Maria Sharpova Haircut: Tennis Star Shows Off New Short Look
Tennis star Maria Sharapova showed off a new, short haircut on her Facebook page on Monday night. Maria, who is engaged to basketball player Sasha Vujacic, showed off the short ‘do to more than seven million Facebook fans. She is usually seen playing tennis with a long ponytail, but in the future will be showing off the more stylish look.
She posted the picture with the caption, “So what do you guys think? I kind of love it!” It seems that her fans agreed. The Facebook photo got more than 14,000 likes and 3,700 comments, as well as 492 shares as of Tuesday afternoon. Continue reading »
Paris versus New York
Playfully pitting Paris and New York against each other, graphic designer Vahram Muratyan has created a visual homage to two evocative cities. Continue reading »
China: The Land Where Fake Brands Reign Supreme
Shamelessly, China has dubbed itself as “the king of counterfeiters” and the city of Nanjing, east of Shanghai, prides itself on the imminent grand opening of a new shopping centre dedicated to some 58 fake brands of merchandise. These imposters bear strong resemblances to their original inspirations, but are often differentiated by an intentionally mis-spelled letter or two.
Counterfeit goods have been the bane of the world trade industry for decades, and China, while a blatant culprit, is far from the only one. The dynamics of the infringement varies from breaches of product patents in industrial and technical products to illegal reproductions of copyright entertainment material to fake luxury brands. Continue reading »
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Sand Sculptures Exhibited at Tottori Dune
Sand sculptors finish a sand replicas at Sand Museum located in the Tottori Dune on April 1, 2012 in Tottori, Japan. The 5th exhibition hosted by the world’s first ever sand museum is focusing on the theme of ‘Great Britain’ as the nation celebrates it’s hosting of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The exhibition is open to the public from April 14 through January, 2013 with fourteen foreign sculptors creating structures based on British themes such as the British Empire, Modern London and landmarks of London. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images) Continue reading »
Hillary Clinton Goes Viral: ‘Texts From Hillary’ Meme Rides Wave Of Success
Hillary Clinton is best known for her political accomplishments – representing New York as a United States Senator, being a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 and working as the current Secretary of State — but now she’s become part of some neither she nor anyone else ever expected.
The celebrated Secretary of State is the star of a new internet meme in which the she’s shown wearing a pair of dark sunglasses looking at her blackberry. Beneath the photo of her looking at her blackberry is a caption of Clinton responding to someone on her phone.
The meme, called “Texts From Hillary Clinton,” has been started on Tumblr blog of the same name. The Tumblr account appears to be created in the same fashion as other Tumblr hits including “Kim Jong-Il Looking At Things” and “Garfield Minus Garfield,” which are each themed photo collections. Continue reading »
LoveStore: Erotic Accessories Advertisements
“Make Love, Not War”. Amazing! Continue reading »
Combo: Provocative French Street Art
On a recent trip to Chernobyl, French street artist Combo left behind something memorable: a mural of The Simpsons. Combo is known for using iconic characters to make a statement, and this image continues the trend. The nuclear power plant in the background looks a lot more menacing here, but I also think there’s something really interesting about such a happy, cheery image juxtaposed against the aftermath of a horrible tragedy. Continue reading »
Seahawks Uniforms: Twitter Responds To Teams Uniform Makeover
The Seahawks haven’t made any significant changes to their uniforms since 2002, but that all changed yesterday when the team unveiled their new uniforms. While fan reactions on Twitter from been iffy over the new changes, Walter Thurmond, third-year cornerback from the University of Oregon has not only checked out the new Seahawks uniform, but gave it a feel.
According to the Seahawks website, Thurmond wore the new uniforms for a sneak preview and gave it “two raised gloves, and two extended palms, up.” Being dubbed by Thurmond as “new age,” the cornerback explains that “it’s transitioning from where we are as an organization and where the league is going.”
The ‘We’re All Eating This Together’ Campaign
Shaun Ryder of the Happy Mondays has been appointed a special advisor on social class by David Cameron. Ryder’s first initiative was to launch this T-shirt campaign with the help of his celebrity friends.
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Kids vs Superheroes
“I am a Superhero” is a name of the contest that Marvel Comics and Disney held together in Russia. A contest is timed to release “The Avengers” movie. The purpose of the contest is to ask kids and their parents to create a costume based on a Marvel comics character. Here are some crazy-ass costumes. Continue reading »
Kate Hudson For Ann Taylor 2012 Summer Campaign
Golden Globe winner Kate Hudson looked stunning at the second installment of the fashion campaign for luxury American brand Ann Taylor. This is the second Ann Taylor campaign featuring the 32-year-old actress, following the success of the earlier Spring 2012 campaign.
Shot by famed photographer, Tom Munro on location in Pasadena, Calif., the campaign features Kate lounging in bright vibrant shades from the collection. The collection includes soft, romantic dresses accessorized with bold belts, while vibrant, colorful summer tops and skirts are paired with brilliant statement accessories. Continue reading »
How to Cook DIY Sous-vide Steak
You don’t need thousands of pounds worth of equipment to cook sous-vide, says Tim Hayward. With a cool-box and a thermometer, you’re away. Continue reading »
1957’s Rosglavpivo Catalogue
In 1957 USSR’s beverage control organization ‘Rosglavpivo’ published an advertising catalogue of Soviet beer. Continue reading »
Fine by Virgilio Villoresi
Fine is the story of birth, life and death of a soldier, represented on a hand (mine, for instance).
The movie is inspired by the concept of handpainting, very close to the works of italian artist Mariotti and the finger videos movement. Dedicated transitions created with the technique of the shuft pan has been used to create a true cinematografic editing through the hand.
Both the initial and final soundtrack, as well as the military salute of the last scene are a hommage to Jiri Trnka’s masterpiece “The Hand”.
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Royal Princess Charlotte Casiraghi’s ‘Forever Now’ Campaign for Gucci
“Timeless beauty, Modern allure,” these are the terms luxury brand Gucci uses to describe Monaco’s equestrian royal princess Charlotte Casiraghi. Continue reading »
Where Do You Give?
For decades, most Jewish homes had a small tin box for collecting coins that served as a vehicle for fulfilling the biblical imperative to care for the downtrodden. This receptacle was periodically emptied to support the local school, synagogue or soup kitchen. Continue reading »
Seeing spots: Yayoi Kusama Exhibition at Tate Modern
The polka dot-obsessed octogenerian artist Yayoi Kusama’s work has gone from free love and foraging in the 50s and 60s to infinity rooms filled with mirrors and twinkling lights in this decade. Her life has seen body parties in Andy Warhol’s Factory and friendships with Georgia O’Keeffe, Donald Judd and Joseph Cornell – and this retrospective takes it all in. At Tate Modern, London from 9 February to 5 June 2012. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian.
The octogenarian artist photographed in front of Yellow Trees (1994). This is the first time Kusama has left Japan in 12 years. Continue reading »
How to Draw… Wolves
Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? Not children’s book author Nadia Shireen! She shows you how to turn one in to a great little drawing. Continue reading »
Swimming 2011
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Filmed by Richard Sällqvist during a day in August 2011 at an old abandoned limestone quarry on Öland, Sweden.
Peugeot — The Making of Just Add Fuel
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Peugeot take you behind the scenes of the making of their latest TV ad, crafted entirely from paper. There are dozens of paper cuts, hundreds of Peugeot models and an infinite amount of patience.
Peugeot didn’t take the easy option and animate in CGI. They looked for something different, something more authentic and crafted to reflect Peugeot’s philosophy for designing their vehicles. With that in mind, Peugeot asked London designer Kyle Bean and director Joseph Mann to make this Peugeot commercial entirely from paper.
Motion Designer Sergey Yumakov
Amazing motion and video design portfolio of Sergey Yumakov, Moscow (Russia) based artist. Continue reading »
The Best Advertisements of Chip Shop Awards 2012
The Chip Shop Awards are an international creative awards scheme with no limits or rules – it’s all about ideas. The work need not have run and the creator need not work for the client. The Chip Shop Awards is about fostering and recognising creativity with no boundaries and no rules. It’s an international creative awards, open to anyone with great ideas.
Since its launch in 2002, these awards have produced some of the cleverest, funniest, worst taste advertising and design ever seen.
Free Snowman
Brand: Ikea
Company: Steve Lownes (Freelance) Continue reading »
India’s Incredibly Cool Hand-Drawn Movie Posters
Ramachandraiah prints movie posters for a living. He’s done it ever since 1971, when he bought an ancient lithograph press. He keeps it in a factory north of Bangalore, far from the English town where it was built 111 years ago.
His are five-color, hand-drawn, and measure just 20 inches by 30 inches. They’re printed on thin paper, and illegally slapped up on building sites and highway overpasses late at night. They cost pennies to print. And they’re absolutely gorgeous. Continue reading »
Apocalypse Tomorrow 2012 Pin-Up Calendar
Awesome apocalypse pin-up calendar by Andrew Tarusov! Continue reading »
