26-year-old Dina Amin has decided to create an alternative narrative for junk.
Every Friday, Amin tinkers with new ways to reveal the inner-workings of some of the most mundane products, like PlayStation controllers to fluorescent lamps. She picks up discarded objects, aka junk, pulls them apart, and reassembles them into animated characters she calls “lil’ creatures”. All this so you can see "junk" in a different light.
Here's some of her "Tinker Friday" project.
"It sort of developed into a new creative and unexpected way to talk about waste," Amin told StepFeed.
"What if we could create something that would blow our minds away instead of creating a cheap plastic product that is thrown away after a couple of uses and polluting our world?"
She documents the process in theatrical stop-motion videos with gripping background music. Her videos tell stories and showcase the lil' creatures' unique characters.
Take a look at how she brings junk to life.
Remember all the times your phone pouch saved your phone from breaking?
It turns out your phone pouch is a superhero
Ever wondered what's inside your computer mouse?
A unicycler, duh
Born and raised in Egypt, Amin studied industrial design in Malaysia. She questions why products are designed to be thrown away after a couple of uses. She also wants us to re-think the ways we thoughtlessly get rid of them instead of fixing or recycling them.
"I always found myself wondering if we really needed all these products in our world, I mean the world has enough chairs already! Why do we constantly need to buy the same thing over and over?"
Amin said she first began deconstructing devices and sharing photographs of the pieces she pulled apart. “I then started to see characters, then stories and week after week started to animate them and discovered my interest in stop-motion," she explained.
"It was all for the sake of exploration, of trying out something new, and to try to communicate my thoughts and ideas as an alternative reality for these pieces as I saw them in my head."
Her work artistically highlights the intricate work that is put into manufacturing the things we consume. She hopes they start viewing objects as a collection of numerous sub-parts, rather than one whole entity.
A pocket camera is tired of its 9 to 5 job and decided to pursue its real passion. Meet "Cameronaldo".
He celebrates his GOOAAAAAAL like a pro
This phone pulls one mighty serious face
But have you met its wild alter ego? Check out these pole-dancing skills!
Meanwhile, this cassette tape prefers a quiet knitting session
