Product Prototypes and Periods
Added 2021-05-26 19:56:21 +0000 UTCYou know on April 1st when I said I was building a period machine? Well I wasn't joking.
A couple of weeks ago, we turned the workshop into a proper (alas very crammed) studio and filmed two projects for Kotex: a period machine and a cramp machine. I'm really proud of how they came out. Combining shitty robots with sex ed may not sound like a great match, but it was.
Can I show you something that you pinky-internet-promise will keep a secret? Since you can't actually answer that question, I'm just going to assume that it's a yes.
First of all: after asking some very trusted advisors (AKA you) I've decided that the name of my product brand is YETCH, or YETCH store. I'm feeling really good about it. It's unique and weird and funny for people who know the backstory, but not overly silly. And I know it sounds a little bit like a cat throwing up a hairball, but also: good for you, cat. You purge that hairball.
Second of all:
Ok I'm just realizing that it'll seem like I'm about to tell you that I'm engaged. I'm not. But I am very much in love with these two ring prototypes that we're working on. It's an (occasionally useful) screwdriver ring, and a companion screw ring. I'm so excited to start selling these. We're still figuring out how to machine the screw ring, so for now I'm just wearing this wonky 3D printed version.
OTHER THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED
- Scraps found a dead cat in the park and immediately sat down to pee on it. She hates cats. I hope that peeing on that carcass was the revenge that she's been seeking, and that now she can start her healing process.
- I posted a new video this morning where I show 7 random house projects that I've built.
- I'm getting an electric bike/cafe racer this week. I AM SO FUCKING STOKED. And before you get worried: it's technically just a bike, I can't ride on freeways with it or anything, but I'm scheduled to get my motorcycle license in July anyway as a precaution.
LOOK AT THAT THING! SCRAPS AND I ARE GOING TO LOOK SO COOL RIDING IT TO THE DOG PARK. At least I hope it'll help win back the coolness points that I lost from this photo:
That's all for now. I hope you're having a good week! And if you're not, I hope you'll find an appropriate item to pee on to get your revenge.
XOXO
Simone
Comments
Congrats on making YETCH happen! (Best fetch pun I could come up with). I really like it, it’s smart, catchy, cool and short, and it’ll be great to slap on products as a logo. Looking forward to a store! Must be so exiting/terrifying to take that next step. Good luck!
Kathrin Leppek
2021-07-04 07:57:33 +0000 UTCFeeet moped 👌👌 If you ever have questions about riding or protection gear or whatever I will happily try to answer all of them!
Johannes Holm
2021-06-25 09:37:37 +0000 UTCUm, the yellow couch seems unnecessarily dangerous with the wonky legs. I hope Scraps is safe up there....
Timm Gleason
2021-06-02 20:35:44 +0000 UTCLiterally just googled cafe racer because I definitely need one
Charles LaFave
2021-05-31 17:32:19 +0000 UTCHi Simone! I loved the 2 machines! Brilliant. Every school should show them... maybe?
Karen Kingsbury
2021-05-31 16:50:28 +0000 UTCIf I peed on the thing I want revenge against, I'd get fired and likely arrested... I'm not completely sure why, but I feel like my bosses would be really upset about being peed on...
Clifton Ballad
2021-05-29 01:01:54 +0000 UTCI have one from Electra. Love it!
caroline giertz
2021-05-27 19:49:17 +0000 UTCoh my god the cramps machine. oh my god. that was the funniest and maybe also the most frightening thing i’ve seen all year.
Psara
2021-05-27 17:04:30 +0000 UTCI don't know if you read my comment in Swedish, but it does come from the heart, I do find your creativity and your skills in practical project solving inspiring beyond my current vocabulary. That is why I support and belive in you. That is why I want to see you succeed at beeing yourself and making a living out of it, a free-ish style of living I wish I too had the focus and perseverence to build and maintain for myself, alas, ADHD torpedoed that dream before the condition was even medically identified and categorized globally as an NPD... I got the diagnosis at 32yo, 4 years ago.
Sons of Lorgar
2021-05-27 16:45:44 +0000 UTCJust watched the "7 uninteresting projects" video. What I loved the most about it was how much it showed off who you are. I feel like so much of what we see online is people's "best" or just their online persona; but you clearly find creative, fun, practical solutions to so many things - even as mundane as a toilet paper holder - that you're not even planning to show off. That ingenuity & humility is why I love being a patron. Keep up the great work. (And if your humility is secretly also part of your finely crafted "persona", well, you got me, lol)
Ian Keyworth
2021-05-27 11:14:13 +0000 UTCPlease build a side car for Scraps!!
JONATHAN WANG
2021-05-27 06:34:56 +0000 UTCOh waow! so many great ideas I now want to implement! Especially the "towers". On the matter of the bathroom cupboard: have you considered painting white lines and thus actually drawing molecules? For example: oxytocin, known as the "happiness molecule". https://www.redbubble.com/fr/i/poster/Structure-mol%C3%A9culaire-de-l-ocytocine-par-typelab/28281616.LVTDI
Anne ROBERTZ
2021-05-27 06:31:05 +0000 UTCThe slippers are awesome. Seriously, they look as if you've stuck your foot up Scraps' tooshie (and her clone, too). Where did you find slippers that are literally your dog!?
Larysa Jaworski
2021-05-27 05:57:32 +0000 UTCThere are too many great things going on here for me to be able to pick anything to comment on specifically...but all in all I'm very happy about all the cool stuff!
