a visual collective outlet of inspiration
eh oui eh oui, romantic french band consume is starting to be around, after this swell video. the vinyl is in store at colette. go frenchies! by pp.
the birds of yucatan
my little birds are lucky to fetch $6. by uh
the most expensive book: John James Audubon’s Birds of America
having just spent days painting birds in mexico i found this book rather curious and desirable. if only i had 9 million dollars to spare, that is. a rare copy of john james audubon’s “birds of america” is heading to the auction block and is expected to fetch between $6.2 and $9.2 million. billed as the world’s most expensive book, it is one of only 119 copies in existence. the 2-by-3-foot tome consists of 435 hand-colored prints of Audubon’s famous illustrations. it comes, of course, from the collection of a british baron who died in 1955. sotheby’s, which will hold the auction in december 2010, has 8.8 million reasons to believe the audubon book will fetch a fortune. that’s how many dollars a copy sold for at a christies’s auction in just 10 years ago! wow! by uh
the 2011 bentley mulsanne: not that impressive after all
the beautiful lines that fail to exist outside of a lit studio
a V8 engine that thinks like a V4. bravo!
the vintage beauty next to the muslanne is the original 8-liter that was first shown at the 1930 london motor show. a total of 100 cars were built in 1930 and 1931. it was capable of reaching more than 100 mph, which was surpassing every other manufacturer of the day.
now about the the grandson… at almost $300,000 the mulsanne comes with beautiful lines that fail to exist outside of a lit studio, and safety-first high-rise doors that ruin the lines of any car. it also includes a tail that is not worthy of showing, and an interior that is just as disappointing inside you will find a horrible digital screen that sits dead center on the dash, immediately killing any illusions of romanticism and the over-crowded cabin and its over-use of leather and wood make it to be the perfect candidate for the man who has everything in this world… but class.
all that said there are no new cars that are even worth reviewing short of the R8, the original boxter, or the first relaunch of the bug. so the muslanne must have something! and it does.
the nose with its distinctive over-sized lights could have won the prize had it not been ruined by all the “jeweled LED” trickery, but that said its still a nose of a noble man, despite the zits.
the other nice part is that the the new bently’s comes with a revised version of the automaker’s 6.75-liter v-8 engine, which has been updated with “cam-phasing and variable displacement technologies”, which translates into a ‘power-on-demand’ system that simply closes the valves of four of the eight cylinders to maximize fuel economy and reduce the mammoth co2 output by such a large and heavy car (5,700 pounds which is almost 3 tons… all to move one single, fat, rich, oily, man). it’s still far from a green car but an “A” for efforts is in order. by dd
say hello to “MY” little friends: totoro
holly shit…. i see something and its not just totoro… the jimmyjane vibrators look very much like totoro… is this as bad as making cigarette ads with cartoon characters? if you are japanese and have daughters be afraid… be veeeery afraid! by xy
say hello to my little friends
here are the newest additions to jimmyjane, pleasure to the people, by our little yves-eeee. by dd
vanessa bruno – day for night
let us continue with the fashion short movies. in the past, we have posted vanessa bruno’s shorts, and the new one is just as beautiful. pure pleasure. we were talking about ryan mcginley a few posts earlier, but to me those shorts are the best cross over fashion/movies.
it’s from stephanie di giusto and it’s featuring valentine fillol cordier and once again lou doillon. sublime! by pp
PERMANENT FOOD – STILL AROUND
dd, permanent food is still around, you can get it at opening ceremony, i’m sure you know where it is. see prev post by pp
pretty kitty
i wish i knew who this painting is by, alas, it is just here to say hello in the morning. by kl
david lynch – comme des garcons
new david lynch’s show at comme des garcons, six gallery in osaka. wallpaper by pp
ryan mcginley reminds us – we are animals
Paul rowland at ford
i used to always crack up seeing 12 year old girls walking into supreme along with paul and mohammad looking vicious and intimidating, of course they are both teddy bears in disguise, but heres paul… now at ford. by dd
