April 27
th
2006
What’s better than a Witch in Romania? A registered Witch! 😉
A Romanian woman has become the country’s first legally registered witch. Gabriela Ciucur, 31, from Targu Jiu, persuaded authorities to accept witchcraft as a profession after months of negotiations. She told local media: “The authorities sent me home and told me it was ridiculous at first. But we finally reached a deal and registered my company as dealing with astrology and connections to the spirit world.”
Witchcraft is quite popular in Romania as many local people believe in the occult, especially in rural areas. All over Eastern Europe women tend to believe in the powers of witches and some often resort to their help when settling a love score, healing a broken heart, or punishing a rival.
Can we say that the spiritual realm of Romania has been cast under a spell? 😉
April 20
th
2006
The Italian company Nobody & Co designed the Bibliochaise, an armchair library for who likes to be immersed in deep reading. It contains 5 linear meters of books and thanks to a special fitting structure is easily disassembled.
It doesn’t look very comfortable but the idea is brilliant enough to wish you one. They also have cool models of bookcases, take a look.
Flesh bookcase
Pop bookcase
Kitchen bookcase
April 13
th
2006
Flashbag currently is a design concept coming from Russian designer Dima Komissarov.
The size of the USB Flash Drive changes depending on the amount of data it holds. When the device is about to blow up you will see the familiar error message on your screen: “There is not enough free space!”
When switched off the flashbag remains pumped up, so you can estimate with the naked eye how much more pictures, books and music albums can be transferred into it.
April 10
th
2006
A range of fashion clothing for chickens has been launched last year by a group of designers working in Austria and Japan.
There are five models of clothes for chickens: Austria, Japan, Camouflage, Knitted and Hairy.
The Austrian designer Edgar Honetschlaeger, one of the chicken suit inventor, said “It’s something that you don’t really need, but everyone wants to have anyway!”
He is promoting the range on his website, www.chickenssuit.com, and a fashion show was touring the world last year.
Several farmers have already had chicken suits with the name of their farm ordered and many advertisers have enquired about the possibility of having sponsored suits promoting everything from KFC to chicken soup.
April 10
th
2006
“Airborne cats” is a Flickr photoset contain 144 pictures of jumping cats. The user Junku is uploading those since July of 2004 and probably he is the author of those funny images that are all over the Internet.
