Author Archives: Niall Murphy

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Youtuber suzyj86 from the Netherlands loved her Facebook friends so much, she had 152 of their thumbnail pictures inscribed as a sleeve tattoo.

Or so it seemed, until the whole viral phenomenon was exposed as a fake. It’s actually a promotion for a company that specialises in making gifts out of Facebook profile pix. The tatt is a transfer. The cake is a lie.

Oh internetz. You scamp.

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Balloon Bench by Japanese design collective h220430. Inspired by the feeling of floating felt by the main character in the 1953 French movie, “Le Ballon Rouge”.

The ‘floating’ illusion is created by suspending the bench from the ceiling by four anchors concealed by the balloon shapes. Which also light up.

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Fashion designer Sylvia Heisel and her husband Scott Taylor’s Manhattan apartment: front door and kitchen garnished with artist’s tape, bedroom design applied with squirt bottles on fabric.

Imagine waking up there with a hangover. You’d decorate the bathroom fairly promptly is all we’re saying.

Masking Apartment (NYmag)

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Virtuoso cellists, Stjepan Hauser and Luka Sulic follow their all-strings cover of Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal with this passionate rendering of the GnR classic.

Cellists. You know they’re only doing it to get laid.

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Later this year, Gresso, the mobile phone blingifier (Kanye would have them on speed-dial) will launch the iPhone4 Time Machine. They’ve replaced the rear cover with diamond coated mineral glass under which they’ve embedded six ultra-thin Swiss watches, all set to different time zones.

$6000. It’ll go real nice with your solid gold Glock.

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