Let's Ketch Up Card

Available from chewingthecud (Etsy).

Via Oh Joy! and Design Crush.

Kodak '60's Instamatic Commercial

Take two, take three, take FOUR flash pictures without changing bulbs!

Frank Chimero: Inspirational Design Posters

I love the sentiment of these inspirational design posters from artist Frank Chimero. (Flickr, Blog: By So and So, Design/Illustration)

Remember! Looking at Design is Not Making Design

Good Design is All About Making Other Designers Feel Like Idiots Because that Idea Wasn't Theirs

Life is Fun if You Want It

Simplicity Requires Courage

I also love this manifesto he has on his portfolio site:

Nothing is a mistake. There's no win and no fail. There's only make.
—Sister Corita Kent

Lately, I think I need to be doing more making. I have tons of ideas that I never finish (for my blog, design, photography, products). Of course, I do make all day at work, but at home I spend a lot of time thinking and looking.

Frank is thinking about making a calendar of these that will be released towards the end of the year. Prints may also be available at that time. Stay tuned! I will keep you posted.

Donuts and Seafood Restaurant

Best restaurant I've never eaten at by notime4jibbajabba (flickr).

Strange combo. Reminds me of a place in my neighborhood called Daily Donuts/China Express. Two storefronts, one bakery/restaurant inside.

FAIL Blog

For a good laugh, check out the FAIL blog.

Via Craplinks.

Too Hot Even For the Ice Cream Man

Seen in In The Suburbs Of Adelaide, South Australia (Wooster Collective).

Taco Flavored Pop Rocks

Pursuade your kids to eat their greens by smothering them in butter-flavored popping novelty crystals. Popr's pop in your mouth much like the classic candy, Pop Rocks.

Popr's are sold in box sets of 8 shakers. Sweet and savory flavors include:

Strawberry
Raspberry
Color Burst
Cinnamon
Cocoa
Taco
Buffalo
Butter

Via Tastespotting and Prissy Cook.

Molded Pork Loaf

Mmmm, molded pork loaf recipe.

Paper Plates

I love this paper plate concept by Joshua Gajownik. He is currently looking for a production vendor. Maybe he could license the idea to Fred and Friends. I will keep you posted if I ever see them for sale.

Crapi Apartments

Crapi apartments by mondolind (flickr).

Clown Monster Meat

Meat Face by tombland.

80% Pork
20% ???

Let's Eat: Dinner Party Invites

I like these gocco printed dinner party invites from twoguitars on etsy.

Via Monoscope.

Bubby's Photobooth Fun

This is a cute concept from flickr photographer Cosentino.

Sexist Candy

Men's Bitter Chocolate Pocky.

Via The Dieline.

Stan Brakhage: Cellscapes

Image Courtesy of the Estate of Stan Brakhage and Fred Camper.

Above is a series of stills from a film called Mothlight (1963) by Stan Brakhage.

From imdb, Mothlight is:

A "found foliage" film composed of insects, leaves, and other detritus sandwiched between two strips of perforated tape

More about Brakhage's films here. Purchase Mothlight on Amazon.

Thanks Bldg Blog.

$12,000 Knish: For the Tasteless Über Rich

There is a lot of oneupmanship in the realm of ridiculously expensive food. A while back I posted about the $1000 Grand Opulence Ice Cream Sundae. You would have to pay me $12,000 to eat this next concoction concepted for the tasteless Über rich. It's called a Knish, and it consists of:

Osetra, Sevruga and Beluga caviars, white alba truffles, 24k edible gold leaf, lobster, Kobe tartar, a Kobe burger, a Kobe hot dog, an ostrich egg, two kinds of foie gras - duck and goose, and a moose snout and drizzled with 100 yr old balsamic vinegar and doused with with Louis XIII Cognac and flambéed.

To get your hands on a Knish, you will have to fork out $12,000 cash 48 hours in advance.

At least the expensive sundae probably tastes good.

Update:
*04/27/08: Trendhunter reports that the repulsive knish is a fake.

More from the press release:

On serving, the whole is doused liberally with Louis XIII Cognac and flambeed, so the attention of everyone in the restaurant will be drawn to the special person who ordered it. Finally, tableside, an American Apparel model who has eaten nothing but sushi personally prepared by Chef Masa and drank only Chateau Petrus for the previous 24 hours takes a dump on it.

Please note the $12,000 Knish must be ordered and paid for 48 hrs in advance. In cash.

We are sure that the $12,000 Knish will bring NYC douchebag cuisine to new heights of douchebaggery. Until next week, when some douchebaggier restaurant manages to top it.

Thank you,

The Suffolk Kitchen

Funny.

Baby Ronald Mc Donald

This kinda Creeps me out. The ad reads "Just opened, near Kimaya Kothrud.
I'm lovin' it."

Agency: Leo Burnett, New Delhi, India
Copywriter: Rondeep Gogoi
Art Director/Illustrator: Sumonto Ghosh

What do you think?

Dinner in a Bottle: Meatwater

The Dieline posted Meatwater packaging this morning. Strange idea. Almost seems a joke. Reminds me of the Jones Soda nasty flavor Thanksgiving packs.

Meatwater flavors include:

Beef Jerky
Beef Stroganof
Cheese Burger
Chicken Teriyaki
Dirty Hot Dog
Fish'n Chips
Hungarian Gulash
Italian Sausage
Peking Duck
Tandoori Chicken
Texas BBQ
Wiener Schnitzel

Would you try these?