Tuesday, February 28, 2006 4:28 PM | rahel luethy | 4 comment(s)

black socks

shortly after I had moved from zofingen to basel, at the age of 20, I replaced all my white socks by black socks. I had owned a lot of argovian white socks, the ones with blue and red stripes at the top.

now I own a lot of black socks:

the problem with black socks is that they are effectively grey socks in all shades of grey. moreover, they vary in texture, suffer from different pilling, and grow or shrink over time. pairing them up is a pain in the neck (maybe taking a picture and writing a blog entry instead will sort them out automagically?).

another problem with black socks is that you can't wear them with white running shoes. thus, while people who wear white socks with a suit are always americans, us europeans get debunked by our black socks in sneakers.

Saturday, February 04, 2006 9:40 AM | rahel luethy | 1 comment(s)

5000 blow-up dolls

via boingboing, I came across this little movie showing a film crew inflating, dressing, masking and arranging 5000 blow-up torsos to serve as extras in background shots of an upcoming clint eastwood film.

somehow I would have expected the film industry to have more elegant solutions to problems like these (computers? anyone? 2006?). even casting 5000 clint eastwood fans seems easier to me.