January | 2013

Refrigerator magnets, on the move January 17, 2013

Posted by Samuel Snoek-Brown in Kitchen & Bath, Smiley.
Tags: Kitchen, Magnet, Smiley
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One of my happiest refrigerator magnets.

I’ve had this happy magnet for ages. It’s part of a whole gang of smiley (and not-so-smiley) faces that lives on my refrigerator.

The whole gang — including a few cool smileys, a leering mischievous smiley, and a grumpy old frown.

The gang isn’t exclusive — these smileys do pal around with other smileys, including a different style of “cool” smiley, some of the smiley clips I’ve featured on the blog before, and — not in this photo, but in the vicinity — a smiley face for the state of Wisconsin, where we lived for a few years.

But lately, this particular gang of smileys has been commuting to work: they’re serving double-duty on my dishwasher. I use the traditional smiley when the dishes are clean, the frown when the dishes are dirty, and, once, the mischievous leer when I ran a cleanse cycle on the empty dishwasher.

Right now, the dishes are still dirty.

Reader-submitted stencil(?) January 7, 2013

Posted by Samuel Snoek-Brown in Public art, signs, & graffiti, Reader submission, Smiley.
Tags: Graffiti, Public Art, Reader submission, Smiley
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I was browsing Facebook shortly after Christmas and I spotted this plywood stencil in a friend’s photos:

At least, I’m assuming this is some kind of stencil. Submitted by Monica D.

This is in Portland, “Where even the trash is happy,” according to my friend Monica. I told her I had to steal it for my blog, and she was happy to let me have it!

If I’d been quicker — by which I mean, if I hadn’t been slumping around in sweatpants feeling lazy from post-holiday food indulgences — I would have jumped in the car and tried to grab this off the street. But alas, it didn’t happen.

I will, however, keep an eye out for wherever this thing got painted onto a street or a building. Surely it won’t be that hard to find? 🙂