are friends electric?

this brilliant machine from 1957 surely deserves the name electric friend

it can help you with everything!

first you vacuum-clean the house with it, then you make a nice fruit cocktail 

with that same miracle machine (with a topping of dust flocks, yummie!) 

and after that you can use it as blow dryer

it gives you that exotic look with real pieces of pineapple in your hair!

exhibition tip : bezeten van stoelen

now in the magnificent Zuiderzee Museum: a great exhibition of chairs by the famous
Dutch designer Richard Hutten

interesting prototypes, studies and sketches give an insight in the brain of the Hutten

some more is revealed by the vintage chairs Hutten personally selected as designs that inspired him

the blue chair in the pictures is the Zuiderzee-chair Hutten designed especially for the museum

until october 10, www.zuiderzeemuseum.nl

you're the best thing

the best thing that happens to us every spring is ... aspargus
Al Pacino is a great thing too of course, a man of impeccable style and taste
the seventies were his best years  
no wonder aspargus was amongst his favorite food then
the other two recipes he gives here go very well with that:
'mob lamb' and raspberry pudding

everything that flies (is not a bird)

most certainly not!

it might as well be someone from the seventies 

with a magical customized denim jacket

been caught stealing

we couldn't read the story because it was in a funny language - probably Swedish or something like that - 

but the beautiful pictures from 

this 1964 children's book are 

clear enough

the kids grab what they like, 

put it in their baskets, do some naughty things with their dog and walk out the store with big smiles on their faces

we haven't seen them pay, 

nor have we seen any parents 

to correct them 

where have those good times gone?

exhibition tip : hidden heroes

in a very nice and beautiful exhibtion the Vitra Design Museum pays tribute to 
35 simple things we all know, use and love
the pencil, the bottle cap, the safety match, the rubber band, the corkscrew, 
the condom, the paperclip, flip-flops ... could you imagine life without them?
the exhibition is on world tour and can be seen in Designhuis Eindhoven untill may 15 

www.designhuis.nl

the virtual version www.hidden-heroes.net is great to watch too

two, three, break

in 1969 mysterious forces from the far east and hippies wanted us to believe 

that everyone could and should do yoga

it is good for your physical and spiritual health, they argued

nowadays we know yoga is quite dangerous in fact