Finds of the week #20

Ciao a tutte, eccomi qui per il nostro appuntamento settimanale. Tanti link, spero ci sia qualcosa di interessante per tutte.
Uh entro questa settimana tornerò con il post riepilogativo di "Una pausa e due chiacchiere"! Tenetevi pronte a cominciare!!



Arte e viaggi:


1. Fontana a forma di barca a Valencia (via 74 Lime lane).
2. Bellissima l’idea di questi quattro ragazzi di fare un viaggio da Firenze a Roma.. in risciò!
3. Le bolle di metano in un lago canadese. 
4. Sentieri da sogno <3
5. Questa bimba ama gli animali come fratelli. Che carini!
6. Donne che sfidano la gravità.

Cibo e colori:

Finds of the week #18

Eccomi qui con la rubrica settimanale. Al solito spero troverete qualcosa di utile! Buona visione e buona settimana!



Foto e arte


1. Bevande volanti! (via 74 lime lane).
2. Incredibili disegni 3D.
3. Spring color study <3
4. Questi palazzi danno davvero un senso di nausea @__@.
5. Sculture fatte con pastelli (via Dare to DIY).
6. Fantastiche foto di animali selvaggi,
7. Illustrazioni di Tamara Philips.

Moda

Finds of the week #16

Eccomi qui, sono viva e pronta con tutti i tesori scovati questa settimana!



Arte e fotografia
     

1. Le idee più romantiche per le foto da matrimonio. Una bella fonte di ispirazione per qualche idea originale.
2. Leone e scimmietta <3
3. Bellissime questi disegni ispirati a famose serie TV. Quante riuscite ad indovinarne?
4. Madison Square Park trasformato da metri di corde colorate.
5. BABY MUGGING!!!!! 8D (via Iowa Girl eats).
6. Fantastiche lucertole.. sembrano quasi dinosauri!
7. I bellissimi ritratti di Kazuko Taniguichi.

Blogging e grafica

A new song for your Wednesdays #11

Oggi mi sono fatta coraggio..

The road so far:

     
          

Band: Dir en grey
Track: 輪郭
Single: 輪郭
Country: Japan



Click to listen!

A new song for your Wednesdays #6

Hope you all are having a nice week :)

Band: Plastic tree
Track: くちづけ (Kuchizuke)
Album: くちづけ (Kuchizuke)
Country: Chiba, Japan



Click to listen!

Finds of the week #8

Happy Sunday!

 - You've to look at this!!! Boiling water thrown in the air at -30°. Soooo cool!

- 25 ways to teach gratitude.

- I was looking for the ost of a series and I found this terrific site: TV rage. It has episode guides of every season of whatever series you're interested in with OST, quotes, cultural references. Very well done and interesting!

- Fine Art Remixed by Thomas Robson (via Honestly WTF? )

- Reikan-ji's temple entrance

Weekend at the movies #3

Finally! It's never too soon for Friday..

Studio Ghibli movie this week. I've not seen it yet but I'm a fan of the Miyazakis' movies so this is a must.
All I know is that the story take place in Yokomana in 1963 and has something to do with Japan reconstruction after the II world war. Yes, I don't like reading too much about plots before watching the movies.. SPOILER!!

Title: From up on poppy hill (original: コクリコ坂から - Kokuriko-zaka Kara)
Director: Goro Miyazaki
Gender: Animation, dramatic, historical
Year: 2011

*click for the trailer*

Totoro phone case

You don't wanna know how much time Aly waited for this.. it's kinda embarrassing..
She asked for a Totoro phone case and here it is, finished just today!

June's favourites

New favourites, from Ray and Mrbh, July's issues.
Ok, I think I've a thing for shorts+jacket combination <3

     

A quick one

Quick post before going back to my "beloved" books >_>
a) Newest board on Pinterest, "It-makes-me-want-to-be-a-kiddo-again stuff". Full of funny, summerish stuff for kiddo (and not >:D ). It makes me wish to be already on vacation as well T^T ..almost there..wait for me smmer!

b) A giveaway from Oasap, pretty dresses everywhere 8D :

and c) the latest life-pictures:

 

Aly and me ate ramen with something like 40° outside.. so hot.. and so damn yummy! We had on the griddle ice cream too :Q___

An app to control your dreams

Another interesting reading I found on "Giappone nel cuore"

"Yumemiru, the new App for iPhone or iPad that makes you choose what you'll dream tonight (ﾟДﾟ≡ﾟДﾟ)

The Japanese ad agency Hakuhodo's Technology Work has invented an app that can control your dreams. You can choose from eight different scenarios: flying, walking in a forest or on a beach, get rich, someone who confesses their love for you and so on (it changes depending on the sex of the user).

Once you set the favourite scenario, the app's timer starts and it calculates the required time to reach the REM stage, when the brain is more influencable. Therefore a soundtrack, connected with the chosem dream, starts: for example a voice whispers "I love you", "I wanna hold your hand" and such for the romantics who chose the love dream. At the end of the dream thereeven is the option of an alarm clock that wakes you up from the dream so you can share it on Twitter or Facebook when it's fresh."

Cool or creepy, what do you think? o_O

Oku to pasu

Hi to all my students fellow!
I can finally take a break from this crazy week, I'm kinda exhausted xD Anyway I just wanted to share a little something that put a silly smile on my face during these days (and believe me I needed it!).
So, I'm a fan of a FB page called "Giappone nel cuore" (means "Japan in the heart") and few days ago it posted this picture:

The captation (is in Italian, you can read a quick translation following) says:

"An octopus to pass exams ~ \ \ (^ o ^) / ~ / ~
One of the most used Japan's "rituals" in the proximity of an exam, consists in putting  the statuette of an octopus on the desk. This octopus can be a plushie, made of plastic or of different materials and it can be in different shapes and colours: it does not matter.
You've to know that in Japanese the word "octopus" can be said in two ways: "tako", using the native word, or "octopus", as in English. The word "octopus" is transliterated in Katakana as "OKUTOPASU". This word can be read as a little phrase: dividing it, you obtain "OKU TO PASU" ( = if you put it down, you pass).
It's thanks to this "good luck formula" that the polyp was elected as the supreme luck charm of Saints Students and it's sold in the stores in all shapes and colours."

So, wanna see mine? 8D