Take a Big Whiff...

...of air. Now you can breath in (for like, half a minute) air from your favorite places around the world. Czech photographer, Kirill Rudenko, has begun selling canned air. My first impression of this is that he's not that great a photographer and this is a desperate attempt to avoid foreclosure on his house. My second impression, is that people will buy anything.

Each $10, 3 and a half inch can is packed with12.7 ounces of air from different areas of popular cities: New York, Paris, Riga (Latvia), Singapore, Berlin, and Prague. He claims the air "relieves stress, cures homesickness, and helps fighting nostalgia." I think he means "helps to fight nostalgia." He's Czech, I'll let it slide.

New York air contains the following formula:

• 20% Empire State Building
• 10% Grand Central Terminal
• 10% Chrysler Building
• 20% Statue of Liberty
• 10% Little Italy, Chinatown (guess they're so close together they smell the same?)
• 10% Brooklyn Bridge
• 10% Time Square
• 10% Central Park

It also comes with the disclaimer that it may contain traces of the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, or Staten Island. 

Just for fun...here are the rest of the formulas.

Paris: - May contain traces of liberte, egalite, and fraternite

• 20% The Louvre
• 20% Notre Dame
• 25% The Eiffel Tower
• 15% Musee d'Orsay
• 10% Champs-Elysees
• 10% Sacre Coeur

Prague:

• 20% Wenceslas Square
• 20% Charles Bridge
• 25% Old Town Square
• 15% Prague Castle
• 10% Lesser Town
• 10% Zlata Street

Berlin: - May contain traces of Americans, British, French, Russians, and Curry Wurst (a German sausage dish)...also, I hope they mean the figurative smell of those nationalities...not actual 'traces'

• 25% Brandenburg Gate
• 10% Potsdamer Platz
• 10% Kurfurstendamm
• 20% Reichstag
• 15% Tiergarten
• 10% Charlottenburg
• 10% Checkpoint Charlie

Singapore: - Warning, do not open in public places, the offense carries a punishment of imprisonment for a term which may extend to 6 months, or with a fine extended to $25,000, or with both. (Joking, as I can find nothing to substantiate this claim)

• 25% Botanic Gardens
• 10% Chinatown
• 10% Little India
• 20% Central Business District
• 15% The Singapore Flyer
• 10% Merlion
• 10% Marina Bay Sands SkyPark

Riga: May contain traces of Russki (Russians), Ze Germans and Swedes (lol)

• 20% Old Riga
• 10% House of Blackheads
• 10% Central Market
• 20% Jurmala
• 10% Sun Stone
• 10% Livs Square
• 10% Freedom Monument
• 10% Laima Clock

And for more fun, here's my own formula for New York air:

• 10% car fumes
• 15% rotting garbage
• 5% hot dogs
• 5% pretzels
• 20% sewer
• 25% subway tunnel
• 20% Central Park (cleanish air)

If you want to make the Prague city air yours...you can buy it here. No promises that all the air from all the different cities didn't just come from Rudenko's back yard. You know....if I was sure it came from the correct cities, all these canned airs would make a stupid, yet somehow cute, little tower in my travel themed dining room.