Category: Bowl Of Noses

Sniffing out the stuff that kids really get best

NYC Goes Micro Scale Lego

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date February 4, 2009

Do you ever read the New York Times? You know that paper that your folks read? Maybe if they printed more articles like this instead just putting up on their blog then they could tap into that 8-12 year old market. Maybe we have to talk to them.

Anyway, we do a lot of minimalist Lego building in our bowl, but this Christof Neimann dude’s got it done real good. Check out the full site as there are at least ten more than what we have included here — and many are more pure NYC than what we’ve posted here.

Micro all the way!

Big thanks to Mr. SkipHop for this one!

Tags LEGO, micro, NYC

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Strange Musical Instruments #1: File Cabinet of Sound

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date February 1, 2009

I wish this instrument could fill a sixty story building with hundreds of gillions of drawers with each one being a different sound. Think of symphony that a third grade class could engineer. We particularly like the sound of “Wit’s End”; we know it well.

Hat tip to Dan McGuire

Tags music

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Old School Cartoons

Early on in his days H2Y asked “Why is old school so much cooler than new school?” Volumes could be written on that, but here in The Bowl we just prefer to serve up another helping and hope that the sweet flavor of the old points the way.

Toon Tracker is an excellent website that has a horde of forgotten cartoon relics to amuse and delight: Hot Wheels, Abbott & Costello, Mighty Mouse. Now all you need is a rainy day and screen time limit release and the surfing will be swell!

Tags Abbott and Costello, Cartoons, Mighty Mouse, Toon Tracker

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So Much To Play With (including time itself!)

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date January 30, 2009

I have to admit, sometimes it feels like this here too…

Tags Time-Lapse

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Design Your Own Trading Cards

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date January 25, 2009
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In our Bowl, we are not content with just the store-bought trading cards. Yugioh and Pokemon are alright, but imagination trumps all.

In addition to the fun of magic markers, the computer helps us too. The H2Y found Yugioh Card Maker where you can input any photo and label them whatever you want — all on a Yugioh Card background. Pretty swell we smell. H2Y made this one of a Bakugan.