Hello. It seems that it might be at least three weeks since I mentioned any wittering about the latest lightbulb fixation. Time to fix that.

These gorgeous vintage replicas are amazing. They’ve got sexy looped filaments, 1900s moulds, and are pretty much, from what I can tell, hand-made by Thomas Edison. And they have little nipples and everything. What else do you want in a lightbulb?

John Lewis, in a less obscure part of the land, are also selling some pretty sweet bendy filament bulbs. They’re a little orangey which makes me want to buy them all as Christmas decorations.

Answer: Only if it lets me buy sexy lightbulbs.

Like Pinterest and 80% of Tumblr, there’s no real lack of ‘I like this’ sites around the internet, each letting you click items, photos and pictures that you like and add them to a list. Ah, uniqueness. There’s a new site called Fancy I had a play on this week. At first glance it’s a list of said items, photos and pictures, which you have the option to click ‘Fancy’ on, to add to your own list. The unique thing this site offers is the option to go to buy whatever’s in the picture. Which is interesting when you discover it because it doesn’t look anything like a shop’s catalogue – it’s all very ‘mood boardy’ with the option to buy. So next time I find a retro style mug (as I inevitably will), it won’t go onto my list of gorgeous but unattainable goods, I can click through to the site itself.

I’m cooing at these lightbulbs at the moment.

And it gives you 10% off certain stores (including Bouf) when you’ve unwittingly ‘Fancied’ enough of their goods.

Found through Matt O’shea.

If only the white room in The Dome could have carried this tranquil wonder. Instead, in (questionable celebration of the Millennium) The Dome’s zen room faded through a spectrum of colours like a dodgy 90s lamp with walls made of white plastic that I spent my visit sliding down, they should have built it with cardboard boxes and flapping bits of metal. The giant fort made out of cardboard boxes doesn’t instantly come across as a museum piece (even if it is the Contemporary Art Museum). Beyond being stacked boxes it also does a very good impression of rain when turned on. I’ve tried this at home with a metal stick and a cardboard box but it’s not had the same effect.

Listen to it, and pretend you’re lying by a big window; a huge library window, the top floor of the Tate Modern, the full glass door in my living room at home, outside under the biggest, safest umbrella in the the world with an invisible window. The weather’s changed and it’s throwing it down – that one mad day of summer where the weather throws a furious fit. The day waterproof tree houses were made for. There’s just a flood pouring down the glass, a few leaves smacking against it every so often, slowly dragging their way down sandwiched between the flood and the glass. Just watching there listening, feeling warm and strangely refreshed from your pocket of cover inside.

A bit old, but still lovely. Via weheart.

These are sweet (ha!) and right up my street (This is a hypothetical street make of cardboard and wool in which I am king busker.) I am looking for an excuse to make lots of these myself and give (inflict) my own home-made versions on other people.

It doesn’t look like it’s being updated any more which is sad, and whilst I may have copied half the blog over here it’s lovely. Go and look at it, and coo.

Via Present and Correct. A nice website that sells papery things.

I do love a good cardboard animation but alongside being very cute, the script is ace. Promoting The International Exchange, it treads the perfect line between perfect piss take and promotional video. Watch it, rather than have me quote parts out of context. Quickly now, while I struggle to keep my poor impersonations away.

It’s directed by Joseph Mann whose other animations are well worth a look. I’ve fallen a bit in love with the look and feel of this little story about a Chimney Sweep on an Edinburgh roof top who has a love of sandwiches and planes.