Beatin’ Around the Bush, 36″ x 30″

Opening this Saturday at Jonathan Levine is an outstanding show, Imbroglio, by Mark Dean Veca. Here is a sneak peek at some of the 17 paintings you will see.

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My favorite new advertisement! Diesel, took a learn to disco video and made it even better! Will you dance as good as him? Maybe if you buy the diesel 78′s

Lugo, New York City

Architects Penoyre & Prasad designed this installation for the Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. Using aluminum louvers and LED technology,the building is illuminated on the south side. The LED lighting illuminates the fa

Another classic Kate Moss from the 90′s Calvin Klein campaign.

Via Geekologie,the USB Fridge and Heater, from USBGeek takes 5 minutes to cool a beverage to 54

If you’re up near the beaner, stop by and czech it out.Twenty artists will be participating in a collaborative art installation that will take place in Central Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from October 25 to October 28. Located in the heart of Central Square at 567 Mass Ave, the 81-foot long wall will present the best work by internationally-known street artists from around the country. This is believed to be the first time an event of this magnitude has been done in the Boston Area, which will include posters, painting, 3-D, graffiti, stencils, and stickers. The exhibit will be open to the public. More after the jump [Read more]

I had the chance to peruse this book when I was out in LA a couple weeks ago. Street World: Urban Culture and Art from Five Continents is co-authored by Roger Gastman, Caleb Neelon, and Anthony Smyrski and in the publisher’s words “is the first book to record the whole phenomenon” of global street culture. There is one photo of the DMS (Doc Marten Skins) that is incredible.

Model muse Chloe Maxwell.

Photographer Peter Dean Richards, for Arena Magazine feature “Trouble in Kingston town.

Pick up Design for Military 2, an amazing picture book of illustrations propaganda and art, about Japanese Military, edited by Kesaharu Imai,published by World Photo Press. Available at Paul Smith Store 5th ave NYC.

Unprecedented in its approach, the number and diversity of the species presented, and the quality of the photographs, Evolution is the book on how we came to be what we are. This book is the result of a dual approach, scientific as well as aesthetic, rigorous yet accessible. Each chapter is made up of a short text that illuminates one theme of the evolutionary process-repetition, adaptation, polymorphism, sexual selection-and a series of exquisitely composed photographs of skeletons against a black background.

Approximately three hundred photographs of whole skeletons or details have been made possible by the French National Museum of Natural History.

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Here’s your girlfriends new favorite pastime. Polyvore, the site that lets you style yourself by building up fantasy outfits.

Choose from designer and high street pieces, create a look, tag it, save it and share it. You can buy through the site, and sign up using the registration process or your Facebook account. There are guide videos in the unlikely event of needing a helping hand, but since this is really just Paper Dolls for Grown Ups, Via shiny shiny. Watch the video to see what its about.

Do you own a 12″ of “Blue Monday” by New Order? (Must be the 1983 version and a 1983 pressing) Do you want to be part of this ongoing artwork? Spencer Graham realized the obsession for this release and Peter Saville’s iconic packaging. Click over to bluemondayownersclub.com, for look at who’s who in the world of blue monday.

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On the verge of an epic european show in London, Shepard today drops Panther Power. The image reminds me of the bikinied chick from Live or Let Die, but she has a turtleneck on. Maybe it was cold.

What a year this has been for Brooklyn’s Faile. These two pieces, SAVAGE WORLD LONDON STENCIL and STUDIO B TEST IN BLACK IN BLUE #3, were brought to auction at Sotheby’s by dealer Steve Lazarides and conveniently sandwiched between a couple Banksy’s. Savage World London Stencil beat its high estimate of

Photo by Louise Chin / Lost art with touches by Herbert Baglione

Aldea, makes a lot of things. Their motto is “one item that completes a home”. Well, here are 4. Doe, Owl, Skylark, Hoppoe, are created by Ibride, which is an innovative French design team led by three members of the same family. Using century old techniques to create their trays using recycled wood to give it new life as a functional tray or home accent. Or someplace to de-seed your weed. Buy now for $60.00 each.

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Takashi Murakami’s Retrospective at the L.A’s Museum of Contemporary Art opens October 29th and runs through November 15th. The Retrospective will also include a room filled with the line of Louis Vuitton accessories he collaborated on. Will you see his collaboration with Supreme? Only time will tell.

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