Found this very interesting cartoon artist online. The site is called Nozzman and features a lot of cartoons and illustrations like the one of Adolf / Idol above.
Some of the cartoons are extremely weird and some of them border on being twisted, but they are funny and it is a good laugh at all times. The illustration is also good. So visit the site and have a look around.
This is a interesting, but slightly weird, concept that has come to the Western World, from yes, you guessed it, China. For some reason, the Chinese and Japanese are always at the forefront of being very, oh so, different compared to the rest of the world. But hey, at least they’re trying new things…
So all of this equates to the first dark restaurant in Asia, which opened its doors on 23 December 2006 (just in time for a black Christmas). The restaurant is located in Beijing, China and the interior is painted entirely in black. Except for the entrance hall and restrooms, the rest of the restaurant is pitch black. Patrons are seated at their tables with the help of waiters wearing night-vision goggles and also using luminous watches and cellphone lights.
Apparently the idea is basicly to starve the customers’ sense of vision, to enhance the tasting and smelling senses, which obviously makes for a better meal. The only problem as we can see, is probably the fact that you are indeed eating your meal in the dark and this might be quite an obstacle. But except for that, the only idea is quite unique and we like the fact that it is new and innovative.
Maybe we’ll pop around there on our next trip to Asia (note: we’ve never been there, so this is daydreaming) and experience it first-hand. And except for that wish, we’re just wondering whether they’re really trying to be cool or whether the electricity company doesn’t like them!?
(Edit: According to the comments on the blog where we first found this article, similar restaurants can be found in Melbourne, Montreal, Zurich, Berlin, London and various cities in the States and Russia. Also, Zurich’s Blindekuh, “Blind Cow” in English, and Montreal’s O.Noir was created to create jobs for the visually and hearing impaired and also raise awareness for these impairments. We quite like that idea too…)
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These robots are made by Gordon Bennett over at Bennet Robot Works and are made out of junk parts combined with one or two new components. The robots are pure ornaments and don’t have any moving or electrical parts.
So although the price tag is quite hefty (from $850 to $3000), this is a pretty nice (but utterly useless) toy to have sitting around your study. So yes, it’s definitely geeky. And sometimes geeky is cool.
Check out the whole available range here.
This is a new invention by Electrolux, called the Hydrosphere, that was created by designer Kleber Puchaski, of the Royal College of Art in the UK, for the lectrolux Design Lab 2006 contest.
So it looks like a portable little greenhouse, right? And the design is pretty awesome!? But what does it do? The device in the middle of the “pods” is basicly a growing lamp that enhances effective growth for fresh herbs and small fruits. So you basicly plant whatever herbs you want and they grow quick and easy - as simple as that.
Quite a cool concept and a great idea for having healthier food - AND easy access to it. No more dried herbs! As a amateur / experimental cook myself, I must say that I’d love this little gadget, since cooking with fresh ingredients is just so much cooler!
I also however wonder how many little gangster kiddies will try and grow some marijuana in this thing…This could be the next gadget trend after those virtual pets ages…
See the thing is, we really like photoblogs, because it’s so easy to blog on those…Just resize your image (sometimes even not) and post them to the blog. No text, no boring comments, sometimes not even a title (what is up with that though?)
But anyway, we can’t really have a go at photoblogs since it’s not really rocket-science posting to Cool Crowd either. So we’ll just keep it at the fact that we really enjoy having a look at photoblogs every now and again. The only silly thing about these blogs are the fact that normally when you visit you view say 5 or 6 photos, which means that even if the publishers post daily, you can really visit it daily.
But that’s why we rather read our other favourite blogs like Boing Boing, Mashable! and I don’t like you in that way on a daily basis…
To get back to the reason for this blog: we found a pretty cool new photoblog, entitled friskyPics, and we think it’s worth your time reading our 2 cents on photoblogs and also checking them out!
Here’s some example pics:
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