Plastique Monkey is Yuka Yamaguchi’s art blog. You definitely has to visit her page, what she is doing is so nice.
I was born in kobe, japan and am now living in saskatoon, canada. for the last couple of years, i’ve been telling people i’m an artist. i’m self-taught. i draw with color pencils and make useless toys for adult children.
I use this blog to show my work and entertain myself. you can browse through my drawings on my gallery page. you can buy some of my originals, as well as prints and postcards, from my online shop.
I found this, not another short movie, that touched me in a way; Cracker Bag by Glendyn Ivin.
Eddie spends her pocket money obsessively hoarding fireworks and carefully planning for cracker night. When it finally it arrives, Eddie and her family head to the local football oval. In the frosty air Eddie lights the fuse of her first cracker and experiences a pivotal moment, one of the seemingly small experiences of childhood, that affects us for the rest of our lives.
Set in the 1980s, Cracker Bag is a gentle suburban observation which subtly reflects a disenchanting prelude to the coming of age.
Winner of the Palme D’Or – Short Film Cannes Film Festival 2003
Directed by Glendyn Ivin, Produced by Jane Liscombe, Director of Photography Greig Fraser, Edited by JAck Hutchings
Check also Exitfilms, the production company who made this happen.
Ten days under the sun of Morocco for Doble skateboards with Adrien Coillard, Mike Rey, Matthieu Dupanloup, Bastien Duverdier, Joachim Fromant and guest Mathieu Dupuy.
Ctrl.Alt.Shift is a movement for a new generation fighting social and global injustice. These films were made by members of the community to raise awareness of issues they care about.
Writer and Director: Tim Travers Hawkins
Mentor: Chris Harding (Shynola)
Music: Jesca Hoop
Voice of Bureaucrat: Adam Buxton
A verbose and politically correct bureaucrat gives a lecture to a group of teenagers on the merits of the UK’s efficient and humane asylum system, whilst meanwhile, in the same building, detainees, imprisoned indefinitely in different ‘Removal Centres’ across the UK, leave messages in vain on an abandoned telephone answering machine in the ministry basement. Their messages detail the horror of the life that they have escaped due to conflict.
The Pee Without Noise Stool is one of those ideas that’s so cool we’re embarrassed we didn’t think of it before. We’ve all been there: it’s 2am in a sleeping house, your mother-in-law is right behind you in line for the potty, or you don’t want to broadcast the fact that you downed six glasses of beer over the course of your date.
As great as it is to be able to pee standing up, there are some situations where you just want to do your business discreetly, and having the outlet several feet above the bowl makes it hard to keep the volume down.
You could sit, but not only is that unbecoming a man, you also risk splashing the rim. Enter the Pee Without Noise stool. Kneeling on its soft cushions positions you at the exact right height to land your stream in the bowl at a much-reduced velocity and volume level. This simple, elegant tool could save your dignity, your relationship, or even your life (if there’s a robber in the house but you just have to go)!
When I discovered this I first toughed it was a joke. But you can order this and choose from polyurethane DX or wood Eco models.
