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.
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.
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
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.
Though the art of engraving designs onto metal currency pre-existed “Hobo Nickels,” when the American “Indian Head Nickel” was released in 1913, the art form took off. Given the large size and relative low cost of the nickel, this became the canvas of choice among hobos - often adding a hat and scruffy beard to the Indian portrait, making him into a hobo.
Everyone should feel the joy a of mustache, so . . . For those of you without mustaches, below is a set of printable cut-out mustaches:
• For the gents - the Magnum P.I.
• For the ladies - the Frida Kahlo