https://www.blasprieto.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-04-07 https://www.blasprieto.com/about daily 0.75 2026-04-07 https://www.blasprieto.com/se-call-me-nuts daily 0.75 2026-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/1775467487320-HV24BQK5W9V3J2334VC2/01-combo-front-1200.jpg Call Me Nuts Combo carrier: Apple Watch + AirPods Pro https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/74717b97-ffa5-44b9-be05-32b4aa8abde3/04-standalone-passcode-1200.jpg Call Me Nuts Standalone carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/1775467624332-I8QVHZL7WKXFB18F12Y1/02-airpods-action-1200.jpg Call Me Nuts AirPods Pro case open, sliding out from the carrier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/97949b1d-7fe2-4231-b08a-38f7556f3b88/03-back-panel-002-1200.jpg Call Me Nuts No. 002. The back, with the QR code to the full story. https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism daily 1.0 2026-10-14 https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism/proto-blaster monthly 0.5 2026-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/51603f7e-0e4a-4972-9e4a-0a828ee281aa/proto-blaster-detail-01-housing.jpg Cornered Optimism - Proto-Blaster Modular housing with visible construction https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/8ab5688b-2cc0-4a31-bc74-d42cdeb41231/proto-blaster-detail-02-marbles.jpg Cornered Optimism - Proto-Blaster Counting marbles from salvaged busy board https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/a986c501-3973-429a-b3bf-d8027469eda0/proto-blaster-detail-03-projector.jpg Cornered Optimism - Proto-Blaster Complete portable projection system https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/6d4bccb8-5f43-4089-9fec-2d540336b9bd/proto-blaster-detail-04-battery.jpg Cornered Optimism - Proto-Blaster Ryobi ONE+ 18V battery, 4 to 6 hour runtime https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism/ghost-news-telegraph monthly 0.5 2026-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/36624239-d518-442c-891e-d3d88cace042/printout_hand.jpg Cornered Optimism - Ghost News Telegraph One word per line. The printouts fade over the years, like memory does. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/ba33117d-422e-40f9-ad47-96451498e556/diorama_mouse_desk.jpg Cornered Optimism - Ghost News Telegraph The mouse collecting printouts. That's me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/d3c6aee3-35cf-4ae9-b4d3-0553809a9cfe/diorama_i_want_to_believe.jpg Cornered Optimism - Ghost News Telegraph The diorama is my house. I built my own workshop in miniature without noticing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/b0476c3f-c2e8-4458-99fe-da8a4acea8f0/side_view_operators.jpg Cornered Optimism - Ghost News Telegraph ESP32, a servo tapping morse and a thermal printer. It runs all day, every day. https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism/hellfire-r9x-replica-flying-ginsu monthly 0.5 2026-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/78cf0eeb-ae2b-447f-8654-846222f15965/hellfire_top_cutaway.jpg Cornered Optimism - Hellfire R9X Replica: Flying Ginsu A fan housing from the basement, a traffic cone off the street and $157.98 of Amazon electronics. Three weeks of the same tutorials kids do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/7be441df-50e0-482e-8d0c-71053ea3fcd7/hellfire_r9x_clean.jpg Cornered Optimism - Hellfire R9X Replica: Flying Ginsu Cutaway showing the salvaged fan housing and the servos that open the blades. All the electronics came from Amazon Prime, the same delivery chain used for drone mods in Ukraine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/a5359fa5-f7bd-4c1e-8e5c-74957ebf1a4a/hellfire_top_deployed.jpg Cornered Optimism - Hellfire R9X Replica: Flying Ginsu Four jigsaw blades open in an X, one after the other, half a second apart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/9f824ee9-5753-4556-b51c-5f7faa360465/hellfire_front_blades.jpg Cornered Optimism - Hellfire R9X Replica: Flying Ginsu Front view with blade deployment mechanism. https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism/the-ghetto-blaster-mouse monthly 0.5 2026-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/2d711628-b2b8-4270-876d-03d2f2c24767/mouse_front_view.jpg Cornered Optimism - The Ghetto Blaster Mouse White lab mouse glued to a wheel it can't get off, chasing a red marble it'll never catch. The louder the music, the faster it runs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/da5a22d0-d365-40f4-90ef-0af08d9179a5/mouse_side_controls.jpg Cornered Optimism - The Ghetto Blaster Mouse Modular, so you can fix each part on its own. Rams would approve of that bit, even if the music is stolen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/2a6251cd-c869-4d73-a32c-7a202e12cb13/mouse_rams_inscription.jpg Cornered Optimism - The Ghetto Blaster Mouse "RAMS, I STILL BELIEVE." Salvaged plywood, pirated music, Temu tools. A tribute to his principles, built the cheap way he'd hate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/b0aca231-8970-4ce9-b2a5-fded1977196f/mouse_arduino_display.jpg