Exploding adventures

Awesome parents

2009-11-01T13:57:00.002+01:00

Photoblog with pictures of parents, claiming that "before the fanny packs and Andrea Bocelli concerts, your parents (and grandparents) were once free-wheeling, fashion-forward, and super awesome" I guess I'll have to go through old photo albums next time I'm home and see if I can agree to that statement.

2008-12-29T20:23:00.002+01:00

Cat USB Hub

With four USB ports (one in cat's mouth and three in cat's back), this desktop USB hub is a neat little thing!

The Axe effect

2008-12-29T11:42:00.003+01:00

While I can admit that Axe has had a certain effect on me too, I like to think that is more due to the person than the actual product. However, the Axe effect is obviously much stronger in some countries, like this commercial shows, or the one in São Paulo.

On the wishlist

2008-12-28T21:15:00.012+01:00

Moss terrarium with bull

A moss terrarium with slow growing moss and other tiny plants. Very decorative, and requires very little care, perfect for people with a busy schedule.

Clocky alarm clock

The alarm clock from suck UK that runs away beeping must be perfect for people like me, that even with two alarm clocks can't get out of bed in time.
"Clocky gives you one chance to get up. But if you snooze, Clocky will jump off your nightstand and wheel around your room looking for a place to hide, beeping all the while. You'll have to get out of bed to silence his alarm."

Wooden bulb

The same store sells this cool lamp made out of laser cut wood. It is shaped like a giant light bulb and would look absolutely perfect in my apartment.

Food chain t-shirt

Designer Olly Moss has cleverly placed the zombies on the top of his food chain, and they still have the XS male t-shirt, and I'm sure it would fit me just fine!

Ah, to be a child again!

2008-12-28T00:10:00.010+01:00

Pull-Along Zebra

This zebra from giggle.com is so cute, and when you pull him, his head nods up and down. It is made from replenishable, non-toxic, wood, which should make it safe for any toddler.

Pollynation Leezard Napping

This extremely cute plush lizard would be a nice replacement for my left-behind ugly doll.

Each doll is individually hand sewn and slightly different from each other, and absolutely adorable!

Frieda the Trunki luggage

So, lots of things have changed since I was a child. I remember getting my own backpack when travelling, but I didn't get my own design-suitcase.
"The world's first ride-on suitcases for jet setting kids, Trunkis are designed especially for little ones who can pack, sit-on and ride their own luggage while parents keep them in tow."
I guess I better watch out for cow-riding jet setting kids at the airport next time!

Books I didn't get for Christmas

2008-12-27T20:44:00.014+01:00

Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What it Says About Us)

"I used to think this was just part of the natural randomness of the highway. Sometimes fate would steer me into the faster lane, sometimes it would relinquish me to the slow lane.

That was until recently, when I had an experience that made me rethink my traditionally passive outlook on the road, and upset the careful set of assumptions that had always guided my behavior in traffic.

I made a major lifestyle change. I became a late merger."

Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears

Emily Gravett's lovely book is really an illustrated book for children, but it's so cleverly done that the child in me would very much have liked to see this under the tree this year. Each page is titled with a phobia, and although my fear of navels is not mentioned, there are some interesting ones such as whereamiophobia (the fear of getting lost).

The Roma Journeys

Cia Rinne and Joakim Eskildsen visited and stayed with Roma families between 2000 and 2006 and The Roma Journeys document these encounters. I found Joakim's photographs when searching for some pictures for work, and there's something so very fascinating about his portraits of the Roma.

American Elf

The Collected Sketchbook Diaries of James Kochalka

Every day American Elf Kochalka draws a little comic strip about something that happened to him that day. The strip archive is finally available to us non-subscribers as well, but I still would like to have this book!

Asakusa Portraits

Hiroh Kikai started his Asakusa series of monochrome portraits as early as 1973. He may wait at the Sensō-ji temple for four or five hours, hoping to see somebody he wants to photograph, and three or four days may pass without a single photograph; but he may photograph three people in a single day, and he has photographed over six hundred people in this way.

The Asakusa quarter of Tokyo was once home to the city’s historic pleasure palaces, and today embraces a stubbornly independent popular culture that encompasses traditional comedy theater and houses of erotic entertainment.