Artist Chris Hackett likes to improvise with things he finds on the streets of Brooklyn. “Nathaniel Grouille, a television producer who produced Mr. Hackett’s most recent show, ‘Stuck With Hackett,’ for the Science Channel and is helping him pitch the new show, said, ‘There’s an elegant, design way to make things, and then there’s a Dunkirk, let’s-get-it-done-with-baling-wire-and-string way — that’s Hackett’s way.'”