via Gizmodo
This six foot tall Stormtrooper Cake made me smile. That is all.
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Well I really wanted to end it there, but someone said this post has to be more than just a picture of a cake. Don’t get it myself…
First of the ‘best of the rest’ is this video that made me smile from Madeline. 2011 one second at a time. There are a lot of mirror shots and landing planes, but there are some quite breathtaking moments (look out for the arched door, shoes on a wire and the October sunsets). It really is wonderfully beautiful:
Having watched that, tell me that you don’t wish that you’d thought of that as a project.
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SOPA does not make me smile. But this video did. LaughPong took the seminal Don McLean track American Pie (which in my opinion was brutalised by a cover version in the year 2000 – you know the one I mean) and have given it a modern twist.
Still smiling, and it’s been a few days since I first watched that. Poor LOLcats.
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This guy made me smile. He only owns 39 items. In the whole world. I have more things than that on my desk (see below)!
It must take some *serious* dedication to only own 39 items. Andrew started out with only 15, but some wore out, some weren’t practical, and he needed some cowboy shirts and a hat last summer for volunteering. So that added four pieces to the list. But as he says
‘When we were growing up, didn’t we all have the goal of a huge house full of things? I found a far more quality life by rejecting things as a gauge of success.’
Quite a powerful mantra. Think about that, then compare Andrew’s entire worldly goods to a section of my desk:
via Andrew’s site
via My Desk
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And finally (as someone once said), back to the Dark Side. Bookending this post quite nicely – we all like a bit of symmetry – another Star Wars-influenced piece of news that made me smile. It’s a video and it kind of makes no sense until the last few seconds. I can see this design on a t-shirt and it selling extremely well.
Darth as the Madonna…ties in nicely with that butchered cover song I mentioned earlier…
So what made you smile last week? Want something included in next week’s #MakeMeSmileMonday? Let us know by pinging us @Nokia_Connects