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By Dave, June 17, 2007 11:08 am

Van Os Keuls – Innovative building materials from everyday tin cans: eco-artware Recycling Rag Newsletter
A Can-Do House: A New Twist to Aluminum Siding

Van Os Keuls lives in a 1953 brick tract house, to which he built a 230 sq. foot addition on to the back in 2000. The nearly-finished plywood and insulation board structure was covered with building paper, waiting to be sided or otherwise finished. He found bricks too expensive, and didn’t want the usual siding alternatives. After some thought and consideration, Van Os Keuls decided to try a new medium no architect and none of his clients had used before — flattened aluminum soda and beer cans.

Interesting concept. Just not sure of the practicality of it but that could just be me.

I’ve built several wall sections of aluminum cans and cement but am not gonna do any more that way. I’ll recycle the aluminum and use the cash to buy cement to use with glass and plastic bottles instead.

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By Dave, June 17, 2007 11:03 am

CorneliOS, the virtual web OS – Home

Now this sounds more like it. Web based multiuser OS with virtual file systems and applications. Another one I am gonna have to try out.

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By Dave, June 17, 2007 10:30 am

Plywood bike

Interesting concept and from what I can see cool design/construction of the bike.

Horrible website design, construction and execution. They didn’t even bother to title the main page. When I went to post this on the blog I had to add the “Plywood bike” in place of the “Untitled page” that showed up when using the WordPress add entry link. Pissy little pix with no link to larger versions in the gallery that are just too artsie fartsie to convey any real info. And the tiny pixtelated text on the specs page sucks. I could use the the text larger in my browser to increase the size but after looking at the rest of the site just didn’t bother.

These folks need to get someone that knows what they are doing to build them a real site to show this bike design off.