Every ten years or so, interest in vampires makes a comeback into the collective trendthirst. Bela Lugosi, Anne Rice, Stephenie Meyer with her Twilight series, beautiful Anna Paquin in her new Southern Gothic nosferatic drama, True Blood – the list drips on. Well to help quench the thirst of those who can’t get enough, here’s [...]
A true and venerable staple on the American confectionary scene, Necco Wafers have been around since 1847. Today, four billion of them are made every year – enough to wrap around the world twice if placed edge to edge. The original wafer recipe has remained virtually unchanged since their invention years ago, but consumer trends [...]
One final story here that’s truly bordering on frightening (or brilliant). Walmart now sells caskets online, along with a number of other funerary urns, vessels and pillows on which to rest your eternal head. For real. Here’s the link. Happy Halloween from all of us at Haft2.
Move over, Kryogenics. Swiss DNA Bank offers a different way to be immortalized. ‘Perpetual docs management’ is how this company describes what they do. It’s an infinite time capsule, and for a one-time starting fee of about $300 USD you’ll receive a kit in the mail that will allow you to submit to the capsule [...]
Our friends at Compendium Inc. have a way of combining colour and words that’ll make you blink, think and reflect. A recent release of theirs is The Five Book – a collection of text and thought inspiring you to ask yourself some real questions, namely – where will you be in five years? And what [...]
Ed Hardy is everywhere. You can now buy wallets and thermoses and umbrellas and briefs emblazoned with the tattoo-ine graphics that the company has come to represent. And company president Christian Autigier is ensuring that his brand isn’t disappearing any time soon. And so with a drum-roll and respectful nod to truly perfect timing, I’m [...]
One quarter of the world’s population lives in extreme poverty, and 70% of that 1.5 billion people are girls and women. Women are less likely to be literate, properly nourished or treated with respect. It is with this in mind that Plan (formerly Foster Parents’ Plan) has established ‘Because I am a Girl’; a global [...]
Here’s a site that puts the humanity back in the way we tell time. The Human Clock is a site with thousands of photos depicting people that are somehow displaying the time. Every minute, the clock updates with a new photo. The pics themselves are fascinating due to the variety of the banal. Click here [...]
In 1980, Finnish potter Otto Heino attended a ceramics conference in Japan. There he met a Buddhist monk in search of a lost colour: a pale oat-yellow that had been made popular in 4th Century China. The process that made the colour had become lost, because it was so sought after and so esteemed, that [...]
London interior designer David Carter wants to tell you a story, and he wants to do so in his own house. Just last year, Carter turned his beautiful 18th Century townhouse into a boutique hotel with only two rooms to let. (Those are them pictured by the way. Ya I know – stunning.) 40 Winks, [...]
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