Tire Recycling

            While I was in Detroit, my group’s duties included picking up tires from various alleyways in the city. We came back with a semi-truck full.

            As part of Cass’s Green Industries, the tires were cut into strips and woven into rubber mats, which is what I spent that afternoon doing. While, for numerous reasons, I can’t post a tutorial on how to make them, I thought this was an interesting sort of upcycling that might be of interest.

I'm Back!

            Imagine, if you will, the dieselpunk Land of Cars. Its main industry is auto production, so factories are everywhere, the society is divided between executives and workers, and everything is owned by either General Motors or Ford.

            However, the Land of Cars has recently had a strange apocalypse in which the majority of its population has mysteriously disappeared, leaving behind houses, possessions, and, of course, cars. The remaining people now live amidst the abandonment and decay.

            What we have left is modern day Detroit, Michigan, where I spent the last week volunteering with  Cass Community Social Services.While I could—and probably will—write on for days about all the stuff I did and people I met there, I’ll start with something fairly simple: this statue I found in a park by the riverfront. Doesn't it look like it just landed from outer space?