can I touch it?
I probably shouldn’t be this excited (it reveals my inner dork) but below you can see a photo of me with US Women’s Olympic Soccer Team member, Stephanie Cox and her gold medal:
When I finally worked up the courage to ask, she let me hold the medal.
Domestic divination
The Housewives’ Tarot, designed by Headcase.
Writing Spoon
The spoon’s website (via Quispsologies)
Wonderland Expedition Kit
Some of the pictures in the flickr set have that terrible orange hue but they are still worth a gander.
Putting music on a bike? That’s outrageous.
(Yes, yes, I know it was already on BoingBoing. But, duuuude.)
Pet Shark
For the past few months, though, passersby near the intersection of Bedford and Morton Streets, in the Village, have been spotted with their heads tilted back. The object of their gaze: a large aquarium, visible through a second-story apartment window. The tank glows neon blue, like a sign outside a jazz club. Its tenant is not a goldfish or a guppy but, rather, what Jacques Cousteau called “the splendid savage of the sea.” Even from the street corner it is clear: swimming in circles, interminably on the prowl, is a shark. The view, neighbors agree, is mesmerizing: Damien Hirst before the formaldehyde.
iPhone 3G: Will it blend?
BlackBerry to iPhone 3G: Is Now The Time To Pull the Trigger?
For anyone out there who is considering moving to the iPhone 3G from a BlackBerry (as I am), I have posted a lengthy consideration of making such a jump over at my employer’s blog. If you are considering such a move or have done it in the past, I SO would like your comments.
This is clearly unclean.
church key included
The red part on the back of this rack doesn’t only act as a red flag, it’s also a bottle opener. Because bikes, beers, and cars mix so well…
“I can’t decide if that is 100% wrong or I need one.”
Laura Zindel Ceramics
toys in the attic
A British man had a cup his grandfather gave him as a child appraised for roughly a million dollars.
John Webber says his grandfather gave him the 5.5-inch high mug to play with when he was a child, back in 1945. He assumed the golden cup, which is decorated with the heads of two women facing in opposite directions, their foreheads garlanded with two knotted snakes, was made from brass.
the geek in me…
…wants these salt and pepper shakers for my kitchen:
via Coudal
Chris Burden, What My Dad Gave Me
Performance artist Chris Burden, famous for Shoot, in which he had an assistant shoot him in the arm with a .22, and Trans-fixed, in which he was crucified on a VW Beetle, will install a 65 foot skyscraper composed of over a million pieces of facsimile erector set in Rockefeller Center called What My Dad Gave Me.
Good Thangs: For the Guest Bath
I found a few things for your hall bathroom that are sure to give your guests something to ponder while they pee. Sure, they are a bit left of center, but there’s nothing wrong with that unless you’re talking about your boyfriend’s aim.
One Man Hang by propaganda
Size really doesn’t matter, but you get some big extra points if you can hang a towel on it. Sadly, this type of strength and consistency can only be found in molded plastic items like this towel hook. Naughty Mr. P also comes in white, blue, and orange. Now if only the real ones did. [$12.50.]
Butt Face Soap at FunkyBathroom.com
I don’t think these need any explaining. Use this decorative and utilitarian soap instead of a dish of those cheap-floral-scented mini rose “turds”. Yes, leave the BUTT side up. Matching towels also available. [$3.49.]
Skull Hand Towel by Kathy Steig
Those little surprises and unique items are what creates home decor that says, “You”. This is why for nosey guests I’ve stocked the medicine cabinet with 20 tubes of Astro Glide, a roll of electrical tape, a garlic press, a snake bite kit, and a disposable Elizabethan collar. These adorable skull hand towels convey a similar “Don’t Fuck With Me” theme. I believe Cindy has them in pink. [$20.]
Dream Song 50
Vintage Microwave
Stephen reviews “A selection of curiosities from the free section of Craigslist”:
I am moving and sadly cannot take these chairs.You say you are sad, but you are moving because you want to get away from these chairs. These chairs are destroying you. They have held you hostage for years, threatening your family with their aggressive, visceral ugliness. Your entire post suggests Stockhom Syndrome, but don’t worry, we’ll get you through this.
There are 4 of them.This is worse than I thought. I’ve contacted the authorities. Your neighborhood is being evacuated right now. Take your birth certificate and passport, leave everything else behind. Leave the back door unlocked.
They are grey mohair.That almost sounds respectable, doesn’t it? Mohair. Get out of the house, now.
They roll.We appreciate the warning. This is an ugly that may be difficult to contain. Homeland Security is cordoning off all of San Francisco.
Good Thangs: Spring Has Sprung, Y’all
In Texas Spring is in the air, along with some nasty allergens. If you can, take some time out from your sadistic games with Easter candy and have a look at some items inspired by the season.
Cool Print Shirt by Robert Graham
Guys should wear more prints like this kaleidoscope print in Springy colors. You can even sneeze on your sleeve and no one will notice [$59.99.]
Bird Miniature Pill Case by Judith Leiber
Store your antihistamines and daily dose of Xanax in this Judith Leiber pill case detailed with Austrian crystals. Your friends will be distracted by its beauty and forget you’re such a pill-popping disaster. [$625.]
Tiki Head Tissue Box Cover at Target
Perfect for the person who has everything including hay fever. [$19.99.]
Good Thangs
It’s Good Thangs, cuz that’s how we say it down here in Texas. It’s not Martha Stewart’s, but my latest in found items that are cool, beautiful, brilliant, or fabulous in some way. Basically, these are things that Mama wants, so take notes for my next birthday, y’all.
Tattoo Fems Pillows by Oggetto Home
These lovely ladies of ink are accented with trapunto quilting on a killer 60’s inspired background. You know you’ve never seen a pillow this cool for this price, Honey. [$35.]
Cool Jazz Guitar Ice cubes
Dudes, if some chic came over for drinks and you had these in her glass she’d go mad and be on you like white on rice. You’d have to pry her off your crotch with a crowbar. I’d say that’s worth the eight dollars. [$8.]
Melamine plates by Ogi
People, matchy-matchy dinnerware is for tired debutantes in the Park Cities and other boring white people. Mix and match with these and other colorful plates and astound your guests. They’ll be distracted by your fabulous plates and won’t notice your nasty dried out chicken fried steak. [$32.]
World Famous Combs
On a shelf in a little store in my part of the world sit two plastic tubs, each filled with plastic combs. Taped onto one of the tubs is a sign bearing the legend:
EDDIE’S COMBS | “World Famous Combs” | GUARANTEED | EXTRA STRENGTH | 69¢ | UNBREAKABLE
Slow
Other objects for the home are being designed to operate like speed bumps for those who may be living life too fast: Thorunn Arnadottir, an Icelandic designer, made a clock using a string of beads draped over a notched metal disc.
A Smut Story
Dear Popular Mechanics,
I’ve enjoyed the reader letters in your magazine since first sneaking a peak at your pages as a boy, but I never thought that one day I would write in with an unbelievable story of my own.
Cooper-Hewitt People’s Design Awards
Too bad it’s not sorted by category. Link
When Or If I Start Rockin’ Out
I want to do it with Hello Kitty.