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Florinda Erinn.
No Place Like Here: Marfa, Texas
OFFER: pooh & tigger patch
Posted to Dubuque Freecycle group Tue Mar 1, 2011 5:17 pm (PST):
This was cut out from a worn child’s sweatshirt. Pooh and Tigger standing next to each other, wearing fall jackets. Cloth around is worn, but embroidered patch in great condition. Thought a crafty person might like to give it new life on a bag, clothing or something.
“Bring your monkey back to where it all began.”
An original one-of-a-kind event, the Sock Monkey Madness Festival, will return as a unique celebration of Rockford’s past by highlighting its once thriving knitting industry and boom of the stuffed sock toy made from Rockford Red Heel Socks which continues as a large part of America’s pop culture. The 9th Annual Sock Monkey Madness Festival hours are 11:00 am until 5:00 pm Saturday and Sunday [March 5-6, 2011].
headline of the day
Man Hit By SUV During ‘Frogger’ Game
Analogue hyperlinks for a book on dreams.
Maria Fischer. “Traumgedanken.” Final year project at University of Applied Sciences Augsburg. 20 × 28 cm. 76 pages. Japanese binding.
The book “Traumgedanken” (“Thoughts about dreams”) contains a collection of literary, philosophical, psychological and scientifical texts which provide an insight into different dream theories.
To ease the access to the elusive topic, the book is designed as a model of a dream about dreaming. Analogue to a dream, where pieces of reality are assembled to build a story, it brings different text excerpts together. They are connected by threads which tie in with certain key words. The threads visualise the confusion and fragileness of dreams.
(via @pruned)
Father Christmas fucked my pussy (Christmas pussy song)
(thanks, Aaron)
Today
me and Ricky Cameron (Neece) looked at 1,345 stoneware cups.
Flannery’s Squirrel Shrine
This squirrel looked like a character in a cartoon flattened by a steam roller. I begged her to take a picture and she did!
Aaron Perlut, who has preferred to be called Dr. Perlut since bestowing upon himself a Ph.D. in nuclear mustachology, has been a mustache advocate for several years now
Do you have a personal favorite mustache aesthetically, apart from historical significance?
I have always been a big fan of former major league pitcher Al Hrabosky. Al, when he was playing, wore a Fu Manchu mustache that was so intense that it could strip paint, lead paint, off a windowsill, and he had a personality to match it, and I have always been kind of taken by old photos of Al’s mustache. I would also say Robert Goulet is also a personal favorite, which is one of the reasons we named the Robert Goulet Mustached American of the year award after him.
And further thoughts on the state of the ‘stache.
build your bike
I want to go to the Bamboo Bike Studio and build my own bike.
Build your own bike in two days at our workshop in Brooklyn or San Francisco.
We supply all tools and materials, and as much – or as little – help as you need.
We don’t assume any prior experience, but a strong work ethic and an appetite for the unfamiliar is essential.
You can also order a kit, source your own bamboo and build it at home.
via coudal
from the spam
Writing about what you love tends to come pretty easily for most of us, especially in the craft world.
Tilt the Cup and Push Against the Lever
Cluster Lore
The initial reference to a pee chute.
artisanal pencil sharpening
David Rees, the man behind the popular political comic Get Your War On, wants to sharpen you a pencil. Slowly. Attentively. And with a carefully selected sharpener or blade that suits the pencil best. If there are movements for slow food and slow reading, why not for slow writing implements?
“With an electric pencil sharpener, a pencil is meat,” Rees said. “It’s this thoughtless, Brutalist aesthetic. For me, it’s almost a point of pride that I would be slower than an electric pencil sharpener.”
From his web site:
Traditionally people mail in their pencils to be sharpened; however David now offers a new service: He will provide the pencil.
(via marginal revolution)
Rear Gear. Butt covers for your Cat and Dog
This definitely signals the coming apocalypse.
Ok, just in case anybody missed this
A boat made of recycled plastic bottles has just crossed the Pacific. Yeah.
Quote of the Day (from Sheila’s email)
Sheila: I liked it when Mr. Potato Head was just a collection of facial parts that you were meant to insert in a real tuber.
“A Tattooing ‘Artist’.”
The craze for tattooing grew worse, and each morning saw new additions to the ranks of the disfigured. One morning the climax was reached when a dozen little boys and several little girls appeared with beetles, shrimps, lobsters and butterflies crawling over their faces.
New York Tribune. Illustrated Supplement. Sunday, October 26, 1902.
DIY Playground
Aaron has just sent me a link to God’s own playhouse. They had me at Fastening & Joining.
Lego “Personal Massager”
I knew this had to exist.
Reduce, reuse, recycle
(Via @carolinavallejo)
LEGO Felt Tip 110
There’s an FAQ on the YouTube page.
(Via Adam Parrish)
Y’all
It’s three weeks from today.
The Future of Sewing Machines
It dyes white thread to match the color of the cloth you are working with.
