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New Products / Treasure Chests
November 19, 2009 | New Products | by The Uncool Hunter |
Treasure Chests is a book by Mel Norman and Arthur Benwood which was published by Alexion Corp in 1967. The book compiles retouched pictures of female breasts, so it’s full of beautiful ladies with three or four breasts, breasts that pop up from the lower part of the abdomen, or even from the back. Read more
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New Products / Cityscape designer blinds
November 18, 2009 | New Products | by Raymond Koh |
Some cool designer cityscape blinds by Elina Aalto, with options including Paris, Tokyo, Stockholm and Helsinki. I’m not sure as how practical they are, as when you close your blinds, you don’t want to let any light. But maybe someone has a place for them somewhere.
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New Products / Bread Shoes
November 16, 2009 | New Products | by The Uncool Hunter |
The Bread Shoes are a collection of slippers designed by twin brothers, R and E Praspaliauskas. The products come in various designs and with special dough recipes. Every pair is unique and comes with a suitable, hand-picked cardboard box. And no, they’re not crummy. Read more
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New Products / Joseph Joseph Pump Action Potato Smasher
November 13, 2009 | New Products | by Gerry Mak |
The problem I find with most gimmicky kitchen tools that claim to make cooking less of a chore is that they actually perform their tasks poorly, and the convenience gained through the devices is made up for with loss of flavor or texture. Garlic presses, for instance, waste a lot of garlic, and result in less actual garlic flavor going into your food. And really, crushing garlic with the side of a knife is about the most simple thing to do. Read more
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New Products / Amazing cake designs by Charm City Cakes
November 12, 2009 | New Products | by The Uncool Hunter |
Baltimore company Charm City Cakes produces the most innovative wedding and party cakes on the market. Inspiration for these creative bakers comes from everywhere: art, fabric, furniture, architecture, landscapes, science, and music, and each cake is individually designed to match your personality, and the theme of the occasion you are celebrating. Don’t miss these cakey engineering masterpieces. Read more
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New Products / Psychedelic musical pillows for kids
November 11, 2009 | New Products | by The Uncool Hunter |
Plush FM radios with an MP3 connector and speakers are the latest fashion for the little ones. They come in the shape of boombox stereos, cell phones or electric guitars, and they all have colorful hippie and psychedelic patterns. There is even a hippie bear with headphones, which is, of course, the modern symbol of peace — peace of mind! Read more
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New Products / The Disco Ball Hat
November 11, 2009 | New Products | by The Uncool Hunter |
There is no need to learn the latest dance steps in order to be the toast of the party. You don’t even need to look like John Travolta, let alone dance like him. You just need to wear the Disco Ball Hat and you will be the centre of attention. It’s system makes the ball go around and show different colored lights at the same time.
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New Products / Firefly Farms
November 9, 2009 | New Products | by Gerry Mak |
Working the farmers markets in the Baltimore-DC area the past few months, I have encountered a lot of great local food producers. One of my favorites is Firefly Farms in Garrett County, Maryland. Founded by partners Mike Koch and Pablo Solanet, the farm specializes in artisan goat cheese produced from milk sourced from local Amish farmers. Read more
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New Products / October posters from Alamo Drafthouse
November 6, 2009 | New Products | by Gerry Mak |
I wish people gave presents on Halloween rather than Christmas — then I’d have asked someone to get me these awesome posters by Alamo Drafthouse available through Mandotees. Read more
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New Products / Milk and Honey necklace by Stephanie Simek
November 5, 2009 | New Products | by Zolton 
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Milk and honey, an indubitable pair. In this necklace by Stephanie Simek, a golden honeycomb beeswax pendant is encased in plastic and hangs from an oxidized sterling silver chain. The links are interwoven with a milk protein-based fiber. We have it for sale in our online store.
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New Products / Flip Mino
November 4, 2009 | New Products | by Zolton |
We’re loving the new Flip Mino, the latest mini-device that gives you the ability to shoot and share anything that catches your eye, then connect it directly to your TV or computer and either edit the life out of the footage or watch it and guffaw at your own twisted directorial genius. Ha! Not surprisingly, the built-in FlipShare software is all about sharing, so you can blast out short and long format HD video as a link rather than an attachment. Now, get to work on that Blairwitch sequel sequel.
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New Products / Tarman Zombie Toy
November 2, 2009 | New Products | by Gerry Mak |
The Tarman Zombie from the 80s classic slapstick horror movie Return of the Living Dead has risen again … as a toy! It doesn’t officially come out until March or April of next year, but you know this is going to sell like crazy. In the meantime, watch the movie if you haven’t. It’s fun as hell.
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New Products / There Was an Old Lady by Jeremy Holmes
October 30, 2009 | New Products | by Gerry Mak |
This illustrated version of the classic nursery rhyme and song There Was an Old Lady by Jeremy Holmes should appeal to adults and children alike with its pages folding outward to reveal each creature in the Old Lady’s guts.
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New Products / The Hillary Clinton egg separator
October 29, 2009 | New Products | by The Uncool Hunter |
As a consequence of Hillary Clinton’s husband’s deceits, and the possible runny nose role she played in private, a new appliance was launched. The white of the egg can be separated through the ‘runny nose’ of Hillary.
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New Products / The Heart Bit interactive table lamp
October 28, 2009 | New Products | by Casper Johansson |
The Heart Bit lamp provides not only a functional white light, but also an emotional red accent light, which triggers at the exact same rhythm of user’s pulse. When a user touches the interface a sensor detects and register the beat and the embedded software transform it into lighting effects. People can experience their heartbeat and see their pulse represented trough ‘choreographic light’: it attempt to make ‘visible’ something ‘audible’, to make it, in a sense, more public and to share it.
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Shelby Fischer is a mixed media artist living in Central Virginia. Her work is beautifully realised, laborious in its detail and subtle in its colorings. ‘My mixed media collages and assemblages blend surrealism with otherworldly imagery’, she says. ‘Each work is a fragment of an intuitive story — odd and mysterious narratives that are familiar echoes of a long lost, often twisted fantasy or nightmare’. Read more
Located on West Houston, Alphaville is my favorite gift store in Manhattan. It offers a great selection of vintage objects, from Nixon’s campaign buttons, to Sesame Street 80s mobiles, 50s greeting cards and the original Mr. Potato Head and his friends. It’s one of those places I walk into just to look but always end up buying something.
I was initially drawn to Belgium-born Christophe Coppen’s jewellery before discovering that he produces two mens and womens collections each year, consisting not only of jewellery, also of but couture pieces and home accessories. With seven interior collections to his name, and a past history as both a theater director and an actor, his work is an expression of his creative brilliance.
Nick Lu is an illustrator and designer based in Los Angeles who graduated from the Art Center College of Design. His work is like scattered memories across an endless canvas, built from tiny fragments of half-thought day-dreams. Read more
We’re launching a new email newsletter in a few weeks time called My Secret Playlist in which a different guest musician each week will write about eight songs that they’re loving right now. Read more
If animated wall drawings of severed heads and insect men ejecting their brains from their craniums is what people produce when they have too much time on their hands, then we should do their laundry for them and cook them dinner so they’ll have even more time on their hands.
Dating or married musician duos are always interesting beasts. Their intertwining affections and chemical reactions make for a potent alchemy of musical magic. Along the same vein of O-era Damien Rice and Lisa Hennigan, Glen Hansard (frontman of The Frames) and Marketa Irglova are the latest lovey-dovey couple with longings expressed in fingerpicked guitars and mourning cellos. Read more
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Despite the intentions of many, it’s not so often that advertising — as an industry — truly thinks outside the box. Yet, when executed well, clever eye-catching advertising actually works. It does. As these examples will attest to. Read more
1970s and 80s Soviet Union buildings
Cambodian born photographer Frederic Chaubin is the editor of French magazine Citizen K. His photo series on bizarre buildings built in the former Soviet Union during the 1970s and 80s is absolutely fascinating. Read more
Yum, yum, cupcakes are fun. These creations are so clever, so arty, so damn bizarre that it would almost be a shame to eat them. Almost! Read more
Hong Kong-based illustrator Man-Tsun draws dark and beautiful painterly images that look like they are straight off a high-end Japanese animated film. Read more
Forget battery powered vehicles. Cars made from ice are the future of transportation: no pollution, no honking horns, no painful rap music blasting out of souped up stereos. And if they melt, they melt. You just swim the rest of the way down the slipstream.
Thanks to Sony Australia, four Lost At E Minor readers will win personal audio prizes, including the new 8GB Walkman S series video MP3 player and the MDRXB500 Extra Bass headphones. Read more
For visual people who rely on shapes and imagination, this eye test t-shirt by Hong Kong-based studio, WEME, is a perfect conversation starter. It’s available through the Lost At E Minor online store for just US$30. Read more
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