May 27, 2011 | New Events | by Miss Cakehead |
Cakey Perry is a unique high tea experience inspired by the Katy Perry California Gurls video and the work of it’s creative director, Will Cotton. Every item on the menu will relate to California Gurls and is destined to blow you away with both looks and taste. It opens in London on July 29. Chocolate dipped gummi bears, strawberries stuffed with cupcakes and candy floss adorned sweet treats are all to be expected. Nom, nom, nom.
May 17, 2011 | New Fashion | by Miss Cakehead |
A UK organization, Racing for Change, are on a mission to bring jockeys’ attire into the 21st century. Working with students at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, they have unwritten 250 years of tradition and gone back to the drawing board with silks featuring everything from bacon, bird droppings and even fruit machine symbols. What are the horses going to make of it all? Well, we can find out as the winning set of silks will be raced at Ascot, the UK’s premier racecourse, on July 9.
March 22, 2011 | New Events | 
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Dirt, the brilliant new exhibition from the London-based Wellcome Collection, takes a closer look at something that surrounds us, but we are often reluctant to confront. Read more
March 14, 2011 | New Trends | by Miss Cakehead 
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Cakes for Japan is a pop-up sushi inspired cake shop raising funds for the Red Cross following the devastating events in Japan. Read more
March 12, 2011 | New Events | by Miss Cakehead |
Pictoplasma Project is a four day festival of contemporary character design and art held in Berlin each year, featuring conferences, workshops, performances, parties and even an animation festival. Pictured here is a section of the InkyGoodness character totem concept, made by the iconic Felt Mistress. When stacked together, the piece is more than four feet tall, somehow managing to be cute and terrifying at the same time.
February 14, 2011 | New Trends | by Miss Cakehead |
Crazy food scientists and creative geniuses, Bompas & Parr, are to launch their most ambitious project to date with UK high-end fashion store, Browns Focus. Their Hypnotic Shop will deploy an array of strategies to touch peoples’ subconscious and make them buy. The installation will be a full sensory assault, using visuals, smells and subliminal messaging to influence customers’ purchasing pattern.
February 6, 2011 | New Events | by Miss Cakehead |
The myth behind some of rock n’ roll’s most outrageous stories, Syd Barrett was the pioneering songwriter and musical visionary of the greatest psychedelic rock band in history, Pink Floyd. For the first time, the largest collection of unseen photographs, personal love letters and original artworks will go on display offering an unprecedented insight into the inspired life of this rock legend.
February 5, 2011 | New Trends | by Miss Cakehead |
This skull is made from a blend of Cuban and Mexican Dark Chocolate and is 100 percent edible. Weighing a hefty 2.5 kilos, it is also life-sized, solid chocolate, and cast from an actual human skull. The food creative behind this astonishing anatomical work of art is Marina Malvada, whose plans in 2011 include tackling the recreation of a real human skeleton for Eat Your Heart Out’s edible autopsy.
February 2, 2011 | New Events | by Miss Cakehead |
I’ve teamed up with the infamous UK tourist attraction, The London Dungeons, to provide a unique Valentines Day experience. Read more
January 31, 2011 | Cool Travel | by Miss Cakehead |
Prangsta Costumiers is a one-of-a-kind costume hire store. Indeed, stepping through its doors is often compared to entering into a real-life fairytale. The store’s owner, Melanie Wilson, has carved out a niche for herself that has even seen her costumes appear in Vogue, and worn by artists such as Damien Hirst. Read more
January 22, 2011 | New Food and Packaging | by Miss Cakehead |
If you want to give your loved one something very different this Valentines Day, then you could do worse than paying a visit to the UK-based Queen of Cake Cool, Lily Vanilli and her scarily realistic anatomical heart beauties, complete with delicious blackcurrant and cherry blood.
December 23, 2010 | Cool Travel | by Miss Cakehead |
Street art and weather in perfect harmony is a beautiful thing. Handy, then, that these John Wayne ‘paste ups’ have appeared all over London in the midst of a serious frosty spell in the capital which has seen London’s transport grind to a halt due to a lack of gritting (oh the irony). Read more
December 22, 2010 | Cool Websites | by Miss Cakehead |
At last a festive Twitter feed worth following! One of the World’s leading advertising agencies, Mother, have blown open the secretive goings on at Santa’s Workshop. They have made public the details of who has been naughty and nice in 2010 by accessing a series of anonymous leaks from a Lapland-based source. Read more
December 15, 2010 | New Events | by Miss Cakehead |
The From Lille to London group show recently saw George Morton-Clark amongst a group of English artists traveling to France for a six day live painting exhibition in the 2,000 square foot space of the Homade Gallery. The pieces he created there included this remarkable fifteen foot entrance piece. Read more
December 13, 2010 | Video | by Miss Cakehead |
British band, The Futureheads, appear to have achieved the impossible and come up with a rocking Christmas tune that contains the word ‘hallelujah’ but does not make you want to gauge out you own eyes with a spoon, unlike many other festive musical treats. Entitled Christmas Was Better In The 80s, it also manages to be reminiscent but not twee. Now, that’s a Christmas musical miracle alright.
MakerBot just unveiled their new 3D printer model with a bigger print surface and the ability to print two colors at the same time. At $2,000 it’s not quite in everyones price range but if you’ve got the cabbage, how awesome would it be to have this new toy on your desktop?
Sometimes seeing a movie without any knowledge of what it’s about makes for an incredible experience. I encountered a similar effect when viewing David Adamo’s new show at Untitled. I had heard his name before, and maybe seen an image or two of his work, but I definitely wasn’t prepared for this full-fledged attack on the gallery’s space. Read more
The Hatton hotel epitomises Melbourne cool. Those who value design, location, and luxury will find The Hatton the perfect Melbourne base. Read more
Pomocracy is a lifestyle statement Tumblr recently created in Berlin by PoMo, a nurse and designer. It’s an inspirational blog full of weird stuff.
These heady times call for heady music, something spaced-out, trance-y, weird, and devilishly ecstatic to distract us from reality. Chicago’s Cave heeds this call for musical escapism, channeling Hawkwind, Kraftwerk, funk, and tribal frenzy into their mothership-beaconing groove.
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Whoa, check out these sweet jackets by Natalie Rae Richardson that are embroidered to look like fur and feathers. Read more
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Sleek and savvy wallets by Australian accessories brand, Dosh. These innovative super slim wallets are made of cutting-edge polymer material that is durable, water and chemical resistant, yet still soft to touch. Check out assorted types and colors in the Lost At E Minor store. Read more
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