Banksy is Oscar Nominated.

Guess how he reacted.

The Luxury Gamer. Because such things exist.

For those of you with plenty of money but no social life to spend it on, Luxury goods manufacturer (a euphemism for "maker of useless expensive shit") has created a luxury gaming console. Compatible with Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, it's made of ostrich leather and dark blue lacquered oak, it's definitely something your average stupidly rich playboy can use to impress girls (until they realise that he still lives with his mum because he can't make himself a sandwich).
No word on pricing yet, but you'll be able to buy this on February 18 if you are rich, but still to socially awkward to find a gold digger.

Did anyone mention...

In the latest news on luxury weddings, someone has made a cake at the "Bride Villa" event, studded with 500 Swarvoski crystles.

Did anyone mention swarvoski crystals are inedible?

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD

This is a new building planned in India, called Atmosphere. It's planned as a pair of towers with this giant garden-cloud between them
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Did I mention the cloud glows? It has 15, 000 kinetic silver disks so that, like a real cloud, it is constantly changing shape. And surprisingly, it's also eco-friendly.
But, still, did I mention it's a floating garden made out of glowing silver disks? Does anyone else have the feeling that the future has arrived?
And does anyone else want to move to India like NOW?

Yup, you got my attention all right.

This is the advertising campaign for the Brest Cancer Foundation of Singapore. Breast cancer is a terrible issure. My grandma is currently going through chemotherapy for it, and I believe that raising awareness of self-diagnosis could help save lives.
However, mild sexism and cute cartoons on boobs are NOT the way to go about doing that.

The advert implies that women are too busy obsessing over one tiny little pimple, or a few stray hairs, to care about breast cancer.
Really, the tag line is "Are you obsessed with the right things?"
While I agree that many women forget to self check because they are preoccupied with other things, those other things are slightly more likely to be, say, the human rights case they're currently closing, or the new breast cancer advertising campaign they've been working tirelessly on through the night.

The Corey Helford Gallery is coming for your child's innocence

So recently the Corey Helford Gallery gave several artists the question "How would you re-imagine art for a child's room?" The result was a show called In The Nursery

Beloved by Ray Ceaser
Now the problem is, artists love the idea of subverted innocence. There's something about putting pure, sweet little children in an image that instantly makes the dark stuff more creepy and disturbing. But the idea that any sane person is going to hang these, admittedly great, artworks in a child's room is what worries me. Because it's one thing to paint subverted innocence, but actually subverting it? In the form of giving your child nightmares, all in the name of being a hipster parent? That's not edgy. That's just evil. There's a fine line. 

Oh feminism. How I miss you.

                            
Someone, somewhere, though it was morally and aesthetically acceptable to create a book of boobs in 3D. Then call it 3DD. If you own this, please comment below and I'll give you a good long list of why you are single.
And no, Hipsters, this can never be ironic. Ever. Or art. It's just irritating. Look at what they billed it as:

"Boobs in 3D, 86 pages of pure fun, glasses included, enjoy"
Oh, and they also claimed the above was four words long.

My New Rug Crushes

From the "Losanges" collection by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec for Nani Marguina
For once, I've found a piece of design I like not because it looks more sophisticated than me, but because it looks like my house - all threadbare rugs and old paintings.

"Roots" by Matali Crassat
Do I really have to explain why I love this one? Can you not just see the slightly off symmetry, the interesting concept and the way it's slightly creepy, like a giant eyeball?

Yes, I'm going through a emo phase right now

Reblogged from The Cool Hunter

My god these are cool. 

Dresses That Changed Fashion Part 1

Nowadays this would be passed off as your typical, slightly average evening gown but back in 1915 when Mariano Fortuny first started selling these, they were revolutionary.

If you think they were over-reacting, consider these people had just come out of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, where the female body was both exaggerated and hidden by corsets and full skirts. These dresses both accentuated the body and left it in it's natural shape.

Plus they're gorgeous

My new style crushes

Aura Lamp by Ocean Delaine and Beatrice Durandard. Normally I would avoid something like this like the plague. Why? Because it's got the word aura in it, which makes me want to punch someone. But it's just so pretty...
Let's face it though, it's a strip-lit wicker basket.

Now that's more like it. Cube as Home Lights by Orest Tatryn.
If you continue reading this blog for a while, you'll realise that I have a fetish for multicoloured glowing things. It's because I always picture myself ten years from now, in a bar in New York sipping a Screaming Orgasm (one day I will look back on this and cringe) lit by lots and lots of multi-coloured glowy things. And being chatted up by incredibly handsome men, but the glowy things are vitally important to the image too.

Oh, I wish I was a jet-setter with diamonds in my hair

Love gold? Love the idea of living surrounded by it? Have stupidly massive amounts of money to waste and are bored by the idea of travel, books or anything mind-broadening like that?

$26600. Solid gold speakers from MBL.

Though to be honest, if you need one of these it shows you still use CD's. My god, MBL, when are you going to come out with those gold plated iPod speakers I just can't live without?

