While hitchhiking across the length and breadth of France, Antoine Bruy met men and women who, in Ardèche and Lozère, aspire to live in the most self-sufficient way possible. The photo taken by Antoine shows a hut, with big old metal sheets leaned against eachother, creating the roof for a wooden construction, whose material had a life before. There is a little solar collector tangling upon the awning of an barely straight wooden door. The first level has some stone walls and leaning against those are a lot tools, and it seams like someone has been making firewood in the recently, because the color of this imagine gives the impression its late autumn. Around this small hut, big enough to host two people for a short while and one to live there comfortable, is a valley with pine trees, maybe somewhere in eastern Europe, where nature is still sometimes in superiority. This picture again shows an old hut or this time I would call it a cabin, since it's bigger. It's made of an old bus which has the logo of anarchism written upon it. The cabin is made up totally by used materials mostly wood mixing them together to a pleasent experience of an anti-consumers eye, giving the woo a meaning to live again. Some smoke is coming out of a chimney. The cabin lays in some valley, you can see the ridge line covered with pine trees.
Credit to Antoine Bruy and a beautiful project "scrubland" of photographing self-sufficiency punks. Told by this story.

How Today can be Utopia

By disobeying culture laws, it's possible to live in Utopia. I'm going to tell from personal experience as a privleged white person. It's a story about loot boxes, shop-lifting, diy culture and slow living.


From laptops, keyboards, beamers, music boxes, MP3 Players and Monitors to everything you can wear, wooden building materials, bicycle parts and cookware. All can be found in the trash, although someone noted a better term: loot boxes. At least when you live in a rich society where people throw stuff like this away, because the market has moved on and so room has to be made to consume new stuff, a niche gets created for the people, who reuse stuff that others thought has no value anymore.

If you miss the tools to disassemble, reuse and repair the things you've found, don't worry. There sitting around in mass being idle in this part of the world. Ask your neighbors, friends or repair shops if you can lend it. But think bigger construction markets are big libaries of tools too, just bring them back again before they start to sit idle at yours.

Now, as you discovered construction markets are actually libaries. Be a bit creative, all book shops are essentially libaries too, as long as you bring back the books, for which some may acuse you of stealing. And there are a lot more markets, which could actually be libaries. As long as you bring back the things you've 'stolen' such an act is morally justifiable. Thus, be careful with how you handle the things you lend from the shops, so they can stil be used by others, as some expect that they have the right to be the sole users of what they call their property.

With such a perspective on our capitalistic system, you can help make the way we handle resources a lot more efficient. But don't stop there, fight for a world in which our resources are handled as respectfully as nature gives those resources to us and in which your little utopia has become reality. Further, as you become a professional repairer from picking up stuff others have thrown away, you may want to have a good old manifasto.

To distribute the prosperity of our economy just, we'll need to get rid of property. To live in a world of usership not ownership and where goods are distributed fairly according the needs of people.