Its 2007 you just discovered the Smiths, and your parents good china is nowhere to be found. Settle for the Tea/Coffee pot with 2 stackable cups, all from the WARM line - a range that combines ceramic vessels with bracelets of laminated bent wood. Ceramic pieces are oven, microwave and dishwasher safe. Wood laminate easily slides off and can be wiped clean. Includes stainless steel filter and cork lid.click here for more information

The Jungle Book 2 Press Book created by Zapping in Madrid for Buena Vista International. The pressbook was bound with a cover made of special paper containing seeds. After a couple of weeks the seeds will begin to grow.

With the February 2007 issue of Juxtapoz there will be a new Editor-in-Chief, Upper Playground's Founder and current CEO Matt Revelli. Along with the new EIC comes many new features, including new layout and editorial content. The issue kicks off with a cover featuring Brooklyn's Swoon, reaffirming my decision of month's ago to add a couple pieces of her's to my collection. TADOW! Read the release here.

Everyone needs a muse, Marc Jacobs had sophia, and we are offering you Gemma Ward the worlds best ever weekly muse. Born in Perth Austraila, 1987, (19) she started modeling in 2002. She was selected by Anna Wintour to be featured in the "It Girls", of the supermodel world. She has two film projects in the work for 07,The Black Balloon and The Strangers

Have you recently bought a BANKSY Print on Ebay, you come home the tube is at your door, you open it up. You feel like an art collector, your first purchase towards your retirement plan. Gassssssssp, as you turn it over you notice its on epson paper!

BANKSY is attempting to put a stop to the countless bootleggers selling pirated prints of his work on eBay by releasing a selection of huge, high-res files of a dozen key images of his art for FREE on his website with the following printing instructions:

“Serving suggestion:
Prints look best when done on gloss paper using the company printer ink when everyone else is at lunch.” —Banksy

Yet another reason to be in Los Angeles the weekend of the 20th, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery has an incredible group show opening, taking it's title from the Dead Kennedy's song "Kinky sex makes the world go round". The show features some favorites Barry Mcgee, Jo Jackson, Raymond Pettibon, and the Dead Kennedy's, plus more. The release is below, enjoy.

"Kinky Sex (Makes The World Go 'Round)"
-Dead Kennedys (1987)

Greetings: This is the Secretary of War at the State Department
of the United States
We have a problem.
The companies want something done about this sluggish
world economic situation
Profits have been running a little thin lately
and we need to stimulate some growth

Now we know
there's an alarmingly high number of young people roaming
around in your country with nothing to do but stir up trouble
for the police and damage private property.
It doesn't look like they'll ever get a job
It's about time we did something constructive with these people
We've got thousands of 'em here too. They're crawling all over
The companies think it's time we all sit down, have a serious get-together-
And start another war

The President?
He loves the idea! All those missiles streaming overhead to and fro
Napalm
People running down the road, skin on fire

The Soviets seem up for it:
The Kremlin's been itching for the real thing for years.
Hell, Afghanistan's no fun
So whadya say?

We don't even have to win this war.
We just want to cut down on some of this excess population
Now look. Just start up a draft; draft as many of those people as you can.
We'll call up every last youngster we can get our hands on,
hand 'em some speed, give 'em an hour or two to learn how to use
an automatic rifle and send 'em on their way
Libya? El Salvador? How 'bout Northern Ireland?
Or a "moderately repressive regime" in South America?
We'll just cook up a good Soviet threat story
in the Middle East-we need that oil
We had Libya all ready to go and Colonel Khadafy's hit squad
didn't even show up. I tell ya
That man is unreliable.
The Kremlin had their fingers on the button just like we did for that one

Now just think for a minute-We can make this war so big-so BIG
The more people we kill in this war, the more the economy will prosper
We can get rid of practically everybody on your dole queue if we plan this right.
Take every loafer on welfare right off our computer rolls
Now don't worry about demonstrations-just pump up your drug supply.
So many people have hooked themselves on heroin
and amphetamines since we took over, it's just like Vietnam.
We had everybody so busy with LSD they never got too strong.
Kept the war functioning just fine
It's easy.
We've got our college kids so interested in beer
they don't even care if we start manufacturing germ bombs again.
Put a nuclear stockpile in their back yard,
they wouldn't even know what it looked like
So how 'bout it? Look-War is money.
The arms manufacturers tell me unless
we get our bomb factories up to full production
the whole economy is going to collapse
The Soviets are in the same boat.

We all agree the time has come for the big one, so whadya say?!?
That's excellent. We knew you'd agree
The companies will be very pleased.

Sony have announced they will be releasing a brand new colour PSP in Japan and that colour is the bright “champagne gold,” which is what Sony have officially labelled the colour! The champagne gold PSP will go on sale on February 22nd for price 20,790 Yen which will in turn bring the number of colours of PSP available in Japan to six with black, ceramic white, pink, silver and metallic blue also available.

"A man who said he is an addict and would do anything to get some beer was taken into custody today on suspicion he used a hammer to smash through a wall leading to a store's refrigerator, according to FLORIDA TODAY news partner WKMG Local 6 News.

Orlando police said the unidentified man tunneled through a concrete block wall after 3:30 a.m. at Young's Food Market located on Parramore near Carter Street and crawled through.

He then smashed another bathroom wall inside the store in an attempt to get into the store's cooler...."


