Snape and Stereotypes

Google's tribute to the Flintstones, which started airing this date 50 years ago.

Nice revamp of IMDb's website.

Beautiful green ceramic C-29 coffee pot by Jean Cartier for Céramique de Beauce, QC. [Source: The Canadian Design Resource]

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London-based graphic designer/illustrator/photographer Yanko Tsvetkov conveys different perspectives on Europe in his series Mapping Stereotypes. I like these two the best but click link for more. [Source: bumbumbum >> fubiz]
Europe According to France

Europe According to USA

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Snape + Apple. Makes sense. [Source: moshimoshibomb >> Into Another World]
Adorable bunny birthday cake by Cake Journal. This was a white cake with raspberry mousse, Italian meringue buttercream, and white chocolate fondant (elaborate!), but it makes me want carrot cake. Nom.

Currently listening to: White Flag (Dido cover) - Filiz, Just the Way You Are (Bruno Mars cover) - Sam Tsui, and Crashing Down - Mat Kearney

Food and Ear Wear

Completely crashed last night so no post.

Stumbled upon this again recently and remembered how great it is. Features an early Steve Carell. Waiters Who are Nauseated by Food from the Dana Carvey Show. AC~, don't watch this.

Geeky keyboard waffle maker. By Chris Dimino. [Source: moshimoshibomb > Long Island Lolita]

Sparkly ball stud earrings. Photo by _mubblegum_ (Beth) on Flickr.

Agency Scholz & Friends' (Berlin) beautiful packaging for Panasonic headphones. This won a Gold Lion for Design in Cannes this year. [Source: idsgn]

Random cute of the week: Turtle cupcakes! By Cake Journal. [Source: Pink Frosting > Cake Journal]

Currently listening to: Blind - Wolfsheim, Out of Reach (Gabrielle cover) - Filiz, and Crazy - Emily and Rachel Bt

Hot Chocolate and Snow

Hot chocolate and chocolate fudge cake. Photo by hekris on Flickr. [Source: moshimoshibomb >> Pretty Foods and Pretty Drinks]

Mini Oreo ice cream. [Source: Turkish Delight > Boohoo]

Hand sewn canvas envelopes with custom plaid postage stamps made by Grayhood (designer Dan Gneiding).

Fun ambient for Laax Snowboard School using glass elevators by agency KSB/SJ (Zurich, Switzerland). [Source: Ads of the World]

Currently listening to: Parking Lot Paradise - Birgit Bidder

Going for Some Revenge

Revenge is a dish best served cold indeed. [Source: moshimoshibomb >> Death Eater]

Paris-based photographer Audrey Corregan's beautiful avian images, featuring birds with their backs toward the camera. From her Obviously series. Lovely concept. [Source: bumbumbum]

I've long admired method soap's beautiful and clean design. The DieLine recently did a feature on Joshua Handy, the VP of Industrial Design for the company (check out his portfolio here and here), which inspired me to post some of method's lovely products.

Food noms: In the mood for chili. Recipe and photo by Fat Girl Trapped in a Skinny Body.

Fun plush pillows by mymimi on Etsy. Found through Kids Kids Kids.
3.5" diskette/floppy disk
Rainbow Unicorn
Happy Letter
Happy Memo/Post-It

Futbol: I chased down a guy wearing a Bayern Munich jacket today to ask him where he bought it. Insane? Yes. But seriously, those are impossible to find. (Turns out he made it himself.)

Currently listening to: Hope a Little Harder - Amy Kuney, Es Por Ti - Juanes, and Usted Se Me Llevo La Vida - Alexandre Pires

Soft! What Light

A little sick so going to take some time to rest and recover.

The other man - We finally find out who Jack's wife Sarah was seeing in LOST. Click to enlarge. [Source: FY LOST > 815 Giggles]
A very apt LOST and Modern Family pairing.

James McAvoy and Emily Blunt (yay to both) star in the upcoming Gnomeo and Juliet - a, you guessed it, redo of the Shakespeare classic with a gnome twist. Drops February 2011. I'm not particularly interested, but I do think their logo is nicely done. Fun! Found through Just Jared.


Food noms: Oatmeal Nutella Cookie Sandwich. Such a good combination idea. Recipe and photo by Julia of blog Fat Girl Trapped in a Skinny Body.

