – its temporary form touching lightly on the landscape.

A flexible, elegant and economical solution to a very domestic need.

Materials: Bamboo, Twine
Location: Tachikawa, Tokyo

The sharp ends of these bamboo support stakes are made safer by placing the cut off ends of mayonnaise bottles on top.

I like the strongly practical, domestic feel that this has. No fuss, no pretense of elegance. Just growing some plants and keeping kids’ eyes out of harm’s way.

Materials: Mayonnaise Bottles
Location: Akishima, Tokyo

Thanks to my Tokyo-DIY-Gardening collaborator/co-instigator Jared Braiterman for this lovely short post on the super-glue that holds together much of Tokyo’s DIY green.
http://tokyogreenspace.com/2010/09/25/s-hooks-are-tokyos-super-glue/
“I love how someone has intervened in the landscape, and done so in a way that is completely removable and dependent on what already exists.”

Materials: S-hook

Potplants secured top their precarious wall-top position with bricks.

Materials: Bricks
Location: Akishima, Tokyo