Monthly Archives: February 2012

Design and Innovation

Plush Shark Attack Hat!

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Plush Shark Attack Hat
Shark Attack On Your Head!

In most of the country, it’s definitely the time of year to be keeping your head covered for warmth, if not for fashion’s sake! Fashion! If you are one of those folks whose sense of humor/style dictates that wearing a warm hat which resembles a small shark chomping on your head is an excellent fashion choice, have I got a deal for you! The Shark Attack Plush Hat is available now and it will fit even a big gigantic head like yours! Look:

  • Plush hat shaped like a man-eating shark with buggy eyes
  • Fabric lining
  • Secret pocket with fortune!
  • Velcro size adjuster
  • Fits adults and kids heads ( up to 22-1/2″ or 56-59 cm)

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Arts and Culture

James Rosenquist’s F-111 at MOMA

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James Rosenquist F-111 Installation at MOMA 2012
Installation view of James Rosenquist’s F-111 (1964-65) at The Museum of Modern Art, 2012. Oil on canvas with aluminum, 23 sections, All Photos by Jonathan Muzikar (Image Source)

Pop artist James Rosenquist has been one of my favorite living contemporary artists since I was first turned on to his work back when I was in college. I was so excited today to see a full installation of his multi-panel painting entitled F-111. This large scale work, which takes up four walls of a special gallery at NYC’s MOMA, features Rosenquist’s signature style of compiling collages of pop culture images (many taken from magazine ads and photos from the ’60s) and reproducing them on canvas in his pop modernist style.This painting is so gorgeous! The exhibit also contains many framed studies the Rosenquist did in preparation for this executing this impressive work. Continue reading James Rosenquist’s F-111 at MOMA →

Music, Pop Culture

Happy 64th Birthday, Alice Cooper

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Alice Cooper with Gail Worley
Alice and Me in 2000

Vincent Furnier, better known as Alice Cooper, being the second youngest member of the original Band called Alice Cooper, celebrates 64 years on this Brutal Planet today, having been born on February 4th, 1948. Happy Birthday Alice!

Food and Drink, Lifestyle

Be a Genius of Love on Valentine’s Day By Knowing Your Champagne!

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Two Flutes Champagne Toast

I’ve been drinking champagne since I was of legal age, but I never really appreciated what lovers of the tiny bubbles rave about until a friend bought me bottle of really nice champagne as gift this past Christmas. Let me tell you: there is a world of difference among varieties of champagne if you’re willing to throw it down for the good stuff.

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Music, Pop Culture

Sweet Ride of The Day: John Lennon’s Rolls Royce

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John Lennon's Rolls Royce
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From The Car Starter:

“This car (a 1965 Rolls-Royce Phantom V Limousine) sits in the lobby of the Royal BC Museum in Victoria, British Columbia. It once belonged to John Lennon, hence the paint job. But that’s not the only customization. Inside, apparently, there is a fold-out bed, a portable refrigerator, and a record player. There also used to be a TV. Bear in mind, all these changes were made in the mid-to-late 1960s, when the whole refrigerator-and-TV-in-a-car thing were much more impressive feats of technology.” On June 29th in 1985, the car sold for a record sum of $3,006,385, (£1,768,462) at a Sotheby’s auction in New York.

More Information, history and detailed photos of the paint job on this Rolls are available at This Link.

Thanks to Karl Brandt for The Tip!