Thursday, August 05, 2004

A Little Worldly Fun

Navel Maniac takes pictures of people's belly buttons, mostly in Belgium. Writes the daring digital photographer:

I always liked to take pictures of nice landscape, odd situations or funny people. Getting used to take pictures without looking thru an objective helps you to get very nice images. However, for these belly pictures, I had to ask...and here in Brussels, almost one out of two accepts! Imagine a perfect stranger asking you or your friend to take a picture of his, or mostly her belly?

The navels often sport decorations, and are generally located on shapely midriffs. I don't know what it is about belly buttons, some how they almost always make one smile. They're like cheerfulness reset buttons.

Those less interested in omphaloskepsis and more interested in olafactory sensation can order some scratch and sniff New Zealander Stamps:

The Garden Flowers miniature sheet is a floral display in more ways than one - as well as presenting all five stamps in their pictorial splendour, the 45c magnolia is fragrantly perfumed! This is New Zealand Post's first-ever 'scratch and smell' stamp - a collector's item and a pleasant sensory experience in one beautiful package.

I'm waiting for the Kiwi version. Link from Michael at Motoloco.