Inspiration

Making a big fern on the beach

Balance, Do it Yourself, Inspiration | Tim Norton | 5 Comments

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Sometimes you just have to dig a big fern on the beach with some good people… This week we dug a 20 metre fern on the beach here in Wellington, New Zealand - see the video below, and a couple of years ago, a 100 metre fern in the beach in Sant Monica, LA. We’re just warmed up and now and heaps of other people are now involved so tonight (Friday 20 march) tomorrow (Saturday 21st), we’re going for 50 metre one with a big community, if you’re in Wellington, come down… hang out… and do a bit of digging…

The Made From New Zealand crew rock out a 20 metre fern together on a sunny morning…

Island 2.0 - 100,000 more bottles and there’s more land

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Island 2.0 - 100,000 more bottles and there's more land

I wrote about Richy Sowa and his Spiral Island initiative last year in How to Make an Island and solve a few of the worlds problems. He had already made one amazing island from some 300,000 bottles, but it got destroyed by a hurricane, and last year in September, he had just started rebuilding... Well its just over a year on, and he now has...(Read more)

Sailing the world and generating power

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Sailing the world and generating power

I had the pleasure this weekend of sailing around the Wellington Harbour with captain Glenn Andert and his partner Pamela in the learjet that he's been sailing for the last 3 years around the pacific between home #1 in California and his new home with Pamela at #2 - New Zealand. (The bend in the windmill blades is an illusion from the iphone capture I'm pretty...(Read more)

Mexico is getting bigger - How to build an island upate

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Mexico is getting bigger - How to build an island upate

Last year I posted about How to make an island and solve a few of the worlds problems, 8 months on and a whole bunch of volunteers have now got involved in building the 2nd Spiral Island, and here's where its at Find more photos like this on Richie Sowa's Spiral Island From Randy McCallum - "The Island is now about 25 meters (80 feet) long,...(Read more)

Make it Real - and open your mind

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Make it Real - and open your mind

Our friends over at Ponoko who let you make real things that get cut out of wood and plastic from your designs that you put on their website, are running a design competition, details here. One of my real good buddies Pete Black makes and designs all sorts of stuff. I've worked on with Pete on software and web projects for a few years a...(Read more)

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