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renegade craft fair

whitney — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:46:26 +0000

just in case you california raisins forgot, tomorrow, saturday, july the 24th, is the much anticipated and always relevant renegade craft fair.

i’m always interested to see whatever they’ve got, but this year i truly, truly wish to see something pertaining to Walking Man, dear Marc Abrams, aka reader walker, who died the other day in a hot tub (yes, a death that really only affects people in LA). i’m thinking maybe tshirts, or if someone were really ambitious in such a short amount of time, screenprinted short shorts like Dr. abrams used to wear on his nightly perambulations.

wait, how did this post get so sad and memorially?? just go to the renegade craft fair and if you see a Walking Man shirt, great; if not, make your own! just go and have fun and try not to think about death for one second, geez!

iceberg lettuce safe

whitney — Sat, 01 May 2010 21:00:51 +0000

i love this rubber safe cleverly disguised as a head of lettuce. the website suggests hiding valuables in the lettuce and then storing it in your refrigerator, but i’ve got a better idea: smuggling drugs through airport security! what officer is going to think to look inside a bag full of lettuce?! it’s fucking brill, man.

buy some lettuce here for 99 bucks.

the indispensable whimsy of trash

whitney — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:59:16 +0000

at what price to impress one’s garbagemen? $16 for 12 brilliant goldfish bags? yes, i think that’s fair.

buy yours here and receive the eternal admiration of your city’s sanitation workers. seriously, they will be talking about you in the municipal break room for years. you can’t put a price on that sort of curb cred.

the invalid moped

whitney — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:31:04 +0000

the inVALID MOped

the INvalid MOPED

it’s impossible to tell what the phrase means without context, or more importantly, without cues for emphasis. are we talking about an italian moped with invalid registration or about an invalid who moped around? no, seriously, if anyone knows please email me because i can’t remember what this post was supposed to be about after i wrote the title.

thnks! (pronounced “thunks”)

CardsInk

whitney — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:55:17 +0000

CardsInk is doing for greeting cards what threadless does for t-shirts. viewers vote on designs and the highest voted designs get printed, with the designer getting $100.

one thing though: does anyone actually buy greeting cards online? i mean, if you’re online and you want to send a greeting card, don’t you just send one electronically? i hope i’m just wrong and/or lazy.

by the way, threadless is having a $10 sale on all t-shirts this week. now, you can’t wear an electronic t-shirt, AMIRITE??!

wally for your walls

whitney — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:48:52 +0000

i love these wall hangings by da da da. they’re a bit on the pricey side but can you really put a price tag on the joy of walking into your living room every morning and seeing a massive jar of pickles on the wall? no, you can’t.

buy yours here. buy mine here.

business card envy

whitney — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:22:56 +0000

i LOVE these CAPTCHA business cards.

see more of this CAPTCHA project here.

via FFFFAT LAB

cassette tape lamps

whitney — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:22:12 +0000

i love these cassette lamps and the beautiful light shapes they cast. they’re made by designer vanesa moreno and can be ordered from her site for between €25 and €220.

leaf silhouettes

whitney — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:46:53 +0000

i remember having my silhouette drawn once in kindergarten, and then for some reason it was never done again in subsequent grades. strange then that something that requires one to sit still for so long would be done only on an age-group that notoriously hates to sit still.

but now you can update your profile the old-fashioned way with these gorgeous leaf silhouettes. just send in a photo and await your portrait—no sitting next to a hot overhead projector required!

via szymon

logo generator for the lego generation

whitney — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:15:29 +0000

i love this logo creator from supalogo! the fonts are a bit limited but otherwise it kept me busy for a while.

i’m trying to get my company’s name down to something a little more pithy, but in the meantime: