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Sand has many uses, all of which make me happy. It can be used to sculpt the Pieta, or to create glass baubles, or to decorate the bottoms of fish tanks so the fishies feel more at home. Best of all, it can be employed by those in the know to make incredible, colorful art, known as sunae.
Twenty-six year old Naoshi, from Yokohama, Japan, is definitely one of those in the know. And she's not stingy with her knowledge--she posts instructions on how to make sunae yourself. This creative tutorial can be found on both her gorgeous, extensive website and on her myspace page.
While you're visiting, be sure to check out her gallery of work and her profile, which includes a drawing she did of walking ice cream cones. This drawing was published in a Japanese newspaper when she was only six years old.
Yes, Naoshi loves us. She wants us to play in the sand.
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Alice in Wonderland, Dorothy from Kansas, and Wendy Darling check into a European hotel on the cusp of World War I...
It sounds like the beginning of a fairly involved joke, but it's actually the plot of Alan Moore's and Melinda Gebbie's latest project, Lost Girls, a three-volume hardcover series exploring almost every tasty nook and cranny of sexuality as we know it. The insides are chock full of luscious panels displaying our three beloved and lovely heroines reinterpreting their old stories in a brand new light.
"Pornographies are the enchanted parkland where the most secret and vulnerable of our many selves can play," states one of the secondary characters in Lost Girls. This idea sums up perfectly the main theme that is the backbone of the tale, where fantasy, however perverse, has an undercurrent of innocence and playfulness. Fantasy is presented as an instrument through which the main characters process and cope with their lives and the traumas they have suffered.
The material is extremely graphic, and basically every sexual taboo is explored, including incest and pedophilia. But what makes this book such a worthwhile item to have on your shelves is the way it deals with these ideas and the message it carries: That fantasy is just that, fantasy. And there's nothing dirty about that.
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I spend probably 1/8 of every day wondering what the fairies are doing. I picture little fairy families sitting in their homes, cozy by the fireplace, perhaps enjoying some delicious toast and warm milk. Keeping their little shops, tooling around in intricate contraptions, even designing their own promotional merchandise...
Which is why I'm glad a man like Jonathon Wright is out there documenting the recent appearance of so many fairy homes in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I just hope the fairies are paying attention, and keeping track of the latest in fairy trapping technology.
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Suicidal has lots of fuzzy cute girlyness, like cupcake scarves and stitched heart underwear. Also they're in France, which gets them bonus points. Oui, oui.
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I've been on a tiny Wonderland kick lately (thanks to several trips to Disneyland and this little book I picked up.) When I saw this campaign, I thought it was oddly wonderful. The White Rabbit (a Mini Cooper) pops up and takes you through a series of odd British culture sites, leading you into visual tunnels from site to site-- and the trail is never the same twice. I'm not usually taken in by advertising, but this is kind of fantastic.
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I grew up in the country, on acres rife with deer and wild turkeys. There are three things I miss desperately living in Los Angeles: seasons, rain, and green. While I can't see any way around the first two, Kevin van Braak is set to take on the third with his caravan park. The idea is you can hitch this little mobile trailer to the back of your buggy and drive it around, and when the mood suits, it unpacks to become a little patch of green of your very own. Have a picnic or a marshmallow roast wherever the fancy strikes, even if you live in a town that has a premium on yards.
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Hot, full-page, full-color spreads. Beauties from all over the world, and they're jaw-droppingly gorgeous.
Yeah, baby. Libraries. Photographed in all their glory, you can see more images of hot library smut over at the nonist. (Found by the ever-lovin' BB-- god bless you.)
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For when your Hello Kitty and Fred Flintstone Band-Aids don't cut it anymore-- Fabian Seibert has come up with evening-wear bandages, complete with embedded crystals.
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Have you been to NOTCOT lately? They're overflowing with cool stuff these days, especially in their .ORG incarnation-- which is where I found these Sweetheart Teacups by Keith + Lottie. The cups are heart-shaped on the inside, and they'll go great with those sugar cubes we found last week.
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Just a heads up, we're still giving away a whole bunch of fun stuff-- but time's running out. Add us as a friend on MySpace to win a super special black ugly doll-- you can only get it here or on ebay, folks. And we're still giving away muuuusic, too, check out the contest page to find out how to win. Good luck, fabulistas!
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Why on earth would you want to wrap up your jellybeans, or tuna, or lunchtime toast in plastic baggies covered in psychedelic bunnies? Or pink camouflage? (The real question, I think, is why wouldn't you?)
Mobi makes sandwich baggies covered in various neato prints, and while you may have seen them before, I just this week noticed them in my local supermarket. Mark my words, these psychedlic bunnies are set for lunchtime world takeover.
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Life got you down? The Choir knows what you’re going
through, but that doesn’t mean you’ll get their
sympathy. “Every child will learn how the asphalt
burns when he takes a sharp turn too wide... nobody
gets a smooth ride.� It’s a cold world, kids. Dress
warm.
This band has been around since the 80’s. I
personally just heard of them about them a year ago.
While I do fancy myself a connoisseur of fine music
there is a good reason for my ignorance:
they’re a Christian rock band. As much as that makes
me squirm, I can’t deny my adoration. (They do name drop Husker Du as the most influential rock and
roll group, so that’s gotta be worth something.) Check them out at their site.
The Choir - Nobody Gets A Smooth Ride
The Choir - O How the Mighty Have Fallen
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EJ on 
