Affluenza: May 28

Super-cool "Ghost Wallpaper":

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/wallpaper-graphics/icff-2008-trompeloeil-ghost-wallpaper-051268

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I guess it was inevitable that someone would hit on the obvious idea of making a high-waisted miniskirt...

http://buy.jodiarnoldnyc.com/h07-3025.html

...but doesn't it look like she just took a normal knee-length skirt and hiked it up like Urkel?

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Beautiful handmade fixed-gear bike from Jonny Cycles:

http://jonnycycles.com/trackpix10.html

Gosh, it's lovely.

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The architecture photography of Ben Benschneider:

http://blueantstudio.blogspot.com/2008/05/ben-benschneider-architecture.html

Seriously??? Your name is "Ben Benschneider"? Wicked.

All of these shots are neat, but mostly I'm posting this because holy crap that glass-bottomed pool above the hallway is INSANE.

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City Lounge:

http://coolboom.net/landscape-design/city-lounge-by-carlos-martinez/

Five minutes later? Mad covered in homeless.

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FicklestiX (sic) offers the world above-average wall-decals, humiliating brand name.

http://www.ficklestix.com/

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Beautiful, shockingly cheap Japanese dioramas:

http://www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com/2008/05/tatebanko_paper_diorama_kits.html

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This Week's Inexplicable NotCot Caption:

"pencils and art by GhostPatrol. The Australian based designer moved slowly - his creative mind and idea from stenciling wall to create the pencils art project. Doing all the painting to a single pencils until get the desire image."

http://www.notcot.org/post/10903/

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This fractal bureau has been everywhere the last couple of weeks, so let me just put the Affluenza seal of approval on it:

http://nickpapageorgia.blogspot.com/2008/05/takeshi-miyakawa.html

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Jesus Christ, look at this:

http://nickpapageorgia.blogspot.com/2008/04/flore-de-crombrugghe.html

Hey, asshole: if you hate people who waste water taking baths so much, FUCKING DON'T MAKE BATHTUBS.

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Catherine Malandrino's embroidered circle dress:

http://www.net-a-porter.com/product/31382

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Skygarden lamps, designed by Marcel Wanders, are huge metal half-domes with intriguing plaster work on the inside:

http://www.roadsidescholar.com/2008/05/22/marcel-wanders-skygarden-lamp/

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NettoCollection's cute Polar Bear Rocker:

http://www.fawnandforest.com/products/843-polar-bear-rocker

"NettoCollection sees the health of our children as inseparable from the health of our planet..." Teach them well and let them lead the way.

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I'm not sure if anyone needs 1470 tools--I'm reminded of those useless kitchen knife sets with 36 different mediocre blades when you really just need one good one--but check out the amazing photography of the set:

http://dvice.com/archives/2008/05/8600_craftsman.php

I think I just found a wedding present for Adam.

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Even better: this "limited edition ratchet featuring a classic Craftsman Midnight Black titanium finish" which comes in "an engraved cherry display case."

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_00944744000P?vName=Tools

Wow, Sears...you just blew my mind a little.

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Custom movie posters created for the Alamo Drafthouse:

http://thepublics.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/pop-cult-popcorn/

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The Telescope Walking Stick:

http://www.hammacher.com/publish/75064.asp

It sorta weirds me out that Hammacher Schlemmer is offering a product that I find pretty cool AND at a suspiciously affordable price.

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"Here's the idea...we sell a hollow steel cube and a sledgehammer, right? And then the buyer can smash the cube into a supremely uncomfortable vaguely-chair-like shape. I present to you: the Do Hit Chair."

http://www.marijnvanderpoll.com/

"But Marijn van der Poll, nobody would ever fall for something like that!"

"Have you ever read a design blog? Those idiots will feature ANYTHING."