The pretzel like symbol on your Apple device command key is taken from a Swedish road sign used to indicate tourist attractions. Steve Jobs had a hand in creating the abstruse symbol that originated from Susan Kare’s search for a design element to be added to the command key for Apple. The shape itself goes […]
Earlier versions of Windows boasted Microsoft Paint. Photoshop was too expensive, so it was a free tool we all used. 97 year old Hal Lasko an artist still uses MS Paint to create elaborate paintings. It shows you what tenacity and patience can produce. Hal Lasko, better known as Grandpa, worked as a graphic artist […]
The popularity of apps are due to many of them are so inexpensive. However, there are many apps that are rather pricey. Here are the ten most expensive Android apps on the market as of now. 1. Got Cash? – Vishnu Menon – $200.002. The Most Expensive Play App – Etay Cohen-Solal $200 3. Vuvuzela […]
Danielle Evans and Food for Thought. She uses food ingredients as typographic art presentations. Here is another classic case of kids who did play with their food with wonderful results later in life. Tony M.If this article made you think, brought back a memory, or made you see something differently, I’d love to hear from […]
The results are in. Those who drink more coffee are less suicidal. It might do you harm at some level or another but at least you will not dangle from a noose. Coffee shops rejoice, now you can sell more cups of Joe. Never mind Coke adds life, caffeine spares lives. Researchers examined data from […]
This is as close as you will get to a sequel of Lost. Cute animation has Lost elements of a mysterious island. Azúl was created by six Supinfocom Arles: Rémy Busson, Francis Canitrot, Aurélien Duhayon, Sébastien Iglesias, Maxence Martin and Paùl Monge. A small group of cruise-ship revelers find themselves alone on a tropic island. […]
You are what you lick. Baskin-Robbins released a study of what your favorite flavor of ice cream says about you. If your favorite flavor is Vanilla, you’re more likely to be impulsive, easily suggestible and an idealist. If your favorite flavor is Chocolate, you’re more likely to be dramatic, lively, charming, flirtatious, seductive and gullible. […]
Dude, you dropped your cheeseburger in my SpaghettiOs! Give this marketing genius guru a noble prize for creating CheeseburgerOs, the first new SpaghettiOs flavor in over 20 years. My eyes say yes, but my stomach is not so sure. As you might have guessed it will not taste like a cheeseburger, it’s heavy on quasi […]
If you have seen both Duck Dodgers in the 24 ½th Century, What’s Opera, Doc? and The Road Runner Show, then you know Maurice Noble. He pleasured our senses with his animation background artwork in those classic cartoons and many other ones. Tod Polson collects his works and more about the enigmatic Maurice Noble. The […]
What does Papa Smurf would look like when dissected? You know there are people out there who want to know. Tony M.If this article made you think, brought back a memory, or made you see something differently, I’d love to hear from you. Send me an email at sandboxworld@gmail.com. I read every message personally and, […]
Jazzberry Blue has a unique way of envisioning cities in abstract form. Google Maps has nothing on this minimalist representation of famous cities. Tony M.If this article made you think, brought back a memory, or made you see something differently, I’d love to hear from you. Send me an email at sandboxworld@gmail.com. I read every […]
Sit beside the breakfast tableThink about your troublesPour yourself a cup of teaAnd think about the bubbles You can take your teardropsAnd drop them in a teacupTake them down to the riversideAnd throw them over the sideTo be swept up by a currentAnd taken to the oceanTo be eaten by some fishesWho were eaten by […]