Hot noshery

Hmmm, knishes from a vending machine? Read about it here. It reminds me of the grilled cheese or 'toastie' vending machine in Antwerp's Berchem train station. It was called 360. One kid under 8 years old giggled and screamed with delight, clasping in his hands the questionable sandwich. I never did try it, but maybe I should have...

For Typeface Geeks Only

OK, actually, the title of this post should be "For Helvetica Freaks Only" but yeah, a whole entire film about Helvetica. Read about it here. I dunno, I'm more a fan these days of serif fonts...a throwback to the bygone days. Perhaps it suggests something more handmade (eg. good ol' Courier). Sans serif fonts are a bit too harsh for me, but I do like the odd industrial typeface here and there. Something like Futurist, Century Gothic, or even the severe Bank Gothic.

Ya probably already know about this, but check out dafont.com. Supercool!

Rejection Hotline

okay, so this first sentence from the Wikipedia entry for "Rejection Hotline" says it all: "The Rejection Hotline is a list of phone numbers with a recorded message informing the caller that he/she has been rejected by the person giving him/her the number."

BRILLIANT. i'm disappointed that i didn't come up with the idea first. i already memorized the toronto number and am ready to pass it on to any creepy weirdos loitering around transit stops demanding my digits.

I want candy

This article on the differences between British and American manufacturing processes of candy bars is interesting. For me, this explains why Coke tastes better in Canada and has less bubbles in Europe. Conversely, Maltesers are coated in better chocolate here in Europe compared to back home. I find them less waxy than their North American counterparts.

This is Shit Gold

I'm a bit late on the draw here, but I just watched a short video on nytimes.com about the Wrong Store, an offshoot of Maurizio Cattelan's 'The Wrong Gallery'. Tobias Wong (of Gold Pills fame that make you shit gold, baby) and Gregory Krum had the idea of opening a store that is never open. And by the way, don't even try going there, 'cause now it's closed.

Rudolf Stingel at MCA Chicago

i totally forgot about these. this is the foyer of the museum of contemporary art in chicago back in april. rudolf stingel covered the walls in tin-foil, from floor to ceiling. visitors were invited to manipulate to tinfoil (by scratching into it, adding things to it, pulling it off, writing on top of it, etc.) as you can see in the images below... and well, hey, look! i left a mark for the COMMONS. woohoo!

Cookies in a bag update

You may recall my earlier rave about cookies in a bag, all the way from Germany with savings, no less. Well, Zellers is selling four different varieties of them now: we got the red bag of mixed biscuits and wafers, a blue bag of various wafers, a yellow bag of citrus wafers, and a fourth bag of some other colour and a variety I forget. Each bag is $2.77 for 400 g of cookies. As far as I'm concerned, this is news.

Thought you'd be delighted to know. Eat them now.