Jesus Probably Rode Dinosaurs.

Jesus Probably Rode Dinosaurs

(Thanks to Coudal's blog, which always makes my day a bit brighter and my brain a bit smarter.)

Lost in Emoticons.

I've had a bad day, but this site just made it way better.

Lost in Emoticons is a collection of IM's between a young girl living it up in NYC and her Chinese mom's attempt to communicate with her. – yesbutnobutyes



Lost in Emoticons

Photo M&Ms.

I can't say it better than Photojojo:

Friends, we have seen the future. And it has a thin candy shell.

Seriously. So cool.

Photojojo : An Itty-Bitty Picture That Won’t Melt in Your Hand? (:-O) Say Hola to Photo M&Ms!

Vintage Smokey Bear commercial.

It's a shame there are no sweet, simple commercials like this first one anymore. It'd be a nice break from the norm now.



Ad Council Creative

Be an eco-friendly design nerd.

Sam Hecht of Industrial Facility says of the bag concept; “its nice to be on first name terms with design”.

Only £5.00. Nice.

twentytwentyone :: organic cotton cloth bag

Fun chest of drawers.

Probably not as functional as it is fun, but I'd love to have one of these.


These individual, mulit-coloured, floating drawer units are built up to different heights, creating a tower of drawers that can be pushed and pulled in both directions.
twentytwentyone :: stack

Send Your Name to the Moon.

Hopefully, this won't bite me in the butt later. You'd better act responsibly, NASA. No pillaging resources (moon cows, moon ferns, moon cheese, etc.). No fast food restaurants. Put everything back where you found it. Thank you.


Sign up to send your name to the moon. Names will be collected and placed onboard the LRO spacecraft for its historic mission bringing NASA back to the moon. You will also receive a certificate showcasing your support of the mission.

The deadline is June 27, 2008 for the submission of names.

LRO :: Send Your Name to the Moon

More about NASA's Lunar Reconaissance Orbiterhere.

(via Coudal)

Me, too.

lonelysandwich

(The Nellie McKay link goes here.)

No birds were harmed for this art.

I love it when I see any piece of art that makes me look twice, makes me assume something terrible, then teaches me something really lovely.




Ornithologists now use mist nets instead of shotguns for data that cannot be obtained with the help of binoculars, microphones, or telephoto lenses. These nearly invisible nets are set up like fences and function as huge spider webs, catching unsuspecting birds. The researcher carefully extracts the bird from the net. Each bird is measured, aged, sexed, and banded with an individually numbered anklet (Audubon’s philopatry experiments with Eastern Phoebes was likely the first bird banding done in the United States). Then the bird is released, unharmed.

Todd Forsgren - Bird Banding Project

TRY TO CREATE A WIN - WIN SITUATION.

Markus Hofer - TRY TO CREATE A WIN - WIN SITUATION

(via VVORK)

Ray Fenwick makes me happy.

I'd like an RSS feed straight from his brain. Then I'd like to buy him a beer. In no particular order.




I recently became obsessed with the idea of friendship bracelets, those colourful little woven bracelets that kids used to make for each other to symbolize their friendship, to make it official. There is something sweet about them, simplifying the idea of friendship, making it explicit and almost serving as a tribute to the very concept. I love things like this, so ridiculous and silly on one hand and yet, kind of profound and complex. I painted a bunch of them over the past month. - Ray Fenwick, Hit List

Friendship Bracelets - a set on Flickr

Day of the Dead Lovers & Dog in Canoe with Grim Reaper.

I'm so happy to see that Silver Crow Creations has started an Etsy shop. Their online store is a fantastic flea market, but completely overwhelming. Their etsy store is a radically pared-down version.

I'm tempted to buy this just because the dog makes me giggle.



These lovers are embarking upon a life anew. They have brought their pet dog and The Grim Reaper or the Santisima Muerte acts as gondolier.

This little vignette has been hand sculpted and painted by traditional artisans in Mexico.

Unfortunately, the young man has lost his forearm. We suspect that he has had a shark accident, but we can't be sure.

Etsy :: SilverCrow :: Day of the Dead Lovers and Dog in Canoe with Grim Reaper (Second Quality)

Beaver ragdolls.

These make me grin.


The most industrial of animals immortalized in a rag doll. The designer uses antique rag doll construction techniques and reclaimed fabrics to create these charming and lovable objects.

The Souvenir Shop - Je Me Souviens

Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau dolls.

Limited edition.


Trudeau was one of the nation's most celebrated Prime Ministers. Both loved and loathed, he possessed a unique ability to bring out the unexpressed pride in our country's identity.

