The project began with a call from a friend shouting something about bicycles and water. It was enough to get us moving and we went down to see what was going on. After seeing what was happening and getting excited we ended up agreeing to make something to enhance the project of Oliver Bishop Young’s (here) seine cleaning installation. Oliver’s project ended up getting postponed until the spring of 2012 but since we were so far along by the time we got the news we decided to install it for the open door festival at our workshop. The final result was perhaps our most satisfying integration of aesthetics, functionality and mechanimorphisis. The entire build was made from recouped parts with the exception of the silicon tube used in the pump (which was the only thing that broke during the installation) and the grease used to lubricate the pump (which was the reason it broke… we think it was a bad chemical reaction) . The idea was to set up a Pump that people could use to pump water into Oliver’s installation and a mechanism for measuring water being pumped from the electrical pump vs. the volunteer’s pump. What we have created here is instead a joyously useless machine installed merely to confuse observers who undoubtedly wonder why we would create such a thing.