Roof Coffee Cup

"People maintain driving with a cellphone doesn't distract them.  I decided to see if that was true.  I thought and thought about what I could do to prove it.  Then it hit me.  If I put something on my car roof, I could see if people notice.  I decided a coffee cup was the best choice, and after consulting my friends, they said to go with a StarBucks cup w/attached "cup condom".  I did , and the reaction was good enough for me to give the cup its own Twitter feed( twitter.com/RoofCoffeeCup ), where I jot down what people do while driving, then Tweet a recap later.  It's hilarious because I can be driving at 65 miles per hour, and people don't consider how a cup could still be on my roof.  When I take turns in front of them, and the cup doesn't move, they still tell me.  Even at stop lights, when people get out of their cars and try to take it off, some people don't figure out it's not real."
Learn how to make your own at instructables.com

Found this delightful at http://j-walkblog.com. I think this could be hours of fun.

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Are there 15 things worth knowing about the Coffee Zone?

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You could share them via comments. For now, some things worth know about coffee from The Oatmeal. By way of the Digital Niftyness of Nicholas Moerman.

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A great coffee shop needs great creative

The promotional pieces (not sure what to call them) were designed by Lucky Lime Media here in Jefferson City. Maybe you could get something as good in New York or LA but that's a long way to drive. These guys are just up the street.

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McYanis

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Gyros+cream cheese+bagel = yumm

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Coffee Art

All of the art on this site is painted with coffee. Karen, the artist, started creating these masterpieces at the late Kaldi’s Coffeehouse in New Orleans, where she would go everyday to sketch her fellow French Quarter locals while sipping a black coffee with a dash of nutmeg on top. From her websites:

"After moving back home to Tulsa, Oklahoma, she was introduced to the joys of top-quality espresso at Nordaggio’s Coffee, and finally the link between coffee and art connected when she began painting with it.

Soon she learned the art of espresso itself by becoming a barista, though art is now her full-time job. Painting in coffee is a refreshing break from Karen’s work in oils, watercolor, and pencil.

I first thought of the idea of painting with coffee while watching rich, red-brown espresso pouring perfectly into my cup. As I enjoyed my hot latte, it occurred to me that perhaps I could take my passion for coffee to a deeper level. So I dipped my brush and began painting, and to my delight, it worked beautifully."

You can purchase her art in several sizes and formats from her website.

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