Though China has five Olympic mascots (”The Fuwa”), several others never made it past the drawing board.
A Blogadilla exclusive: rejected Chinese Olympic mascots.
Maomao - Lil’ Mao Zedong.
Melmel - The Melamine Cat.
I take pleasure in knowing that I’d be shot for doing this if I lived in China.
I know this is content recycling, but I still think they are funny as hell and they were posted at a time when nobody read us.
“Eddie Murphy’s Giant Head on the Interstate.”
From AhhhItsHayley’s Flickr Photostream.
For those of you who missed this the first time, and for those of you just dropping by on the BALLOONACY internet balloon race, here’s the “Sweded” version of Aliens that friends and I filmed a couple of months ago.
(Part 1)
(Part 2)
Summer and the sweltering heat are here. Below are some updated fancy new ice cream wallpapers I’ve made, to get all of you in the Summer mood.
Click on the images for downloadable wallpapers of each.
Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, Santa Cruz, CA.
Vanilla soft-serve with blue cotton candy swirl.
Dreyer*s “Take the Cake” ice cream (yellow cake flavored ice cream with blue frosting swirl and colored sprinkles). Safeway “Rainbow Cone” green ice cream cone.
Foster’s Freeze, Menlo Park, CA.
Grape (wax?) dipped soft-serve vanilla.
Baskin & Robbins, Menlo Park, CA.
“Rock’n Pop Swirl” (grape and green apple sherbet with Pop Rocks mixed in) on top of Cotton Candy ice cream.
(©2007 Toothpastery)
This is amazing.
Toothpastery’s Flickr Photostream.
Name a toothpaste, and Toothpastery probably has a photo of it.
Mini Rock’em Sock’em Robots - now in handy finger size.
Bonus Round: Eric Joyner’s cool Rock’em Sock’em Robots art.
This month’s wallpaper from CityShrinker.
Yes . . . this is a photo of an incredibly detailed tiny model.
Micro-Coolness!
An image from Rika Eguchi’s “How to Cook Docomodake“ exhibit. Docomodake is a cartoony mushroom corporate icon for Japanese cellular phone company NTT DoCoMo - sort of like the Japanese equivalent of the Pillsbury Doughboy. And like the Pillsbury Doughboy, people want to do mean things to it.
(via Pink Tentacle, via watz’s Flickr photostream)
1982.
Steve Jobs at home.
“This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that’s what I had.”
- Steve Jobs
Diana Walker: The Bigger Picture (comes in handy book form)
(via Digital Journalist, via SachsReport)
The Art of Kelly Smith:
“Romantic Fantasy Art with a Decadent Rock-N-Roll Edge”
If you’ve ever been this inspired while eating barbecued wings, you’re probably a redneck.
I recently started screwing-around with Papilio Temporary Tattoo paper. Making my own transfer tattoos with a desktop printer.
The first tattoo experiment: making a “Petunia” dancing girl tattoo, from The Adventures of Pete & Pete.
And Yes. I am fascinated with this 90’s Nickelodeon TV show.
Absinthe is the new bacon. There’s a super hip restaurant in NYC called “Tailor” that serves absinthe gummy bears. They’re 85% absinthe, and sorry to say, I couldn’t figure out a way to pay them to send me some.
Also, absinthe lollypops at Lollyphile.
For more flavor overload, check out a dish at Tailor that’s just called, “Fois Gras, Peanut Butter, Cocoa, Pear“.
(Heywood, I demand that you go there!)
A great new way to make your hand look gigantic: tiny baby sculptures in polymer clay/resin.
Camille Allen
