The Bike, the Swing, all it’s missing is one of Julien Martinez dolls to make it all Burton-ish enough to digest. Oh, and one of them Apple Jackets? Some people are so talented! I bow before thee, your hands spawn magic! (via)

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Julien Martinez is a French doll creator. Only Julien’s dolls are really not your average looking dolls! He takes your ordinary looking Blythe doll and turns it into something completely unexpected, noir, marvelous! (the story continues right after the jump with more images! Click here for the gallery!)

Julien Martinez attended the Beaux Art School in Bordeaux and in 1996 he first presented the world with his dolls and his creations are warmly received by the public ever since. For the collectors, Julien Martinez’ creations represent a rare gem. His amazing talent and impeccable craft honor any doll passionate. I’ll let you to quietly admire Julien Martinez’ dolls, I simply feel like I just had a look around the Chocolate Factory! Magical!

Julien Martinez’ Ozz Dolls Factory

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With Takashi Murakami, Kirsten’s “Akihabara Majokko Princess” video is actually sung by her! This is meant as an art project for the Tate Museum in London Pop Life: Art in a Material World. Commissioned to Charlie’s Angels director, McG, the video story is a colorful, lifefull Lost in Translation vision. (hit the jump for more demystification)

Kirsten impersonates a magical girl character, something often seen in manga and anime stories bringing magic and music in the Akihabara district. The Akihabara district, they say, has a Japanese distinctiveness, independently growing in style and inspiration away from any other cultural interference. Choosing Kirsten to play that magical princess is supposed to morally, ideologically contrast with the very Akihabara free spirit.

If they did or did not succeed in demonstrating the artsyness in a material world with Kristen Dunst dressed like an anime singing like an amateur in a video (which would have just as well been done by an aspiring director, you wouldn’t have told the difference. Except maybe an aspiring director would have made some real artistic efforts!) you have to tell me. For now, I only conclude that this comes to queue up in a long strain of pretended art. Just because they label it so, doesn’t automatically make it museum-worthy! (Ellington, a hand, please?) (via)

Kirsten Dunst Is Turning Japanese For A Video With Takashi Murakami

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What’s your workplace style? order in chaos, fashionably lined up, all-in-reach? How do you keep it all? Here’s something to help you get an idea, some workplaces I found across the internet. Some are artsy, some are downright messy, but hey, as long as we remember what’s in, I guess it makes it alright! (hit the jump for more images, click here for the gallery!)

Whether you’re an artist or a mechanical, there’s something magical about your workspace and how you keep it all together. It’s how you have it all mapped out in your head and then how you lay it all out on your desk. Joseph Holmes’ Workspace project is magical and regardless the form, he manages to put it all in an artistic light.

However, let us not forget the bloggers! The way they work seems to carve out tomorrow’s news world. Where bloggers blog is a series of photographs taken by Ivan Terestchenko. (photos courtesy Ivan Terestchenko, Joseph Holmes) (via)

What’s Your Workspace Style?

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Placing an unexpected retro frame on a car’s mirror makes it more beautiful? I doubt it. Does it make it more accurate? Surely not! Does it make it more visible? Certainly! Don’t you love smart campaigns? (hit the jump to see more of this surprising campaign!) (BDD for L’eclat du cadre) (via)

The Retro Mirror. Anywhere, Anytime

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The book was printed on high quality paper using high quality material and the photographer, Ivan Terestchenko was given free hand and a day and a half per house. (the story continues with more images right after the jump; click here for the gallery!)

Seating in Yves Saint Laurent chair and photographing that exact view is an amazing chance to grasp the magic of such a great man. The book contains images that’ll not try to recreate the atmosphere in Yves Saint Laurent’s houses but most of all detail aspects of his living space existence. The photographer, however, regrets having created a sort of mix between YSL’s individuality and that of Pierre Bergé. That was deliberately separate in Yves Saint Laurent’s vision and reflection. (via) (the book is available and can be purchased here)

Yves Saint Laurent And Pierre Berge’s Secret Paradise By Ivan Terestchenko

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This set comes from the Brazilian Wish Report, their 35th issue, February 2010. Styled by Juliano Pessoa and Zuel Ferreira with impressive pieces from Rober Dognani, the pictorial looks too amazing for words. Hit the jump to enjoy more underwater magic! (click here for the gallery!) (photos via 1, 2, 3, Jacques Dequeker’s work can be seen here)

Underwater Photography By Jacques Dequeker For Wish Report Brazil

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However, if you think you’d be frog-jumping on the carpet to avoid the wire hangers, that’s how realistic it looks to you (though I promise, the description says knotted-in silk hangers!), you might consider other equally gorgeous designs, all signed Bev Hisey! (check them out right after the jump, click here for the gallery!)

Camouflage is big right now, just ask Marc Jacobs! The In the Wood series, also hand knotted, looks bright enough to keep people staring at your floors, and original enough to rank you as a high home hipster!

The Dirty Dishes carpet series is amazing! It brings together mundane and brilliant crafted design in an almost unrecognizable shape! More appalling the virus, more appealing the design!

If you’re into headaches, the Hand Tufted carpet series is the one to consider for your migraine inducing floors! The melon, anise, fishnet, worm patterns come right our of your visual cortex nightmares! (via; you can see more from Bev Hisey here)

The Perfect Carpet For Your Walk In Closet! And More

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The Facehunter Book

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Today’s new Tattoos episode is honored to showcase Amanda Wachob’s special artistic works. From abstract to conceptual, Amanda Wachob’s tattoos stretch your imagination and make you dream of erasing the fine boundaries keeping art separated from tattoo. (the story continues with more images right after the jump, click here for the gallery!)

Amanda Wachob uses the human body as her own canvas, swapping the traditional tattoos techniques for a new and innovative but highly delicate one. She’s using water colors to put her imagination on people’s skin and the result is not bad at all.

She’s not just a tattoo artist, Amanda, oh no! She’s a tireless artist, with regular exhibitions in galleries all over the world. But that doesn’t stop her from splashing her talent on people’s skin (besides experimenting with a superior aesthetic, completely risk free, regret free and pain free). No. Judging by the examples hereby, we’d be tempted to believe they’re complimentary – tattoos and art. Are they, really? (via)

Tattoos Versus Art. Amanda Wachob

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