Finger Puppets
You can't ride 10 roller coasters at once. Nor can you straddle 10 bikes, bounce 10 balls or other fun stuff...like eat 10 ice creams. Consecutively, sure. But at once? No way man.
Finger puppets however, are on a whole other level. Ten to be exact.
Even a 5 year old could multi-task the shit out of these.
Polaroid Film
Let's face it. Even a monkey could snap something pretty with Polaroid. Its nostalgic feel, its play of light, its instant development; Polaroid is one of the last standing, accessible, relics of photography past. Sadly, all good things must come to an end. 2008 is Polaroid's last year. This may not be surprising in our era of ever-advancing digital photography, but it still sure is sad.
Russian World
Most of us are fairly familiar with the ex-super power, Russia, and have no doubt drunk the national drink on more than a few occasions.
Some of us may have made politically incorrect banter about mail order Eastern Bloc brides, and jokes of a similar sarcastic stature regarding Russian Olympic weightlifters and gymnasts.
Hakusan
About 30 years ago, the tag 'Made in Japan' carried a certain stigma. It stood for inexpensive manufacturing, mass product and cost-effective labour. Skip forward and the country's global reputation is on the flip side. Designers such as Jun Takahashi and Rei Kawakubo are walking all over western catwalks and brands like Toto are the darlings of designed toilets.
Roller Stop
The bookshelf is a prized pantry of carefully selected manuscripts, fine films, musical specimens, exotic publications and zine-like hooha. Keeping all this in check is the bookstop (also known as the ‘book end'), a variable specimen available in many homemade forms: a brick, globe, old boot, mug.
3D Drawing Pad
RB: Can we write a 3D review within a 2D template?
NS: We aren't writing in 3D. We're just reviewing the 3D experience, in 2D...hmm.
RB: But will people be able to get a feel for the experience? I mean, reading this now, everyone is probably going "ho hum". But if they were wearing the glasses and I was writing this on a 3D drawing pad, they would be like "HOLY CRAP.
Hell On Wheels
Though I've been skateboarding since 1986, I still hate walking into a skateshop. Either it's some hardcore store with a crew of snot-nosed punks behind the counter, all wearing clown pants and backwards visors (and smirking at me because I'm not dressed exactly the same), or it's a big boring mall shop with a surfie chick who thinks a backside tailslide is a stripper move.
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