These 38 cm (15") tall dolls are built with durable felt and comes in a variety of outfits, from the canoe paddling voyageur to the suited politician, take your pick.

The Souvenir Shop - Je Me Souviens

Flip Clock.

Love this clock, but the giant logo on the front was a bad choice.


Flip Clock | apt (exactly suitable)

Happy birthday, computer.

Sixty years ago the "modern computer" was born in a lab in Manchester.

The Small Scale Experimental Machine, or "Baby", was the first to contain memory which could store a program.

The room-sized computer's ability to carry out different tasks - without having to be rebuilt - has led some to describe it as the "first modern PC".

Using just 128 bytes of memory, it successfully ran its first set of instructions - to determine the highest factor of a number - on 21 June 1948.


BBC NEWS | Technology | One tonne "Baby" marks its birth

File under "WTF."

Sixth human foot found on Vancouver Island beach

Yikes.

Creatives grow better in the South West (UK).

Worth watching just for the lead actor. He's fab.



Behind the scenes tour of of an award-winning creative farm, juicing process and distribution in South West England.

YouTube - Creatives grow better in the South West

(Thanks to my co-worker, Mr. Shulick, and my client at RedPrairie for this one.)

FYI - The future is now.

I ran across these today. I'm kinda freaked out.

DOG CLONING
Best Friends Again



PLAN YOUR OWN FUNERAL ONLINE
MyWonderfulLife :: Your Own Funeral Planning Website

Any secret hideout with a robot hangar is okay in my book.

Great print at Design Public.


Hybrid-Home Limited Edition Print Secret Hideout

Shooting Target.

Considering I'm not a gun nut, I'm not quite sure why I love this. But I really, really do.


Supermandolini™ - Shooting Target (Canvas)

(Great find, Gigi!)

It's got penguins. And chickens!

For whatever reason, I'm not a huge fan of sharing online video. But this got me big time, so I'm sharin'.



(via Cute Overload!)

Plan59 :: 1950s Art .

I'm reblogging this online print store because I completely adore it. No one else sells Space-Age Biscuit prints.


Plan59 :: 1950s Art :: Most Popular Prints

Just cuz I love Tom Waits.

Attention all you attention-starved artists: Phone Booth Gallery is putting together an art show dedicated to Tom Waits in the month of July and have decided to extend a "Call for Artists" to all the Tom Waits fans interested in creating some work for the show.

Phone Booth Gallery is an online gallery, so the show will be online with an option to be a part of an opening party in the beginning of July in Long Beach, California.
All forms of traditional media are accepted and encouraged for this juried show, just make it Tom Waits related! Maximum of one piece per artist, please.

ReubenMiller : Eggs and Sausage

Custom-stamped word rings.

Customized with a name (& birth date), your favorite word....

Measuring 5mm wide, your ring will be created in whole sizes 6-9 and will fit 15-18 characters (including spaces) in the font shown. A smaller font is available for those with a little more to say :)

Etsy :: moppetsclosets :: Custom Stamped Name Word Sterling Ring - Express Yourself Size 6,7,8,9

(via my homeygirl, swissmiss)

Just because.

SAINT ANTHONY the Abbot - Patron Saint of Bacon

Protector of pigs, hermits, gravediggers and epileptics.

Saint Anthony was heralded as a modest and courteous man. He lived for 20 years barricaded in an abandoned fort, having contact with people only when his admirers broke in. Known for healing skin diseases and inflammations, he is often depicted with a pig because pork fat was used as a treatment with similar results. Being identified with pigs led the swine herders to take him as their patron. For this reason, he has become the Patron Saint of Bacon.

Our figure pictures him with a frying pan with two strips of crispy, delicious bacon.

Prayer to Assist with the Enjoyment of Quality Bacon

O wonderous St. Anthony, please bless me with an abundance of quality bacon and grant me the patience and timing to properly fry each glorious strip. Amen.

SAINT ANTHONY the Abbot - Patron Saint of Bacon

Tie necklace.

Supermarket - Serious Business-Large from Metal Sugar

[Insert Law & Order theme here.]

If I was a t-shirt girl, I'd order this in a heartbeat. Law & Order (any version) is comfort food to me, and I've got a mad crush on Vincent D'Onofrio, so this shirt is right up my alley.


Goren Knows Everything - Glarkware

Bloom: peddling green.

Sweet and funny product design proposal.