Dom
2021-05-27 05:37:53 +0000 UTCIf you want to get engaged then marry me!
Simon David
2021-05-27 05:21:51 +0000 UTCFirst - I watched the Kotex videos, and laughed til I bled…. Which reminds me, I need to move my tool box away from my computer…. Second - I would so buy a matched/“mated” pair of rings for the wife and I, so please make sure the smaller women’s sizes are included. I love the small parts holders from the copper end caps. That is a wonderful idea I’ve never seen before. Your toilet paper shelf makes me wish I had a cnc.
neal richard
2021-05-27 02:19:14 +0000 UTCSimone! In your video you seem like you're being so hard on yourself. Omg I love everything you showed. These builds are so useful! Also I love the bathroom design theme? Seriously, the plant stand and everything. These things are so so helpful; especially for someone that lives in a tiny space like me. I literally can barely turn around in my shower and have nowhere to put soaps, so now i want your soap stand too :-D
Ally B
2021-05-27 01:28:08 +0000 UTCScrew ring is nuts! Okay, leaving.
Edward Iglesias
2021-05-27 01:26:57 +0000 UTCPlease don't limit yourself to Philips head design for your rings, there are so many different types of screw head you can make, everything from hex to triwing
Bob Ogden
2021-05-27 01:07:45 +0000 UTCWhat? You look great. Glad Kotex jumped into the breech.
Eliot R. Brown
2021-05-26 23:46:55 +0000 UTComfg those rings. Would buy immediately. No need to get engaged, just cool. Would also actually use for proposing though.
Kristian
2021-05-26 23:26:17 +0000 UTCHaven't laughed as much as I did watching the cramp machine in action in a long time.
Ursula Sage
2021-05-26 22:38:29 +0000 UTCWait, can we buy those Scraps slippers anywhere? They look awesome
Harvey Tang
2021-05-26 21:45:35 +0000 UTC🤞 hoping you’re bike has a sidecar for Scraps
Cate McCleery
2021-05-26 20:56:34 +0000 UTCMakes me think of Val Kilmer in Real Genius. He had a bit of the same sort of cool going on. https://mentalskillness.wordpress.com/tag/bunny-rabbit-slippers/ And Einstein approved. https://boingboing.net/2012/08/16/einsteins-slippers.html/amp
Jeremy Cox
2021-05-26 20:51:36 +0000 UTCGood choice to call the shop "Yetch". Appropriate branding and catchy name. I'm curious about the logo (or any news about it) ?! The videos from the collaboration with Kotex are really good. It is important to deal calmly with the processes of the human body and to impart knowledge about them in an entertaining way.
Edgar Ernst
2021-05-26 20:51:26 +0000 UTCI see what you're saying! I haven't really been thinking about the rings as gendered, but definitely something for me to keep in mind. Looking at them, I actually think screw ring skews a bit more masculine signet ring, and the screwdriver reads like a more femme gemstone.
Simone Giertz
2021-05-26 20:50:29 +0000 UTCCan we get a video and/or blueprints for the plant stripper pole. I loved it!
Anthony Melina Pallares
2021-05-26 20:50:03 +0000 UTCThat's a cool looking bike! You could machine jigs to clamp and hold the screw rings while you mill the file details, but I could see that getting really expensive/complicated.
Stephen Hager
2021-05-26 20:46:27 +0000 UTCNow I get period product ads on YouTube.... Thank you?
Matt Schwoebel
2021-05-26 20:36:33 +0000 UTCIf you find the chicken head, please update us?
Aaron Olson
2021-05-26 20:27:44 +0000 UTCI found a turtle trying to cross the road. Helped it get the rest of the way. Def not a snapper because it didn't try to bite my finger off. It did, however, get its revenge by peeing on me.
Russ Nelson
2021-05-26 20:19:13 +0000 UTCLove these rings ! Looking forward to seeing the other marvels you'll design 😍 Hope you'll enjoy your awesome looking bike !
Alex Niji
2021-05-26 20:17:18 +0000 UTCLove the rings! For v2.0, can I suggest one with a Storz connector for people who want the connection metaphor but without the gender binary? Plus Storz connectors are just badass.
Adam Schumacher
2021-05-26 20:11:43 +0000 UTCThe bumbag/slipper combo only ups your cool points in my book! Congrats for settling on YETCH - I love it 🎉
Biddy Fisher
2021-05-26 20:08:24 +0000 UTCFor the ring, contact Boone Rings. https://www.instagram.com/boonerings/ he might be able to help.
Pete Kastner
2021-05-26 20:08:22 +0000 UTCwill be a while before we start selling them! Hopefully sometime this summer
Simone Giertz
2021-05-26 20:06:28 +0000 UTCI'm getting one from Onyx! Will let you know how I like it.
Simone Giertz
2021-05-26 20:05:27 +0000 UTCI would like that pair of rings *immediately* please!!!! No, like forreal, right now. Where are they? 😝
Candace Jordan
2021-05-26 20:04:08 +0000 UTCI'm also looking for an electric bike! Do you have any recommendations?
Taylor Pridgen
2021-05-26 20:03:04 +0000 UTCCongratulations... on an almost net positive cool points day. :)
Ian Fiebig
2021-05-26 20:02:46 +0000 UTCThat "i still wouldn't date you" line in the vid had us all dying, please never stop being you
Nathan Karwic
2021-05-26 20:01:31 +0000 UTCI think you actually won coolness points for the slippers....just my opinion.
Tree Carcass Mangler
2021-05-26 20:01:28 +0000 UTC
