Continuing with my fascination with all things taxidermy comes this advert for totally realistic taxidermy. Chuck Testa is the best taxidermist out there. Period.
The ad is real. Sort of. Well, no, it is – but it was put together by Rhett and Link as part of their previously featured campaign to make regional TV ads more compelling, here’s a news story about Chuck Testa, taxidermist and viral phenom.
I like these “reversed volume” bowls.
Here’s a fennel bowl incongruously placed next to an apple.
And some more bowls…
Possibly the apple is for scaling issues…
Sadly the coffee bowl appears to no longer be for sale.
Created by Mischer Traxler, sold by designmarketo.
Once upon a time Disney changed the name of a movie. From something obscure to something descriptive. What started as ‘Basil of Baker Street’ became ‘The Great Mouse Detective.’
A staffer at Disney didn’t like this much. He wrote a little protest letter, in the form of a memo announcing new names for Disney’s back catalogue. Letters of Note has a copy of the memo.
This guy spins a stick fast, he’s not so great at reading instructions though… I told him to say hello to readers of St. Eutychus.
This video comes courtesy of Fiverr.com, and cost me $5.
I asked him if he’d do a cooking demo for us (because I want to make a TV show called Ninja Chef), but he declined.
I’m not really a photographer. I have a camera and a decent eye – but it takes me about 10 shots of something to be happy with what I’m doing. So I’m kind of a fence sitter here. You Are Not a Photographer takes hideous examples of photography from around the web.
Delicious. Season your food with some home style bacon salt thanks to the Wannabe Chef. This looks amazing.
“Transfer the bacon to a food processor and process until there are only small chunks and a paste begins to form. Add in the sea salt and ground pepper(note: whole peppercorns will not break up in the food processor) and continue to process until the salt breaks up into smaller pieces and mixes with the bacon. Transfer to an airtight jar and keep in the refrigerator when not using.”
Via Lifehacker.
Ahh. Funny taxidermy goes old school, and classy. Museum classy.
If, like me, you like the moon… though possibly not as much as these guys:
Then you should throw out your bed, and your pillows, and get one of these glow in the dark monstrosities and get up close and personal with your own personal moons.
Like the moon it glows at night, so it will keep you tide. Get it. Because the moon makes the tides happen… the patterns on the pillow are based on a hi-res composite of moon photography. So it’s as close to the real deal as you’ll get unless you’re an astronaut. And even then you’ll only get as far as a desert in Texas.
Via Design Bloom.
I don’t like bins. The pedals always break. You have to empty them. They stink. I think this sort of thing might take up less space and have me emptying the rubbish more often. But who knows.
From Hommin
Ahh. Care Bears. The rainbow vomiting overly optimistic fur balls of my youth.
Here are the Don’t Care Bears, the nasty siblings.
Words can’t describe how awesome I think this picture is. I want to eat his many arms.
From Flickr, it was apparently a shirt on woot back in July. I need to pay more attention to Woot.
You may also like this Homer Simpson version…
And Inspector Gadget – a Threadless Shirt.
The Simpsons provide an almost endless string of possibilities for real life crossovers. There’s a South Park episode that covers the idea that the Simpsons have already done just about every joke known to man. So I’m surprised I haven’t come across more things like this. There was, of course, the real life recreation of the Simpson’s house, a real life rendering of Mr Burns, a real life Nachos Hat, the real life intro video, and some real life Tomacco.
Here’s a Tom Collins Pot Pie…
Recipe
1. Unsure of what actually makes a Tom Collins, we went by what The Internet said and used the following ingredients: ice cubes; 2 oz. dry gin; 2 oz. lemon juice; 1 teaspoon sugar syrup; soda water; slice of lemon; and 1 colored cherry (we actually didn’t include the cherry).
2. Pour the drink into the pie crust
3. Then add a sprinkling of cloves
And how about some corn nog?
Delicious. A few more recipes and reviews here…
Unless somebody makes a series of action figures for obscure figures in the Presbyterian Church of Queensland there’s not much chance that I’ll ever fulfil every boy’s childhood dream without paying a substantial amount of money for a customisation. Oh well. Here’s a tumblog that collects people with that dream coming true. Actors with Action Figures.
In the spirit of the just posted Sad Etsy Dogs comes Pets Who Want to Kill Themselves…
And Animals Dressed as Other Animals…
