Over six months ago, Blogadilla’s very own Chris and I decided to send each other “Munnys” - they are vinyl “paint it yourself” figures that hipsters casually display around their stylish apartments (available through KidRobot). Chris (being a professional graphic artist) and I (having experience drawing on my binder in school) decided we’d each design and paint one and send it to the other - as an “art exchange project.” As most projects go, it took me six months to get around to doing something. I just finished it and it’s in the mail en route to Chris right now. I decided to go with a “Cursed Golden Idol” design - an evil golden monkey demon with an extra eye for peering in to the darkest reaches of one’s soul. When Chris sends me the one he’s working on, he’ll post it on Blogadilla also.

(The coolest Munny/Dunny ever made has to be the one by Venture Bros co-creator Jackson Publick)

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Slo-Mo-Mentos+DietSoda

(via TVweek.com; Via Metacafe)

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Remember as a kid trying to find the ultimate latch-hook rug kit with rainbows and unicorns OR if you were lucky, some disgusting blend of both?

Well now you can graduate to the soft porn version. At MadeWithSweetLove.com you can buy latch-hook rug kits and make your own porn rug! This one is fabulously gigantic (and not for sale), but you can buy smaller ones and make some nice throw pillows for your couch.

I have to thank my sick friend Hollie for introducing me to this smut!

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A collection of homemade guns and a couple of swords seized by the Russian army and police in Chechnya. Most of these bad boys evoke a steampunk-meets-Mad Max vibe.

I think I’d be just as afraid standing behind one of these things as in front of one.

Heh. I’m filing this under “crafts”.

Great White Snark

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Summer is here and Conn and Hal Iggulden’s “The Dangerous Book for Boys” is the perfect guidebook for entertainment in the great world outside of Xbox, television, the internet, and DVDs - for both children and adults, boys and girls. This entertaining children’s manual is nicely illustrated with 1950’s-1960’s textbook graphics and contains how-to instructions for countless fun things: crystals, go-carts, tree forts, how to play poker, codes, juggling, bows and arrows, dog tricks, make your own flashlight, et cetera. This book also contains a cornucopia of interesting short essays and information tables on subjects that are sure to entertain young and old kids: insects and spiders, tying knots, pirates, famous battles, first aid, dinosaurs, a history of artillery, navigation, clouds, the Seven Wonders of the World, etc.

All of my friends’ kids are getting this for Christmas and birthdays (though I had to buy a copy for myself first).

A nice video from the publisher, demonstrating the range of materials in this book.

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Make your very own chocolate Han Solo in carbonite; a how-to at Instructables.com.

“I love you (chocolate Han Solo).”
” . . . I know.”

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Following the smash-hit success of the Max Rebo cake… by popular demand, here are some of my Mom’s other cake-creations. (Here’s how you spot her in the pictures… she’s the one with the shock of curly hair. See her?)

Great White Snark

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It’s hard to find music boxes that play “Punk Rock Girl” or “Iron Man.”
So . . . make your own.
The “Make Your Own Music Box” kit comes with hole punch and blank music strips.
$15.
From The Afternoon.

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May 19th-20th (last weekend) was the 2007 Make: Magazine “Maker Faire”. It was a spectacular event: steam-powered robots, battery-powered motorcycles, tinfoil hats, human-powered carnival rides, a life-sized version of the game “mouse trap,” and lots of explosions.
Below is a video I put together for Blogadilla, and below below are some nice shots of the event by our own Blogadilla photographer, Garry. [click on photos to enlarge]

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