grenade fishing

Trend: Light Everything, especially if it’s LED. Touchscreen cube with lights that glow even during day light. Invented by Andrew Fentem.

I am a geek. I get excited about the silliest things now-a-days. Like the fact that Moo now offers personalized photo printing for greeting cards, note cards, postcards and stickers. I got even more excited about their pre-printed designer collection. Okay, not excited but impressed more than anything. Their designer collection included some very progressive artists, such as HelloBard, Peskimo, Jon Burgerman and Blanca Gomez.

My favorite artist in their collection is Blanca Gomez.

I dig this Peskimo holiday card.

Jon Burgerman’s Picasso-inspired Welcome My Stupid kills me. I love his work.

Sorry to disappoint you. Blow up as in BOOM, not vavoom. Toys for grenade loving fans. You gotta love Bamoflouge (with is orange buddy).

 

Love, love the Kozik punk nades (below) 

 

Available or coming soon at Jamungo

Some very decent wall decals by Wall Print, a new company based in Columbia (Yes, as in South America. I know… Heh?). I actually like the in-your-face presentation, as well as its grand color way. This assortment could have turned out boring, but because they offer customers the choice to select their own color (and a good selection too), their products went from being ho-hum to being personal and creative. Just the color offering alone makes them better than some of the superstar wall decal makers today.
 
A word of caution before you visit this site…chances are you will run across some graphic that may deter you, but fortunately, they are few and in one collection (Characters)… Like below, my two favorites… Aiyah, huh? Imagine this big-haired redhead 8’ high in my livingroom… Aiyah, again.

 

One more warning. Hit the mute button. They kinda blast music at you when you sign on, and it takes a little bit for the volume button to show up (Flash site).

I feel a bit guilty making fun of this chair… It is the Banquete Chair by Fernando and Humberto Campana of Brazil, and the fact it’s carried by Moss, it is probably a well-respected design by the industry. Luckily, I’m not in that industry (furniture industrial design).

I can only think of one thing when I see this chair - the Furries. My God, they would give their first born plushie for this chair.

What? Who? Heh? The Furries? 

In my very simple definition - Furry Fandom is a subculture consisting of like-minded people who are into “plushie things” (yes, as in stuffed animal toys). They carry at least one around with them always, has a back-up hidden in a backpack or car, cohabitant with hundreds in their home, and sometimes, they dress themselves up as plushies.

No, no. Your daughter is not a Furry. It’s normal to like cute, little cuddly animal dolls when you are six. It’s another when you are 36. Or 46.

I actually do know a few Furries (don’t ask). They are quite harmless. As a matter of fact,  they’re very sweet and mostly shy. They simply enjoy carrying their plushies everywhere. Hey, we all have our issues.

However, it doesn’t mean I would not be spooked out of my mind if I somehow find myself at one of these Furry Conventions.

 

Like I said, spooky.

Believe it or not, there is a good side to this Furry story. There exists some cool version of this subculture. One I like, in particular, is the Japanese cultural phenomenon Cosplay. They’re not as much into carrying fluffy animals around.

Instead, they enjoy dressing up like ass-kicking anime characters. There are a few stray strange Spiderman types, but in general, they are a bit more elaborate than your average Furry Fandom.

 

 

Some of us like to use this opportunity to doll up, or should I say, be downright sexy. I say this is as good an excuse as any to dress up like a sex kitten. Here is one Filipina’s interpretation of Cosplay. Nice.

 

 

 

 

Now to my favorite discovery, and somehow it’s related to Furry Fandom. Not sure how I got here, but I’m giving two thumbs up to the Gothic Lolitas.