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A while back an ideal art show popped into my head, "Brooklyn's Finest". The idea was to give Los Angeles a taste of Brooklyn Street Art. New Image Art has done just that with the upcoming show "The Burning House". Featuring Swoon, Faile, and David Ellis it looks to be a doozy, with the opening surely to be one hell of a party. My guess is that it will sell out almost immediately, so if you are in L.A. on the 20th of January, go to the opening. If not, then try to see the show before it closes on February 24th and go hit up a taco truck. Mmmmmmm Tasty!

The Standard Downtown Art Series presents: Kidrobot

Los Angeles, California, January 25th, 2007 – Kidrobot has teamed up with The Standard Hotel for a very special toy release party on January 25th from 7-11pm at The Standard Hotel in Downtown LA.

For one night only, The Standard Hotel in Downtown LA will be transformed into a playground complete with candy, colors, games, and toys! Two brand new Kidrobot toys will be released at this exclusive event. The ‘Hello My Name Is’ 8-inch Dunny byartist Huck Gee, an ode to the theme of The Standard Hotel, will be available for the first time and exclusively at The Standard Downtown LA location. Only 500 pieces will ever be produced, and they are available for $49.95 each. The artist himself, Huck Gee, will also be signing his new toy from 7-9pm.

Also making its debut at this party will be the third series of Kidrobot's Munny toy, a "Do It Yourself" toy, which will be available for $24.95. To celebrate the release of this new toy, there will be an interactive Munny toy decorating party in the main loft of the hotel, complete with markers, crayons, buttons, glue, and more. Come and be the first to decorate your own Munny Series 3 figure!

Other exciting activities at the event will be a huge "Munny in Los Angeles" wall drawing by the UK's own ILoveDust that will be waiting for everyone to color and bring to life. Lots of crayons in fun colors will be waiting for you to get your hands on and make your mark on the Munny wall. Finally, don't miss the mini art gallery that will feature 20" Dunny toys customized by local LA area artists Gary Baseman, Joe Ledbetter, Tokidoki, Uglydolls, Joe Ledbetter, Deph, YoGabbaGabba, Michael Motorcycle, Blaine Fontana, Slick, Thomas Han, Dez Einswell, Dave Kinsey, Sever, and Nanospores.
Check out Kidrobot for more info

This is the worlds best ever fashion campaign for Miu Miu, with a behind the scenes photo "documentary". After view the pictures, you feel like you just flipped through a PG-13 version of Nobuyoshi Araki's portfolio.

Phonogram is a brilliant six-part mini-series developed by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie and released by Image Comics in September '06. With covers paying homage to some of the great britpop albums of the 90s ( Definitely Maybe, It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah, Suede, Elastica) , they've proven to be quite successful, with the first two issues selling out immediately (currently on their second printing). The premise of the story is as follows:

"PHONOGRAM traces the misadventures of Phonomancer David Kohl as he hunts for whoever is interfering with his old patron, the long-dead Goddess of Britpop, Britannia. If he fails, history itself will be rewritten - with him entirely out of it. "

Issue #4 is out today.

Wodcast.org is a "podcast project about the future of design." In the first installment from The Lighthouse in Glasgow, Scotland, interviewer Neil McGuire has cornered Peter Saville for 18 minutes of grandiose statements about branding, marketing, adidas, Factory Records and his concerns about "people in their mid-life who are still fascinated by typefaces and layout." Essential.

"you never need to turn around because there will always be another one coming."

Giraffe Manor is located about 15 miles outside of Nairobi and sits on 140 acres of it's own parkland on the lovely continent of Africa. What's best about this english style manor built in 1932, is that giraffes and other wild animals roam the grounds freely. Almost a hotel/petting zoo, giraffes will join you for breakfast and once satiated will move on to bask in the African sun and bat their huge eyelashes at those big African flies. A small hotel, only 5 rooms, the human to giraffe ratio is about 2 to 1.

The worlds best ever cabin in the woods by architetcts Saunders/Wilhelmsen. Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen, architects from the west coast of Norway. The picture above is from one of the cabins the duo made in one of the fjords of Norway. Learn more about the two of them.
www.saunders.no and www.tommie-wilhelmsen.no

Bing Bang Men has launched there first mens wear line of jewelry. Bing Bang jewelry, comprised of founding designer Anna Sheffield and her brother, director of operations Kevin Kearney. The line follow's the current trend of historic New York, with a focus on the simple life of Five Points and the Bowery Boys. This rough and tumble 19th-century era. To learn more check out the story on refinery29

So you just bought yourself the most expensive toy, and HD is not enough. Well then there is panoramica. They have created dvd's that are basically slideshows of amazing images. So you never have to turn off your tv again. In there words..."Breathtaking still and moving images from a broad range of world-renowned artists and photographers. 'Ambient' in concept, there's no storytelling, no narrative, just a constant stream of compelling beauty."



Recently departed photographer Bob Carlos Clarke was Britain's leading photographer specializing in female sensuality. He was renowned for his striking silver prints which are highly prized by collectors worldwide. With style, sensitivity and a sense humour uncommon in the genre, Carlos Clarke balanced his highly-charged images on the razor-edge of fine art, and nobody did it better.
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Mick Rock is the man who shot the seventies in all its glorious pomp when the likes of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, the Stones, Roxy Music, Lou Reed, Queen et al exploded onto the scene.
On stage, backstage, up close and personal - Punk Drunk Love captures Glamrock’s kings (and queens!) at the height of their 70s power.
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This is the worlds best ever ad for plastic surgery, and a really cool cup to have your coffee in.