Author Archives: Niall Murphy
Marilyn Monroe’s white “subway” dress sold for more than $5.6 million in a Beverly Hills, California auction Saturday night in which bidders paid another $2.7 million for three other Monroe movie outfits.
It was the first in a series of auctions to sell the massive Hollywood history collection that singer, dancer and actress Debbie Reynolds accumulated over the past 50 years.
Collector Keya Morgan said Saturday’s bids were “totally crazy, especially in this recession.”
Marilyn Monroe’s Iconic Dress Sells For $5.6 Million At Auction (CNN)
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The Takabisha rollercoaster, opening mid-July at Japan’s Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park, features seven major twists, over 1000 metres of track and a 130 foot drop at 121 degrees.
Yay! Whooo! Bloooargh!
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The Zafirro Iridium razor: platinum screws, iridium handle, 100-atom wide sapphire blades, 10 years of professional service including sharpening with high energy ionised particles included. Limited edition of 99.
Price: $100,000 each.
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Well, call me Ishmael…
California-based artist Tim Hawkinson’s painstakingly detailed Möbius Ship.
Named after a nineteenth-century astronomer and mathematician, the Möbius Strip is a surface that has only one side, and exists as a continuous curve.
The title is a witty play on Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick, which famously relates the tale of a ship captain’s all-consuming obsession with an elusive white whale. The ambitious and imaginative structure of Hawkinson’s sculpture offers an uncanny visual metaphor for Melville’s epic tale, which is often considered the ultimate American novel.
