It's a bed/cocoon. Obviously I like it, it looks so cozy and comfy. :) Where I imagine it? Some huge lush garden with winding paths and fragrant flowers, in a grassy break in the woods with the sun filtering down. Me and a book. And some wine. And in the late evening, a campfire, despite the obvious risk of the whole thing going up in flames or getting smoked out. (I just ruined the mental image, didn't I?) The product description is in swedish and got me no where, so I only had my imagination to rely on. And the name. It's called nirvana.

A puzzle and brain teaser site that makes you feel like you are improving yourself while playing games. (My personal development and brain growth game this week was Poiser. Didn't manage level 10. Does that mean my development is stunted?)

A few different coolnesses: Sun and earth perspective using flash. It takes a while to figure out the different views, but pretty cool. London at night: click on the dots, see the view.

Cool instructional article about how to make repeat patterns written by a... well a pattern designer. I am definitely trying this later today. If you see some kooky wallpapers emerge on the site, you'll know why. (That word again! I never say kooky. It must stop now. I don't need any more verbal or written affectations, I have enough thankyouverymuch. Down with kooky--not the concept, just the word.)

The neon signs are by Kent Rogowski. (He's the same guy who did the inside-out teddy bears. I love a lot of his stuff.) It's funny. I really like these signs. A lot. There is a sweetness about them in all of that bright neon. But in real life, these are phrases I avoid saying because I don't necessarily believe that they are true, or that I can promise them. Not sure what the actual symbolism of making the signs was, but if I was going to read too much into them, I would say that the neon symbolizes the commoditization (might be the wrong word here) of these types of phrases. The fact that they are often just thrown out there in reaction to someone's tragedy with little empathy. (Yeah yeah. I'm reading too much into it. But that's what it would mean if I had thought of making them.)

One of many Smack the Pony dating agency videos:



Finally, a video of Teddy: A sketching interface for 3D form design. ("This is a snail. This is a dinosaur." You'll understand after you see the video.)



Question: and be honest, I can take it. Should I have less text in the "wasting your time on a friday?" Should I just have the links? Today (maybe because of the pontificating about the neon thing) I feel like I'm babbling.

Labels: kent rogowski, nirvana, poiser, smart kit, teddy, wasting your time on a friday

Here's some stuff to distract you. Don't worry. The weekend lies at the end of today. :)

Wonderful illustrations by UNKNOWN ♥ (Mara Caffarone). She combines a lot of different techniques (collage, paint, ink) to lovely effect.

The Poster List sells the most beautiful posters. I already buy too many and given that the walls are now comfortably full, I would have no where to hang more. Especially as there are posters in waiting, unhung and neglected due to my poster zeal. All that said, the posters on this site are wonderful.

A blog entry by Ky that cracked me up and which I unfortunately read at work. Check out the fourth comment. (Not unfortunate that I read it, but that I laughed so loud.) Not too worrying though since my colleagues are quite use to random bursts of laughter and songs about f*ckin photocopiers that always jam.

My new glasses are on this page. I'm sure of it. I'm just not sure which ones yet. Despite the tiger print frame fiasco (v. expensive, didn't go with anything, sat on them, the end) I still love these big heavy frames.

yeeeeee.com has featured a set of illustrations that show how to create shadows using your hands. Every time I think about taking an internet hiatus, I wonder how I'll manage to achieve the same level of mindless amusement as I can on the internet. Making shadow puppets seemed to point the way but after attempting a few of them, I quickly realized that they are much more difficult than they seem. Hours of entertainment. I promise you.

Fantastic phonographantasmascope (works on the same principles as zoetrope animation) by Jim Le Fevre.



Have a great weekend bunnies. I'll finish "I" soon.

Something of my own:

Labels: jim le fevre, mandolyn and ky, mara caffaron, other people's stuff, poster list, wasting your time on a friday, yeeeeee

Soooo.... what do you think this white thing is? Click here to find out more. And get your mind out of the gutter...

Check out the fantastic wire frame car sculptures of Benedict Radcliffe.

Incredible, incredible book that is the inverse of a 3d model of a house. Each page represents 2.2 cm of an actual house.

