http://www.lagarconne.com/store/item.htm?itemid=2021&sid=7&pid=
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There are three things notable about sculptor Robert The:
1. His clever book-based assemblies:
http://www.artistaday.com/?p=1400
2. His name, which I really hope isn't fake. Robert The!
3. His innate ability to say stuff like this: "Obsession with the semiotic erosion of meaning and reality led me to create objects that evangelize their own relevance by a direct fusion of word and form."
Wow, I am truly in awe. I thought I was being clever with that 'transcending the dominant paradigm' schtick, but Robert The must be wearing a mortarboard 'cuz he just took me TO SCHOOL.
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And here you thought those "teddy bears with light bulb heads" from last week were bad:
http://blog.2modern.com/2008/04/design-from-arg.html
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Being "the most beautiful folding bike ever" isn't exactly a difficult achievement, but this thing is freaking gorgeous:
http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/the-one-finally-a-goodlooking-folding-cycle
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The design blogs have been pretty enthusiastic about this, but I must be an artless clod or something because all I see are a bunch of chairs and a couple of planks:
http://www.dezeen.com/2008/04/19/bench2-by-jo-nagasaka-schemata-architecture-office/
I'm used to being unimpressed by design bloggers, but mystified is a new sensation.
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I like Blik and the other wall art designers, but aren't all their prices a little suspicious? I mean, fiddy bucks for a vinyl sticker? (Even those super-corny Target rip-offs were expensive.)
Ikea is all "fuck that" and lays some hurting on the price-fixing vinyl sticker conglomerates:
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70132337
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Watercolor, ink and graphite works on paper from Bill Frederick:
http://www.roadsidescholar.com/2008/04/21/bill-frederick-watercolor-and-graphite-art/
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It's Ten Logs You Idiots, part of a continuing series:
http://www.vivre.com/control/product/~category_id=357/~product_id=40787
A steal at $1750! Seriously, though, if any of you are thinking about getting these, drop me a line...I can get you *twenty* tables for the same price.
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Remember that beautiful Audi Auto Union Scale Replica Pedal Car I posted last August?
http://nexus404.com/Blog/2007/08/10/strictly-limited-audi-auto-union-scale-replica-pedal-car/
Well, here's the noveau riche version:
http://www.flylyf.com/ferrari-go-cart/
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"The iPod case is made out of meat."
"Meat?"
"Meat. It's made out of meat."
"Meat?"
"There's no doubt about it."
http://item.rakuten.co.jp/sastore/krb-3n-r/
http://www.terrybisson.com/meat.html
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As a dude, I guess I probably shouldn't be writing about fashion, because I always get duped by the models. A few times a week I see clothes that I think I should totally feature here, only to look closer and realize the clothes are hideous and I'm just really attracted to the model. Here are this week's examples:
http://www.meganpark.co.uk/collection.php?dir=aw07/wwear&pic=5
That first one is particularly bad...it looks like something a Greek-American grandmother would wear on a day cruise.
I'm too lazy to look this up, but I don't think this is the first time a Free People model has been featured here. Bravo, you guys really know how to sell women's clothes to straight guys! Now don't get skeevy like American Apparel and there will always be a place on Affluenza for your ugly clothes.
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"Glenn Gould performed for 21 years seated in a folding card chair modified by his father to be height adjustable. That chair accompanied him around the world in support of each of his recordings and performances, and now resides on a pedestal at the National Library of Canada. Exact replicas of the skeletal, cushion-less chair are available for €990":
http://www.glenngould-chair.com/inglese/chair.htm
http://www.metafilter.com/70900/Glenn-Goulds-chair
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The newest entry in the Affluenza Shopping Directory:
http://www.viceland.com/int/dd.php?id=1336
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Penguin UK is reissuing hardcover editions of the terrible James Bond novels to tie in with the terribly-named sequel to the terrible reboot of the terrible movie series.
Hey, the covers are neat, though:
http://thepublics.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/girls-girls-girls/
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Anna Sui's spring '08 collection:
http://mafrangine.blogspot.com/2008/04/wearable-punk.html
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Famous sufferers of affluenza include George Clooney:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/14/080414fa_fact_parker
"Clooney was sitting on a long pale sofa, alongside Sarah Larson, his girlfriend. Bowls of chopped salad were on the coffee table in front of them: when Clooney's electronic pepper grinder was activated, it sent a beam of light shining down onto the lettuce, like a police helicopter."
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