funkypancake: October 2010 Archives

space, it's up there somewhere

esteemed customers

if you're one of the non-esteemed customers, then you'll just have to work it out yourself (and not be offered an apology)

no u-turn onto union street

ooh, this sign could almost be political given this evening's announcement

gloves

if not actual gloves, then sign that gloves are about

electro freeze

electro freeze has got to be the most fantastic name for an ice cream machine. still going strong it seems

there's a lot to love about this sign. it's officialness together with its asides (about refrigerators) and that classic line

'no human waste of any sort'.

i can't promise i didn't lose the odd strand of hair or skin cell as i climbed across their refrigerator. but hopefully they aren't reading this.

adjusted no dog sign

can you see what they've done here ?

who laid out this sign

i saw this an instantly thought some words must have been scrubbed out. it took me a while to realise they hadn't. this is it.

national dish

a sign as big as a car to celebrate the national dish of pie and a can for $3. (our smallest coin is 10 cents, so the .99 only benefits you if you buy 10 pie and can combos)

rhino saturday

i left this last one in so it would feel like a random shot left on a roll of film, or the delight of getting someone else's photo in your snaps back from the chemist

pig

big cat thursday

it's giraffe tuesday

the came, they saw, they looked funny, then they went away again

bin-damonium

coat hooks

coat hooks in the park by some dead leaves. a sure sign spring is here

hat in the gutter

not sure if this is a hat or light shade. either way it looked good in a gutter

14.75 billion sold worldwide

this is brilliant. it's a little mobile trailer selling hot donuts. claiming its own little part of the 14.75billion unit business.

who came up with the 14.75billion figure ? were they all sold from this single van ?

own your whole supply chain

little man on a stick

external airbags

auckland

green mannequin in goggles

the elephant in the corner (of the pavement)

$2 rack

an opshop is what kiwis call charity shops (thrift stores to you americans).

i like how this one focussed on the 'vintage retro preloved' aspects of donated goods.

nothing over $20 except the things which are

'designer' - good use of both apostrophes and an asterisk here

5000 items whilst stocks last

surely as soon as they sell one item they'll have less than 5000 items. which is probably why they needed the asterisk

not her own hair

the eyes have it

this is a rather strange opticians near my office. even my own reflection in the window was rather psychedelic

taking time

a sign saying take time and those people doing that exercise which involves moving slowly

in need of healing

an ex-pukeko

shame this wasn't a northern blue

proudly fresh

blenedice

blene dice ?

all food half price

a small but significant step to help reduce world famine

all postcards sold out

messy users use the middle one

there's a special toilet in the middle who are less aimful

sock in a pair of dimensions

this sock was nearly completely flat so i realised an above photos wasn't going to do it justice. so here's a low level one too.

spider

this has got something on its back - might be eggs or might be a dead thing it wants to eat.

wild flowers

new zealand

me

me with my daughters in my eyes

not very sporty

hat

don't ruff up the spuds

illuminated sitting

beehive matches

save time

a lot of nots

hold on to the hand rai

face

spooky pedestrian crossing

jump next

cyclists slow down

the missing orange ball

it's up there

spooky !

spooky hey ?

political graffiti

red tops by the red tops

buzz

it's big nosed ugly guy

party shoes

it's the custom to take your shoes off when you go to someone's house in new zealand which makes for comedy shoe piles outside houses, especially if there's about a million people attending. here is just some of the shoe pile outside a house we went to this evening.

party food

garlic bread

one year on

so, it was a year ago today that we arrived in new zealand.

i was worried i might not find anything to take photos of, but how wrong i was. the whole place is as beautiful and as mad and as lovely and as strange as you could wish for.

tremendous. bring on more of the same.

trapped in the 80s

morning walk

starfish

fish

the beach jandal

the morning after

looks like someones had been having fun outside a fairy shop

south island viewed west of the north island

no tax increase

except there is a tax increase. they're just not passing it on to consumers.

or perhaps mannequins don't have to pay tax

scenic

marine reserve

dummy

debris may fall at any time

jade's water ballons

no idea who jade is, but this is her water balloon box

pant-tree

significant air conditioning

walk in a wood

breakfasts

piggy back

morning exercise in the shadow on a volcano

dinner in the gutter

cakes cakes mudcakes

the decline of the comb

i spotted this comb on the street a few weeks ago

and then i saw it again this week. it's not doing well, poor thing

how to make your posters more exciting

with the election nearly completed (it's a postal thing) candidates are looking for last ditch attempts to make their billboards stand out compared to the dozens of similar ones all over the place.

the answer is of course flags at jocular angles

bobbly

trundler park

i'll never tire of the word trundler

worried

tessa 1

this cd was in our hire car and it was fab. not sure what all the tracks were, but a few we knew and loved and a few we didn't and loved. was a shame to give it back with the car !