A handy box
A friend of mine just bought an Itazura Coin Bank, a completely useless box with a mechanical cat in it. I promised this friend I would write a piece about it. But the more I think about the Itazura Coin Bank the more I think it’s not as nonsensical as it seems.
It’s just as functional as any other piggy bank. Or silly, depends how you look at it. The purpose of a piggy bank is to put money in it instead of spending it. When kids get money they want to spend it. Just like when they get candy they want to eat it. A piggy bank should be nice and funny, it should be more fun to put a coin in it than to spend it. The Itazura Coin Bank looks useless but it is just a very good piggy bank. Sorry about that.
- Vasilis
There could not be anything more useful as a piggy bank in these days. No way a banker can give himself a fat bonus out of this bank.
I was thinking about deleting this post but it is quite nonsensical to write a blog post about something usefull on a blog about nonsense.
I thinks this one is better when it comes to nonesense:
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/03/make-a-machine-that.html
That is the ultimate nonsense machine. And I will certainly write a post about it. This friend of mine is actually building one, I will write about it when it’s finished.
progress can be seen here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bas-marie/sets/72157622995805469/
Actually it’s gonna take me a week or two more to finish it, i’m taking it very seriously and easy.
Vl0gje liked the Itazura Coin Bank, until it grabbed his finger: http://www.flickr.com/photos/farquaad/4336794283/?likes_hd=1