Making the World a Better Place, One Evil Mad Scientist at a Time.
NoonaCo has proudly joined forces with the Muwha ha ha “EVIL” Geniuses over at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories to ship you their open source DIY Mini-Menorah LED Electronic soldering kits for the holidays. No boring dreidel kit here kids!
Laird Rickard is an inventor, builder, artist, clown, tall bike enthusiast, and entrepreneur. His company, get this - “Nanaco” makes the truly awesome Banana Cell Phone Cover and Optional Holster. (I swear to god we both named our companies entirely separate from each other) I have just started shipping these babies and let me tell you they are flying out the door.
Unsure of what to get Old Uncle Milt for the Holidays? He’ll be the hit of the senior center with one of these strapped onto his belt, and hey no one will look twice when he whips it out and starts talking to a banana. I can’t wait to see what Laird has in store for us next.
Where do Korean teens from all over the world catch up on the latest from the hottest K-Pop artists including these awesome green tees? SOOMPI!!!! (shipped by NoonaCo , of course!) Go check it out. Be sure to watch “SOOMPI Royale”.
It’s been really hot here in San Francisco this week. I came home early today to an empty house and found the latest ULINE Shipping Supply Specialists catalog waiting for me in my mailbox. It’s got a seductive cover, enticing me with HOT, DO NOT DOUBLE STACK , RECEIVED, THIS END UP, and EXPLOSIVE stickers receding into space just like the opening text crawl from Star Wars.
I casually flip open the booklet to page 209 where I find this thing. For a mere $595 I can order the “ORGAPACK” Combo Tool. I have no idea what it feels like to use this thing but I will have to get together with some GRIPPER SEALS to find out.
Page 17- 10′ Telescoping Boxes. Page 120 - Shrink Tunnel (superior Italian design!) Page 261- Vinyl Strip Door Kits. Page 211- Poly Strapping Kits. Page 276 - Latex Finger Cots!
This catalog reads like a fantasy play dungeon for the shipping supply enthusiast. Besides all the wacky industrial items it has been the cheapest and speediest resource for packaging and shipping supplies for nearly every project I have encountered recently. They have same day shipping so your purchase arrives within days.
This is a great family owned company based in Chicago and run by by Dick and Liz Uihlein.
NoonaCo has a new awesome shipping fulfillment client. Bay Area artist/editors Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan started a fake real business/art project/quarterly subscription called THE THING. I had a sneak peek at the first object by Miranda July during the silk-screening process at Ape Do Good a few days ago and I can’t reveal what THE THING #1 is, but - go buy a subscription. You will NOT be disappointed. This is exactly the type of project I love working on.
THE THING is a quarterly periodical in the form of an object. Each year, four artists, writers, musicians or filmmakers are invited by the editors to create an everyday object that somehow incorporates text. This object will be reproduced and hand wrapped in brown paper packaging by the editors and then mailed to the homes of the subscribers with the help of the United States Postal Service (and now NoonaCo)
THE THING’s current year of subscriptions ( issues 1-4 ) will begin in August with a project by the performance artist and filmmaker Miranda July, whose first feature length film, Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Camera d’Or. The subscription year will continue with projects by visual artists Anne Walsh, Kota Ezawa, and Trisha Donnelly.
At first I thought this was a really funny idea, but on on further browsing I started to think the
Mary and Josh looking real fine in their squid tees at the official Laughing Squid/NoonaCo merch table at the Laughing Squid “Paradise Lost” party last Saturday night at Flora Grubb Gardens in San Francisco.
photo by Ted Rheingold
Red Roller contributed some great schwag (cool tape measures) to an issue of Valleyschwag and I never really looked over the website until recently. It is simple to use and an excellent resource for cost comparison analysis amongst the major shipping companies. The easiest way to explain it is they treat shipping packages similar to what Hotwire does for traveling. You enter where you are and what you want to send and RedRoller gives you a list of the different companies that will ship it, how long it will take, and how much it will cost. You can decide on a method, pay for it, print your labels, and arrange for pickup all through your RedRoller account. It seems to be best suited for larger packages, but this is an amazing resource.
Hugh D’Andrade has created this wonderful poster that will be available at the upcoming Laughing Squid: Paradise Lost event on July 28th. If you can’t make the event, we will add this poster to our existing set in the store in August, and also have single posters available for $10.
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