MacGyver Challenge: Umbrellas
{Deadline: November 19, 2007}
by Anthony Discenza
Along with umbrella ownership comes a treacherous twin dilemma: Buy a cheap one, and it breaks as soon as the wind picks up. On the flip side, lay down some cash for a durable (and thus pricey) model, and you’re doomed to leave it on the floor of a movie theater.
It seems that most of us take the former route, resulting in an all-too-common sight: a post-storm urban landscape dotted with ruined umbrellas, their webbed skeletons reminiscent of shipwrecked pterodactyls. Of course, we can blame it on the rain—but until we put a stop to this global warming business, we’ll suffer no shortage of weather-wrecked nylon shields. And so we implore you, dear readers: Reinvent your bent, your battered, your hung-out-to-dry! The most waterproof solution wins a subscription and a ReadyMade T-shirt.
Send photos or projects to: MacGyver Challenge, 817 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94710 or articles {at} readymademag {dot} com.
[photo by ibradleywilson]