Wefeelfine.org let's you take a look at what people have said about their emotions in the websphere. You can also search based on feeling, gender, age, weather, location and date. It's voyeurism, but anonymous. The individual statements of feeling are rendered as small floating dots and when you click them you will find a statement with the word "feel"... Oh just check it out... it's too hard to explain. Here's a picture.

A collection of lost or abandoned photo booth pictures that asks the question: "Is this you?" From the site:

we've been collecting these pictures for some years now. they come from photobooths and pavements all over the UK.

the isthisyou project was born out of a simple question: is it possible to reunite these images with their owners?

Kite Aerial Photography: there is art in so much play. I just love it.

And Oh! A game! :) I like it a lot. Do not start this unless you have time to waste: magic pen.

Finally, a fabulous flip book.

Labels: benedict radcliffe, is this you, kite aerial photography, Olafur Eliasson, wasting your time on a friday, wefeelfine

Wow. I can't believe I've been wasting your time for seventeen weeks. How great is that? Here are this week's distractions:

Catherine's Animals is a site with fun posters like this very handsome porcupine. With the attractive carpet and wallpaper settings they make a stunning addition to any home. (The armadillo is also great. I can imagine putting it in the corner where people put their errant children. Parents could say, "The armadillo was bad too. But he thought about it for a while and promised to never do it again. That's what you should do. Be like the armadillo."

Bomomo is a fun painty-drawing tool thing. I'm not sure how to describe it. There is a canvas. There are buttons. You select a button, left-click (holding it down) and move your mouse on the screen (or not) and it paints different stuff depending on the button you've selected, how long you hold the mouse button down, and where you move your mouse. Um. See picture on the right. It sucked up 20 minutes. (I only used a couple of the options to make this otherwise it gets pretty messy quickly.)

The mystery that is Harajuku Fashion: near the Harajuku train station in
Tokyo Japan an incredible sub-culture of dressing in elaborate costumes and makeup has emerged among (mostly) teenagers. It's creative, beautiful, surreal and a little creepy. The theatrics of it really appeals to me. (I'm not sure why I feel this way). If you are curious, do a google search to find out more. Part of me would love to do this if I was, um, Japanese, 25 years younger and living in Tokyo. Yeah. Right.

Square America: "A gallery of vintage snapshots & vernacular photography". It is a collection of old photographs that evoke memory, disbelief, and stories. The site features a number of galleries. One of my favorites is on beauty and discontent. The woman on the right would have made a great Harajuku girl.

Newspaper want ads. They're funny. Check out the link. My favorite? A burger restaurant ad that states: "It takes many ingredients to make a great burger but the secret ingredient is our people." Woo! Canabalism Burger, just the way you like it! :)

A baby I'm bored car sticker. I must admit that I have never quite understood the "baby on board" stickers, possibly because I'm not a parent. If there is an accident shouldn't they always look for anyone trapped? Why are babies so special? Does this make me sound like an awful person? I don't get it. Whereas "baby I'm bored", well that's funny.

A beautiful movie about things we think about before we fall asleep by Trollbäck + Company created by their designers. There are people who create things that have such polish and beauty I am awed by them.

And finally, a Snickers ad advocating gang warfare (wtf?). It must be geared towards the "gang member who needs energy" demographic. Very strange. I used to like Snickers. Not really the creepy association I was hoping for in a chocolate bar. I'm not sure if this is a real Snickers ad or not, but I hope not.

Labels: animals, bomomo, Catherine Ledner, harajuku fashion, other people's stuff, square america, Trollbäck, wasting your time on a friday

Happy Friday!

On the right, an assy match book design for blush design (a german lingerie company.) (via design fckr)

Can't remember where I came across this, but here is a flickr group dedicated to "growing up star wars". Here is a wonderful picture by Sugar Pond who also saw Star Wars when it first came out. :) (We waited in line for four hours! And I was young enough to think that bun head was really beautiful... and to even want buns of my own. Wait, that sounds weird.)

Related to "old" pictures, I used to love our polaroid camera. While digital cameras do give you that moment of instant gratification, I think that the magic of the polaroid was watching the image appear through the milky surface, the solidness of that little square. It was like you got to live your memory right then and there. Chris Higgins came across a series of polaroids online. They seemed to tell the story of a life, Jamie Livingston's life over the period of 17 years. Chris did some research to find out more about their origin, and here is the story he uncovered. Here are the photos. I felt both intrusive and privileged looking through them.

