Jaz Design

I had a lovely Christmas, I spent Christmas eve and Christmas morning with the mister and his family, which was great and I really enjoyed myself. We spent Christmas eve snuggled up watching telly, drinking Champagne, and then woke up uncharacteristicly early Christmas morning to open our presents.

We’d decided to do a “serious” present, a “silly” present and a bunch of stockingy presents for each other. I’d bought him Mass Effect (Xbox 360), the Muse poster from the gigs we went to in June, a Screaming Flying Monkey and a lot of chocolate and sweeties

He’d accepted my suggestion of jewellery, and got me the beautiful set shown here. I picked butterflies because of the Muse song “Butterflies and Hurricanes” which is my favourite song of all time, it’s pretty special. He also got me Lego Star Wars II (PS2) (which I haven’t had chance to play yet), a make and display Play-Doh parrot which is awesome, and lots of sweeties.

My Mum got me a subscription to Adbusters magazine which is awesome because I won’t be able to read it at the library once I finish uni , I got money, a new duvet and set, lots of chocolate and sweeties, a nail varnish set, Sleepy Hollow, Design Without Boundaries: Visual Communication in Transition and I’m sure I’m forgetting some stuff.

As an aside, watch Toy Story, it’s awesome. I’m Woody, howdy howdy howdy.

Play-Doh is obviously one of the most amazing things ever. It celebrated it’s 50th anniversary just this year. There’s an entire group on flickr dedicated to Play-Doh (check it out for more amazing stuff like the below image). Everyone loves Play-Doh, and I’m pretty sure everyone’s tasted it, just because of that amazing smell it has. (You can deny it all you want, I won’t believe you).

I don’t know, it might just be me, but I think it’s wrong for corporations like McDonald’s to get in on the Play-Doh act. I was at Toys R Us just last night and they had a Play-Doh McFlurry maker. I can’t find it on their site, but it’s there. The ‘mercan site has the french fry one. McDonald’s do and will always target kids, but that doesn’t make it right. The little MickyD’s checkout sets freak me out and then some too, why would you give that to your kid? “Here Bobby, have this McDonald’s checkout! Aspire to be a checkout person, live your dream!”

If that was me I’d give my kid some paint, or something musical, or a book or a football or something. I mean seriously, who would give that to a child. If you would, I’d like reasons. It also makes me wonder what kind of kids would *ask* for that kind of thing. Why is that ok in society? Everyone knows McDonald’s is evil, everyone knows they’re bad for you… so why?

Society is strange.

I also appreciate the concept of propaganda, and that MickyD’s list of crimes may or may not just be media hype, but, if there’s even a grain of truth… I’d rather steer clear. And have done, for almost 18 months now. I can’t remember the last time I ate real fast food, and I doubt it’s something I’d do again.

Also, I miss Sesame Street. Where has it gone? WHERE!?!

Sesame Street
Originally uploaded by arkworld.