1,2,3,4 monsters walking 'cross the floor

Found via papercut heart. This made me giggle. Oh fantastic Feist and her constant counting!




super-dooper!

Ridin' along on my push bike honey.

So ... I never thought I was a bike person. I was the one with the bike collecting spiderwebs in the garage until I grew out of it and then wanted a new one that fitted, rode it for a week and the cycle started again. Well except for the awesome pink bike with streamers on the handlebars, spokie-dokes and trainging wheels, i loved that bike. But I have found something that makes me want to get on my bike and never get off. It is the gypsy bike from electra bikes and it is the most beautiful thing I have seen!



These other two bikes aren't so shabby either.






I think it is a good thing that these are in the US and I don't know if I can get them in Australia. And that I don't know how much they are. Because I would just like to look and "oooh" and "aaaah". so pretty.

What is beneath you?

I love this AD campaign for the Madrid Metro. You can see the origninal in better qualitty here.

Blip!

Oh how I wish I live in a house that was mine so I could paint the walls and have a bedroom like this one. Even though this is actually an art installation, still ... who doesn't want a mario bros. bedroom?





I found this via geekologie, who say they ...

don't have much information about these pictures except they're part of an art installation entitled "Landscape" and feature, well, a landscape from Super Mario Bros. The installation may or may not have been created by a woman named Antoinette J. Citizen -- which is either the coolest real name ever, or the worst porn name ever. Let's see, what else? There are some interactive question mark boxes that play Mario sound effects when you push them...

The dumbest things they say

Vintage photo from Tobyotter on Flickr.

This is annoying me at the moment because I’ve had three people use it on me in the last week and I find it such a stupid thing to say to someone.
Someone recently asked me if I was going to be away in January 09 because I have gone away at that time for the past 2 years. I calmly reminded them that 2 years ago at that time I got married and 1 year ago it was my 1st anniversary (how strange is it that they fell on the same day?), and that yes, I was planning to be on holidays this year, because BAM! It will be my 2nd anniversary. This person just “pftt-ed” and said “When you have children, you won’t be able to have any more holidays!”
Now I ask you … what was this supposed to make me do? “Oh … in that case” was I supposed to say “I’ll just cancel any future plans in the off chance I have children at some stage” ??? I don’t really get it? I DON’T have children, some day sure, but right now, NONE. So I am allowed to go on holidays. In fact – isn’t this the time to be going on holidays? Because apparently I will be locked in the house once they arrive!
Two more times this has come up this week. And the next two were delivered in the same way. Someone asked me to do something, something I didn’t really need or have to do, and that something was happening at 8:00am on a Saturday – 1 hour away from where I live. That means getting up at 6:30am, ON A SATURDAY, to participate in something I wasn’t really that into. I declined on the reason that it was too early. I don’t want to get up at 6:30am on a Saturday if I don’t have to. “Well when you have kids” they said, “You won’t be able to sleep in anymore”. And your point is? I ask. I DON’T have kids, and I like to sleep in on a Saturday. I’m not about to start practicing waking up early so that I’ve got it right when the kids are here. What I’m going to do is sleep in as much as I can.
I know that people with children, LOVE to talk about their children, and LOVE to whine about the things in their life that are different and stupid now that the kids are here, so that we can feel sorry for them. But I don’t have children and I am going to go on holidays and sleep in as much as I like. SO THERE!

I met the walrus

New York New York.

I recently got myself an iPod nano. I had only had a shuffle before - which I used for a week or so, then quickly forgot about. You can't do anything with a shuffle ... boo! Well... one thing led to another and I am now hooked on podcasts. When the podcasts on my nano run out I grumbily switch to listening to music.

My most recent podcast addiction is New York Art Tours by Merrily Kerr.

Merrily Kerr New York Art Tours guides you directly to the best the city has to offer. Led by a professional art critic, the tours give immediate access to today’s most important and influential art.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a newcomer to the art scene or a veteran art lover; Merrily Kerr New York Art Tours will custom tailor an art tour for you. Tours cater to individuals or groups on corporate excursions, international tourists, student groups and any others wanting to sample the best art in New York City. Merrily Kerr is licensed as a Tour Guide by the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs.

Here Merrily Kerr shows you the Misaki Kawai "Tiger Punch" show at Clementine Gallery.



Misaki Kawai: 'Tiger Punch' at Clementine Gallery January 2007. Kawai's slapdash painted collages take a jab at slick, manga inspired art.

I've almost made it through all of the videos there. And if you watch from the beginning you can see her baby belly grow. So perhaps that's why there haven't been any new videos lately? Hopefully there will be new videos soon.

Visit her YouTube page here.