kid's stuff
A BUTCHER'S #78
A BUTCHER’S hook/look (Cockney rhyming slang)
Italianini
yes, I do have some bizarre postcards - this is little Giannino (x3) in action
“It takes a very long time to become young.” ― Pablo Picasso
keeping it fresh
Some designers and artists manage to always keep a fresh outlook in their work. Humberto and brother Fernando Campana started working together in 1983 and their creative approach came from the streets of Brazil, where repurposing materials found discarded was the natural way to go. They started making furniture from scraps of wood nailed together - which got them noticed.
By the early 2000s, tired of traditional upholstery materials, they were making a ‘plush’ toy line, using everything from teddy bears, to Disney characters to soft sharks.
These sofas are really high end items with hefty price tags, but it is pretty fantastic (and amusing) to see photos of them in situ in traditional fancy rooms - standing out while injecting serious humor into their surroundings.
a New York kiddie parking problem
It starts here - and it looks like parallel parking training hasn’t begun.
first ID
Just an odd thought here - before you’re even born, at around 25 weeks, you’ve got your own set of fingerprints, already defined and unique. They’re faint when born, but they ‘solidify’ and can be used as identifiers at 6 months.
the essence of identity
And no, identical twins do not have identical fingerprints.
onto funny cars
Here is a funny car and it is a cow-boy car and a horse
(or harse) - 5 years old and it appears I was already a little obsessed with cars of all sorts - evident when I look through the book of ‘funny cars’ I made. Every page features a car that was a ‘different thing’ car - from a tadpole car to a violin car, a crocodile car, or a police man car (to clarify, not a car for a police man but a car that is a ‘policeman car’. I know, it takes a bit to get your head around what’s going on in a kid’s brain!
So…. here’s a cowboy driving a ‘cowboy car’ (and it is funny) - not only, the car has a hat and is on a horse.
and another The rolling stones cars are not (crashing)cars belonging to The Rolling Stones but cars that are tumbling and rolling like stones down a hill (and how conceptual is that?!)
kiddie parking part 2 - the line up
Speaking of fingerprints - only since the 1890s have fingerprints been used to identify criminals. There was just something about the cop on the side, at a little distance and wheels pointing out, that made me think of a line up (but which one did it?)
in training
I spotted these ‘cook & fry’ metal pans and utensil sets in Italy. Without getting hung up on ‘of course it’s for a girl’, maybe Massimo Bottura or the next chef is inspired by playing kitchen like this?!
I can’t think why the set includes cartons of ‘milk’ and ‘cream’ though. Maybe in today’s set, there’s some olive oil?
Brilliant!