I Heart Cool Stuff

So, what’d you do this weekend? I don’t normally post about the weekend, but I feel like I’m beginning to fall behind on posting again and I thought it best to share bits of my life. This weekend I went through an emotional roller coaster. I fulfilled the role of “invasive girlfriend!” bah!! Oh wells, you live and learn, and hopefully move on, right?

Aside from that though, part of my anticipation for the weekend was due to my Mr. receiving his Xbox 360 Dashboard update email. If you’re a 360 owner you probably were aware that the dashboard will very soon be transformed into something much sleeker and chic. Woohoo! Well, some people got “upgraded” sooner so it wouldn’t cause a black out when everyone gains access. You can click on the image above for a larger version. That’s my avatar hanging out on the right side of the screen. I must admit that I love the changes and strangely enough, I really love my avatar.

The avatar function is similar to that of the Wii’s. There is limited control of what you can and cannot change, and I wish I could make my gal just a bit chubbier, but I love that part of my personality is represented in her. Drop me a line when your dashboard gets updated if you want to share your thoughts on the changes.

The rest of my weekend was spent playing the Left 4 Dead demo. The game will officially be released this Thursday with a $59.99 price tag. I’m a fan of zombies, this is true, but since I started dating my Mr., my love for them has definitely increased. The game is a survival co-op game and the goal is clearly to survive the swarms of zombies and infected mutants that are trying to have your guts for dinner. I normally don’t play these games with my Mr. because I have issues with the dual stick controls, but I want to kill zombies so bad that it doesn’t matter. I can’t wait to spend more time on it next weekend. Are any of you getting it?

Little Big Planet will also be arriving any day this week, so that’ll be a reason to turn on the PS3 this upcoming weekend too. I don’t think I’ve been excited for video games in a while and this does not include the Ninjatown game for the DS. Anyway, my 360 gamertag is: sakiwaki, if you get Left 4 Dead and need a teammate, that’s still practicing her skills, send me a request. =)

Finally, I closed the Kozik Merry Mini Bomb Set giveaway. Eric_Gentleman was the winner and he so happens to be a buddy of mine on twitter so I feel quite psyched to be sending him something. Thanks to the people who participated– for some odd reason a lot less people were interested than I thought. You should also look forward to more giveaways in the upcoming weeks. The holidays are upon us and I might just be helping you cross off some people off your list with the free swag. This post is done because I must wake up for work in 4hrs. Leave your thoughts below in comment form. bye-bye!!

JCDC VS LEGO from Four H on Vimeo.

Let’s face it, ask anyone on the street and I’m the last person people think of as fashionable. I’m one of those, too lazy to put things together people. =) Therefore, you can imagine I have no clue who Jean Charles de Castelbajac is. I think he has a pretty cool long name, but aside from that I know nothing.

What has this man done to peak my interest, he used lego in his latest fashion runway. Or at least, he created a video of lego people strutting his styles and let’s face it, LEGO simply rules. I, personally, wouldn’t wear his fashion because it is simply too loud for me, but I love the concept and inovation.

Thanks to the Pimp for sending this my way. =)

I mean it… this really is the ugliest costume in the world– because it’s UGLY, as in, UGLYDOLL!! Flickr buddy swallowfield recently shared a photo of her home made Uglydoll costume that she made from scratch. Based on the color and look, it looks as though they created Jeero Babo — but it may be someone else. I LOVE it. I’ve officially declared most (if not all) David Horvath products to be my favorite toys. If only I could have this, but I swore I wouldn’t steal from 9yo anymore. =D For more details and step-by-step, click the link.

Now, I don’t often post things from youtube– my apologies to anyone I might offend, but I’m not a fan of losing brain cells to youtube. I myself admit to watching trash tv, but it’s not as bad as some of the shit I find on youtube. I do however, sometimes, find myself to be entertained, and the video above is a display of one of the few times I’m pleased. =)

I swear, Woody became just a little more creepy. I thought the voice overs were perfectly timed and well executed. What’d you think?

On Monday, on my way to meet up with the Mr. for some yummy Japanese food (food critique coming soon), I walked by Giant Robot NY, which is seriously down the block from me– and realized that something was different. GRNY used to take up two shops– the actual store and the gallery. I noticed that now the gallery was both shop and gallery and next door I’d spotted something familiar– Upper Playground. (more…)

Ninja’s rule!! And Shawnimals (Shawn and Jen) makes them rule even more with their uber-cuteness and huggable little selves. Well, I’ve known about the Ninjatown DS game for a while, but it seems it is finally arriving. It won’t be release for another 2 months, but some of us may get to play it sooner than we think.

Shawnimals is ready to go on tour to promote his Ninjatown DS game at a designer toy shop near you. Woot-woot. I will clearly be attending the MPH event on October 3rd, which one are you attending? We’ll compare notes. In case you didn’t know, Shawn has a lot to live up to, seeing as how he used to write for a video game magazine– can’t wait for the ninjas!

Oh, and apparently, they’re going to have Ol’ Master Ninja plushies available. Yay!

[BTW, print can be purchased on Kanye's site for $10]

I should start by directing you to Kanye West’s blog. Why so? Because, Kanye’s latest album launched a collaboration between Kanye and Murakami. If you haven’t peeped the latest video by the two- head on over to the Mr.’s blog. That video is amazing and I am seriously overwhelmed with joy to witness such a collaboration.

Anyway– it seems that Fall Out Boy has jumped on the band wagon and has collaborated with Luke Chueh for their upcoming album.  You can hit the jump to check it out. I love it!! I am a huge fan of Luke Chueh and he’s one of many artists that I wish I knew about sooner– someday, I shall own something from Luke– for now, I might consider buying Fall Out Boy’s album just for his art. Is that mean? (more…)

These news aren’t so new, yet… they’re still exciting. Pro-Keds has released an arcade series sneaker collection. <– You can click the link to check out the styles that they have. I really want to get the Super Mario Bros. Star sneakers:

But they’re still not available. I’m not sure when they’ll be available, but of what I know, currently only the Pac-man maze sneakers are available for purchase. I must share that the Mr. and I have just purchased them, yay!!! Take a look:

These are available at Zappos.com You better hurry though, I bought the last 11.5 for my Mr., and second to last of size 8 for ladies. I really wanted the boys, but they don’t have them in a 6. Oh wells. I should let you know that you can check out the Pro-Keds site and check out the entire collection, but their purchase button doesn’t work– so don’t expect to buy these kicks on their site.

All you XBL/ 360 owners the new mazes for Pacman are available today!! Yay! Its going to cost you $10 to download (aka 800 Microsoft points). Pacman is fun no matter what, but I’m excited to play new mazes; though I still really suck. Blah! Go download and enjoy.

Again, people have yet to tell me if the Mario Star has a name… if it does I feel really bad that I keep calling it “Mario Star”. This plushy makes me happy, especially because it’s the focus of my next tattoo.

The creator of this plushy is also responsible for the giant Wiimote plushy that is all over the web. If you haven’t seen it click the jump and check it out. You can purchase this cute fella here: Buy Me You should hurry, there are only 5 left. (more…)