Programming from Joel Anderson on Vimeo.

"Our children don‘t know the difference between a flathead screwdriver, and a phillips...and if they did know the difference, they wouldn‘t know what to do with it anyway."

We buy new objects...they break...we replace them. Old, broken objects sit around, nobody enjoys them anymore. If you buy a new object, use it, connect to it...but do you really? Buy an old one. One collecting dust in a basement, a garage, an attic. Fix it. Learn how it operates, how‘s parts move together, in harmony. Learn how to improve it. Alter it‘s performance, for better or for worse. These objects cost very little, often are free, so there is not much risk of taking them apart, trying to put them back together. Often these objects have much more character than a brand new object. So why throw them away?

A place to connect people to tools, and the knowledge required to use them.

"Who says you need to buy a guitar?"

The inspiration for my thesis came from my love for the beauty in found objects, and the satisfaction that comes from finding an old, forgotten object and making it like new again.