Paperfoldables.com features some really fun... well... foldables. (Sometimes explanation is redundant.) My favorite is the sun crisped old chick with the mullet sweetly named "crisped chicken head".

Adding color to ferromagnetic surfaces is fun! LED throwies: fun for the whole family. ("A Throwie consists of a lithium battery, a 10mm diffused LED and a rare-earth magnet taped together.") Woohoo! Non-destructive graffiti! You're probably thinking, "What the hell is she talking about." Just to clarify, here's a movie:

Labels: blush design, growing up star wars, jamie livingston, led throwies, paperfoldables, wasting your time on a friday

I must say. I feel really good about wasting other people's time once a week. Thanks. :) With no further ado:

Images of bankrupt offices by Phillip Toledano. Very haunting. He says,

"When I started shooting bankrupt offices I found it to be more about archaeology than photography. Everywhere I went I found signs of life, interrupted."

More abandonment. This time, Craig Ferguson took pictures of a place called San-Zhr Pod Village in Taiwan. My understanding is that after a series of freak accidents, they abandoned the project, leaving the husks of Jettson like houses. More information about this.

An article in the Herald Tribute about monkeys that have learned to control an artificial arm with their brain. The potential applications for those who have had spinal cord injuries is incredible. Animal testing is such a hard topic. Do you think there is ethical animal testing... or is it all just too human centric? I ask this since I don't really have a stance on the topic.

I totally love the site: Passive-Aggressive Notes. Here's my favorite posting this week. Do check out the images of the notes to get the full flavor of the weirdness of the author. She is ... unique to be sure.

T-shirt of the week: "Vote Green or Your Grandchildren Will be Really Pissed Off" (via Swiss Miss) I want one. :P

For even more distraction, don't forget to check out Schmutzie's Five Star Friday! She features fantastic blog entries. I've made it though a few of the fantastic links this week. (The one called In Which I am Shocked...SHOCKED... is fricking hilarious.)

And two videos just because I'm feeling lazy. First, a robot chef:



And water balloon slow mo:



A quote by Beryl Pfizer. Sadly, I have no idea who she is.

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.

Have a terrific weekend. Notice something good so you can tell me an amusing anecdote. It won't go unnoticed. ;)

Labels: Beryl Pfizer, Craig Ferguson, green party, monkey brains, passive aggressive notes, Phillip Toledano, quote, robot chef, wasting your time on a friday

Hello darlings! I hereby open the 14th edition of "wasting your time on a friday". This week, we'll start with:

The glorious grandma that you've probably already seen, but that I aspire to be when I'm old, but I won't because I don't have children so I can just be old but not a grandma. I would love to meet her. She looks fun. We'd go to Disney World together, and she'd go with me on all of the really fun loopy roller coasters and we'd sit in the very front car even if we'd have to wait longer. We'd laugh together and eat drippy popsicles (hers would be orange, mine florescent pink) over the heads of small children, and we'd laugh as the drips stained their little sweet heads. At the end of the day, she'd touch the side of my face and say, "There aren't many like us." That's what would happen. (I tried to find the name of this delightful woman, but was unable to do so. She deserves more credit than an anonymous posting on a site.)

Sherwood Forlee has a fantastic site with great examples of his independent and private work. You have to click about 1/4 and 1/2 way down the page to access these menus from the image that you see at first. (I know this doesn't make sense here, but go to the page to see.)

These fuzzy rocking sheep designed by Povl Kjermake me think of cotton candy. I would want to cuddle with it but that would be weird given that it is an inanimate object that is much less cozy than a teddy bear. (Wooden frames impede the cuddling experience.) Also, I like the idea that the sheep used to be a real sheep (since it's made of sheep skin). Taxidermy it's not but...

Tag Galaxy is a fabulous way of looking at flickr photos. You search based on tags, and plants of tags appear. When you click on one, you get a wonderful globe of photos you can spin and zoom in on. Of course I went to ice cream. (Puppies are even better, actually. I went to them first.)



