Google Maps

1. Go to Google Maps.

2. Click on Get directions.

3. In "A", type "The Shire", and in "B", type "Mordor".

4. Click on the walking man (to get walking directions).

5. Be amazed! :D

(Found this trick thanks to G. Dada)

Constellation bedroom

I want this room.

3D Printer. :O

Oh my goodness, okay, wow. Mind blown.

Imagine having access to this printer... holy mackerel!!

Floral Photography

Stunning!

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Yulia Brodskaya

I found Yulia Brodskaya's beautiful+detailed quilling while reading a book on paper crafts. And I am completely blown over by her patience and talent! I've never tried my hand at quilling, but I want to try it out now! Check out more of her inspiring work at her website.

Sara Lov - A Thousand Bees

Photographer Noah Webb took 4, 500 photographs to make this stop-motion music video!

Found via Frankie

deathly hallows trailer

It all ends here.

Jen Stark

Absolutely stunning paper sculptures by Jen Stark.

Fashion Forecast

A film from 1930 predicting what fashion would be like, in year 2000!

Found via ohsococo

Crazy nails?

Just as I was reeling from the discovery of shatter nail polish by OPI last week,  I came across this:

Holographic nails.

Do you wear crazy nail polishes? The craziest ones I've bought were a clear glitter one (which I don't use anymore hehe) and the Russian Navy... oh and Firetruck Red. :P But I think I do prefer normal colours better.

Photo Credit: afterDRK

Psssst. I made a Facebook page that contains more links and other things!

Gabriel Dawe

Shower of light?

Nope, these are artist Gabriel Dawe's installations, made with thread.

Take a look at his website to see more amazingness.

p. s.: This is a scheduled post. When this will be posted, I will actually be in my first class at university for this year! Eep!! :)

All images © Gabriel Dawe

Spot the Difference!

Okay, I'll tell you. The first one is a photo taken by me for an assignment. The second one, however, is a painting.

Take a look at more hyper-real paintings from my much older post.

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An enchanted forest

While coming back from watching the newest Narnia movie, L. and I ventured on to High Street. I spotted a little nook, with steps leading downstairs to a basement. Everything was painted black, and I could see... Christmas trees (no joke).

I walked downstairs, L. hesitating—she told me that she regarded adventures as being only in Narnian worlds, and not in real life—but she followed me nonetheless.

We reached the bottom and there were more Christmas trees, the smell of pine, the sound of birds chirping and water flowing, and twinkling blue lights that led alongside a path. We followed along and came to a clearing. I swear I was waiting for some magical creature to leap out at me (yes, too many fantasy movies have gone to my head).

We were in the Christmas Shop on High Street (thank goodness it wasn't anything dodgy)! I loved the idea of this little refuge from the hustle-and-bustle (yes, yes, compared to some cities, Auckland is quite serene) of the city. If you're in the city, do check it out.

The shop is open till Friday 24th of December, and in the said clearing is a manned desk where there is a lucky dip for gifts. All donated by retailers on High Street. Pretty cool.

The above image is not mine, it's from getfrank.co.nz

p.s.: Narnia, by the way, didn't feel like Narnia without Peter and Susan :(

p.p.s.: I think it's kind of cool that I happen to find an "enchanted" forest the day I go to watch Narnia. It's a sign. ^.^

Chocomize

How Chocomize works, is simple. You choose your base chocolate (dark, milk, white), choose your toppings (these vary from gummi bears and sprinkles to—wait for it—beef jerky, salt, and hot curry powder. Totally not kidding.), and order. I created a selection just for fun, and mine was: Dark Chocolate with Orange Peel, Crystallised Rose Petals, Crystallised Violet Petals, Dried Flower Mix, aaaand 23 Karat Gold Flakes. 

I'm almost tempted to order it. My order comes up to NZ$17.10, plus p&h. Pretty cool for Christmas, huh? Sadly, I don't think they ship to NZ. :(

PostCarden!

Wow! Look at this ingenious Christmas card!

Via PostCarden

p.s.: Aaaaaaa! Deathly Hallows on Thursday!! I am beyond excited. All the sneak peeks are so true to the book!

Rune Guneriussen

Ok, I'm in love with Rune Guneriussen's photography. The image below, especially. It transports me to a Narnia-esque imaginary land of my own. Sigh.

Lest you or I lose the URL later, I have now saved it in my link list, under "Creative Bees". You'll notice that Jessica Hische's links are also there. I love that my link list is growing. :D

Photo © Rune Guneriussen

The weekend.

What a weekend!

Like I said, Thursday was spent packing goody bags. On Friday, I had volunteered for photography at Semi-Permanent, but I also got to see some speakers. Jessica Hische was fantastic! Such great work, and so inspirational! And look! She's on blogger! Also check out her Daily Drop Cap project. I watched Pixar's Andrew Gordon too, but I have to admit, I was a teensy bit sleepy by then. :O

Subtlemob was on Friday too. It's where you get a partner, download a certain mp3, and go and stand in a designated area. Then you start playing the mp3 at a certain time. And follow the instructions playing on your mp3. But it's all about being invisible and blending in; you're not supposed to know who else is taking part in the subtlemob with you. But I have to say, Fridays subtlemob was not so subtle. There were so many pairs of people walking about, earphones in their ears! And it's different to Improv Everywhere's mp3 experiment, in that this was more about life, and thinking about the little things... being there for someone when they're alone... drinking in your atmosphere... :)

The rest of the speakers on Saturday were brilliant as well. I liked all of them, especially Adrian Shaughnessy's design tips and Storm Thorgerson's 4D Kiwifruit glasses.

Sunday was amazing - I got to photograph a very exciting event. The Storylines Festival's Auckland Family Day. There was bookbinding, authors, illustrators, face painting, storytelling, card-making, factopia, Clifford and the Buzzy Bee, competitions, balloons, calligraphy and oh my! Stephanie - if you're reading this - you would've loved it!

Ahh, that was my weekend, friends. I wish every weekend was like this. Sigh.

How was your weekend?!

A couple of links

Gasp! Real life Hobbiton!

Operation Beautiful. Awh! It makes me want to write out a bunch of encouraging notes and stick them at uni. :) People need more love at uni, with what the assignments and due dates piling up! {Wooh, colouring pencils box design almost done! I shall laser cut it next week!}

:O

Realisation just struck me hard.

I will be 21 in exactly two months.

EEK! ;)

Creative office furniture

Wow, how neat is this chair that "holds up to 80 paperbacks", as well as contains a lamp, extra space for stationery, and comfortable seating!? By the end of every week, very possible surface of my room gets stacked with books, sheaves of paper, clothes, stationery... and what not. This could be an awesome solution!

And this! It's a tent-like structure which encloses you in your private own space inside your bedroom/office! Not good if you're claustrophobic!

via The Sphere Trending Limelight Blog

Edit: Yeouch. Horror stationery. Contains graphic images (but take a look if you want to, they're quite creative).

p.s.: Yup, an increase in packaging posts these days because of my new elective at university - Packaging.