Bushpunk

Bunmi Oloruntoba writes:

While steampunk today is more or less a realm that holds our fascination because of its aesthetic possibilities and has a subculture of sorts, bushpunk sounds, to me, like so much more. In "bushpunk" we unhitch our imagination from steam power and, instead, have it revolve around a cannibalizing and re-purposing/solar and battery-powered/SMS/low-tech/low-bandwidth/velcro world which spits out of necessity things like bicycles made out of bamboo...[continue reading]

Image:furniture made out of empty plastic bottles at Maker Faire Africa 2009