Apparently it offers a "pure audio experience". Which I'm sure you care about if you're the sort of person who buys speakers with gold buttons.

This one is £8000 pounds, and in case you hadn't realised, is a solid gold Blackberry Torch handset. Once again, it's slightly outdated, because it's got a keypad instead of a touch screen, but fuck that, IT'S GOLD!

It also comes in pink, yellow and rose gold. Because if your solid gold phone doesn't match your outfit they don't let you into first class.

Also available with a sprinkling of diamonds. HELL YEAH!

Anne-Julie Jewellery: Just love it. Just do.

Cameo. Lockets. Hearts. Hand crafted and individual. Valentine's day soon. Just leave this website (http://www.annejulie-art.com/blog/)  open on his browser and maybe he'll get the right idea.

Enchanted Doll and the magical realm of pretty creepiness.

This is the 20 to Midnight doll from the Enchanted Doll range. Just watch her blank, staring eyes and she reclines naked, wondering why you are staring at her grossly deformed head. She is sucking out your soul.
These are genuinely real, not just computer animations. You can order your own. If you really want an incredibly realistic and intricate doll. With incredibly intricate and realistic...umm... nipples.

Yeah, these are definitely not kids toys.

These are metal shoes you can get for your enchanted doll. They come in four styles, Extravagance, Persian Slippers, Marie Antoinette and Hopscotch. Yeah, no clothes, but REALLY GREAT SHOES!
The thing is, I actually find these really pretty and would love one, but I would probably have to destroy it after a while because of the fear that it would come alive and murder me.
http://www.enchanteddoll.com if you want these...ummm...

Amy Sol

This is Amy Sol's pottery. Her designs are slightly weird, very ethereal and always beautiful.

And as you may have noticed, she has a thing for this girl with dark hair and closed eyes. It's highly likely that a generation of emos have taken, or will take, her pictures and use them as their MySpace backgrounds, but for me, they will always be gorgeous. Even if they do make me think of annoyingly depressing Luke in my maths class.
http://www.amysol.com/blog/

I don't know WHAT these are but I found them by accident

Aren't they just awesome? I mean, AREN'T THEY?

Because, dammit, what very office needs is a more male-dominated feel

The idea of this office is that it moves away from the modern concept of "having fun while working" and "making friends with your co-workers" and goes back to the traditional Victorian concept of "Men in dark suits playing cards and laughing at poor people."

Did I mention that it's for an investment bank? The last people you would want to give those attiudes to, considering the recent economic crisis?

Battle of the Mad Sporting Marketing Concepts

While stalking Acces Agency, I came across two separate ideas for marketing a sports brand, one for Nike and one for Puma. A normal person would feel no reaction and click the "Back" button. Me? I decide to do a battle

NIKE

Wow I Want To Do That Rating: 10/10. I mean, come on. It's a giant waterslide.
Reality Rating: 2/10 As you can see, it's computer generated, and I think that most organisations with something to do with the coastline would have something to say about a giant inflatable advert popping up across the cliffs.
Effectiveness Rating: 5/10 We're working on the assumption it was built here. Advertising is all about subliminal messaging. Unfortunately, here this could go both ways. It could either be "WHOAH, THAT WAS AWESOME SO NIKE MUST BE AWESOME!" or it could result in a totally consuming fear of giant red ticks. It's a 50% chance.

PUMA

Wow I Want To Do That Rating: 4/10. By day it is a national competition for who can keep spin-cycling the longest. While I guess that might give someone a chance at glory who would otherwise spend the rest of their lives wondering why they waisted so much time building up ridiculously strong legs, most people would go "Eeer...no thanks" if approached on the street and asked if they wanted to keep cycling for a ridiculous amount of time. By evening it transforms into a nightclub. An open air nightclub. It's cold at night. Who wants to go clubbing in a coat? On a shiny platform where everyone can see your drunk behaviour?
Reality Rating: 8/10. Puma just need say the word and it's go...after all, it's not a quantum leap away from Smirnoff and it's parties.
Effectiveness Rating: 6/10 When watching it on TV, it will seem great. "Look at all those tough men go" teenage boy will think. "All powered by Puma." And he will go to Puma. For the people involved, however, the dissapointment and pain will be so scarring they will probably never buy Puma again, and will possibly sue. Hell, I would.

Decades collection

Being a lover of all things vintage I love this collection from http://www.thevintageweddingdresscompany.com. They've designed a series of dresses inspired by different decades. I particularly love the 60's one. It's retro, glamorous and they are all lace. It's my fashiony wet dream.

70's style through to 40's style from left to right. Below, 30's style

PINBALL

It's life size! And YOU are the ball!
That's not a fun marketing concept, Access Agencies, that's the plot of a low-rent horror movie!

It even looks like a torture machine inside!

Vionnet

Vionnet are a little known designer label at the moment. In my non-expert opinion, they'll soon be everywhere, simply because their dresses are sensual, modern and gorgeous.

This one has got to be my favourite