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Happy holidays to all you blog readers! I hope you get a chance to relax and soak in some atmosphere while you have the chance.
If you have snow where you are; please send us some.
If you want to have an actual card to print out, and actually carry around in your pocket - download it here!
See you in 2009!
-Lüke
Very quirky, funny, and well formulated shorts about nearly everything under the sun, presented by a guy with far out hair.
My kinda guy.
I like the animations, by Benjamin Goldman, too:)
Stephen Colbert gives us a taste of his special take on the holiday season, complete with special guests and lots of songs. Start yourself off with his intro up there^.
Feist appears as a guest, sings a song too, but I liked this earlier appearance better. Dunno why I thought it was part of the christmas special, before I watched it - must have been the red tie:)
I did.
Joffe - one of my son Sebastian’s best buddies - is doing an important project for school;
I’m making a creative product for this project I’m doing on the internet, and basically I’m having you all help me out. I ask you the two questions: What is the internet, and How does the internet affect your life? You can answer with one picture, drawing or photo, one sentence, or one minute of video. Totally up to you.
I started off writing “It’s two things…” and then realized after a couple of paragraphs, that I was breaking the rules. So I drew it instead.
Then I figured out how to say it in a sentence:
The Internet: A curious beast who sounds like Billy Connolly, tiptoes and dances, sells things, and keeps in touch while learnin’ a thing or two.
Help the kid out; glide on over to Joffe’s blog and add your two cents worth to the comments:
Swedish Matroshka also have a funky idea to organize all your need in a one room apartment. Split level, and a lot of rolling pieces this time - lots of spots to sit too!
I have a thing for very organized self-contained dwellings, and this looks brilliant.
I can just imagine an empty space in a corner of a loft, a very bare studio apartment or even a whole budget self-service hotel being decked out with these flatpack kits.
Just add some kind of plumbing, a toilet and a shower, and a few outlets, and boom, you’re set!
Maybe some chairs, a mattress, some drawers too?
I even like the prototypes - made in very thick cardboard.
I’ve been eyeing Raymond Biesinger’s ilustrations in Monocle for a while now - nice to see he’s a fellow canuck! Busy guy. Seems he also runs a printing press/publishing house, and is in a rock band.
After surfing through his site, I went straight on through to his ETSY shop and got myself two of his books. Lovely little square jobs filled with battered, weathered and worn black and white goodies.
Cool looking documentary series on PBS about sustainability - this season it’s about transportation. It’s piqued my interest - so I’m going to check it out.
When I visit Italy, and this has been my third trip in the past six years, I feel good about most everything.
“Why is that?”, I found myself wondering as I pushed Tilja through parks and paths for her afternoon nap, back here in Stockholm. I think I have found a few reasons:
People acknowledge you.
It seems very simple, but what a world of difference it makes to be somewhere where most people look you in the eye, say “hello” (or “ciao”), or even just nod your way.
If you have a child, you can count on 3 to 10 times the interaction.
You are there WITH the Italians. They draw you in, if you let them.
Italians don’t drive crazy.
They drive like experts. Not once in 10 days did I hear an argument between drivers, and rarely an unneeded beep of the car horn. The traffic is unbelievable. But there aren’t traffic jams. Cars, trucks, busses and scooters weave around each other like dancers. They stop for pedestrians in good time, let each other pass or merge without complaint.
They walk the same way.
The food.
Everywhere you go - the food is brilliant. I overheard an Italian reply to his British tourist friend’s question, “Is it any good?”, about a dish on a restaurant’s menu, by saying, “We ONLY do GOOD”
True, true.
Well… except for the meal I had at a tabacchi, once. But that was to be expected from a tourist trap like that.
The scenery and sun
You simply cannot beat ancient ruins, huge trees and gardens, huge open skies, winding streets, cliffsides, water, wicked cool classic cars, the warm temperature, and all the well dressed folk.
“No problem!” approach to problems
Italians all seem to be handymen. When we arrived at our rented room on AnaCapri, and found we hadn’t ordered a crib for Tilja, the owner came down to the room, heard our “problem”, said “No problem!”, and began to turn the armchair in the room into a makeshift bed.
Tilja never slept better.
Is that cute, or what?! Fancy, Fanciful Photoshopping from Tebe Interesno.