The Bloom device is meant to be a subversive and inspirational tool for our concrete jungles. Similar to the tuft of a dandelion as the wind carries the seedling, we propose a way of dispersing seedlings with bubbles and bicycling. Seeds are co-mingled with a bubble mixture and upon pedaling to your destination , you release the floating seeds which land in cracks and crevices throughout the city streets. Over time, the seeds grow into flowers and plants to create a green "fringe" to our sidewalks and streets.

DESIGN 21: Competitions

(via inhabitat)

Lessons in sportsmanship.

Sumo wrestler has to take pay cut after hitting apprentice with ladle


Sumo wrestler Toyozakura, left, and his stable master, Michinoku, bow their heads to apologize after Toyozakura acknowledged whacking a junior wrestler with a cooking implement.

ESPN - Sumo wrestler has to take pay cut after hitting apprentice with ladle - Moresports

Good advice.

"LAUGH MORE." T-Shirt by Jen Cannella - RedBubble

Haagen-Dazs: Good for bees.

Like you need another reason to eat Haagen-Dazs.


Beautify your yard with a free packet of wildflower seeds from Haagen-Dazs -- as a bonus, the nectar will feed endangered honeybees.

Send a self addressed, stamped envelope to:

HAAGEN-DAZS SAVE THE HONEY BEES PROGRAM/DOMINO
50 Francisco Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94133

More info at Haagen-Dazs - Help the Honey Bees

(via the latest Domino magazine)

p.s. This is BB Bee, generated from the website's "Send a Bee" tool.

Newborn White Rhino Debuts in Dublin Zoo.

The latest addition to Dublin Zoo, a baby white rhinoceros with her mother Ashanti. The unnamed baby was making her first public appearance. She is the first white rhino born in Dublin in 14 years. Ashanti is one of six white rhinoceros at the zoo (Niall Carson/PA)

(Photo and text nicked from Times Online (UK) Pictures Of The Day)

This video is also adorable. Worth sitting through the commercial at the beginning just to see lil miss run.)

Yay! New Bigfoot book!

If you haven't read Graham Roumieu's Bigfoot books, you really should.



Amazon Online : Bigfoot: I Not Dead

(via Drawn!)

Some things are better without context.

Like this.



FYI - Pittsburgh marches to the beat of its own drum on the pirates/candy issue. (Click image for detail.)


Google Trends: pirates, candy

(via Tiny Showcase)

Guggenheim jewelry. Now with more real Guggenheim.

If these weren't so freaking expensive, I'd get me some Guggenheim earrings.


Don't miss your chance to own a piece of the Guggenheim Museum! Restoration Rocks, one-of-a-kind fragments of Frank Lloyd Wright's modern masterpiece, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, gathered during the 2007 restoration and presented in hand-crafted acrylic and sterling silver. Designed and fabricated by California-based jewelry artist Cara Tilker, each piece is unique. Limited edition.

Restoration Rocks

(via If It's Hip, It's Here)

For sci fi geeks.

Remember Lance Henriksen? The robot guy in Aliens? Frank Black in that 90s series "Milennium?" (An old Friday night fave of mine.)

He makes pottery.


So...odd.

LHRP: Pottery by Lance Henriksen

Magical Powers print.

I heart Ray Fenwick. This print, giving props to the awesome magical power of fingers, is only one of so many reasons.



Threadless T-Shirts - Magical Powers Print by Ray Fenwick

I have a new hero. His name is David Horvitz.

He'll feed homeless people. He'll scour Iceland for souvenirs. He'll mail you an empty envelope from NY. He'll have tea with a monk in Japan. All you have to do is send him some money.



If you give me $1,626 I will go to the small Okinawan island called Taketomi and send you an envelope filled with star-sand (don't worry, I've been there before, I know where to go). I will send it from there.


THINGS FOR SALE THAT I WILL MAIL YOU


p.s. I'm really late to the game on this one, but I'm just catching up on my trendcentral newsletters.

p.p.s. I have created a new tag just for DH.

smosch softies.

Okay. A happier post after that last one. It's kind of impossible not to love these little guys.

Etsy :: smosch :: smosch

(via Sex, Love, and Life)

National Geographic Magazine : Gorilla Massacre.

Shocking, sad, educational and beautiful, all at once. This video "documents the significance of the recent gorilla massacres in the Democratic Republic of Congo." The killings were apparently motivated by a political battle between industrialists and conservationists.

The pictures below show park rangers and people of the area sadly and ceremoniously removing the body of a great silverback from the jungle.





Gorilla Massacre Video - Michael Nichols and Brent Stirton - National Geographic Magazine

(via We Make Money Not Art)