Click your heels together 3 times: December 2014

Saturday, December 20, 2014

Fashion Post: Jean Paul Gaultier Exhibit.

Last month I went for an exploring with a walking card, to see some public art.

During the walk I stumbled across this exhibit of Jean Paul Gaultier fashion, and decided to go check it out. It cost around $23 I think to go in, but it was huge.

First room:

I just love this stripe dress.

There were faces projected onto the dummy's and sound track of voices talking to the people that came into the exhibit. Kinda like Donna Noble in the Doctor Who episode of Silence in the Library.

The second room was filled with black curtains and red lights and each mannequin was in a display box like the red light district of Amsterdam.

The next room was filled with graffiti's walls and punk fashion

There was the most beautiful long denim jacket

The next room had an array of more ornate designs

Madonna's corset

Special Nerd Block Jr "Grab Block" unboxing.

Before I had signed up for Lootcrate I watched a tonne of Lootcrate and Nerd Block unboxings, to work out which one was best for me. Nerd Block ultimately lost out because of the t-shirts, I just don't need a new t-shirt every month, and the lack of information about overseas postage.

Then for Black Friday and Cyber Monday they had a "block grab" in which you could buy a single block with a bunch of old stock in it. I missed out on the classic block but signed up for one Junior block.

You could choose between the girls and the boys block and as the girls block generally seemed to suck so I opted for a boys block.

It came yesterday!

This is what was inside:

So it promised 6+ items and I got 6

There was US$10 shipping with the US$11 price on the box making it around AU$27

First item was a Mighty Morphine Power Rangers blind bag

Angry Birds Star Wars Phone Dangle ( I got the wookie bird)

Avengers random toy blind bag

Super excited by the Ben 10 two figure pack

Spider Man Racer is pretty sweet!

and a Cat Bug Dangler

So what's in the blind bags...

Novmeber Loot Crate Unboxing!

November Lootcrate arrived well into December, so my unboxing is a little late.

Novembers theme was Battle! and the crate had some pretty epic items in it.

Exclusive Mega Man helmet (comes in four colours) collector item with stand for display

I was really excited for this cool Assassins Creed coin.

There was also a street fighter official bandana, a metallic halo figurine and in the back of the magazine were these figures which you can set up in the November box.

Also this month was a t-shirt month.

Who remembers the game Pirates vs Ninja's?

Pick your sides with this epic shirt. #lootpirate for the win!

I also missed posting an unboxing of Octobers Loot Crate so here's a quick pic of what was inside.

Decembers crate "Anniversaries" is currently in customs, so hopefully that should arrive soon, or at least this month.

Sunday, December 7, 2014

Book Review: Carnie Punk (Anthology)

Carniepunk by Rachel Caine
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

On a whole the stories are very entertaining, some have funny elements and some are touching while others leave chills down your spine or leave you uncomfortable and squirming in your seat.

With a selection of stand alone and short stories from ready established worlds this is a great collection of Carnival Stories to creep you out.

View all my reviews

10/04	page 25	5.0%	"Wow, that was a bit dark, specially for the first story."
10/07	page 57	13.0%	"That's kind of sad. An interesting look into the world of Sang. And for some reason I'm loving the blood sucking bunnies!"
10/07	page 87	20.0%	"Love the relationship between Oberon and Atticus, and this really got me interested in the world."
10/07	page 121	27.0%	"Well.... that was disturbing"
10/08	page 153	35.0%	"Finally! A she-wolf."
10/08	page 189	43.0%	"Horrific and brilliant. Cold Girl is a fantastic short story"
10/09	page 219	50.0%	"despite all the cliches this is still a pretty good story, though maybe retelling would be a more suited word."
10/14	page 249	57.0%	"I'm not all that up with my Greek mythology, so I had to look some of these up. Very cool story though."
10/19	page 279	64.0%	"parlor tricks is an interesting little story if you're not familiar with the world, if you are I think this would be an interesting little insight to the life if the two sisters. I also really like the elemental magic in this one."
12/06	page 307	70.0%	"Freak House - reads like an origin story, interesting intro to the characters and paranormal lore. First I've read about a half Djinn, sounds like an interesting series."
12/06	page 308	71.0%	"Oh shit! It's the killer clown story"
12/06	page 342	78.0%	"This would be ridiculous if it wasn't so creepy. Highly entertaining and surprisingly multi-cultural Charlies Angels read. Could be a really fun series to get into, kinda reminds me of Marvels Fearless Defenders."
12/06	page 342	78.0%	"BEST. OPENING. LINE. EVER!"
12/06	page 374	86.0%	"A Chance in Hell - Not the way I would go about the bigger picture, but as a short story I liked it and she did learn something about herself by the end."
12/07	page 406	93.0%	"Hell's Menagerie - A fairly sweet story, though I don't know the characters and I guess you would have to read the series to know what happened. The world is pretty interesting though and the story on it's own is touching."
12/07	page 433	100.0%	"Daughter of the Midway, The Mermaid and the Open Lonely Sea - This one is fairly dark and mysterious. Without all the facts its really hard to know how I feel about the ending. Completely unsettling in the unknown."