Party favours was meant for me to spend LESS time formatting pictures, and more time putting up links to text, yet somehow I have degenerated into this picture churning machine. Regardless-- today's party favours will hopefully have a good balance between interesting images, objects and articles
11 Characteristics of Highly Influential Bloggers: I always have a hard time remembering that my writing is just as important as my content-- er, in fact, my writing IS my content! Easy to forget when you spend a lot of time regurgitating other people's work.
Squids in a sculptural web comic? These cephalopods (that means pretty much any 8 tentacled creature) are so cute, it almost makes me forget how delicious they can be in my sushi. Almost [Via
Craftzine]
Speaking of fish, believe it or not,
this gorgeous interior of the Beijing Noodle Company No. 9 in Las Vegas has actual fishtanks and fantastic design all over every inch of every object there. The play of light and water is probably breathtaking in real life-- but I wonder how the fish feel about the seafood noodles? [Via
Bits of Beauty]
The Law Of Japanese Food Consumption dictates that anything miniaturized makes it 10 times cuter and surely, also 10 times more delicious. These scans of
The Book of Little Sweets by Yuki are making me hungry... and they would probably leave me hungry if I could actually get my massive paws on them. [Via
Happy Lady Eats]
What would happen if you ordered something at a cafe... and didn't get it? That's the premise behind Japan's Ogori Cafe, where you get the order from the person before you, and the person behind you gets your order. Sometimes, kindness happens when someones splurges a crazy amount of food for the person behind them. Cute!
Apparently there is a Buffalo Powder Keg Winter Festival. (Don't worry, I had no idea either.) But for this year's festival, the inhabitants of Buffalo (Buffalonians?) have constructed
the world's largest ice maze (12,855.68 square feet!), using 2,200 donations of 300-pound blocks of ice. [Via
Makezine]
WHAT?! Jim Halpert and Pam Beesley wedding photos?! HANDS OFF MY M-- I mean, uh, cute. Right. Totally adorable. [Via
Sara]
Insta-pools, to quote: Hydrofloors® are vertically movable floors -- vertically, not horizontally. The floor actually moves upward to the surface straight from the bottom. This allows you to exploit the surface area taken up by an indoor or outdoor swimming pool. The movable floors convert the associated terrace or indoor pool room for other uses such as recreation, social events, dining and dancing. [Via
Blame It On the Voices]
Proof that pastry and icing skills can come in handy otherwise: if you pipe bags of plaster, you can get these gorgeous snowflakes on the wall of a little bake shop in Singapore! [From
Kuidaore]
That's all for today-- I'm working on this massive slew of guest posts for next week, where you will be regaled with random posts from random people. Everyone will get to meet each other, like an awkward cocktail party-- it will be fantastic. Have a lovely week, peoples!
