Wallpaper* City Guides are designed to be “the fast-track guide for the smart traveler”. Currently featuring 20 cities with an additional 40 in 2007, they’re pocket-sized, easy-to-use, and discreet, so you don’t have that camera around the neck tourist look as you try to blend into your new atmosphere. Inside, you’ll find “The best restaurants, bars and hotels (including which rooms to request), the most extraordinary stores and sites, and the most enticing architecture and design”. Already live in one of the cities featured? Pick up the Wallpaper Guide for your home turf, and you may just rediscover your favorite stomping grounds.
Takeru Kobayashi is at it again, this time eating 97 Krystal hamburgers in 8 minutes during this year’s Krystal Square Off, beating his previous best of 69, and earning himself yet another world record in the process. It’s impressive and all, but come on Kobayashi, you couldn’t make it to an even 100? Wuss.
An Asahi beer robot has been featured on DYH before, but it didn’t have the professionalism or prompt service that this Asahi beer-dispensing machine displays:
Though the added foam after the pour kind of defeats the purpose of head (to release the aromatics) it does add to the presentation, so I guess it’ll do. There is still something to be said for knowing how to pour your own, but if a night of inebriation has left you less than coordinated, this could be just the ticket to a few more perfect pours before you pass into a blissful beer slumber.
Though if forced, I’d take a Ferrari Enzo, what I really want for Christmas is a Bugatti Veyron:
If anyone has an extra that they wouldn’t mind letting me have, I’d be eternally grateful, and I’d even wash yours for you whenever you wanted, even if it looks like this:
Bathing Ape, apparently famous in the Japanese streetware scene, found it fit to cover their Bugatti in a not so camouflaged Pepto Pink, complete with Bathing Ape print camo. This wasn’t their first attempt at destroying what remains of the subtlety of a supercar though, as shown by their camo’ed Rolls Royce Phantom:
Ten bucks says Paul Dalton wouldn’t touch either of these with a sponge on a ten-foot stick.
Yesterday, being the movie buff that I am, I went and saw the first possible screening of Saw III. How was it? Well, if you’re a professional movie critic, you’ll probably hate it. If you don’t give a crap about Oscar winning performances and you just want to have the pants scared off of you, and have to think a little bit along the way, you’re going to love it. A definite improvement on Saw II, and a fitting sequel to the original, Saw III features all of the “how in the hell did they think of that” games that have made the series a cult classic, good enough acting to keep you in the story (though admittedly, not the best acting in the world), and enough plot twists, turns, and revelations to keep you guessing until the very end. Surprisingly, I felt the shock value gore was toned down this time, and instead, replaced with edge of your seat anticipation. The scene is set, you know what’s going to happen, and the director in a sense lets you fill in your own gruesome details. That’s not to say there isn’t cringe worth moments, as there are plenty, just that the movie didn’t rely on them to fulfill its scare quota. All in all, Saw III is the perfect way to get you in the Halloween spirit, and a sure to be classic horror film for the horror film fans.
Since you probably haven’t been following this live (I know I sure haven’t been), here’s an update on The World Series: The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Detroit Tigers 4-2 in game 5 to clinch the championship. Whoopee. Now you can put your mind at ease and return to your regularly scheduled Saturday.
The Tune ‘n Radio from wouter Geense Design Studio is interactive art at its finest. The radio arrives as a basic FM radio, and purchasers must finish it and make it functional using their own personal perception. “An antenna has to be chosen, holes for the sound have to be drilled by lifting the lid and the buttons for sound and tuning have to be made functional”. When all is said and done, you will have taken the radio canvas and created something quite your own. Tune in to find out if they can find a manufacturer for this unique product line.
Boredom at the office takes on a whole new level with this office supplied Rube Goldberg machine. Raiding the supply closet has never seemed like a better idea.
If you’re a fan of soft serve ice cream, the Cuisinart Ice-45 is the perfect at home/do it yourself solution for creating those frozen desserts of deliciousness (ice cream, yogurt, and sorbet). Able to make 1.5 quarts of soft serve in as little as 20 minutes (though from the reviews you can expect it to take more like 30-40), the Ice-45 features a cone holder and three built-in condiment dispensers so you can add your mix-in or sprinkle of choice. Definitely one cool device.
Here’s a fun way to add some pirate to your portable. These cross bones stickers from Jobby Roger transform the Apple logo on your MacBook, MacBook Pro, PowerBook, or iBook into a swashbuckling flag of pride. Aye.
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