I’d love these sweet bunnies to look after my rings for me while I’m not wearing them. Although I’m not sure where I take my rings off more often. Maybe I’d need one in the kitchen, one in the bathroom and one in the bedroom.
I’d like to take this opportunity to talk about Cinnamon the lagomorph legend over at Disapproving Rabbits. This blog’s weekly installment Tofu Tuesday is inspired by Sunday Cinnamon. Cinnamon was a rescue bunny and passed on to Rainbow Bridge at approximately 13 years. The world will miss you Cinnamon but I am happy to have witnessed your shenanigans. This week’s Tofu Tuesday is a recipe for: Tofu Salad Ingredients 1 large cube of soft tofu 1 leftover bag of salad greens Preparation Open bag of salad. Present to soft tofu. See what happens.
This is the only reason why I would get an iPhone. The ears serve as a cable tidy and the tail can be used as a stand an a screen cleaner. But the $500 a year iPhone bill doesn’t sit right with me. I spend about $80 a year on pre-pay.
I make no secret that I love Frank Kozik’s stuff. I hope he brings his giant Labbit with him when he visits in August! This smorkin’ version was recently in in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Link here.
I haven’t experimented much with live subjects on my new 50mm lens because I’m not quick with manual focus yet. I’m getting better though. I love the narrow depth of field, but it’s the hardest setting to manual focus with. Narrow or shallow depth of field means that only a small area is in focus. The rest is blurred. This is pretty cool for food photography or portraits. Here is a portrait of Tofu hanging out in the narrow depth of field. There is a pretty solid band of focus and the rest (both front and back) are blurred.
How cute are these little bunny tabs for organising your documents? From Jstory, a Korean company.
Rabbits are very clean animals and spend a huge amount of time grooming. But from time to time they can get a bit messy underneath due to diet and/or weather. Usually, we trim away offending dirty fluff and dreads. Bunny bath time Last Thursday we gave Tofu his first bath ever. It wasn’t nearly as traumatic as we thought it would be, but it was a 2 person job. One to hold him firmly and dip his bottom into the sink and the other to shampoo and rinse. That was pretty successful and we got all the brown bits out. But then come Friday evening, Tofu was wet all underneath which is unusual for him and very uncomfortable. He was eating as usual and running around the backyard quite happily but his fur was wet, smelly and dreaded and the skin inflamed. Local vet visit We usually take Tofu to a miracle worker of a vet which is quite a long drive away, but this didn’t seem to be a life or death situation, so we …
We were in Chiang Mai at the start of February and chanced upon this huge flower festival. Many floats with beautiful fresh flowers passed down our busy street all day. I didn’t quite expect the king of the parade to be a chuffed looking rabbit. Close up.
…and some other people…in August. Since Semi-Permanent has postponed their event until 2012, We Can Create will be the only big design event this year. What a relief! I was torn on whether to go to SP or WCC and after they announced a batch of amazing speakers, I quickly bought an earlybird ticket. The real attraction for me is Frank Kozik. Kozik’s client list includes MTV, Nike, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Melvins, The Offspring and Butthole Surfers. His lowbrow illustrative style is distinctive and has been imitated once or twice. Kozik is an illustrator/graphic designer/toy designer. He deals with bunnies among other things. The Koala bought Kozik’s Happy Labbit toy for me as a gift once upon a time. Here is the Happy Labbit hanging out with Sharmi a few years ago. The Koala painted the Labbit to look like Tofu and the Labbit attended our wedding in Christchurch in place of Tofu. The Labbit sat at the head of the table right in front of The Koala and …
We love a good fundraiser here at Bunny Eats Designs and when we heard that the royal fallopian was up for sale, we jumped at the opportunity to own a piece of fashion history. Looks good don’t you think? Tofu modeling the hat on the couch. Tofu ready to greet our guests at the front door.
This chic rabbit shotglass by Goody Grams balances on it’s head and ears or can be placed upside down (or is that right side up?) when not in use. The head is made of pewter and has a ceramic glass. This, a white version, and other animal designs including bear, ram, rhino and bull are available for purchase from Yanko for $28 a piece.
You have been warned.
Paul Shih is one of my favourite local artists with a cute badass style that transcends borders. His contribution to the world of bunny toys is bunny rocker JB. Isn’t she bad ass? JB was available for $50 but with limited edition of 20, this sold out. I’m also completely in love with is Maori Warrior toy but with limited edition of 20, it also sold out ages ago. Paul just released a limited edition of new design Maori Warrior t-shirts the other day so I was all over it like a rabbit on a hot cross bun.
Tofu enquires.
New Zealand artist Sharon Hall’s bunny pieces. More work can be found on her website. I love how they look like ice sculptures or hard boiled lollies.
An oldie but a goodie. Tofu checks out his miniature in labbit form.
This rabbit made of carrots poster by Magpie Studio for client Gavin Martin Associates. The printers wanted to promote their conversion to eco-friendly vegetable inks and what a fun way to do it.
This Kung Fu Panda toy comes from Kota Kinabalu in Borneo Malaysia to hang with Tofu. Pretty exotic huh?
Easter during the year of the rabbit!? Rabbits rabbits rabbits. Love it. How cute is this Baby bunny binky that HazelNuts made on her blog recently? If you are the crafty sort, the pattern is available from mmmcraft at Etsy for $10US. And the bit that just kills me:
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