The Spaceman and The Sock

You may not be into knitting, but I recommend that you read this post if you are the least bit dorky and nerdy. I should say that this blogger´s thing is to make people pose with the sock she is always knitting, else it might make little sense. I particularly found the last paragraph absolutely hilarious, about starting a new sock for this very special occasion.

I love the Yarn Harlot and have followed her since 2007. Her genre is knitting humour. It exists because of her.

Wanting to look like someone else

Here is an interesting project that I just found. The blogger Nell Frizzell, a British journalist, is - using whatever she has at hand - making doppelgänger portraits of herself, trying to resemble celebrities, painted portraits, and sometimes herself as young or even her father. It really drew me in, and it makes me realize that however much we try to copy someone´s style or dress too look a certain way (some seem to think a hairstyle can radically alter a face), in the end, we will look like ourselves anyway. Our own face and body are the strongest ingredients we bring to any new look we try, and it´s just as well to try to make friends with them.

Dream workplace

Ok, so being a kindergarten teacher is really not my dream job, but if I got to work here, I´d love to do it! I imagine a place like this will make everyone happy and eager to work. Every kindergarten in the world should look like this; the UN should write a declaration about it!

Blog Tip

I really have to recommend this blog, where artist Nina Johansson is "trying to rediscover her sleeping imagination". She is doing well, I think! Very inspiring. There is also much to see at her regular blog.

Wish I could draw like that!

Read about Bill Nighy!

"He has a thing for Berkeley Square. “I love studying the plane trees. They overwhelm me. As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.” He concedes that his perfect day is really “wandering about London on my own. I built my life around not being in a hurry.”"Bill Nighy

... who says this in a great interview in the Guardian. I love him, a great actor and he seems like a wise and nice guy, too! 

Check this out!

Just found this very funny blogger, Shirin Thada. This made me laugh so much!

A House Full of Mulders

This is silly, but it made me laugh. The combination of "Pride and prejudice" and "The X-files" is just so unexpected and, well, I don´t know really, just that I found it very funny.

Robot Assembly

I adore Mattias Adolfsson´s drawings, I may have mentioned this. This made me laugh so much: robot assembly from your friendly KELP megastore. If you ever bought anything from IKEA, you recognize this.

New Artists

Check out this guy´s work! It´s amazing!

I am very fortunate, by the way, to have found Faith is Torment, which brings a couple of artists I never heard of to my attention every day. If you are into art, I recommend you to subscribe.

I´m so in love with Boulet...

... this is what I´m reading all weekend. A guy I can so sympathise with!

Newspaper Blackout Poems

I think this is really cool.

Dances with Stars

Pleiades. Amazing.

Comics

I am in the mood for comics and I found this via Hark! A Vagrant. It´s genious - all of it.