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 — Watch-only model 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 — back panel engraving with QR code linking to deployment instructions https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism daily 1.0 2026-05-02 https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism/proto-blaster monthly 0.5 2025-12-08 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, 4-6 hour runtime https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism/ghost-news-telegraph monthly 0.5 2025-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/36624239-d518-442c-891e-d3d88cace042/printout_hand.jpg Cornered Optimism - Ghost News Telegraph Evidence fading. One word per line. Memory degradation materialised. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/ba33117d-422e-40f9-ad47-96451498e556/diorama_mouse_desk.jpg Cornered Optimism - Ghost News Telegraph Mouse collecting printouts. The homunculus compiling fragmentations. 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. Built my workspace in miniature without knowing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/b0476c3f-c2e8-4458-99fe-da8a4acea8f0/side_view_operators.jpg Cornered Optimism - Ghost News Telegraph ESP32, servo tongue, thermal printer. Aviation-grade precision. Transmitting 24/7. https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism/hellfire-r9x-replica-flying-ginsu monthly 0.5 2025-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/78cf0eeb-ae2b-447f-8654-846222f15965/hellfire_top_cutaway.jpg Cornered Optimism - Hellfire R9X Replica: Flying Ginsu Cutaway view showing salvaged fan housing, blade deployment servos. All electronics Amazon Prime—identical logistics Ukraine uses for drone modifications. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/7be441df-50e0-482e-8d0c-71053ea3fcd7/hellfire_r9x_clean.jpg Cornered Optimism - Hellfire R9X Replica: Flying Ginsu Complete apparatus: salvaged fan housing, disposed traffic cone, Amazon electronics. $157.98. Three weeks. Basic Arduino literacy. The barrier between maker culture and weapons capability has collapsed. 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 deployed in X-pattern. 500ms sequential intervals 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. Arduino tutorials teaching LED patterns transfer directly to servo control—code structure remains neutral whether building toys or weapons systems https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism/the-ghetto-blaster-mouse monthly 0.5 2025-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/2d711628-b2b8-4270-876d-03d2f2c24767/mouse_front_view.jpg Cornered Optimism - The Ghetto Blaster Mouse White laboratory mouse glued permanently to inescapable wheel, chasing red marble it can never reach. Mouse spins faster as volume increases—mechanically proven, not metaphorical. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/da5a22d0-d365-40f4-90ef-0af08d9179a5/mouse_side_controls.jpg Cornered Optimism - The Ghetto Blaster Mouse Modular platform—independently serviceable. Rams' repairability principle honoured despite corrupted content. 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.' Dead speakers, pirated music, Temu tools. Honouring principles whilst performing identical corruption. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/b0aca231-8970-4ce9-b2a5-fded1977196f/mouse_arduino_display.jpg Cornered Optimism - The Ghetto Blaster Mouse Arduino Mega with shield drives display and controls. Salvaged plywood, visible construction, legible joinery. Pirated MP3s scrolling on screen—tribute built WITH the corruption it measures. https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism/discourse-apparatus monthly 0.5 2025-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/0e5900df-c1bb-4d8c-9cb1-f5b2094bd607/discourse_led_profile.jpg Cornered Optimism - Discourse Apparatus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/dc233a6f-a05e-46a8-a4f3-025ec45ca2ee/discourse_battery_detail.jpg Cornered Optimism - Discourse Apparatus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/bc5d72df-7f68-4ba9-9428-1fd8e44fa78d/discourse_side_angle.jpg Cornered Optimism - Discourse Apparatus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/fe8582fc-0e6b-4028-b8ec-2095626867ba/discourse_front_side.jpg Cornered Optimism - Discourse Apparatus https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism/eternal-recurrence-link monthly 0.5 2025-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/d784de10-c7c3-4576-a413-9fc36d195ab5/grenade_DSCF4451_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Eternal Recurrence Link Gold finish grenade—spray paint over rust. Salvaged single-speed chain welded into hollow sphere. 6 links bottom, 8, 10, 12 forming hemisphere. Each link quantifies one repetition. The pattern counted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/dcfdcc99-f647-44f8-96d8-dd86069b4b41/grenade_gold.jpg Cornered Optimism - Eternal Recurrence Link Look through gaps between chain links—nothing there. The void visible through rotation. Turn grenade around, peer into hollow centre. That absence suggests one answer: perhaps violence doesn't need meaning to continue." 