If you like art, and you like people, you’ll love Craftstravaganza - a rogue art and craft fair for handmade art. My wife and I attended last year and were really impressed with the talent and variety of artists – some really great stuff. Great gift buying opportunities at affordable prices.
At that time our baby clothing project was still in the design phase, so one of our goals for this year was to apply to become a vendor - and am pleased to announce we were accepted. Vendors are judged and a limited number are accepted so we were very excited. Come and say hi, and support our local artists. In fact, I will even offer $5 off any onesie or t-shirt if you mention this post! Preview our wares, http://orangerhinokids.etsy.com
America’s obsession with all things gargantuan continues, and I will be here to document it. In this installment I highlight some food related items of truly ridiculous proportions.
64 Ounce Coffee Mug - that’s an entire pot of coffee, people, and at ninety-nine cents to fill it, it’s quite a value!
400-Inch Frying Pan - make omelettes for two hundred people, or a sixty pound pancake, or cook my five-year-old son whole.
120 lbs. of Treats - this has to be the biggest trick-or-treat bucket ever made. How is a kid even going to carry that around?
Vimeo, a video sharing site akin to YouTube but for a more discriminating user, has now launched HD video streams in gloriously sharp 720p. For those of you stuck in the analog, rabbit-ears age, that is 1,280 by 720 pixels of resolution.
I sampled some of their fare, and was quite impressed with the quality and speed of the video. The content however, like most video sites, still leaves something to be desired.
Other sites will probably follow suit and start offering higher video quality. It won’t be long before we have a regular resolution arms race on our hands. Alas gentle readers, this leaves me wondering: do we really need to see aunt Deloris’s 80th birthday party, or a montage of groin smashing shenanigans in high resolution?
It also appears that the move to higher quality video is in part inspired by a lucrative advertising contract with Canon. Throughout the site you can see ads promoting the obvious superiority of HD video, and Canon’s logo is even watermarked over select videos.
I have selected from the cream of the crop a video for your sampling (you still need to visit Vimeo for the HD version):
I once saw a woman driving her Hummer while wearing huge sunglasses, drinking a 64 ounce Big Gulp and eating a foot-long hot dog. Well, not really, but it seams probable given our preoccupation with all things enormous.
This even appears to be influencing something near and dear to my heart: gizmos and gadgets. So I submit to you, gentle readers, three items of ridiculous proportions spotted at my local shopping complex:
An Enormous Remote Control - STILL nothing good on
A Giant Calculator - can only add to 999,999,999 though
A huge Swiss Army Style Grilling Tool - if this fits in your pocket you need to grill less
