When burning eyes threaten to fail, extreme zooming is the key to completing Google Spreadsheets work.
Sometimes you just can’t find the energy to escape, and palliative measures are the only way to go…….
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo
Offices are a desert when it comes to proper cooking and preparation equipment. Office staff are reduced to cutting their convenience store fake bread with rulers (keep the bread in the plastic bag to keep the ruler/knife clean) when preparing a quick morning tea.
Materials: Ruler
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo
Looking around this central Tokyo office we observe many-layered browser windows hoping to hide the active non-work-related twitter client, collaborative google doc or pleasure reading (spot the one-line layered browser reader in the image below).
It’s important to reclaim your brain-alert daytime for creative personal projects.
Materials: Browser
Location: Many Offices
Overview of items fixed and back in use in the rubbish center. The center tool stock comes almost entirely of rescued items from apartment complex trash.
Broom saved from the trash heap with a large helping of duct tape. Now in use.
Detail of hand made rack in rubbish center. Construction in plastic twine and tape.
Materials: Duct Tape, Plastic Twine
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
This example is a note for a pamphlet on “Hand Made Aspects of Mass Produced Housing”. Subscribe to my somewhat-frequent letter HERE if you want to keep in touch easily.
Cleaning space constructed by rubbish center staff consists of various recycled and repurposed items.
A water cooler bottle ready for reuse is taped up. Does the duct tape cap keep dirt and liquid out?
Materials: Recycled Materials
Location: Setagaya, Tokyo.
This example is a note for a pamphlet on “Hand Made Aspects of Mass Produced Housing”. Subscribe to my somewhat-frequent letter HERE if you want to keep in touch easily.