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 finishes. Spray paint over rust paired with polished chrome chain. Surface treatments vary; pattern doesn't. Wars pause, weapons improve, violence resumes. Chain of events. Chain of violence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/60d1a814-95b1-422e-a79b-7be856f163ff/grenade_DSCF4503_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Eternal Recurrence Link Five grenades, various finishes—gold, green, silver, black. Chains engineered for forward motion, frozen into form that goes nowhere except back to beginning. Nobel thought dynamite would make war so terrible we'd stop. Just terrible enough to add to arsenal https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism/luison-friday-im-in-rot monthly 0.5 2025-12-08 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) Vintage amperage gauges as eyes—needle displays reading simultaneously as sensor arrays and organic eyes. Intentionally dormant, 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) Top-down view revealing body construction. Circuit boards, RAM modules, PC case components visible through white coating. Shock Red cylinder and head mechanism. What watches also corrupts. What touches also spreads. Friday comes weekly 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) Side profile showing technological corpses beneath mythological skin. Hard drives drilled and screwed into wooden frame, motherboards layered as external skin. Wooden legs with steel rod feet. Hybrid skeleton—not animal, not machine, caught between states." 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) Death-white SPOT reconstruction. Boston Dynamics surveillance robot rebuilt from e-waste and salvaged materials. Montana Shock White coating over hard drives, circuit boards, RAM. Shock Red accents signal dormant Friday transformation. Stands 5° from perpendicular—not broken, just wrong. https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism/signal-seeker monthly 0.5 2025-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/7a766ea8-b735-4cf4-99b6-5c07c323231a/signal-seeker_new-robot_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Signal Seeker 1970s Zenith AM radio heart receives 774kHz ABC Melbourne clearly. No transmitter. The heart listens, cannot speak back. Radio positioned away from 18V battery for clear reception. Static and multilingual fragments intentional—interference becomes part of measurement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/b8e0f285-13fa-4645-b904-c76067622936/signal-seeker_DSCF3548_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Signal Seeker Torso detail: copper toroidal inductor, green circuit boards, computer cooling fan, visible wire looms. Incompatible systems from different eras—industrial electronics, consumer PC components, custom laser-cut frameworks—assembled through patient material negotiation. Technology speaking multiple dialects simultaneously. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/4c15deb8-9126-4e57-b67d-addd07fe98a0/signal-seeker_DSCF3515_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Signal Seeker Standing between measurement systems—partial fluency in Western quantification whilst Guaraní relational knowing continues unconsciously. Not colonisation but addition. Both epistemologies operate simultaneously without resolution. Functional anyway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/f357104c-af35-4475-abf2-be79888d29c8/signal-seeker_DSCF3538_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Signal Seeker CPU heatsinks as ribcage, PCBs from multiple generations as skeleton. Laser-cut wooden feathers, steel staff with functional LED lamp. Incompatible systems assembled through custom framework showing how different technologies coexist without forced integration. https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism/the-abyss-illuminator monthly 0.5 2025-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/f9d40e17-dd35-463c-8c2c-2539dbad8407/abyss-illuminator_DSCF4218_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - The Abyss Illuminator LED bike light activated—navigation mode whilst violence trails behind unused. White handle, leather grip, red tip visible. Geometric inversion structural: orientation determines which destruction deploys. Capacity persists unchanged. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/cc83eb47-05b0-4892-be01-6d524437ca5b/abyss-illuminator_DSCF4226_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - The Abyss Illuminator Inscription placed exactly where hand contacts during grip: 'FIGHT MONSTERS BECOME ONE'—Nietzsche's warning encountered through use, not observation. Fought anxiety with cannabis for 24 years. Tool became master. Medicine became addiction. Became the monster. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/78879a36-d659-44c2-b33e-9337bab6288e/abyss-illuminator_DSCF4233_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - The Abyss Illuminator Tri-colour mapping: red tip (danger/ember contact point), black midsection (transition zone), white base (warning inscription area). Looked like a joint. Both crack skulls—club instantly through external violence, joint slowly through internal damage over 24 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/4d6bb1cf-f67e-46c7-94a6-82161ff832ef/abyss-illuminator_DSCF5138_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - The Abyss Illuminator Full apparatus with Ryobi battery infrastructure visible. 