starbucks

 

went into starbucks for a quick cup of tea with my girlfriend when we noticed a new poster for this -- the new strawberries and cream frappe. we decided to get one to share and it was delicious! really nice and fresh, probably my favourite flavor yet.

everytime i go into a starbucks i quickly look at the merchandise section when i stumbled across these.

 it's a frappe hard cup - made of thick plastic to keep the drink cold inside. was very close to buying one but £10 price tag.. maybe another day!

but while in starbucks i really liked the direction they're going in with the design/marketing posters etc.

studio ghibli storyboard books

went into forbidden planet (comic book store) in southampton the other day - where i spotted these in the corner at the sale section.

i haven't seen these before, they had four in total each at £29.99 - my neighbors the yamadas, little norse prince, only yesterday, and i forget the last one .. :/

 front cover 

 

rear - it was only when i saw the ghibli logo i realized and opened the box. 

  this is the actual book - the two above pictures are a hard box the book fits in.. 

the book is like this inside, start to finish storyboards of the movie all in original japanese. i also found that within each book there was little pieces of paper with notes scribbled down on them, book marks etc - which were really cool too! i assume they have books for all the ghibli movies?

i would of purchased one but they were a little too expensive for me at the time.. maybe next time! but they would make a great gift for a fan of the studio.

i found a short review of the ponyo book here which shows more of the books:

http://parkablogs.com/node/2262