As an outspoken advocate of both sleep and all-things-squishy, I must, *must*, share with you the following:

//Number 1// Breakfast Pillows

The best part is that the pancake-stack pillows are detachable pieces:

//Number B// Ever-appreciative of cute-morbidity, you might sleep (with the fishes) better if you had the Huggable Horse-Head Pillow:

“It looks like our thoroughbred’s racing days are over.”

//Number 3// The Surrogate Manfriend Pillow:

I sort of find this one more-than-a-little-bit funny-sad, but apparently they are all the rage in japan, and come with varying degrees of fashion-sense (notice here the plaid-manpillow):

For those who would prefer-but-can’t-actually-have the night-time company of a lady, there is also this:

Not for those easily ickified: this video clip, from a Japanese trivia game show, has footage of a frog who, after a disagreeable meal, can auto-disembowel its entire stomach, clean it off with its front legs, and swallow it back down.

Skip ahead to 1:00 to go straight to the Awesome.

(please note that I did not say “pedophile”)

Electric-guitar-players-who-visit-this-site, please watch this short video to learn how to make your very own wah-wah pedal boots:

A few Wah-Wahnderful songs to test your new boots on:

• heart - barracuda
• jimi hendrix - voodoo child
• sonic youth - teenage riot
• david bowie - five years
• george harrison - wah wah
• dead kennedys - california uber alles
• the band - up on cripple creek (they actually attach the wah wah pedal to a clavinet… FANCY)
• talking heads - psycho killer

I promise with my heart that this will be the last ‘baby-things’ post for a while, but holy smelly-baby-poo, I am actually considering poking holes in my friends-who-are-couples’ condoms just so I have an excuse to buy these*:

*the viking hats, not the little poo-machines, however cute they may be.

Taking inspiration from naive set theory, mathematical recursion and sock-puppetry, the Hungries are talking nestingdoll-cum-cannibals:

The Hungries are a family of toy monsters who go about recording and playing sounds using their own voices. When done collecting sounds, The Hungries go on living nested one inside another, using their impossibly elastic mouths and tummies. At that point their voices mix in a therapeutic (for them) sonic bonding ritual.

So basically, when they are not living inside each other’s bellies, they collect external sounds separately.. and then, after consuming each other, their behavior changes and they use short-wave-radio signals to sync up and sequence their sounds.

When kids play with the Hungries, they are basically using the algebra of sets to play with intersection, union, complements, subsets and supersets as each monster can be contained inside one another and can also be a container for other toys and even sounds, creating many possiblilites for imaginative play.

Go to the site for more, including a video.

Dear small-but-cozy-community-of-readers-of-my-site,

In the past week, my RSS-reader, in which I have gathered all of the hundreds of blogs, feeds etc that I share here for your enjoyment, has decided to break. I am thus cut-off from my easily organized and carefully collected Interwebs of Awesome. This presents a unique challenge for me to actually create original content with out my link-response-crutch.

errr..

uhh…

doodoodoo.

doodlydoo.

well, this was clearly an ill-advised plan.

I am a terrible person for finding this as funny as I do. I just can’t help it. Entitled “Helen Keller falls off the stage, During The Miracle Worker play”

On the Neat Scale, I’d say this is closest to the “pretty durn” end of the spectrum -
bach’s first goldberg variation:

madonna’s like a prayer:

folk song “clementine”:

from the website:

What does music look like? The Shape of Song is an attempt to answer this seemingly paradoxical question. The custom software in this work draws musical patterns in the form of translucent arches, allowing viewers to see–literally–the shape of any composition available on the Web. The resulting images reflect the full range of musical forms, from the deep structure of Bach to the crystalline beauty of Philip Glass.

because you never know when you might need to take a nap. you can wear your pillow wig alone…

….or in a group.

Designed by Joo Youn Paek, who also created the ‘polite umbrella’:

(watch the video)

I promise my blog is not turning into a food-site, but holyheavensabove, look at these circuitry snacks (or circuitreats?):

mmmm digitelicious. for instructions, go to evil mad scientist.

Ever-a-fan-of-themed-dining, I am particularly ensorcelled by Japanese artist/gore+food-enthusiast, Nagi Noda’s “Horror Cafe” exhibition in Tokyo:

I’m not sure which I love more, the coffin dresses, or the looks on their faces:

mmmm.. gore-food.

*I’m still giggling that I got to use the word “ensorcelled”. hehe. ensorcelled. yes, I am a nerd.