Mike Sacks has been taking pictures of television. The results are great if not pretty weird.

Benjamin Verdonck creates and stays in a nest on the side of an office building in Rotterdam for one week. (The web site. If you put your mouse over the EN at the bottom of the pages with dutch text a translation appears.)




Oh! And don't forget to check out Schmutzie's Five Star Friday for some links to some fantastic posts.

Here's a page from my notebook.

Labels: benjamin verdonck, mike sacks, other people's stuff, povl kjermake, sherwood forlee, something of my own, tag galaxy, wasting your time on a friday

I'm starting this a bit late today, but here we go:

A really fantastic typographic clock by Jesson Yip. (Please click the link to see it in action. It is very elegant.

A knitted dissected frog can be yours for the low low price of $62. Seriously, it is wonderful. It reminds me of the glorious days of dissecting cows eyes in high school, but without the bad odor. Check out CraftyHedgehog's other knitted delights too like the dissected knitted lab rat. Excellent. They didn't make toys like these when I was a kid. (And yeah, I knoooow, it's not really a toy. It's a statement. I like it.)

Experiential Typography. A beautiful installation by Jiyeon Song: a pavilion with many small perforations. As the light changes through the day and over the year, different poems shine through the perforations onto the ground. It's really fabulous. It awes me.

From the sublime to the ridiculous... I really think that Christian Louboutin shoes are incredibly sexy. I will never own a pair since I will never be able to justify spending so much money on a pair of shoes. But they entrance me. It is the peek of red on the very high heel. What can I say. It's as close to longing as I come to overpriced designer articles that are based on an entirely false economy of covetousness. :P (How self-righteous was that??)

Just to encourage more odd search hits: a little article about Beijing's penis restaurant.

The fantasticosity that is the result of tossing your camera in the air. My camera is too new. It frightens me a little, but I loooove the results. Ryan Gallagher provides some useful information about "best practices" for the camera toss... I'll study it before I attempt anything fancy.

Austin Kleon produces some wonderful wonderful art/stories by crossing out words in newspaper articles. He is a writer who draws. Here is a great sample from his Flickr page.

Finally, most fabulous Tom Waits press conference for his Glitter and Doom Tour. Tom Waits. Sigh. Remember: pehdtsckjmba. :P

Labels: Austin Kleon, coveting, CraftyHegehog, Jesson Yip, Jiyeon Song, other people's stuff, pehdtsckjmba, penis restaurant, Ryan Gallagher, Tom Waits, wasting your time on a friday

Jason Polan is attempting to draw every person in New York. :)

Manbabies: A somewhat disturbing (in a good way) site where the fathers' heads are photoshopped over their kids' faces and vice versa.

178 ways of improving your internet writing by the very thorough Bob Younce. It is a good list, but I violate a lot of these rules. In particular:

Swear off using the word “great.” (woops)
Do the same with: nice, beautiful, wonderful, just, really, quite & that.

(I’m starting to feel really insecure. But this list is really quite wonderful. I think that the advice will just really make my writing more beautiful. And nice. ;))

Bob, I will try harder. I promise.

The aesthetics of failure is a flickr group that describes itself in the following way: "Brakdoewn, slippgae, entrpy, accidetn, gl!tczhes, failures in sound, image, concept, utopian and dystopian experiments" I love the chaos of it. (image by designwallah)

A fantastic blog entry by Los Angelista about what lies behind walls and the things we don't see. (I almost wrote, "wonderful blog entry..." So see, I learned something from that list.)

Graffiti Archaeology: Graffiti Archaeology is a project devoted to the study of graffiti-covered walls as they change over time. The core of the project is a timelapse collage, made of photos of graffiti taken at the same location by many different photographers over a span of several years. The photos were taken in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and other cities, over a timespan from the late 1990's to the present."

Piece of me piece of you. Fantastic zombie/puppet movie. :) I don't say *that* every day.

That's all for this week. Have a fantastic weekend.

Labels: aesthetics of failure, bob younce, graffiti archaeology, internet writing, jason polan, los angelista, manbabies, other people's stuff, wasting your time on a friday, youtube

Glennz Blog has some fantastic t-shirt designs. My favorite is "running with scissors" as an extreme sport. :P (That and the empty toilet paper roll with the caption, "What would MacGyver do?")

