Dynamo Torch

'batteries never required'

Tom Hanks sure could've used this in Castaway, eh? Infinite light from dynamo power. One easy power of whatever it costs and you can control light.

Stress Earth

This may not be the same one, I may have had more than one, but as I remember it, I got this stress ball depicting Earth when I was in Greenwich, England. As far as stress balls go it does the exact same job. As far as a ball to roll, it serves poorly as the USA is a fat piece of land that makes the Earth lopsided (political jabs, anyone?).

Bass picks and Calculator/Pen

Due to the absence of a post yesterday, there will be two objects today. 

 These are the picks that came with my bass guitar. Naturally as the strings are thicker than guitar strings, I used the thickest of the three (see right). That explains the bluntness of the end, and the near complete fading of the brand name and thickness (I think it's 0.98mm). The one on the left is the thinnest (obviously) and I experimented with the sound it produced for a few days before I snapped the end of when playing aggressive thrash riffs. I never found the tip of it. The middle one, I can't remember how it snapped but I have other picks now and these ones have since been retired.

 

Back in primary school these were all the rage. A small calculator with pen that revolved around itself. I've had a couple before, not sure which one this is, but the kids in grade 5 or 6 got to take a survey once and the reward for doing it was one of these. I think just about everybody took the survey. Those were simpler times.

Uno Stacko

Again, I can't remember where I got this. It gathers dust now on my shelves. I've only used it a couple times, despite it being a pretty unique game. Not much to say about this one, actually.

Glass Water Bottle

I've had this glass water bottle for a bit over a year or so. I think we bought 6 of them packaged together or something, and this was the last one. Water seems to taste great coming out of this bottle. Along with the Garfield pillow from yesterday, this sits on my bedhead of a night in case I get thirsty. Again, if I need to drink from it, I know that I won't be getting to sleep for a while.

Garfield Pillow

This is another object from a showbag at the Royal Melbourne Show. Obviously this is from a Garfield themed showbag, probably the Garfield Maxi Bag, or something like that. This pillow has been on my bed for many years providing a cool surface or some height during sleepless nights on the print side. The other side is plain purple and provides some warmth, but this barely ever gets used. This is only the tip of the iceberg of Garfield objects I own. But this is an object blog, not a Garfield blog so you may or may not see more of these.

Fake Cockroach

I think this came with a showbag from the Royal Melbourne Show some 5 or 6 years ago. It's just been sitting on my shelves for years doing absolutely nothing. Imagine what I could get up to with this...

Also, I really need to vacuum my floor.

EDIT: Follow up
Lucas vacuumed his floor and went on to lead a successful life.

Rain Delay

Due to unforeseen reasons, today's object is not uploading. Will try again tomorrow, sorry.

Rubber Chicken & Crazy String

Due to the absence of a post yesterday, there will be two objects today. 

 

This rubber chicken was bought last year for the express purpose of being a prop in a short trailer I did for my character Hucking Filarious's upcoming DVD. The trailer itself can be viewed here. As I always do with films I've done, I have come to dislike that trailer, but the character will possibly resurface someday.

This was bought for me, it might have been 7 years ago for my birthday. But I never got around to using it due to the fact that I probably would have had to clean it up afterwards. As a result, most of the string is still in there. It may be toxic or something so I dare not use it for fear of becoming some kind of stringy mutant. Anybody who wants it can have it.

Mr. Freeze

Mr. Freeze (portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger) as he appeared in the 1997 motion picture Batman & Robin. I watched Batman & Robin last night, and contrary to my childhood belief that I would enjoy it despite it being corny and awful, I didn't enjoy it due to it being corny and awful. Seriously, about 95% of the dialogue was made up of puns and ice themed jokes. The writer should actually be commended for being able to achieve such a horrible feat. 

This action figure was probably from a McDonald's Happy Meal. I don't remember getting it, but that's where most of my toys would have come from. This one in particular was one of my favorites, along with Reed Richards from Fantastic 4 and War Machine from Iron Man. It came with the freeze gun as well.

Big Ben

When I was in England in 2005 with my family, we went to many tourist attractions. I remember I saw this model Big Ben, it may have been in the gift shop at Madame Tussauds, for 10 pounds. I didn't buy it because mum told me that we could find it elsewhere cheaper. After spotting the same model a handful of times, none of which were cheaper, I eventually bought one from a street vendor for 15 pounds. I can't remember why, but I really, really wanted one. Was it the shiny gold? Was it the sophisticated clock face? Regardless of these points of interest, it no longer runs because let's be honest, who bothers to buy watch batteries? Also, the clock face doesn't click back into position anymore, something holding it in slid out and now the clock face rests on the shelf next to Big Ben.

Hong Kong Concession Card

This is a concession card I have had since late 2004 when I went on holiday with my family to Britain with a stop on the way at Hong Kong. I have no idea where we traveled on the map shown on the back, and I find it curious that there is no expiration date printed on the card (foreign tourist fare evasion?). I'm not sure why I kept it, I only noticed it was on my bookshelf a couple months ago. Of course, now that I've kept it for over 5 years, I might as well keep on keeping it, right? Maybe they've changed the design since and it's now a one of a kind! I'll be rich! Or not...

Wilson Tennis Balls

This is a tube of Wilson tennis balls. It originally contained 3 balls but over the years they have weathered away and one has ceased to exist. Or maybe I hit it over the fence.

I received these tennis balls as a gift one year with my Wilson tennis racquet on my 5th or 6th or 7th birthday from my Nanna. As we already had tennis balls, I felt that the fact these were Wilson brand meant they were more valuable. That and the fact that they were a gift, I never used them for fear of knocking them over the fence. When friends came over and we played tennis however, these were the ones they grabbed right away. Thus ends the mystery of the missing third ball!