Pop artist Peter Gronquist tries to "shock" by building a Louis Vuitton "branded" electric chair. Be sure to check out his other line of "designer" weapons.
Do not want, but visually arresting piece by Banks Violette. At the very least it'll fire up a conversation or two at a party.
Los Angeles based designer and RISD alumnus Tanya Aguiniga puts a pleasing soft hand-felted touch to the decidedly utilitarian folding chairs. Her other seats and tables are unique as well.
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Melissa writes:
Jane of Sea of Shoes and her mom Judy of Atlantis Home were inspired by a Vogue Living spread to recover a chair in canvas and let kids from Cook Children’s Hospital have some fun with it. Great results for a great cause.
What kind of people wait in line all day for a chance to be an extra in the next "Sex and the City" movie? These people, including apparently an off-season Kris Kringle.
This one weirds me out.
Xue Lei's porcelain cast beer cans is a clever juxtaposition of the East and West embodied by familiar cultural visual stereotypes (porcelain for the former and beer cans for the latter), or to borrow Samuel Huntington's seminal International Relations article title, a clash of civilizations.
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Named dropped as a wink to wine aficionados in Pixar's Ratatouille, the 1947 Château Cheval Blanc is an accidental masterpiece. Created during an abnormally oppressive hot summer that ruined a many vats of wine, the '47 Cheval is arguably one of the most celebrated and coveted wines of the 20th century. Mike Steinberger for Slate shares the experience of trying it:
The moment I lifted the glass to my nose and took in that sweet, spicy, arresting perfume, my notion of excellence in wine, and my understanding of what wine was capable of, was instantly transformed—I could almost hear the scales recalibrating in my head. The '47 was the warmest, richest, most decadent wine I'd ever encountered. Even more striking than its opulence was its freshness. The flavors were redolent of stewed fruits and dead flowers, yet the wine tasted alive; it bristled with energy and purpose. The '47s signature flaws—the residual sugar and volatile acidity—were readily apparent, but it was just as Lurton had said: In this wine, the flaws inexplicably became virtues.
What's the most impressive wine you've ever tasted? Mine was from the wonderful and pastoral vineyard of Saint Ides.
A map of the world approximating the legal drinking age in each country. The after parties following middle school Sadie Hawkins dances must be WILD in Greenland. Jokes aside, everyone: Please drink responsibly.
Filed under "Why?" Japanese luxe company Ginza Tanaka sells a gold beer mug for $50,000.
Old news, but I always enjoyed these photos of then Demorcatic presidential hopeful candidate Hillary Clinton hitting the drinking circuit.
On the opposite end of the spectrum from the likes of PBR is Carlsberg's limited edition beer "Vintage No. 2" sold at €270 per bottle or at today's currency rate, a little over $388 a bottle.
In a similar vein, Sam Adams Utopias holds the Guinness Book of World Records for "world's strongest beer" with 25 percent alcohol by volume. The 2009 batch upped the ante with 27 percent alcohol by volume. A single bottle starts at $150 and higher at bars. Modern Materialist noted that Brooklyn South Slope's Draft Barn sells the Utopias at $20 a shot.
Alicja Kwade announced that the bottle poppin' culture is over by pulverizing champagne bottles to create this jaggedly impressive pile last year.
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A bottle of Gran Patrón Burdeos Tequila will cost you $740, but shipping is included! What recession?
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I'm really digging the large panoramas stitched together by artist Peter Jansen. His expansive photo "North Wall of the Perito Moreno Glacier" in Patagonia would look particularly great on the wall of my future bachelor pad.
While browsing Flickr for an unconnected image, I came across this fact: Occasionally a hopelessly irreparable piano gets sacrificed to the fire gods.
Here are some of the entries I’ve posted over at Sundance Channel’s blog SUNfiltered.
Carolina Panthers rookie wide receiver Jason Chery's efficient solution for carrying his veteran teammates football equipment after a practice.
A tetris mirror "comprised of thirteen interlocking mirrored acrylic panels, which can be arranged on your wall to form a rectangle, or broken apart into their individual puzzle blocks." Also can be interpreted as a metaphor about something deep involving self reflection.
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