 That's me a couple of years ago. My background is in prosthetics and orthotics, so prosthetics is a very craft-oriented profession, as you can see on this picture. I've been working in this profession for 17 years. The problem with my career was the more I advanced in my career, the more I was working in front of a computer and not in a workshop anymore. So this was kind of disturbing to me, and after 17 years in this job I decided I needed to have a change in my life. The change was supposed to be more creative, I wanted to be more back in a workshop, get dirty hands again. So in order to do that, I needed a space, and that's basically what I found. Together with my at the time girlfriend now wife, I found this space which looked exactly perfect for what I wanted to do. The problem was I didn't really know what I wanted to do, except that I wanted to be more creative and more back in a workshop and building stuff. I had no idea what exactly I wanted to build. Well we started with renovation of this space. After six weeks of renovation in June 2010, we moved into the place. The place is now our studio, our home, our workshop, my wife's photo studio, my workshop, our bed and breakfast, and our party place, kind of our center of our life. So during the time of renovation, I started to build furniture. Also during the renovation, we had to save some money. So we used a lot of reclaimed material, like old secondhand bricks from destroyed houses, old wood or yeah. And I also started to build furniture during that time because it's a big space, so we needed a couple of pieces. And also for this I used old material and old Chinese furniture that I would turn into something new. This is one of the first pieces I made for ourselves. It's an old dresser that I turned into a bathroom furniture with sink and water connection. Another piece I made in the beginning was this gas stove from old Chinese table that I covered with a stainless steel sheet and the gas stove and the hanging gas bottle underneath. So the more I was doing this kind of furniture, the more I started to think what I'm actually doing here and I started to do some research and I found this term which was called upcycling. I've never heard of upcycling before and so I started finding out about upcycling. Well, it sounds very similar to recycling, so here is the definition. Recycling is taking waste and turn it into new products. Usually it's new raw material which is often of lower quality and lower value. Instead of recycling you could do upcycling which is taking waste and transforming it into something of greater use and value. So that's what I found out and that's apparently what I'm doing. And there is other people who are doing it as well I found out. As I said, I take all stuff that I find in Shanghai and turn it into something new like, for example, this old shipping pallet which is a classic, making furniture from shipping pallets. But I show you where I find my material. This is old town of Shanghai, a very lively neighborhood. But unfortunately as soon as you see this sign on the walls that means that this neighborhood or this particular house is going to be broken down. Then this guy's coming and sooner or later it looks like this. The good thing about China is everything is going to be reused. Everything is broken down into raw material and sold again. So here comes my supplier of old wood. This is the guy where I usually get my old wood from and that's how it looks like when it just arrives in my studio. I collect it, I clean it from old nails, old plaster, old paint, old concrete and fit it together. And after many hours of grinding, planning, sanding and oiling it might end up looking like this, a table made of an old house. I like working with these kind of old materials, not only because of its sustainability, because of the kind of echo thought behind it, but that's kind of a nice side effect. But I like to work with this kind of material because look at these colors, look at the black spots from old nails, which are sometimes still in the wood. Look at the variety of different woods you find. It's just beautiful and after a couple of hours of work you get a very nice and smooth surface from a very rough material. Another piece from old reclaimed wood is this window sideboard. Another favorite material to work with is the old Chinese biscuit tins. They're beautiful. I started collecting them because of the nice pictures, but later I had so many, I had to build stuff from them, so I built bookshelves and later I had more and more ideas about to build with them, so I built a lot of clocks. You will see them on Sunday. I built table and benches. I built iPod dock amplifier. I built speakers and I built many other things from very typical Shanghainese items. Thank you very much.