Since being in Wales the music that has been accompanying many car rides has been Derek Webbs The Ringing Bell. After the free release of Mockingbird two years ago, Derek has set up with some other friends in the Music biz the site NoiseTrade where artists can post there albums and fans can download them for any price, or get them for free by telling 3 people about the album. I’ve already downloaded a few albums with the site, one of them being Waterdeeps new CD Heart Attack Time Machine.
enjoy.
Having a hard time describing how awesome this last week has been. Maybe some photos will help. Flickr has some. Twitter for my tweets.
cheers
Airports and their info graph adorned walls make me smile.
In three hours I will be flying over the Atlantic, and the world will be a distant place. I will wake up in the UK tomorrow morning after a long but anticipated flight. The last month of summer will be spent in Wales with some good friends and good food. There are plans. There are no plans. Roadtrips. Photo taking. Kitchen time. A warm cuppa. The Scottish coast. Good music, and a few doner kebabs…
I’ll update as internet permits and will definitely be taking this time to flickr, and twitter.
you’re awesome.
I came across Jen Stark this morning. Her paper sculptures are something to behold, but what brought me to her sight were her drawings. I am particularly fond of her Linear Masses Series.
The Viewzi Public Beta opened today and is worth checking out. I used Viewzi a bit during beta testing but its cool to come back a few months later and see the different features and improvements they’ve made to it. If anything they add an aesthetic edge to searching that hasn’t been seen before.
I went with secret option H, for Hemp.
Yesterday I went to Target in search of some new body wash. I had seen the Every Man Jack brand before, I was drawn by our similar love affair with woodgrain. After smelling a few I decided to go with the Citrus Scrub body wash, partially influenced by my recent read in GQ about summer smells for men. Citrus = Summer. Now I smell nice.
The packaging is nice, clean, modular, and simple with sexy embossed logos. The back boasts playful questions/descriptions like:
“WILL THIS STUFF MAKE ME A ROCKSTAR?”
“We don’t condone air guitar in the shower. (Or anywhere else.)”
My one qualm with the packaging is the top of the bottle. Any bottled product I am using I like to get all of the product out of the bottle before buying more. This might mean waiting an extra few seconds in the shower for the shampoo/facewash/etc. on the bottom of the bottle to drip to the top. The top of the EMJ body wash makes getting those last 3-5 washes worth of body wash that much harder to get. All I want to do is lather. WHY WON’T YOU LET ME LATHER?
One clever design to the packaging is that two bottles can be placed on top of one another, like a puzzle piece, for more efficient packing in mass, which could mean less boxes for transport from factory to store.
All in all, I like the bottle and if I have to rip off the woodgrain top to get my last few drops I will.
Please Recycle and smell like oranges more often.
