Printing Druksel Style

Did some Druksel printing at work last week. Basically you cut some shapes out of thin-ish cardboard, ink one side, press and lift. We used some wood type as well. I made some destruction. You can too.

One Ring...

I don't know why it happens so often, or why it's always just the one ring, but at BK it just does.

McToy blindingly novel

It seems like years since I've seen a cool toy emerge from a happy meal box (there was one exception back when Spy Kids 3D came out and I scored a motion detector that would sound an alarm if someone walked by it). More recently our purchase of a happy meal was rewarded with the acquisition of a very unique toy. I've been told it's the bad dude from Spiderwick (who apparently looks like poo). You push a button on his back and he breathes laser beams or something. But the magic really happens when you check out the laser-ish light through the looking glass thing it comes with. Holographic snake graphics are suddenly in your face. I have no idea how this is accomplished. It's not like just little images of snakes are printed on the film you look through. Visually they appear to be somewhere between the dude and you. Long term effects of staring at laser breath may include the entrapment of your soul in the eternal cesspools of the Terd Lord. 

2.5 year old demonstrates font recognition

So I'm driving my wife and daughter to OAK last week and we pass Oracle Arena on the highway. My daughter immediately points at it and exclaims "Wall-E! Wall-E!" We were a bit confused because there wasn't a Wall•E billboard anywhere. Then I glanced over at the Oracle logotype. It's not a perfect match, but there are some similarities and you've got an A, L, and an E in there. So even if a kid can't read words yet it doesn't mean they can't make letterform associations.

Teeth Polishing and Lightning Teets

So we went to a new dentist today and overall the experience was great. Unlike our previous dental experience in California our existence was acknowledged and we weren't treated like snake poop. But I came across some odd illustrations in the childrens books in the waiting area.

First you've got an old book about daddies that compares animal dads to human dads (and everyone of them except the one I'm showing have beards or mustaches or smoke pipes for some reason) and it seemed a normal read until I hit the page about sledding. Apparently it's common for snowman to be assaulted with glasswares and then run through with one of their own appendages.

Then there's this chubby puppy who gets hosed by lightning...

...and then suckles butterflies? okay.