An award-winning garden was killed in the crossfire of this giant water-fight last week, but here are the facts we worked out while reading this article from the Mail Online:
1 – Water-fights are fun.
2 – 350 people responded to a simple invite on facebook. 350, think about it.
3 – While we were trolling the web for doggles to do, others were making it happen.
If the weather’s right, what’s anyone doing this weekend?
Link: The Daily Mail.
Aaron asks: “If Zoomdoggle was a house, what kind of neighborhood would it be in?”
Zoomdoggle responds: “How the crap should we know. Ooh, but do we get to decorate? How cool be it be to cover the whole place in heat sensitive wall-paper.” It’d be a giant Hypercolor dream.
Link: Shiyuan.
Exactly 3 days and 3 hours after first discovering Music Catch, we’ve managed to grow to a “+83.” Yay, us.
In case you’re late to the party on this one, Music Catch is the simplest, greatest, most beautiful-est, freest game ever. Yellow shapes are good. Red shapes are bad. And if you’re playing it with the sound off though, you’re missing the show.
Link: Kongregate.
Everyone who sees the video gets uncomfortable. Everyone. And yet, we still think it’s a good idea. Here’s what happened: We grew a mustache for El Dia De Mustache. When friends and family instantly dubbed it a “disgustache” there was only one thing to do… invent a children’s show. Shoot a clip in the conference room with iMovie. And send it to our friend’s in TV.
So far, the only positive response comes from Oscar (age 5) and Simon (age 1). I’ve got a pilot scripted if anyone is interested.
While the rest of the world was going garbanzo over Sex and the City, this is only one “must see” on Zoomdoggle’s to do list.
How awesome is this though? Were you even aware that Christian twisters existed?
Link: TwistedBalloondoc.
This needs no explanation. Click on the link. Click on the hands. It’ll only take a second. If your day isn’t just a little bit brighter, you might be a lost cause.
NOTE: If that is the case, you probably need Zoomdoggle more than anyone. Not to worry, we’re here for you. Click the RSS button and check back often.
Link: MisterNiceHands.
Ok, we promised ourselves we weren’t going to post again today (it’s too sunny outside to want to be cooped up in doors), but friend of the doggle and photographer Trixie Bedlam was up in the office mid-day and just happened to mention something called “Splatter Pig.” Three hours later, we’re obsessed. From what we can tell, these things sell on the streets of Seoul for about a dollar. And they’re more awesome than any one person should be aloud in a lifetime. Anyone know where we can pick some up? Doesn’t have to be a pig either, a splatter-anything sitting on our desk would make us smile. Just watch.
This just in (and very much for real): The Canadian Space Agency wants you! Two lucky applicants will be chosen to join the Canadian Space Agency Astronaut corps and a “pool of qualified candidates will also be created for future needs.” “Creativity, diversity, teamwork, and a probing mind” are mandatory, as is the ability to “withstand the physical demands of training and space flight.” Obviously we’d apply ourselves, but as this Zoomdoggle thing is just starting to take shape, now hardly seems like the time. Don’t let that stop you though. Be the world’s first intergalactic doggler, our space-ace astro-correspondent.
Link: Cannuk Space Program.
http://zoomdoggle.com/2008/05/job-opening-some-travel-required/
Quick, what’s your sexy name? Ours decodes to:
Zestful
Outstanding
One
Masterfully
Delivering
Overwhelming
Glorious
Gratification and
Lustful
Embraces.
Yours probably makes more sense if it’s, well, a normal name.
Link: Sexy Name Decoder.
So, without giving too much away, we’re planning kind of a big project for later in the week, one that’s going to take 5,000 pennies, 40+ man hours, and some serious luck to pull off. We were debating if we’d bitten off more than we could chew when a friend sent us this. Artist Erik Nordenankar put a GPS tracker in a briefcase and handed it to DHL, along with a long series of instructions for where to mail it. Fifty-five days later, when it was returned back to his home, he entered the data into a computer, plotted the route on a map and, low and behold, he’d pulled it off: The biggest drawing ever.
The moral of the story? There’s no such thing as biting off more than you can chew. Life’s biggest smiles start with life’s biggest dreams.
Link: biggestdrawingintheworld.
NOTE: In the minutes since we posted this, we’ve gotten no less than three emails saying it’s a hoax. And now the site itself has even been updated (and, strangely, backdated) to reflect this. It’s cool though, it was just the motivation we needed to move forward with the very real penny project. Stay tuned.