Cornered Optimism - The Ghetto Blaster Mouse An Arduino Mega with a shield runs the screen and the controls. Salvaged plywood, and you can see how it's put together. The pirated MP3s scroll across the screen for everyone to see. https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism/discourse-apparatus monthly 0.5 2026-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/0e5900df-c1bb-4d8c-9cb1-f5b2094bd607/discourse_led_profile.jpg Cornered Optimism - Discourse Apparatus Plywood, a steel rod barrel and a red stock. An LED where the bullet would come out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/dc233a6f-a05e-46a8-a4f3-025ec45ca2ee/discourse_battery_detail.jpg Cornered Optimism - Discourse Apparatus Close up of the stock. The USB battery sits right there where you can see it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/bc5d72df-7f68-4ba9-9428-1fd8e44fa78d/discourse_side_angle.jpg Cornered Optimism - Discourse Apparatus Standing up, it looks like a gun from across the room. Up close it's a lamp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/fe8582fc-0e6b-4028-b8ec-2095626867ba/discourse_front_side.jpg Cornered Optimism - Discourse Apparatus The light points where the barrel points. https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism/eternal-recurrence-link monthly 0.5 2026-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/d784de10-c7c3-4576-a413-9fc36d195ab5/grenade_DSCF4451_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Eternal Recurrence Link The gold one, spray paint over rust. A salvaged single-speed chain welded into a hollow ball: 6 links at the bottom, then 8, 10, 12. Every link counted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/dcfdcc99-f647-44f8-96d8-dd86069b4b41/grenade_gold.jpg Cornered Optimism - Eternal Recurrence Link Turn it around and look through the gaps. Nothing inside. Maybe violence doesn't need a reason to keep going. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/f930ec6b-bd73-4e91-9d3c-058c1ef1d77c/grenade_DSCF4490_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Eternal Recurrence Link Gold and silver. Spray paint over rust next to a polished chrome chain. Different finish, same shape. Wars stop, the weapons get better, and it starts again. Chain of events. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/60d1a814-95b1-422e-a79b-7be856f163ff/grenade_DSCF4503_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Eternal Recurrence Link Five of them, in gold, green, silver and black. The sixth sits on a plywood base engraved "bro training." on my trainer's shelf. He did two tours in Afghanistan. Chains made to move forward, stuck in a shape that only goes back to the start. https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism/luison-friday-im-in-rot monthly 0.5 2026-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/f8f63b5a-206e-4be4-ba20-acfe2190c2b5/luison_DSCF4593_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Luisón (FRIDAY I'M IN ROT) Old amp gauges for eyes. They look like sensors and like real eyes at the same time. Switched off, tilted, watching. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/96835aaa-a61b-4057-9e9a-cf773e7073ee/luison_DSCF4729_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Luisón (FRIDAY I'M IN ROT) Side view. Circuit boards, RAM and old PC case parts showing through the white paint, with the Shock Red cylinder and the head mount. What watches also corrupts. Friday comes every week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/80112c5b-b38a-4c7a-ac7f-1540b003ef8a/luison_DSCF4769_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Luisón (FRIDAY I'M IN ROT) From the side. Hard drives drilled and screwed onto a wooden frame, motherboards layered on like skin, wooden legs with steel rod feet. Not an animal, not a machine, stuck somewhere in between. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/1777b8f4-80c0-45be-b823-348d1e9b0391/luison_hero_v_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Luisón (FRIDAY I'M IN ROT) SPOT in death white, rebuilt from e-waste. Montana Shock White over hard drives, circuit boards and RAM, with a bit of Shock Red for when Friday comes. It leans 5 degrees. Not broken, just a bit wrong. https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism/signal-seeker monthly 0.5 2026-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/7a766ea8-b735-4cf4-99b6-5c07c323231a/signal-seeker_new-robot_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Signal Seeker The 1970s Zenith radio heart picks up ABC Melbourne on 774. There's no transmitter. It listens and can't talk back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/b8e0f285-13fa-4645-b904-c76067622936/signal-seeker_DSCF3548_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Signal Seeker Close up of the body and wings. A gauge from George's industrial waste, still reading km/h for who knows what. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/4c15deb8-9126-4e57-b67d-addd07fe98a0/signal-seeker_DSCF3515_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Signal Seeker Side on, with the staff. A steel rod with a really bright torch on top. