IF LOOKS COULD KILL

I’m going on holiday in a few weeks to Argentina which I’m really looking forward to. So I’ve been trauling through loads of sites to find hotels, hostels and things to do. I have been getting pretty frustrated at some of the sites, so many seem not to work, but one thing that’s quite common and understandable at that, are the poor translation services that are offered for the English language version of the site.

However this description for a hotel in Buenos Aires makes it all alright - what a gem. It is by far the best and funniest translation I’ve ever come acrross.

Alpenhaus

Lain in the unique island landscape, in the Tigre, directly before the doors of the world metropolis Buenos Aires, the idylische restaurant and hotel “alpine house” are appropriate for the Parana delta.

The Parana delta is a fantastic combination of Venice and the Spreewald. Many small devoured rivers by close trees surrounded load endlessly here to dream in.

One can explore this world by a boat trip (boats similarly as the venezianischen Vaporettos) or with the paddle boat. Visit in this Paradies the “alpine house”. Here catering trade and accommodation for the fastidious customer are ordered.

Let spoil are it that them the many house-made specialities (sauerkraut with rib, potato fritter with apple mash, liver cheese etc.…) and the excellent Austrian confectionery (e.g. apple-wobble, Sachertorte, Schwarzwälderkirschtorte etc.…) enjoy, a ice-cold off Warsteiner beer directly from the barrel drink, simply at the crystal-clear Swimmingpool switch or a relaxvolle Massage gotten.

A secret tip is to leave itself equal for a few days in one of the first-class Bungalows down.

Do you want more “Action”? Thus you try nevertheless times water ski, paddles you by the unique dream world you surrounded or train you in the small Fitnessraum.

The Insidertip is the arrangement: “Romantic night”

Thus you reach us:

Jungle researcher to become is very simple in Buenos Aires: Drive with the course (TBA) or a taxi to the “Estacion Fluvial de Tigre”. Loosen a ticket at the switch of the ship company: “Interislenia” or can you be helped simply by the very much forestalling and competent tourist information.

They can do us also at any time under the telephone number: 4728 0422 reach. It will be us a joy you to help.

After approximately 50 minutes of boat travel and afterwards approx. 5 minutes footpath will have you a unique and unforgettable experience.

http://www.buenosaires.com.ar/alpenhaus_2.html

If you’re a photoshop user, you might be interested in these free brushes and textures I found on PSDTUTS. It’s a great website and I often use it to get tips and tricks for my photoshop creations. As well as the freebies, it has loads of tutorials to help you do things you didn’t know how to do. I hope you find it helpful.

We just wanted to draw your attention to a great winter sale that has just started at ILK Industries. We designed the simple e-commerce site and we’re quite pleased with it. There are tees from £9 and sweaters to keep you warm this winter at only £15, both with only £2 postage. Click here to visit the new site.

Its been a funny week for the old ILCK team.

Things despite the credit crunch have been cracking along nicely.  However, its always slightly uncertain what the future holds, and the website industry is quite a lot about timing.  There is often a window of opportunity that comes up every couple of years with a company, and if you’re not on their radar in that window, you miss out.

Anyway this week we have managed to pick up about 5 potential or new contracts, which will all soon be announced right here on this very blog.

I just found this really funny.

I don’t know why, i always like to ready these wee notices on lamposts. I guess i’m just interested (nosey).

Got me in endless trouble at school!

I have always loved Rachel Whiteread’s work and this new installation at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts is really intriguing. At first glance I didn’t get the connection with her previous work as it looks so different. However, what’s particularly interesting is the fact that all these doll houses are empty, stripped bare, with stains, torn wallpaper and are displayed as they were found, worn and old. The only addition to the houses are the electric lights that light them all.

They are all second hand and Rachel Whiteread has been collecting them for the last 20 years. Although the spaces are empty they are haunted by their past lives. You think of the children who played with them, the dads that made them and the generations that perhaps they were passed down. The more I think about it, the more I realise it plays with the same themes as “house” - her concrete cast of the complete interior of a London terrace house. The domestic empty spaces that froze in time memories of the past.

Mmmmh - interesting.

I saw this on the Creative Review blog and thought it was quite fun. Artists Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson (of London Fieldworks) have created these bird houses based on the elaborate and very often OTT buildings dictators commissioned in their lives to commemorate their inflated sense of self importance.

Gilchrist & Joelson plan to make a film of the native and non-native birds that settle in to these grand bird pallaces and observe how they fit in to their new homes. I wonder if they start bossing the other birds around?

The first is based on Mussolini’s Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana and the second is based on Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s Palace of Parliament in Bucharest, Romania.

OK, so if you have often throught the “credit crunch” sounds more like a yummy treat than a financial disaster or want to cheer up a worried banker friend how about this from Selfridges. The packaging was designed by Purpose, who worked with restaurateur and Food Writer Laura Santini, and The Chocolate Society to produce some Hokey Pokey with a topical twist.

I haven’t been to the Eden Project in Cornwall but it is one place I’d really like to go. Now they have a field of lights by Lighting designer Bruce Munro. It looks really beautiful don’t you think?

via dezeen click to find out more and read Bruce’s interview.