nike shoes
Jul 10, 2025

Fake Vs. Real

Bought a $9 pair of fake Nike shoes in Vietnam + the originals back home. Want to see the difference over time. So next time you see me walking in 2 different shoes don’t laugh. It's research #storyhopper.

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Scrapyard

Hardware store

woman in front of a pile of recycled clothes

Our old clothes heading to Africa

Dumpsterdiving

Dumpsterdiving

Dave's setup for the extrusion.

Prototype Extrusion

Woman working on a lathe

Carolina making stuff in the workspace

Magazine cover

Coverboy

Man working on a recycling extruder machine

Brick making training

Worry bead mould for recycled plastic

Worry beads mould

4 men with recycled bricks

Bricks from ocean plastic

Prototype of a washing system

Washing system prototype

two badges in one hand

Badges around the world

Precious Plastic badge

1 year after V2

ewaste

Researching components

people in a rock

Looking for a land in Portugal

Conference

Ara – DevCon

Mexico team of students setting up Precious Plastic

Machines in Mexico

Dave getting a machine ready

Blueprints in the making

machines packed

Transport approved

2 man in front of recycled sheet

First sheets from Nigeria

Injection machine

Injector in Sri Lanka