Speaking of MacGyver, I think that he played a unique role in Western development. He was a TV character whose rugged charms appealed to both sexes, as did his thrifty use of bamboo, fertilizer, matches, strips of cloth, tin cans and zippers. Plus, he seemed like Such a Nice Guy. What more could you ask for, other than a roll of toilet paper (sometimes bamboo just won't do.)

Unrelated to toilet paper, the fabulous Schmutzie has started a wonderful thing, whereby you can send in the best blog posts that you have read, and she features them on her Five Star Friday web site. Enjoy! I know that I do. The only problem it poses is that it introduces me to even more fantastic bloggers who I want to read on a regular basis. And while this is a constructive use of time... I could be building something. Something like...

Tree houses! When I was a kid, there was a forest behind our house. It was a different time, when parents, for the most part, really let their kids roam around the neighborhood and do stuff unsupervised. (I've never quite figured out if this is because society is truly more dangerous, if we were pretending it wasn't dangerous then, or if we are now paranoid.) Anyway, all of this to say, us kids used to go to the forest (past the cows, yeah there were cows too) and build somewhat shabby tree houses in the woods. It was awesome and no one ever lost an eye. Here is a somewhat uncomfortable looking emergency cocoon survival treehouse concept (how's that for a noun string.)

I bet MacGyver would like it. Although he'd probably cut it up or something. That guy just can't be trusted to use things for their original purpose.

And, finally, just because, here's the MacGyver theme song performed by Adrian Holovaty also known for his Inspector Gadget theme song.

Labels: adrian holovaty, bamboo, cuccoons, five star fridays, friday, glennz blog, links, macgyver, other people's stuff, schmutzie, wasting your time on a friday

For your distraction and amusement this Friday:

• Ernie Hsiung notes that Google's public transportation advice tells him to walk instead.
• Awesome crayon facts. I remember being envious of the kids who had the packs with 120 colours and who got to have Crayolas, not the cheap waxy ones I had. I remember thinking that the crayon sharpener was cool but liked to play with the shavings even more. There seemed to be some strange sort of etiquette about how you peeled the paper off of the crayons: especially if they were someone else's crayons. I preferred to strip them right down to their waxy bodies. At this very second, I would love nothing more than a box of crayons.
• Drawing a face in 2.5 minutes
• Jelly Belly flavor guide: Jelly beans always end up making me feel sick. (Internal self: Maybe it's because when they are there, you eat too much in one sitting. And what is with arranging all of the colors by alternating order to structure your eating experience.) I admit to nothing.
  
• A blog I like: Magic Jelly
• Below, a fantastic time-lapse road trip from LA to New York in 4 minutes. (Road Trip!!!)
  

Labels: wasting your time on a friday

Well. I'm away this weekend, so I may publish this list a bit early this week. Either way, enjoy the distractions.

Found magazine, things discovered: find of the day. (About found: "We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles - anything that gives a glimpse into someone else's life. Anything goes...") I need to find things, or at least take pictures of them. I love everything behind this concept.

Color infrared x-ray gallery.

TV dinners. I used to love them when I was a kid. Everything from the thing slices of knife resilient turkey breast and bizarrely textured mashed potatoes, right down to the burn-your-mouth sweet cherry cobbler. It was that whole... anticipation thing. Peeling back the foil lid from the little tray and smelling what seemed to be food. You never knew what you'd get. We only had them when my mom was away... I'm remembering loving them. I wonder what they really tasted like? I imagine my hind site perspective is a bit skewed. I'm actually salivating. Weird eh?

If you have never seen the original movie of Shaft (1971), you really must. If just for the campiness of it all and the fact that someone says, "Who's the chick with the groovy boobs." Here a "the making of" for Shaft, about blaxploitation, and some riveting lyrics from the academy award winning theme song:

Who's the black private dick / That's a sex machine to all the chicks? / SHAFT! / Ya damn right!
Who is the man that would risk his neck / For his brother man? / SHAFT! / Can you dig it?
Who's the cat that won't cop out / When there's danger all about? / SHAFT! / Right On!
They say this cat Shaft is a bad mother... / SHUT YOUR MOUTH! / I'm talkin' 'bout Shaft. / THEN WE CAN DIG IT!

