I’m not a big risk taker in my life.
I try not to tick off the Grim Reaper, keeping him at arm’s length as much as possible.
I’m wondering what the owners and patrons of a new eating establishment in the Ukraine were thinking when they mocked death by building a theme restaurant named Eternity centered around […]
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Morbid Munching in Casket Restaurant
Posted 6/23/2008 9:06 am by Stephanie SturgisNo Leaks in Umbrella House
Posted 5/30/2008 12:51 pm by Stephanie SturgisPop Fi has brought all sorts of homes to your attention. We’ve had houses made of newspaper, “backpack” additions to condos and houses made from recycled trash. Even dog houses that would make some people jealous.
The latest unusual home is a house made of umbrellas. The structure by Japanese designer Kengo Kuma is comprised of […]
Wacky Packages Stuck on the Coffee Table
Posted 5/28/2008 11:10 am by Stephanie SturgisWho doesn’t love some gross humor.
Come on, admit it. The lowbrow can still be funny.
We were taught this at an early age thanks to the folks at Topps who produced Wacky Packages stickers.
You remember don’t you. A pack of stickers with parodies of actual products available on the local grocer’s shelves reformed into a panoply […]
Vintage Photos - Pics from the Past
Posted 5/27/2008 11:38 am by Stephanie SturgisThere’s nothing like looking back at society through the snapshots of the people.
I can spend hours scrolling through vintage photos and wondering how the lives of the people depicted were different from mine or just same as what I go through.
If you enjoyed Tracy’s earlier link to vintage photos here at Pop Fi, you’ll certainly […]
Gamers Can Buckle Up Old School
Posted 5/22/2008 9:35 am by Stephanie SturgisI have to admit I’m anxious to get to play with the new Wii Fit.
The stand-on board from Nintendo looks like a real test of balance and, considering I’m not the most graceful, it will be a challenge.
One thing about the Fit, I don’t imagine the big white rectangle will be turned into a […]
ManBabies
Posted 5/09/2008 8:10 pm by Trace SharpThere is a new site on these tubes called ManBabies.
I think the picture is self-explanatory where the heads of fathers and their sons are transferred.
I know. Very odd.
The Devil’s Playground
Posted 5/08/2008 12:56 am by Ron HoganThe playground is supposed to be a happy place. Filled with kids running around, having fun, screaming with laughter and delight as they gambol and cavort about like beasts in the field. Sure you might get the occasional skinned knee, but mostly the playground is a place for kids to be kids and revel in […]
Read »Phone Sheep
Posted 5/07/2008 12:22 pm by Stephanie SturgisIn an age of cell phones, ye olden dial phone with the curly cord is quickly becoming a thing of the past.
So what to do with all those useless coils of cord.
How about creating a flock of sheep that you don’t have to feed, shear or clean up after.
The art was created by Jean Luc […]
When Different Species Get Along
Posted 5/06/2008 10:39 am by Trace SharpUnusual Crate Labels Help Defeat Scurvy
Posted 5/02/2008 10:03 pm by Stephanie SturgisAs part of the consuming public, I am not impervious to creative advertising.
Yes, I’m a sucker for a funny, creative commercial.
The lightsaber bus stop ads had my attention.
Before television , advertising was glued to the end of a crate, usually containing anything from beets to lemons to oranges.
A collection of crate labels shows how marketers […]
The Fashion-Conscious Urban Survival Suit
Posted 5/01/2008 7:07 pm by Ron HoganWe all know it’s going to happen. One day or another, someone will invent a vigilante robot or something and the next thing you know the entirety of Planet Earth is a post-apocalyptic wasteland with gunfights in the streets, rioting, and Australian kids throwing boomerangs at people. It’s a bad scene if you’re unprepared, but […]
Read »“Falling Towers” Actually Supposed to Look Like That
Posted 4/29/2008 6:00 am by Ron HoganThe Chinese government has launched a building (and demolition) frenzy the likes of which hasn’t been seen since the Works Progress Administration was launched by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935. One of the most interesting of the 300 new buildings that are going to be built in Peking’s business district is the so-called Falling Towers, […]
Read »Nope, It’s Not A Cat
Posted 4/28/2008 4:44 pm by Trace SharpThe Internet is a wild and wonderful place. Several weeks ago, I was sent an email that made me laugh so I posted it on my personal blog. Today, I wish to share it with the wonderful world of PopFi.
Yes, we call him Bitey the Possum around where I live but I guess you could […]
Read »Japanese Anatomy
Posted 4/25/2008 12:02 pm by Stephanie SturgisIn our pop culture saturated world, Grey’s Anatomy is a hugely popular television show featuring McDreamy in its cast.
Prior to the hit TV drama, Gray’s Antomy of the Human Body was a hugely popular book filled with precisely accurate drawings of the human body and all that it entails. The book released in 1918 includes […]
Bread Fights Back
Posted 4/25/2008 10:45 am by Trace SharpSome of the most joyous things about the Internet is the insane things you can find if you look around a little bit. In honoring a couple of those sites, you can see some great photography as well as Photoshopping at it’s best. Today, take a look at Eat Liver, where the above picture is […]
Read »Freaky Fish Festival
Posted 4/24/2008 1:13 pm by Ron HoganI think that the oceans are incredibly fascinating, if only for the wide variety of creatures, both cute and frightening, that live beneath its waves. While even stuff on the ocean is neat, there’s nothing that compares to the freak show that is your average bottom-dwelling ocean fish. They’re like slippery nightmares from […]
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