tiny shiny dreams.

by michael freimuth.

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:03:00 +0200

meet monty the sleepy fox, yours for £22. louis the wonky donkey...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:37:00 +0200

meet monty the sleepy fox, yours for £22. louis the wonky donkey isn’t half bad, either.

Hu2 asks: “if your power was supplied by your guinea pig,...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:18:00 +0200

Hu2 asks: “if your power was supplied by your guinea pig, you wouldn’t let him run for nothing when you leave the room, would you?”
and i’d say that’s a very good reminder to turn off the lights when you don’t need them. quite smile-inducing, too:) (via design*sponge)

hot damn, that’s some nerdy perfection. grey shawl collar...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:16:09 +0200

hot damn, that’s some nerdy perfection. grey shawl collar cardigan by j. lindeberg.

bat (via nqtv). ‘cause a video that makes you laugh so...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:14:15 +0200

bat (via nqtv). ‘cause a video that makes you laugh so hard your drink ends up all over the wall, is definitely worth sharing:D

remember the adorably vicious prankster from Moomins, Stinky? i...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:31:00 +0200

remember the adorably vicious prankster from Moomins, Stinky? i know where he resides these days, ran into him last night in my hotel room. (via oksks)

so that’s where i kill hurt time. obviously, i love...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:31:13 +0200

so that’s where i ~~kill~~ hurt time. obviously, i love vintage postcards. and flyers. and silly japanese brochures in Engrish. and miniature plastic animals. so if you ever feel you’ve got too many, you know where to send them! (via oksks)

that’s Iceland, photographed by yellow bear. who wants to...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:15:00 +0200

that’s Iceland, photographed by yellow bear. who wants to go to Iceland now? yea!
though if temperature here dropped a teeny-tiny bit from +2C tonight, i might as well name my country Icetonia, save the travel money and go listen to barely frozen puddles cracking under my feet. can’t wait.

how a bird becomes a ghost t-shirt by jeff hamada...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:12:43 +0200

how a bird becomes a ghost t-shirt by jeff hamada for crownfarmer. <3

lol. yes. screw you, world! :D and i’ve just realized i’ve been...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:36:00 +0200

lol. yes. screw you, world! :D
and i’ve just realized i’ve been following sinfest for nearly 9 years now..gosh.
as my Mancunian boss would exclaim now, “shitting Nora!!” - after half a year of listening to this nonsense, i’m still unsure what it means, but i learn from the best.

my favourite new type blog - daily drop cap - is an ongoing...

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:39:00 +0200

my favourite new type blog - daily drop cap - is an ongoing project by typographer and illustrator jessica hische. each day (or at least each WORK day), a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap will be posted for your enjoyment and for the beautification of blog posts everywhere.

happy dayyys, my talented pal kait has finally landed in...

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:54:00 +0200

happy dayyys, my talented pal kait has finally landed in tumbrland:)
he writes in Estonian, but since pics say at least a thousand words, you’ll be golden amongst his paintings. no ~~dictionary~~ (look at me, still stuck in ye olde days) Google Translate required.

epic fail waiting to happen (via oksks) i brought these two and...

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:19:00 +0300

epic fail waiting to happen (via oksks)
i brought these two and some more new friends from London, though they don’t seem to get along that well..yet. but they’ll have to, eventually, after i’ve moved them into my new mini-world.

art school graduation animation by Lois van Baarle - hands down,...

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:52:09 +0300

art school graduation animation by Lois van Baarle - hands down, the best video i’ve seen in a while. it has this..dare i say, Miyazaki-feel to it, and that’s a huge achievement in my books.

if you like wonderfully bizarre games such as samorost-1 or...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:57:37 +0300

if you like wonderfully bizarre games such as samorost-1 or samorost-2, you’ll go NUTS over machinarium. see the preview here.
and here i was, being absolutely sure i’d never buy a computer game. but this one i’d buy even just for the artwork. or music.
..now that i think of it, perhaps every painting should have a soundtrack. might have a similar effect as if you’d accidentally unmute a movie you didn’t know had sound.

un casi gato (via ◮super katze◭). can’t not continue the...

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:17:00 +0300

un casi gato (via ◮super katze◭). can’t not continue the cat theme.

busted! that’s definitely my maneki neko’s alter ego...

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:10:00 +0300

busted! that’s definitely my maneki neko’s alter ego right there. quietly importing luck to my desk during working hours, and rocking out Kiss-style when nobody’s watching.
well done, gooo magazine.

lol, still love this one by the rut.

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:15:44 +0300

lol, still love this one by the rut.

The Dark Days

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:05:42 +0300

ckck:

It’s 5.30 pm and the sun is setting.

The dark days are coming to this latitude, as is the cold. I don’t live so far north that the sun won’t come up in the winter, but it’s not too far off. It’s really rather depressing, although that may be more about this town I’m in than the actual weather. In either case, I can only hope that at some point I’m able to live a third of the year in Sweden and the other two thirds someplace warm, sunny and/or interesting.

On the flipside, summers are truly magical at this latitude. It may never get hot in the summertime, but the light makes up for it. At the peak of the summer solstice, the sun goes down past midnight and comes up a few hours later, and it never gets truly dark.

oh, how i feel your pain, Sweden.
wearing my knee-long woollen socks, wrapped in a 2 meters’ long thick scarf like a mummy, still shivering after having consumed half a jar of honey with steaming apple and cinnamon tea. freeze-o-rama has entered the building.

found a stunning photo of Kittinger’s...

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:09:15 +0300

found a stunning photo of Kittinger’s record-breaking skydive on August 16, 1960.

i remember the first time (there wasn’t that many of them - i used to like to skydive every half a year) i jumped out of a plane so clearly.
absolute mess in my head, grey plane getting smaller, land approaching way too quickly. i had no idea i knew how to curse in all these languages.
then, a shake.. and absolute silence. it was a sunny afternoon, not a cloud in the sky, and tiny green squares of fields, each a different shade down below.
chilly, beautiful.