Not sure how this partnership came about, but I love this new Adidas Star Wars Collection. You can buy everything from Darth Vader sneakers to shiny jackets and funky tees, all with a decidedly Star Wars bent. Sign me up for the orange high tops and the Millennium Falcon sneaks. The Yoda athletic moccasin loafers are intriguing, too.
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As anyone who knows me can tell you, this graphic appeals to me on many levels, the most important ones being that it’s funny and it’s all about whether you can eat possibly tainted food. Huzzah!
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Don’t get me wrong. I love my Lego bracelets, my Lego earrings, and my Lego hair clip. I enjoy using our Lego ice cube tray, Lego salt & pepper shakers, and Lego minifig kitchen timer. I’m just not sure yet how I feel about these Lego nose studs. Maybe there is a limit to alternative uses for our household’s favorite polymer-based plaything.
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Oh Bret and Jermaine, say it isn’t so!
I’m still reeling from the news posted on the Flight of the Conchords site yesterday that there will be no season 3, no more episodes, no more Flight of the Conchords. It was our family’s favorite show. Ouch. At least we still have the music. If I could just get my kids to stop singing “Mutha’uckas” at school…
Found via What’s Alan Watching?.
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According to this Chinese media blog, the city of Wuhan was isolated from the outside world earlier this week by extreme fog, with some of the freeways into the city being closed for up to 9 hours. The photographs published by the Wuhan Evening News are stunning.
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Coat hooks or the coolest holiday decorations ever?
Found via the always excellent Badder Homes and Gardens.
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And you thought your neighborhood was trashy. I found it hard to believe, but Mokattam Ridge in Cairo is a real place, and there is actually this much garbage there. A community of Coptic Christians called the Zabbaleen live there and make their living by collecting, sorting and disposing of Cairo’s waste. This striking photo taken by Bas Princen shows how Mokattam Ridge lives up to it’s nickname of “Garbage City”.
Mokattam Ridge, Cairo (Garbage City) by Bas Princen
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I was amazed at these photos of the Lockheed Aircraft Plant in Burbank, California being camouflaged during WWII with huge swaths of painted canvas to make it look like a residential neighborhood from the sky. My folks grew up in LA and my father tells me that similar camouflage techniques were also used at North American and LAX. Sadly, there only seems to be seven published photos of this effort. Check out the whole set and larger versions of the images at MilitaryPhotos.net.
Before and after images of hiding Lockheed:
Side of a building or a grassy hill?
I wonder what kind of tricks our government has up its sleeve to obscure defense installations in these days of high-resolution satellite imagery and Google Earth?
Thanks, Mom!
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I love the new photography site Pictory put together by Laura Brunow Miner. It combines themed, high-quality, user-contributed photos with short narratives about each image. Check out the Overseas and Overwhelmed feature (25 true stories about culture shock) to get a taste of what’s to come here. I’ll be checking back often.
In Living Color by Adam Rose
Found via Daring Fireball.
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