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New foodie mag. Nifty design. Go here.

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Optimus Kanguru Colored Pens campaign

Wearable typography by Amandine Alessandra. More details and photos here.

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‘Cotton candy is the most amazing form of caramelization ever invented by man.’

And meat is overrated. Molecular gastronomy pioneer José Andrés is changing food as we know and experience it. Interviewed by Anderson Cooper for 60 Minutes.

Found via CBS News

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‘When it comes to their lines of work, fashion designer Stella McCartney and American artist Ed Ruscha love to push the envelope. Stella and Ed get together to chat about Stella’s burning passion for clothes and Ed’s zest for painting.’

Preview above. Watch the complete episode in its entirety here (note: small fee required via iTunes or Netflix).

Part of Sundance’s Iconoclasts series.

Found via sfgirlbybay

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‘Make-up art based from paintings by Roy Lichtenstein’

More info here.

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The work of Alexandre Farto, aka Vhils. More here.

Found via TrendsNow

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Short animated film produced in 2004 by Paris8 University masters student Stéphane Evezard. Based on Bowie’s Pablo Picasso; from the album Reality.

Visit Stéphane’s site here.

Found via Jeanne Mehallo

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New blog animates some jackets. Gif style. Go here.

The Strokes: Take It Or Leave It

Found via Nina Stoessinger

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Rochella Danishei

We were having a talk in class the other day about how personal music is. And how it’s great to live in today’s MP3 zillions of songs on small devices world.

For some reason, the past few years I’ve been in a pop mood. Don’t know why, simply going with it.

Though I just can’t get into the chick with the $ in her moniker. I do like that she’s a troublemaker. But otherwise. Can’t. [Read more →]

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‘Listing their influences as Courtney Love, Nirvana and Led Zeppelin, The Pretty Reckless is completed by guitarist Ben Phillips, bassist Mark Damon and drummer Jamie Perkins’ –Social Butterflies

Stardom hits younger these days – and with the success of Gossip Girl, the kid sister on the show – 16-year-old badger-eyed Taylor Momsen – is fronting a new band, The Pretty Reckless. [Read more →]

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Alexa Chung Stella cover, art by clara0502

If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll have noticed that I really enjoyed this British import that found her way to MTV last year.

Unfortunately, MTV didn’t know what the hell to do with Alexa Chung. (She recently, came clean with her take on what went wrong with her MTV show.) She’s smart, funny and today is still working on conquering the US – one way or another. [Read more →]

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