things for sale

Stumbled on this via PassiveAggressivenotes (again! Had no idea that this site was such a hotbed of Interweb genius)

Things for Sale that I will mail you

It’s a site listing what David will do for money. (No, not like that.) For $3 he’ll mail you an empty envelope. For $10 he’ll take a photo of the sky and post it to you. If you send him a random amount of cash, he’ll try to take a trip as far as he can, photograph himself there and keep enough money to get back. There are also lots of more expensive adventures that he’s willing to go on.

He seems to be doing pretty well in his quest – what a lovely way to earn money.

calling the design police

I spend a lot of my day negotiating/talking (same thing, surely?) with our crack team of designers – love them to pieces but they ain’t half picky! This website made me splurt tea all over my Mac.

Design Police features a bunch of handy, downloadable stickers/signs perfect for peppering over a document that just doesn’t cut the mustard. The design boys love them. I’m going to make them mandatory in press week.

Design Police

via Passive Aggressive Notes (another truly brilliant site worth visiting on a daily basis)

found photographs and spare-time-projects

Mango Falls - a collection of slides and images from undeveloped camera films found inside cameras in flea markets/thrift stores/charity shops. I love these photographic quests and projects – if I had more spare time, I’d love to start something similar myself.

Other projects I thought about starting but never actually got round to:

photographing and writing out the contents of discarded shopping lists (it seems loads of people already had this idea!)

shooting more film pictures (hmm – I can hear a Diana calling me)

starting my own blog

teeny tiny knitting

I’ve been knitting for a couple of years and managed to get my needle-mastery to the point where I could turn out a nice-enough hat while watching a film – although I haven’t knitted for a while, I still get the occasional urge to create vast squares or rectangles of fabric (making jumpers is far too time-consuming)…

so when I saw this website on Neatorama this morning, I literally rubbed my eyes and double took. I could never be bothered to create regular sized gloves because they were too fiddly – maybe I’ll have to think again…

These were knitted for the movie Coraline, which is stirring up the blog community – it’s not out in the UK till May, but it’s already on my “must-see” list. And I think I’ll get my wool out when I get home…

Miniature Knitting @ DontPanic Online

sushicam

just loved this. what a fantastic idea, and strangely hypnotic…

the amount of thought that goes into Barbie dolls is surprising

DesignBoom has an interesting gallery of the process involved in making Barbie dolls – I really loved these sketchbooks where the artists are picking out Barbie’s makeup, especially the colour swatches in the top right… bit like ColourLovers…

Making of Barbie @ Designboom.com via Neatorama