my new favorite vector ninjas

love these illustrators. vector art makes me happy.gloome.gloome.

bubble friends. fred siebert.

the dogs of the molly mutt family LOVE cheengoo collars!!

check out bella's new cheengoo collar! so freaking cute (& ps, who doesn't love birds on stuff...?!) bella loves her new collar so much she couldn't even keep her eyes open all the way. best purchase i've made in awhile. made in san francisco & designed by the very talented liz paik, i'm going to buying more for the other 2 dogs, as soon as their collars wear out.

i felt like saying something

about felt (i am so funny sometimes...)

a round up of strangely radical felt goodness. everything here is from etsy. keep on crafting you wickedly creative peops you.

(in the usual order) orange felt dog pouch-$40 smacks. iphone case (SO cool!)-$34.90. punk rock cassette tape zipp-y bag-$38 clams. rabbit pillow-$32 one dollar bills. elizabethan collar weiner dog pillow-$40 bucks (i mean SERIOUSLY?!?! so a++).

to the apartment i love (alternate title-weird is underappreciated)

i subscribe to about 476 fancy pants design blogs. the kind that features awesome apartments & decor inspiration & visual candy for everyone & their pig. i love looking at these pictures of meticulously put together rooms & office nooks & modern-meets-retro kitchens.

but i have to come to grips with the truth, people. i will never be one of these decor-elites. i am just too weird & too not-cool to be a guest blogger on design*sponge. now i know there are quite a few of my faithful out there screaming at your computers..."NO MOLLY, you're wrong!! you are so classy-you don't even know it!!" sadly, dear misguided reader, you are dead wrong. don't mistake me, i know what's cool, i will just never Be Cool. or live in a place anyone other than me will find photographable. it's true.
let me explain. i love robots (*noted) & they are in weird places all over my apartment. there are 3 shades of green from the living room to the hallway to the romper room to the bathroom. because i wanted it that way. i have a frame on the wall with nothing in it. not because i am getting a great print "matted" or waiting for the right "piece" to fit the space. no, it's empty on purpose. & the purpose? no idea.
none of my dishes go together-again, by choice. when you have matching plates & cups & bowls,
you tend to get antsy when stuff breaks. i don't need this kind of pressure over dishware...hence my no-matching policy. easy come, easy go.

so there you have it. my apartment pretty much lives off the grid of the design-gurus of blog-o-land. haters to the left.

*curtsies & exits*

superior buddha's jump soup

had a GREAT trip. what i was able to get done in 6 days, it would have taken 5+ weeks to do via fedex back & forth. hangzhou is called "the most romantic city in china." & it really is...well, could be, if i wasn't working & locked in my hotel room or the factory.

one of my favorite things about china is the chinglish. the literal translation of a very poetic language. i can't get enough. for instance, what sounds better than superior buddha's jump soup with a side of mullet?
& then there's the other random awesomeness...like this make-shift stroller.can't wait to show you the new pattern & new items being made for molly mutt...really, REALLY exciting stuff!!

ps, i learned how to write 3 characters in mandarin. i'm well on my way to being able to read...just 2997 left. at this rate i will be entirely fluent by 3017. yessssss. (rest of the flickr set.)

diana f+++

for xmas this year, i got a diana f+ camera. it's pure plastic loveliness, needs real film & weighs about 2 ounces. it's fantastic. ps, reader please note, i am an amateur at best with all of the various cameras i have. it's just for fun. makes me happy.

finally picked up my first 2 rolls of film. having to wait to see what your pictures look like is such a novelty these days...(or having to wait for anything-i made the point recently when-for the 8th time in a conversation someone googled for an answer-that there are no more mysteries. no lingering questions. more on this @ a later, more emo date.)

most of the pictures were grey & blurry. my two favorites are below.
(see the whole set here.)

ah, japan...you always amuse me

51 characters is a site with the purpose of giving kids/out-of-touch adults a glimpse into japanese culture & the stereotypical people in a japanese city. it's a pretty amazing website.

that being said, one of the categories is "characters"...and it's here that i found amazing gems like this (now, REMEMBER, this site is meant to be educational. wicked.)

meet chican.he likes to touch young women in the crowded subway of tokyo - mainly in the rush hour, when it is so crowded that nobody realizes what he is doing. he always carries his camera to take some voyeuristic pictures. because of guys like him some of the japanese railway systems have women only cars, which are marked with a big pink sticker.

no, i'm not making this up.

what did E ever do to you?

when did it become fashionable to hate & revile the letter "e"?

it only struck me recently how this letter is gradually disappearing. let me elaborate. leaving out the "e" all together has become trendsetting & fashionable-all the popular kids are doing it. is it a statement against the man? in protest of the concrete pillars of injustice? a stand against convention & tradition?

or, is the new "kill-the-e" campaign a more sinister plot to one-by-one erase all the letters of the english language...leaving us with crude writing utensils & damp cave walls to draw pictures on. we shall see, puppies, we shall see.

foto funsies all around, please.

ok, there are some GREAT pet photographers. i mean, probably the happiest i've been all week is checking out some of these awesome captures.

first, i perused the magnificence that is macro mutt, which focuses on dog photos & photographers. score. THEN, i found shiny pet photo's genius-behind-the-lens grace from her twitter feed. yessssss. hours of delight. it makes me want to get my three pigs photographed stat. i think she & i should pretty much be best friends so i can borrow her eye for great pet pictures. fact. (thanks, grace, for letting me use these photos!)

obama is my boyfriend. fact.

um, what what?

barack obama is my boyfriend. scancafe says so. totally just sent in janky 1990 camp pictures just to get this. so now, the president is my valentine AND i get digital restored prints of me wearing jorts. do it. you won't regret it.

win-win.