The Somewhat Ambitious

As we all know, Mugabe is a dick.
(There, I said it. Although to be fair, I originally wrote “duck” and then amended it, which would put a whole new spin on this unfolding tragedy.)
To protest the hyperinflation spurred on by this tyrannical feathery fuckhead, The Zimbabwean (which is a newspaper, not a searingly racist action [...]

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Sawa Tanaka has whipped up a gorgeous series of edible prints… of food! These lovely screenprints are made with food coloring and ricepaper, and remind me of my childhood. Why? Remember in Willy Wonka, when that cranky spoiled bitch cut down the very notion of snozberries? Of course you do! Lickable wallpaper! That scene was [...]

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Designer/artist Daniel Hulsbergen has created a candle chair, and whilst I’d very much like to saddle it with with some ponderous vestigal academia, I think the phrase “melting furniture” says it all. I did manage to find Hulsbergens description of the chair:
The chair represents the time aspect that furniture nowadays is undergoing. Like fashion it [...]

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Both charming and reckless, this scheme by Spanish company Luzinterruptus grabbed my attention. The premise of the initiative was to make unhospitable corners of the Madrid cityscape appear cosy, and somewhere you’d be nuts enough to curl up and read a book:
“This intervention used light from lamps and books and was carried out during a [...]

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Check out these sweet oil paintings by Amy Bennett! They look totally real! Also, I can’t be arsed with witticisms and quippery this morning! Hast thou noticed? Forsooth! A peach, I say! Pip pip!
Oh dear. I appear to have turned all English.
/Paul
(Link via The Design Llama, courtesy of Tj)

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When I make my first blockbuster thriller, the main character will begin the film by waking up in a room decorated solely by an engine-powered coconut. It will look something like this.
/Luke
[courtesy of Ryan's Internet]

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If you want to treat yourself to some truly avant garge, fucked-up porcelain sculptures (and lets face it, you do), the latest work by Hayashi Shigeki will likely melt your butter. Using traditional Japanese ceramic techniques, Shigeki has created several sprawling works, largely (ok, entirely) made up of babies in robot suits. To be truthful, [...]

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