We are here, the pale blue dot:

Carl Sagan's commencement address used as the text for the movie:

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

And finally, some music.

Labels: friday, links, other people's stuff, wasting your time on a friday

Food related:

• Launch your lunch! A wonderful spring loaded spoon for food flinging accuracy and aim :) Woohoo! An evil gift for nieces or nephews perhaps. :P (Evil for their parents at the very least.)
  
• A delicious recipe for masala tea.

Cuddle related:

• Some of the sweetest plush I've ever seen. I really like the bear... he has a very sweet face.

Fonts, graphics and art:

• A fantastic bearded font that makes me wish I had facial hair. OK, not really.
• Some really great graphic design work by Scott Hansen.
• Some fun graphics if you are bored. (Check out "I feel horny".)
• Fantastic graffiti.
  

Misc:

• Monster hoodies! Hehe... I really like shark bite.
• Great news article about brain damage.

Slapping (yes, it is a theme today):

The fantastically talented adrian johnson made this:

A following up on the slapping theme, here is a slow-mo slap in the face. It's the effect on his nose that makes me laugh. More than it should, I know.

Labels: friday, links, other people's stuff, wasting your time on a friday

This image was stumbled upon. Sadly I could not find the source.>>



Sarah Illenberger: fantastic and innovative artist (image 1) (What would be on your wall?)

Stranger photos: a disposable camera attached to a bench with the request that people take pictures. Fabulous fun. Actually, just check out the whole online magazine called "The Plug"... It is great fun.

Wonderful silhouette wall shadows from pieces of paper. Again, I wish I knew who originally made this since I would love to give them credit for their creativity. As it is, I just know the URL of the photo so I offer applause. (image 2)

Yeondoo Jung recreates children's art with models in a wonderful way

A cartoon highlighting the truth of literary snobbery.

Short-story writing tips. (Example of a good short-story opening sentence: "The neighbor behind us practiced scream therapy in his shower almost every day.")

Transformed food. The loaf of bread is my favorite. (image 3)

Hillman Curtis: check out some of the short films. I really liked "table".

image 1

image 2

image 3

Have a wonderful weekend. Stay tuned for some inspiration next week.

Labels: wasting your time on a friday

Friday meanders to distract you:

• Really beautiful photos by David Nightingale. (on the site, click on the image to see more)
  
  
• Some interesting urban dictionary definitions of snuffalufagus and snuffaluffagus. (According to wikipedia, the real sesame street spelling is snuffleupagus.) Oh Bird.
  
  
• Brian Dettmer: book autopsies
  
  
• Flickrvision: watch people put images online, real time.
  
  
• Fat, cat, sat, hat: made me giggle.
  
  
• Airborne cats: a flickr photo set by the wonderful junku (credit for the picture above, of course, goes to him)
  
  
• Fun with microwaves (wait for the marshmallows) and no, this has nothing to do with cats.
  
  
• A friday song from me
  

Labels: friday, links, music, other people's stuff, something of my own, wasting your time on a friday

So, in my new tradition, here are some Friday dawdle links:

• I wish I knew who to give credit to for the image on the right. I just like it... but I'm not sure who the creator is.
  
  
• Erasing fears.
  
  
• Promise.
  
  
• A recipe for spicy sweet potato wedges. (They are delicious.)
  
  
• Images from a graffiti exhibition.
  
  
• For my Canadian friends who are still getting snowed under: Calvin and Hobbes Snow Art Gallery.
  
  
• A toy for today's ideal female body image.
  
  
• Little people -- a tiny street art project.
  
  
• Book: from the site (It's wonderful.)
  
• My favorite of the week: dreams of flying by Jan von Holleben. Please check out all of the images, since they are wonderful. This one is "The Dolphin Swimmer".
  

And finally, an unusual Japanese game show which definitely involves both some masochism and some sadism. (Not the type you are thinking of, I assure you.)

