whimsy

Bits and pieces which have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged us. Because sometimes we just need to see teh awesome.

Solstice Whimsy: Giant Bouncy Stonehenge

Happy June Solstice all! Merry Yule/Litha to those who celebrate the circling of the seasons. This week’s whimsy features Jeremy Deller’s inflatable sculpture Sacrilege. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.

Weekly Whimsy: Hedgehog Bath Time

Max’s bath time. Including hedgehog freakout, calm down, scrubbing, sniffing, sneezing, tattoos, and split tongue. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.

Weekly Whimsy: Ten Thousand Paper planes

This week’s whimsy is via ten thousand paper planes released by Ross Coulter and volunteers in the State Library of Victoria’s Domed Reading Room in 2011. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.

Weekly Whimsy

This week’s whimsy comes via Shakesville: Tweet of the Day – an epic typo for Benedict Cumberbatch. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.

Weekly Whimsy

This week’s whimsy is brought to you by the Map of the Dead – Zombie Survival Map. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.

Google Autocomplete Poetry

Inspired by this FAIL in which Google autocompleted “can you eat” with “can you eat human flesh with wooden teeth”, I decided to start asking Google a few questions, and see what other people were searching for.

I think it makes a kind of poetry – and a kind of comment on the human condition.