Everything under the sun is happening in China.
"Open up your perspective: the best of Chinese farmers’ wisdom" (my loose translation) shows us some of the DIY projects taken on by those deemed "farmers" (农民) in the current Chinese social system. The car drives on land and in water; the submarine is one of a series of subs built by a 67 year old farmer from a village near Wuhan, China.
Make sure not to miss Du Wenda’s famous flying saucer, which was taken to the Venice Biennale as an art exhibit by Cai Guoqiang last year….
Flagged as a top photo pick on the Bulletin Board Service (BBS) site of one of China’s largest portals, Sina.com.
Chinese farmers’ DIY water vehicles
Over at Virtual China, my IFTF colleague Lyn Jeffery posts about the inventiveness of some Chinese farmers. Lyn writes: “Open up your perspective: the best of Chinese farmers’ wisdom” (my loose translation) shows us some of the DIY projects taken on by…
Chinese farmers’ DIY water vehicles
These are great, homemade DIY vehicles from Chinese farmers - the sub was made by a 67 year old farmer from a village near Wuhan, China. [via] Link. Related: MADE ON EARTH - Link….
haha that’s awesome. I can definitely see this happening. When I was living in Beijing we always so a lot of modified Beijing jeeps and motor bikes with crazy side cars. Nice Post!
We all live in a homemade yellow submarine car
Via Boing Boing, we learned of a great China blog called Virtual China. The post that caught Boing Boing’s eye is entitled “what’s on the BBS today: the inventiveness of farmers” and it highlights some of the “DIY projects” China’s farmers are undertak…
Nice inventions… I placed your link om my weblog.. Thanks and keep up the good work..!
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Greetzzz Bozz.
got it, so cool about introduce our’s wisdom farmer to foreigner.
ecellent posting, will appreciate any more leadson farmers’ innovations
keep it up
anil
anilg@sristi.org