The art of recycling

So one day I was cruising through http://www.instructables.com/ and came across some dude who was recycling computer stuff into other interesting devices. One was a wormhole generator.

Having no need for microscopic black holes floating around my apartment, nor feeling any need for generating wormholes so my thoughts could penetrate to other universes, I decided to implement the gear recycling idea my own way.

I stepped rapidly to the elevator and went to the garage level where there is the usual cornucopia of cast off clutter. Among the (worm hole?) castings were a flower pot, a bent bicycle wheel, and a genuine antique sleeve attachment for an ironing board. Perfect.

I gathered them up and rose back into the sky to approach my other pile of retro dysfunctional gear; to whit: a dead hard drive, and an even more dead inkless printer, some miscellaneous nuts and bolts, a couple of key chain rings, a couple half used tubes of epoxy and a can of black spray paint left over from a real project.

The process included stripping all the gear to basic parts, and reassembling as required for the 'look' of an old windmill I had photographed and morphed into a sort of energy weapon some time back.

And since I needed a candle holder I included that capability in the design, along with a certain (partly functional) gear train that allowed the integral candle snuffer to operate on a bicycle spoke guide.

The whole thing mounted nicely asymmetrically on my restored and polished antique ironing board.

To complete the socially relevant commentary all art needs, what I needed was a replica 12th century knight from the British Museum to pose as a Cervantes stand in for Don Quixote.

Let us Tilt at whatever windmills suit.