today i read about a bubble wrap calendar that allows you to pop a plastic bubble for every day of the year.
suddenly, i was overwhelmed by all of the amazing ways bubble wrap would enhance my life, if only i could quit my job and become a Bubble Wrap Technologist.
THINK ABOUT IT.
bubble wrap keyboard
bubble wrap phone
bubble wrap ipod
bubble wrap doorbell (it pops AND makes a ding dong sound!!!!)
bubble wrap dishwasher
bubble wrap microwave
bubble wrap TV
bubble wrap light switches (WAY better than the clapper)
bubble wrap car radio
bubble wrap guitar
even better, bubble wrap guitar hero guitar!!!!
NO WAIT EVEN BETTER BUBBLE WRAP ROCK BAND DRUMSSSSSS
bubble wrap calculator (finally, math could be as fun as teachers claim)
bubble wrap ATM machine
bubble wrap PANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh MAN bubble wrap could so easily make the world a better place.
SCIENCE, WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR? I ASK YOU.
LINKS
has anyone seen an 80s movie called “reckless”? jancee dunn blogged about it and now i REALLY want to see it, based solely on aidan quinn’s incredible dance moves.
micael posted this amazing music video, featuring santogold, n.e.r.d. and julian casablancas (how did THAT happen?). needless to say, i want to be a paperdoll.
did you guys know there is now a “hard rock” amusement park? no, seriously. ROAD TRIP. but maybe we should give it a year, so they can incorporate some of carrie brownstein’s suggestions.
roberty downey, jr. = sherlock holmes = YES, my dear watson!
you guuuuyyyyys! david beckham is gonna be sesame street!!!!!! CUTENESS.
squee of the day: LOOK AT THIS LITTLE DOG! HE IS SLEEPING!!! I LOVE HIM.
i am addicted to bubble wrap. i fidget more than i care to admit (i.e. constantly flipping my pen or chewing my nails). bubble wrap is the perfect annoying, mindless distraction that i need in my life. sorry eden.
I made a bubble wrapped book this week. Sorry, I don’t have a picture of it though…
“featuring santogold, n.e.r.d. and julian casablancas (how did THAT happen?).”
Nike paid them a bunch of money to get together and write a song to celebrate Converse’s 40th anniversary, and then hired the best in the biz (Psyop) to make the viral video to be sure it got spread around. That also explains why they’re all wearing converse, and why the star forms at the end.
And nerdy motion graphic designer fun fact: the video is sadly 100% CG, with no real paper cutouts used. :’( At least they pulled it of well enough that you might almost think that occasionally it really was paper being stop motion animated. Well done.
Most. Amazing. Calendar. Ever.
Although it would be really hard for me to wait each day to only pop one bubble.
Whenever I get bubble wrap (usually in a box delivered to the library) I promptly put it on the floor and jump up and down on it. It sounds like fireworks and it is super fun. I have also managed to get my aide and my husband to join in with me. I think they agree it was fun times too.
Is it true that bubble wrap is filled with harmful CFCs that are released into the atmosphere as soon as you pop it? Because that’s what my mom used to tell me, but that could have been just because I was annoying her with the constant popping sound.
Also, as always, I love your little homemade illustrations.
Don’t worry, Mer-Mer. Thanks to the Montreal Protocol of the early 90s, CFC’s have been phased out of everyday products. It’s most likely that your mom made that up and just told you that so that you’d stop popping bubbles all day, and bubble wrap was just full of air. CFC’s were used in styrofoam, refrigerants, and of course aerosol cans.
I can go on. But I only like to bore people for so long until it’s no longer funny .
I have actually been to the Hard Rock park. When you go make sure you go on a day when ALL of the rides are open. I went a few weeks after it opened and I was only able to ride the Zeppelin and the Eagles coaster. The Slippery When wet one looked like it was cool because they have water cannons at the bottom so as you ride the ride they can blast you with water. And bring your own camera or shell out $15 for a park attendant to do it. They have an Abbey Road backdrop that’s stellar. One cool thing they did was hsve the music everywhere so when you went to different sections of the park (i.e. Jamaican, or Carousel) The music style changed but it was the same song. You haven’t lived until you have heard the Stones seamlessly change to the Carousel version. While at the park I thought they should have an “Octopuss’s Garden in the Shade Ride” for the kiddies.
The water cannons are on the ground and the people waiting in line to ride are the ones who shoot you with water.