(If you find some links that you don't want to put on your own web site, send me some links... I just might. ;))

Labels: friday, links, other people's stuff, wasting your time on a friday

self-annoyance

• hassle me: a site where you can spam yourself with reminders of your inadequacy

stuff

• your own personal moon... I really want one, but don't know where I would fit it

food that makes me slobber (elegantly, I assure you)

• kung pao turkey
• spicy sweet potato wedges
  

a bunch of videos

• because sometimes it is funny to laugh at the stupidity of others rather than at yourself
• rabbit rebellion
• "Liberty Fillmore, a shout of a man in a whisperer's body, lets us in on a day in the life of a Cart Whisperer."

music

• online lounge music, my favorite kind of retro
• break-in music
  

Billie Holiday video (watch her face, beautiful)

Billie Holiday - Fine and Mellow (1957)

Labels: friday, links, other people's stuff, wasting your time on a friday

Puzzling time waster.

The shop drop project: reverse shoplifting, where an artist modifies the packaging and leaves things in the store. Quite cool.

Keep clicking... multi-image coolness.

The Banksey site.

A flash slide show of wonderful graphs and charts made by Joel Friesen entitled "Why you should continue to date me."

Pschitt soda. And no, I'm not swearing nicely, it is a soft drink made by Perrier. The name is supposed to sound like a bottle being opened. What I like about their site is that they are going with the whole pschitt thing by having navigation items such as Pschitt Yourself and Pschitt Attitude. I'm determined to get a bottle when I'm in Paris next month, just so that I can have a picture of me drinking Pschitt. (Wikipedia entry)

More Rube Goldberg wonderfulness:

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Yes, I've decided to make this an erratically weekly series. Here we go!

If you want to do word associations without your analyst or therapist, try this word association game/experiment/project: Human Brain Cloud. (about the project, do some word association) It seems that hopefulness is not far from sadness.

The sheepmarket: view or even purchase some of the 10,000 sheep created by workers in Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Baah.

72 ideas to simplify your life (?!) With all due respect to the kind individual who drafted such a thorough list... 72 things? That number of things does not easily correspond with simplifying. The list involves writing lists, evaluating things, decluttering, managing e-mail etc. Which I'm sure are all valuable in and of themselves. But 72 things?

Enjoy this not only beautiful but incredible video: "This is a music video for the italian cellist Giovanni Sollima, on two of his compositions; "Terra Aria" and "Concerto Rotondo". Enjoy!"


The worlds most inexpensive toy. I don't know who is having more fun, the baby or the dad. Either way, the laughter is just wonderful.

Just in case you enjoyed the previous excerpt: the best of Never Mind the Buzzcocks part 1, part 2, part 3. (Series 21/13)

Labels: links, other people's stuff, wasting your time on a friday

I feel lazy today, so here are some links that I am clearing out of my "favorites" folder, which is aptly entitled "fun stuff":

The image on the right is by Joe Baran

Funny and strange graffitti

Bloxorz, a good time wasting game from the fabulous Albino Black Sheep

Altered books is poetry from pulp fiction, or the gross defacing of literature. It all depends on how you look at it.

Figure out this Rube Goldberg puzzle in solid edge garage (it took me about six tries)

Linda Vista Hospital consists of pictures of a now abanadoned hospital. Both creepy and wonderful.

An episode of Who's Line is it Anyways with Robin Williams. Very funny.

The bible illustrated with lego

An online Valentine's Day mixed tape

More abandonment, this time in the form of an abandoned amusement park. Again, both cool and creepy all at the same time.

Uber cool sparkle balls (they are made of plastic cups and Christmas lights and look wonderful. I don't think I have the patience to make one, but wish I did.)

The mystery of the face on the cake (read all three episodes, since it is a great story)

An informative instruction set for the caring of babies.I had seen this as t-shirts for infants, but it was fun to see the whole series.

The result of a university assignment in which two strong willed students participated in a tandem story. The result is very very funny.

A gallery of walls with stuff written on it.

Fabulous spam art. (Sadly not the "food" but the e-mail version.)

And finally, a video that doesn't make sense but doesn't have to because it is so delightfully weird:

Labels: funny but instructional, links, other people's stuff, sometimes other people are much more creative than i am. ;), wasting space, wasting your time on a friday