Uncle Sam

I was up in Derry the other day having my first look at the new Peace Bridge, well worth a visit! The weather was a little over cast and wet but seeing this ice cream van made me smile! I have lots of happy memories of seeing this van on Benone Beach and sampling it's wares.

Gummy Lips

I love new and innovative music packaging; stick a badge or poster in a release and I have to buy it, even though I know I have exactly the same record already! Well I was just over at the Flaming Lips site and discovered that their latest release is a USB stick that contains 4 new songs. The USB stick is encased in a jelly edible skull and is a very limited release! I've heard it rumored that this is the first in a series of monthly release from The Flaming Lips so it will be interesting to see if all the tracks will be gummy body parts! This release is $150 a little bit more than my pocket money can stretch to!
Anyone know who the design is by?

Nice use of Futura Black Plain for the text

Fun and Games

T'is the season of le vide grenier and this year our star finds have been a cool selection of vintage kids games, most of which were produced by a French company called Fernand Nathan who also published beautifully illustrated kids books too. Most of these were picked up for a few Euros which is great for such a nice collection of Illustrations.While I was doing some research on the company I came across this nice flickr stream of other Fernand Nathan bits and bobs!

My favourite has to be the English learning game which comes with it's own 7" single and looks like it has never been opened!

London Ears

Just another little discovery called London Ears, a pretty comprehensive and simply simple listings site for gigs in London. Each gig has one line, whit the essential info of who, where, when and how much! It  even has a Spotify playlist to help you out if your finding it hard to make your mind up about which gig to go to.

Anyone fancy doing this for Paris?

Digital Cameras

Just a quick nod towards a little website I came across by Billy Brown.

Billy has recreated all your favourite cameras as little pixel portraits. All of them are free to download and to use as long as you give the man credit, now you can't ask fairer than that.