Martin Strel is not an athlete. He is a fifty-plus, big bellied Slovenian man who drives whilst drunk and eats horse burgers. He's also and endurance swimmer, conquering the worlds largest rivers the Mississippi, the Danube and the Yangtze to draw attention to environmental issues. Journeying with his English speaking son Borut and director John Maringouin, he sets out to swim the Amazon, facing obstacles including carnivorous fish, rapids and toxic water pollution. Big River Man is a character study filled with humour, an edge-of-your-seat thrilling adventure and an awareness raising environment documentary that delivers on all fronts.
Sunday, 13 June 2010
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
The Cardboard Apartment
Yes... this is an apartment made from pizza boxes, cardboard, paper, and paint - built by Luise Valdes (a.k.a. Don Lucho) - not sure about that cardboard toilet ;-)
It's a bit better than this fella's place
Via Illusion 360
It's a bit better than this fella's place
Via Illusion 360
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Monday, 7 June 2010
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Shit Camo
The wacky guys from The Brown Corporation, who brought you the fabulous Shit Box, have surpassed themselves with another shit product - a camouflage pattern box made entirely from poo...
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Thursday, 8 April 2010
The Great Mighty Poo
One of the bosses in the game "Conker's Bad Fur Day." The Great Mighty Poo is an opera singing pile of poop.
Lyrics by Robert Beanland and Ed Horowitz (Unofficial aka of "Weird" Al Yankovic).
Lyrics by Robert Beanland and Ed Horowitz (Unofficial aka of "Weird" Al Yankovic).
Thursday, 20 August 2009
A Mongolian View
Our Shit Boxes have travelled to Mongolia as part of the Mongol Rally 2009. Bob Twells and Lee Tuffnell drove from Goodwood, UK to Ulanbataar, Mongolia in a Skoda and came 96th out of 550. We would like to congratulate them on their achievement and for using our trusty Shit Boxes to relieve them along the way.
Gotta love that view!
Gotta love that view!
Friday, 7 August 2009
Golden Showers
New advertising campaign in Brazil encouraging it's citizens to conserve water by peeing in the shower. Brazilian environmental group SOS Mata Atlantica says the campaign, running on several television stations, uses humour to persuade people to reduce flushes. The group says if a household avoids one flush a day, it can save up to 4,380 litres (1,157 gallons) of water annually.
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
Cardboard Guitar
Awesome cardboard guitar by designer Jarrod Barretto - his claim to fame "I was once drawn in marker by famed cardboard artisan Michel Gondry."
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Tuesday, 14 July 2009
CitiKitty - Cat Toilet Training Kit
How to toilet train your cat with a 'specially-designed training seat', CitiKitty:
Check these (apparently) toilet trained cats:
Now if they'd only learn how to flush...
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Check these (apparently) toilet trained cats:
Now if they'd only learn how to flush...
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Cat Flushing A Toilet Music Video
Cat-chy song (pun intended!)...
♫ It's a cat (meow) flushing a toilet, it's a cat flushing a toilet ♫
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♫ It's a cat (meow) flushing a toilet, it's a cat flushing a toilet ♫
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Monday, 13 July 2009
Recompute
Sustainable cardboard PC
Brenden Macaluso's entry in the Greener Gadgets Design Competition from earlier in the year; the cardboard-housed Recompute
Recompute case is made of corrugated cardboard which is recyclable and renewable. There are four low-impact manufacturing processes in it's assembly: Die cutting, gluing (with non-toxic white glue), printing and electronic assembly. Recompute uses only three major electronic components: A motherboard with processor & memory, power supply, and a hard drive - it's cardboard housing means it can be disassembled without tools, so the electronics and case can be easily recycled individually.
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Brenden Macaluso's entry in the Greener Gadgets Design Competition from earlier in the year; the cardboard-housed Recompute
Recompute case is made of corrugated cardboard which is recyclable and renewable. There are four low-impact manufacturing processes in it's assembly: Die cutting, gluing (with non-toxic white glue), printing and electronic assembly. Recompute uses only three major electronic components: A motherboard with processor & memory, power supply, and a hard drive - it's cardboard housing means it can be disassembled without tools, so the electronics and case can be easily recycled individually.
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Sunday, 12 July 2009
Tech Cardboard
Gorgeous cardboard gadgets from designer Kyle Bean - Disposable Technology: A response to our consumer relationship with technology and obsolescence:
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Saturday, 11 July 2009
Friday, 10 July 2009
No Poops! No Oops!
OMG! Not sure what to make of this one (mind-you we make a cardboard crapper... so look who's talking). The PooTrap comes in 3 colours (black, red or blue) and 8 different sizes for worry free poo collection in apparently 3 simple steps - basically it's a doggy nappy...
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Thursday, 9 July 2009
Who Invented the Toilet?
Myth: Thomas Crapper invented the toilet - although Thomas Crapper was a master plumber he had little or nothing to do with inventing the water closet (nor is the word crap derived from his name).
The earliest toilets so far found are those at Skara Brae in the Orkneys, which was occupied at about 3000 BC. In ancient India and parts of the Middle East public toilets that used water to wash away the waste have been known for over 4,000 years.
While toilets date back to ancient times, the modern toilet can be more accurately traced back to Sir John Harrington, godson of Queen Elizabeth I, and his invention called the Ajax (i.e. "a jakes"; jakes being an old slang word for toilet) - an indoor water closet. In 1596, Harington wrote a book called A New Discourse upon a Stale Subject: The Metamorphosis of Ajax (catchy title) about his invention, but at the time his water closet was universally ridiculed by his peers for being a rather useless invention. By all accounts Sir John and Queen Elizabeth were the only owners of a WC in their day.
The idea of a flushable toilet never completely disappeared, and in 1738 a valve-type flush toilet was invented by J. F. Brondel. Between 1738 and 1852 a number of designs were invented and patents registered, including the silent siphon discharge system and the s-trap (preventing the escaping smell of sewers) - a design that is basically the same as modern toilets with few modifications.
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The earliest toilets so far found are those at Skara Brae in the Orkneys, which was occupied at about 3000 BC. In ancient India and parts of the Middle East public toilets that used water to wash away the waste have been known for over 4,000 years.
While toilets date back to ancient times, the modern toilet can be more accurately traced back to Sir John Harrington, godson of Queen Elizabeth I, and his invention called the Ajax (i.e. "a jakes"; jakes being an old slang word for toilet) - an indoor water closet. In 1596, Harington wrote a book called A New Discourse upon a Stale Subject: The Metamorphosis of Ajax (catchy title) about his invention, but at the time his water closet was universally ridiculed by his peers for being a rather useless invention. By all accounts Sir John and Queen Elizabeth were the only owners of a WC in their day.
The idea of a flushable toilet never completely disappeared, and in 1738 a valve-type flush toilet was invented by J. F. Brondel. Between 1738 and 1852 a number of designs were invented and patents registered, including the silent siphon discharge system and the s-trap (preventing the escaping smell of sewers) - a design that is basically the same as modern toilets with few modifications.
A London plumber by the name of Thomas Crapper bought the rights to manufacture a toilet design in the late 1800s and stamped the words ‘T Crapper & Co’ on the bowl of his toilets...
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Korean Unisex Toilet?
Wha...?
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Wednesday, 8 July 2009
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