51cm length, 625g weight concentrated at bolt head. Skull-fracturing capability proven through physics, not metaphor. That capacity persists unchanged regardless of peaceful use. The choosing continues. https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism/the-last-brew monthly 0.5 2025-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/7671d82e-0465-459c-9dcd-1c0c0b1fbe89/last-brew_DSCF3014_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - The Last Brew Actually brews coffee. Laminated laser-cut wood cylinder, stainless steel dripper, borosilicate glass, modified Jetboil Zip. Proportions maintain KF20 Aeromaster (1972) functional relationships through material translation. When you can't waste material, Rams' principles become structural necessities, not aesthetic luxuries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/90bbbb3b-4844-415e-af6d-e3ca4b3432af/last-brew_DSCF3956_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - The Last Brew "Ballpoint pen pressed repeatedly for 45 minutes etching 'THE LAST BREW. BEAUTY IS NOT A LUXURY'—identical to soldier's method on decorated artillery shell. My father's studio in Paraguay: brass casing engraved for his madrina de guerra during war. That shell transmitted method across decades. Not coincidence. Lineage." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/2f710899-c996-47ae-84a6-80acd2eee08d/last-brew_R0017324_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - The Last Brew Wooden reconstruction from salvaged pine timber. First laser-cutting project, first lamination work. Rams' modernist future never materialised—planned obsolescence, climate collapse, sealed products. But principles prove universal: functionally derived proportions work better when you can't waste wood on decoration, can't hide poor construction behind styling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/eafbf613-4b4c-461e-8878-c5085262872a/last-brew_R0017346_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - The Last Brew Stainless steel and borosilicate glass dripper, paper filter. Clean material separation—wood provides structure, steel/glass handles water contact and thermal shock. Modified Jetboil Zip system runs safely through complete brewing cycle, wood positioned above heat zone. Vision failed completely. Principles prove universal. https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism/lens-provocature monthly 0.5 2025-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/f22f260b-c160-459c-92b4-9705af01b91f/lens-provocature_DSCF4013_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Lens Provocature Red LED flash activated—the mode that makes performance pretence impossible. Where discrete cameras let subjects pretend authenticity might be photographed, this visible intervention forces conscious negotiation with the act of being captured. Clear white light lets subjects maintain the fiction; red light destroys it completely https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/b0c61ff6-24af-4610-abeb-461f4f969963/lens-provocature_DSCF3979_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Lens Provocature Bricolage Polaroid camera built around salvaged Fujifilm Instax Mini 40 body. Dual LED bike lights mounted on wooden rods, plywood housing with toggle clamp, ND filter mechanism, all hardware visible. The visible strangeness functions as provocation—subjects must consciously perform their awareness of performing. Both operator and object provoke honest negotiation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/16263c8d-2524-4700-9dc6-a7e5f1c4f715/lens-provocature_DSCF4009_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Lens Provocature Dual LED bike light flash system mounted on wooden rods—clear white light (top) and red light (bottom). Where white LED lets subjects pretend strange camera might capture 'reality,' red light makes performance pretence impossible. ND filter visible on left side, toggle clamp with red handle on front. Complete bricolage construction showing all borrowed parts assembled into functional apparatus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/2d0a2f46-9529-4218-aae8-b4adf9d61b97/lens-provocature_DSCF4043_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Lens Provocature Back housing showing viewfinder holes enabling sight through camera whilst enclosed. Circular cutouts position film counter visibility, vertical spacing ensures instant photo ejects from top. Functional access designed into bricolage housing—precise holes cut for critical functions, honest construction legible throughout https://www.blasprieto.com/cornered-optimism/proto-pistols-triggerless-series monthly 0.5 2026-05-02 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 weapons built in 10 hours across urgent sessions following August 15, 2024 ranch attack. UZI, MP5, Glock—all precision-constructed, none functional. All lack triggers. The absence is the architecture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/3eb9f853-3aaf-4414-83aa-1a855a09709e/mp4_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Proto Pistols (Triggerless Series) MP5 'Hero Pistol'—counter-terrorism weapon from 1980 Iran embassy siege. Psyche selected hostage-crisis weapon when someone from San Ignacio was taken hostage and I couldn't help from 13,000 kilometres away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/a22d65b0-c710-41bc-a805-455aa73624fb/uzi1_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Proto Pistols (Triggerless Series) UZI form—guerrilla/asymmetric conflict weapon. Aluminium rod frame, plywood silhouette, L-bracket assembly. Trigger guard present. Trigger absent. Built for land struggles I cannot reach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68df5c141d3d9128c45cf54a/f3e2312c-ed4f-466e-a29a-d1a45855334e/pistol_web.jpg Cornered Optimism - Proto Pistols (Triggerless Series) Glock defensive pistol—most common defence weapon. The defence I cannot provide. Form without function. Power's shape without its capacity. The wrongness is the measurement.