It's 15th February, Which Is Apparently World Hippo Day, So Here's An Excellent Hippo I Saw At The Musée

A life-sized turquoise blue hippo made of fibreglass. There's a big hatch in its back, making it clear that it can be opened in some way. It was designed by kitschy French design superstar François Xavier Lalanne in the late 1960s, although this particular model was manufactured in the 1990s, I believe.

A photo of the same blue hippo from the museum website, with its back opened to reveal there's a fully functioning bathtub inside. And the top of its head is lifted off to reveal a handbasin.

It's 15th February, which is apparently World Hippo Day, so here's an excellent hippo I saw at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris last year. It was designed by François-Xavier Lalanne in 1968–1969, and is in fact a bathroom in disguise! Its body opens to become a bathtub and its head flips up to reveal a handbasin.

FIND IT HERE

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badlymadedndsideblog

3 years ago

Today I DMed a game for a group of friends in person for the first time in years, and it was so stinking amazing! They were all newbies, but seemed to really enjoy it. I have been running public dnd games for the last few years now, which I absolutely love, but there’s something so special about playing a game with a group of close friends, and the trust and interaction in those games.

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badlymadedndsideblog

9 months ago

40,000 years ago, early humans painted hands on the wall of a cave. This morning, my baby cousin began finger painting. All of recorded history happened between these two paintings of human hands. The Nazca Lines and the Mona Lisa. The first TransAtlantic flight and the first voyage to the Moon. Humanity invented the wheel, the telescope, and the nuclear bomb. We eradicated wild poliovirus types 2 and 3. We discovered radio waves, dinosaurs, and the laws of thermodynamics. Freedom Riders crossed the South. Hippies burned their draft cards. Countless genocides, scientific advancements, migrations, and rebellions. More than a hundred billion humans lived and died between these two paintings—one on a sheet of paper, and one on the inside of a cave. At the dawn of time, ancient humans stretched out their hands. And this morning, a child reached back.

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badlymadedndsideblog

6 months ago

God my favorite thing about the ancient world though is that they were so dedicated to making things pretty just like us. I love seeing the marginalia in bibles and the pictures they commissioned and the letters they spent extra on. I love that we wrote poetry two thousand years ago and put on theater and made art. I love that pots and bottles and tombs and beds and cribs have designs on them I love the graffiti on ancient walls I love the fact that they danced and sung and made art just like we do!!!! We are the same we are the same we are the same

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badlymadedndsideblog

3 years ago

Great British RPG Character/Info Sheet.

I made a Character/Info sheet of a Great British RPG based off of the Table Pop game run by Brennan Lee Mulligan for some one shots I'm running and thought some people might find it useful to have the rules written out. I'm posting a PNG for the original rules as per the table pop game, but also have a version with rules adapted to be more similar to DnD for players who've only played DnD. Anyway just for fun, hope ya'll enjoy. Highly recommend watching watching the original video as its great!