Listen to the slug.

Smiley Slug wants you to smile

Freezelight Magic Forest

It's only February and we probably have at least another two months of Canadian winter left....booooooooooooo. Excuse me while I escape into the magic forest for a bit.

Freezelight Magic Forest from FREEZELIGHT.RU on Vimeo.

I want to go there:

Place of interest one: WAX Partnership
(This place reminds of that time the press was spinning stories about David Bowie being stalked by a giant pink rabbit)



Place of Interest two: Atelierdorp
Collaboration heaven, albeit probably through clouds of toxic resin fumes. What could be better than nightly dinner parties and 18hour model making days? I want to go there.
via Core77

major apartment renovation and celebration

Never thought that it would be possible for a less than 300 square foot apartment, but I spent the weekend installing a dance floor. It's a dance-off, everybody!


I also made muffins to celebrate the new installation and to fuel the dancing.
Carrot, coconut, and apple-deliciousness.

zoologic

Click vid for link.

Really nice animation and simple sketch/ink work in this video. Also, flamingos and penguins, which complete the equation for a wonderful video to watch while you're at work and I am...still not really (ha ha).

Poster Girl

Modern Toilet - "Un restaurant peu conventionnel"

So I was going through some of my flickr stats, and I randomly came across a French blog that posted one of my photos from a poo and toilet themed restaurant in Hong Kong over the summer. Slightly embarrassing as I'm giving the thumbs up as I drink what looks like green sludge from a ceramic urinal..... yet slightly hilarious at the same time. I imagine I feel like what a cat feels like when they are caught with their paws in the toilet. I digress....

Sumobots + A Lack of Dancing

Last weekend, the 2009 Sumobot Competish went down at OCAD. Amazing! There is something weirdly exhilarating and nerdy about cheering on burning-smelling, 5/8" galvanized steel contraptions push each other out of a circle surface area.

I noticed a few things during the 3.5 hour competition:

1. The underdog-bots were always the crowd favourite. There were certain robots that were actually pretty well-designed and hardy, but for some reason the more nice welds a robot had, the more villian-like they became to the audience. In fact, so villianous, that the ref had to request that the audience stop throwing debris at "E is for Epsilon" bot (even though he deserved it).

2. The heavier the Sumobot, the more sumo-force. I guess this applies in real life sumo-wrestling, but its a factor that is also helpful in bot-life (although fast maneuveurability and strategy is also helpful.)

3. TRACTION! So many bots had trouble with traction on the plywood ring, they had the heart and the lube, but just not enough traction!

4. THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX! Many of the robots were either one of two forms : a cheese-wedge form or a cube on wheels. Although both forms have their sumobot-ing advantages (where a wedge form was good for getting under the opponent's wheels and pushing them out, and a cube was good for brute force and hiding wheels against the wedge), it would have been nice to see more interesting forms that counter-acted these popular sumobot forms. (Although I do enjoy how the cube is basically a sumo-bot in its purest essence.)
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5. Carnage is a crowd-yes. There was only one sumobot last weekend that had the right guts/gears/idea to cause damage to their opponent. Especially 'tastic when the opponent was a huge hundred-something pound wooden wedge by the name of "Splinter". Splinter indeed....

Unfortunately, no one submitted an entry for the Dancing Bot competition. If we had known, we surely would have brought Mr. Roboto along for the trip.

Next year, there will be dancing!

Chinatown finding alert!

$1.29 Thai Red Bull!
(slightly expired, yet still tasty)

I will post an update if it gives me a stomach ache later.

UPDATE: No tummy aches and still have my vision....!

CHIMO!

This is an Ookpik.

Chimo!

A few weeks ago I came across Cheers for Canada! - a plea for a truly unique Canadian word for "cheers!" As a self-proclaimed and perhaps sometimes apparent sommelier, I immediately and excitedly submitted the word "CHIMO".

I first stumbled upon "chimo" through Douglas Coupland's Souvenir of Canada. A super nostalgic, feel-good to be Canadian movie on all things that make us humble Canadians.

So what makes the Inuktittuk word "chimo" the perfect Canadian cheers? For one, "chimo" has history. For a period of about three months "...in the 1970s with the Olympics and Expo, draft-dodgers, Trudeau, bilingual cereal boxes and kicking Soviet hockey ass, Canada-mania reached new, dizzying heights. We were hot hot hot, and we needed a word that was cool. A Canadian word. And that word was "chimo."

- Tokyo Tint

"Chimo!" is fun to say (it's damn catchy and forces your facial muscles into a smile) and has a myriad of uses. Besides being used for cheers-ing, it is a Tundra greeting and can be easily integrated into everyday conversation (par example: "Man, that girl is so chimo, I'd like to score her digits.").

Vote for the new Cheers for Canada soon!

Chimo!

Seagulls + Doritos

This is just so ridiculously great.

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A seagull in Manistee, MI, has developed the habit of stealing Doritos from a neighborhood convenience store. He waits until the Manager isn’t looking, and then walks into the store and grabs a snack-size bag of cheese Doritos. Once outside, the bag gets ripped open and shared by other birds..

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The seagull’s shoplifting started early this month. Since then, he’s become a regular. He always takes the same type of chips.The Manager thinks it’s great because people are coming to watch the feathered thief make the daily grab and run, and that’s good for business, and especially since customers have begun paying for the stolen bags because they think it’s so funny. However, the Manager did say, ‘This is Michigan, and if that seagull starts to grab a 6-pack o’ ‘Bud’ to go along with the Doritos, I may have to put a stop to it.’

Thanks to Rose D. for this article..

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Frito-Lay just got a free Doritos commercial and mascot on their hands. I wonder if the seagulls' faces and wings are permanently stained orange from the chips?

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uh.

I've had a lot of time on my idle hands lately....due to well, not really working yet. I drew a squirrel. That is all.