Currently listening to: Inolvidable - Reik, Closer - Kings of Leon, Lay It Down - Jars of Clay ft. David Crowder and Dawn Richardson

Snowy Shelter

Happy first day of Fall, everyone!

Check out Jars of Clay's new LP The Shelter, which features collaborative tracks with Brandon Heath, Leigh Nash, Derek Webb, David Crowder, Burlap to Cashmere and many other great Christian artists. Drops October 5th.

The Shelter ft. TobyMac, Audrey Assad, Brandon Heath

Small Rebellions ft. Brandon Heath

Run In The Night ft. Thad Cockrell

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (HP7) Part 1 trailer #3 just dropped today.


Cool Inception poster featuring the different levels by Gideon Slife. [Source: FY LOST]

Beautiful snowy evening with warm streetlights and frosted rooftops. I miss this. [Source: moshimoshibomb >> glamour and passione]

Random cute of the week: Ermine/weasel out and about. [Source: Kids Kids Kids]

Currently listening to: Telephone (Lady Gaga and Beyonce cover) - Glee, Solo Para Ti - Camila, and Back at My Heart - Natalie Grant

Lunar Love

(post for Wednesday)
Happy Mid-autumn Festival everyone! Unfortunately it is too cloudy in Hong Kong to see the moon but at least there was no rain tonight. I hope you non-HK located readers get a beautiful view of the lunar spectacle! Stuff yourselves with mooncake!

Currently listening to: Family laughter

Good Hair Day

Tangled's second trailer. Check out the first here.


Celebrate, Gleeks! Glee starts up again tomorrow/today (time difference). I hope they up their game this season.

You may remember Swedish artist Stina Persson's gorgeous watercolors from this post. She opened her own show Perfectly Flawed in NYC this month. Read more at bumbumbum. [Source: bumbumbum]

Currently listening to: Let the Rain - Sara Bareilles and Enjoy the Ride - Morcheeba

Keep Calm and Do Amazing Things

Seeing as it is the last day of summer tomorrow, this is appropriate. Summer plans pie chart from GraphJam. [Source: moshimoshibomb]

Beautiful old school looking digital camera that is about to be released by Fujifilm. FinePix X100. Photos just dropped today. Found through WL~. [Source: DC Fever]

Keep calm and call Batman. Poster (and other Keep Calm variations) by Greece-based graphic designer tind on Behance. For AC~. [Source: moshimoshibomb >> bumbumbum]

I also like tind's LOST themed Keep Calm poster.

Currently listening to: Broken Angel (live) - Boyce Avenue, Gained the World - Morcheeba, and Basket Case - Sara Bareilles

Cake and Lanterns

Mid-autumn Festival 中秋節 is upon us (this Wednesday) and I'm looking forward to viewing the gorgeous full moon (if weather will allow it) and eating mooncake.

Anhs Food Blog's recipe for a snow skin chestnut version to make on your own. [Source: Tastespotting]I like my mooncake traditional with lotus paste (and sans egg yolk, please). Check out her recipe for this kind here - Baked mooncake with salted yolk. Seems like a lot of fun. I would never have thought to try to make it myself.

Mid-autumn Festival is also a time to rock some sweet lanterns. I'm a big fan of the traditional, cellophane and paper, candle lit ones that are shaped like a white rabbit or starfruit, but nowadays kids prefer the more glam, battery-powered, plastic kind. Check out these Finding Nemo ones.

Chew-toy material, plastic fake mooncakes from Park n' Shop.

Buy mooncakes in sets of four or individually.

Food noms: In case mooncake isn't your thing, check out this yummy cake photography from Godiva's bakery dessert truffle ad.

Forgot to blog this yesterday, but here's the trailer for The Tourist, starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. I'm not particularly interested in the movie (although I like both actors), but I'm posting this because of the great typography in the trailer. Clean, simple, great.


Kids who dress better than me: 1) Little girl with a ruffle sleeved shirt and tiny Converse shoes.
2) Little Kaka. Wish I could find the original source on Flickr. [Source: Dona Quixote]

Currently listening to: Uncharted - Sara Bareilles, Teenage Dream (Katy Perry cover) - Boyce Avenue, and If I Die Young - The Band Perry