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/f357104c-af35-4475-abf2-be79888d29c8/signal-seeker_DSCF3538_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Signal Seeker From the back. Steel wings with RAM chips painted white, the memory of flying. https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism/the-abyss-illuminator monthly 0.5 2026-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/f9d40e17-dd35-463c-8c2c-2539dbad8407/abyss-illuminator_DSCF4218_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - The Abyss Illuminator The light is on. It's for finding your way, and the rest just hangs there unused. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/cc83eb47-05b0-4892-be01-6d524437ca5b/abyss-illuminator_DSCF4226_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - The Abyss Illuminator "FIGHT MONSTERS BECOME ONE", written right where your hand goes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/78879a36-d659-44c2-b33e-9337bab6288e/abyss-illuminator_DSCF4233_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - The Abyss Illuminator The tip, red like a lit ember, then black. White handle, red tip. It looked like a joint. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/4d6bb1cf-f67e-46c7-94a6-82161ff832ef/abyss-illuminator_DSCF5138_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - The Abyss Illuminator On the bench, within reach. Some days I pick it up, some weeks I don't. Runs on a Ryobi battery. https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism/the-last-brew monthly 0.5 2026-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/7671d82e-0465-459c-9dcd-1c0c0b1fbe89/last-brew_DSCF3014_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - The Last Brew It actually brews coffee. A laminated wooden cylinder, a steel dripper, glass and a modified Jetboil Zip, built to the proportions of Rams' 1972 KF20. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/90bbbb3b-4844-415e-af6d-e3ca4b3432af/last-brew_DSCF3956_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - The Last Brew The Jetboil Zip with its sleeve off, painted white. Camping gear doing the heating. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/2f710899-c996-47ae-84a6-80acd2eee08d/last-brew_R0017324_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - The Last Brew Side on. The proportions work in wood just like they did in plastic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/eafbf613-4b4c-461e-8878-c5085262872a/last-brew_R0017346_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - The Last Brew The dripper with a paper filter in, ready to go. https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism/lens-provocature monthly 0.5 2026-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/f22f260b-c160-459c-92b4-9705af01b91f/lens-provocature_DSCF4013_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Lens Provocature Red flash on. With the red light, nobody can pretend they haven't seen it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/b0c61ff6-24af-4610-abeb-461f4f969963/lens-provocature_DSCF3979_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Lens Provocature An Instax Mini 40 in a plywood box, with two LED bike lights for flash and the ND filter swung out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/16263c8d-2524-4700-9dc6-a7e5f1c4f715/lens-provocature_DSCF4009_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Lens Provocature Side on. All the hardware on show, nothing hidden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/2d0a2f46-9529-4218-aae8-b4adf9d61b97/lens-provocature_DSCF4043_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Lens Provocature Close up of the box. Borrowed parts and borrowed ideas, held together with whatever I had. https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism/proto-pistols-triggerless-series monthly 0.5 2026-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/e5b24ccd-1698-4036-9bf1-e8d888c7610f/tile_-_proto_pistols_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Proto Pistols (Triggerless Series) Three guns built in about 10 hours after the ranch attack on August 15, 2024. None of them work. None of them have triggers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/3eb9f853-3aaf-4414-83aa-1a855a09709e/mp4_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Proto Pistols (Triggerless Series) The MP5, the gun from the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege in London. Someone from San Ignacio was taken hostage and I couldn't help. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/a22d65b0-c710-41bc-a805-455aa73624fb/uzi1_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Proto Pistols (Triggerless Series) The UZI, the guerrilla gun. Aluminium rod, plywood and L-brackets. A gun for fights over land I can't get to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/f3e2312c-ed4f-466e-a29a-d1a45855334e/pistol_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Proto Pistols (Triggerless Series) The Glock, the everyday defence pistol. The defence I couldn't give.