The Fire-Shaving Guy

There’s this kid on instructibles.com who shaves with fire which is pretty bad-ass if you ask me. Genius. I sincerely hope this guy doesn’t have an attack of teenage-self-awareness and take it down. What’s cool is not just that he did it, but he actually made an instructable out of it so other people can do it as well.

My favourite part is step 4 Afterburn
At this point the “shaved” part of your body most likely smells like a burnt down barber shop, so it is probably in your best interest to bath, or at least cover it up with something more potent smelling. and he uses lighter fluid (staying on-message as it were) which I’m not sure that I’d advise myself.

I love people who go off-the-dial. There’s a creativity-exercise that someone like Edward D Bono or Brian Eno (Bredward da Beano?) does where you think of something stupid and impossible (like a square wheel for example) to leap past the normal constraints of linear rationality. People like the Fire Shaving guy are (in my humble opinion) providing a vital part in the process of global technological evolution by thinking outside the box and passing it on. They’re jumping a couple of squares ahead… with the implicit question “ok, what does this piece of impossibility make possible?”. Like the square root of a negative number.

It’s not just funny, it’s also quite cool.