Thursday, April 28, 2011

IT MAY NOT BE PRETTY, BUT IT WORKS

One of the coolest things about China is this street sweeper. Fashioned from dried plants or perhaps straw of some kind, it is the sort of thing that is conceived in the pockets of China where rural life and modernity intermingle to create interesting contraptions with a foot in each century. With the functionality of its modern counterparts and the charm of peasant ingenuity, the device appears to be plucked from Mao's cultural revolution but remixed considerably to serve its purpose in the 21st century.

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