Thursday, August 27, 2009

"There's so much waste in the world, I like to put rubbish to good use. A lot of people say I'm into my second childhood, but I don't think I ever got out of my first. Getting carried away is the bother of invention."
~John Ward of Northamptonshire, a self-described junkist who builds giant contraptions from other people's rubbish, like the "moon buggy" which he made out of an old bed, a number of hair dryers and vacuum cleaners, a wicker linen basket, a tumble dryer, a baby carriage, and various other parts with sirens and flashing lights. From Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness