Grab your conscience and your purse and head to Shoreditch, London tomorrow (3 December) for the opening of Amnesty International‘s first concept store at Boxpark. Amnesty, currently marking its 50th anniversary, will be one of the first to open its doors in the world’s only ‘pop up department store’ created out of 61 shipping containers. Income from the Amnesty shop will support its human rights work and all items are either
Alex Vertikoff , The J. Paul Getty Museum Courtyard at dusk, 11-08-2000 AD, 120 transparency ©2003 J. Paul Getty Trust ‘I hate museums. I hate art and I hate LA but I loved the Getty Center’ read one visitor’s review. Even a difficult to reach audience like this is smitten with this Californian gallery. Scoring 5 (stars? coloured in circles?) from 322 reviews on trip advisor there are literally no negative reviews about
Such is the demand for these lifelike diminutive dogs that the Scottish artist, Domenica More Gordon has decided the fairest way to sell them is by picking the winning buyer out of a hat. World-wide media coverage of the dogs, including a World of Interiors piece which prompted an enquiry from Brad Pitt, means that demand outstrips supply. The sale opened on the 29 November 2011 and is still open
by John Cairney The rain in Crieff stays mainly right in your face and the night I was there, it was particularly on form. It was the elegance of the place that first caught my eye, even in a storm and the gracious, charcoal grey warmth of The Lounge drew me in. There was music in the French voice that greeted me. When I asked, ‘Do you by any chance
Dorothy Parker said that “Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city” Embracing this fact means that you can start to enjoy the city which spans nearly 500 miles. One suburb, Santa Monica actually has a town centre, Third Street Promenade, which is pedestrianised no less, with a pier and a beautiful beach all in close proximity. For visitors this is an easy ‘to get your head around”
Most of us consider ourselves rather bold to have a brightly coloured ‘feature’ wall in our homes: Carnovsky, a Milan based artist/designer duo, invite you to go a whole lot further with these wild, wraparound 3D effect wallpapers. The papers are created using a technique in which three images overlap, each one in a primary colour. Together they create a deliberately disorientating and stimulating environment. Viewed through a filtered light
Argentinian photographer Irina Werning has produced a second series of her famous Back to the Future portraits which recreate childhood photos with the subjects as adults. Some of the first series are also included below in case you missed them first time around. The images are unnervingly exact in recreating the original, often period, details. To some the pictures may be melancholic but ultimately they are heartwarming; people change less than
These signs could be a thing of the past if CLOO, a new phone app, takes off. On first reading you wonder if it might be a spoof but eventually the world could become your toilet if Hilary Young and Deanna McDonald of CLOO get the investment they are looking for. Social networking is taken to new levels as people register to allow others in their city to use their bathroom.
The thinking man's denim, corduroy, inspires special affection among the 5,000 members of the Corduroy Appreciation Club. Their meetings are always held on dates that resemble the parallel lines of corduroy with the biggest to date being held in New York on 11/11/11. Attendees have to wear a minimum of two items of corduroy – which doesn't have the satisfying alliteration of 'double denim' but has loads of potential for
The latest pointless yet weirdly compelling meme sweeping Reddit and the rest of the internet is the money face mash up. Images posted from all around the world using a range of currencies show how unchanging and stateless the human face is. They are also quite funny.