Rack 'em Stack 'em Robots!

Though not as ticklish to the imagination as Kapla blocks, these wooden Stacking Robots from Schylling still manage to strike enough of my fancy that I am already thinking about when I will be picking up a second set. Right side up, up side down, sideways left, sideways right: does not matter which direction you go, as long as there is balance and every robot works together the population will hold together. Of what does that remind me?

Following the Heard - 2008

Above is the cover image for the first part of this year's musical mix.

See if you can figure out who's on it by the image alone. I'll update later with the rundown....

And the answers are:

1) Strange Times – The Black Keys
2) Do U Buy It? - Lyrics Born
3) Voices - Madonna
4) We Call Upon the Author to Explain - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
5) Puppets - Atmosphere
6) The Rip - Portishead
7) This is How You Spell HAHAHA - Los Campesinos!
8) Can't Be Beat - Quiet Village
9) Old Enough - The Raconteurs
10) Fatalist Palmistry - Why?
11) 3 Dimes Down - Drive-By Truckers
12) Out at the Pictures - Hot Chip
13) Alice - Moby
14) That Hump -Erykah Badu
15) Sober Driver - Dengue Fever
16) Surprise - Gnarls Barkley
17) Blind - Hercules and Love Affair
18) Faulkner Street - Hayes Carll

Now, how many of these artists can you recognize? What images from the cover above can you associate with these artists and their 2008 work?

You can hear many of these songs randomly streamed from my 2008 radio 'station' on last.fm.