Kitten eating Zombie brain

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via Nerdcore

Gingerbread Ovaries

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I don’t know who this person is but I know I love their work…

I Am Your Grandma

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This is just some fucking strange awesomeness from Jillian Mayer - totally in love with every single one of the costumes (thanks to @olivia_solon for tweeting this)

Eurovision 2011

Right here is the round up of MY top 3 Eurovision performances based on nothing but my personal opinion;

Lady GaGa eats cake!

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I know I have featured these before but this is just AMAZING and I am so pleased for Molly Bakes. Her Lady GaGa cake pops have made it to Lady GaGa receiving her seal of approval. Oh yes! You can buy your own here – £4.50 each for a limited run early so get in fast if you want one!!!!

I feel I have to end on a quick internet round up of other Cakey GaGa’s – and there are a LOT so do click to see more after the break:

Precious cream puffs

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Chefs will be pioneering the presentation of food on plates forever. It’s an element of the food & eating experience which even has it own trends. However a new trend is emerging of late; rather than make food look beautiful on plates plates & ceramics are now being designed specifically for certain foods and it’s far more beautiful than the banana protectors or prison issue meal trays that might first spring to mind. From cream puff plates to ones designed for chicken and chips this adds an element of playfulness & design clout to the eating experience… your meal will look beautiful even without trying!

Take for example the ‘menu’ series from 5.5 designs for Khala – the plates very design dictating a weekly menu. Read more about this over at The Trendy Girl (it’s in French).

But what about sweet things – well Switch Design have developed these amazing glass food covers that are made for distinct types of treats: onigiri (rice ball), shu cream (cream puff), and a slice of delicious looking strawberry cream cake (sadly no ones for a vagina cupcake as yet). Much like gastronmista (read more on their site) I adore the preciousness of these – I am not sure if they would be able to rescue anything from Gregs, or worse Iceland, but I do think they would make serving something as simple as cream puff dinner party acceptable. Something I have decided is the way forward so now all I need is a man to cook dinner for!!!

Rock Gnomes of the Whitehouse

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Obama gets The Rock Gnomes of Moldovia treatment. Basically some fuck awful ‘unique’ hats worn in the Eurovision song contest as part of a performance which is basically impossible to describe. Super speedy photoshopping work from @petermsp. These hats are going to run & run so except  them to pop up everywhere… I am determined to make myself one to wear to the Bizarre Ball next week!!! Will post video when live so you can appreciate them in full glory! Right we really do need to get #rockgnomes trending…

Eurovision Holy Grail

OK so I am pissed already so thought I might as well share my top 3 Eurovision performances before I get too drink to tweet!

Verka Serduchka remains my favourite performance of ALL time even if I lost £1000 on it as ‘she’ came second not first.

I can’t believe I am opening sharing this but I this 2008 Spanish entry is also awesome…

And come on surely a classic entry of all time – so appallingly bad it’s glorious. I was beyond excited when the blonde too popped up on Coach Trip recently…

2006 well… a fat Ian Huntley look-a-like rapping with dancers dressed at school children – you can’t make it up

Jammie dodger Britton

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Jammie dodger Britton posted a link to her final year university project on this site’s Facebook page and it was so good I just had to contact her and ask for more information to share;

The event was our final year project for Art, Event and performance BA hons at Leeds metropoltian University, we are the first to graduate on this degree as it has only been running for 3 years making us the pioneers of AEP. We have had a week long festival full of all our fellow students final project called the “lift off festival” with many different peformances and installations alongside exhibitions of the documentation of students work. My collegue Marina Demetriadis and I decided we wanted to create an interactive fun event and soon became an event to launch the lift off festival. The launch event combined the celebration of carnival and the ideas of dead of the day, a celebration in style for the end of one chapter in our lives and the entering of an new chapter in an entirely unqiue way. The launch event kicked off the weeks procceedings starting with an introduction from The Lady of the dead, encouraging everyone to join in with a masquarde parade. Masks were handed out and everyone was given a hand held instrument, lead by the lady of the dead and the sound of the lead drums close behind her. Everyone joined in with making music while heading to the next part of there journey, once at the end of the parade the audience were seated and met by the performance of rockit belly dance troupe who performaced to well known rock songs, the audience were then handed wine and asked to join the lady of the dead in a toast. This was then followed by a performace from the lady of the dead creating a sacrifice to restore balance and protection to all present, during this the heart was ripped out from the human sacrifice (made entirley from cake and sugary goodness) and bitten into then offered to an audience memember, then going back to the body and slicing into the head, the auidence were then asked to come up to the altar in order to recieve their slice!!! Some shyed away from the oppurtunity later saying that they couldn’t get their mind past the idea of it being a human body and like me other revelled in the idea of free cake!!

Reinventing the Racing Silk

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I have been working on this Racing For Change project for the past few weeks with lovely Freerange and it seemed almost ridiculous not to feature it on this blog – especially as I have been asking others to do the same. Having fessed up to the fact it is 100% work (which I always do) I thought I might as well also post the press release whole.

It’s almost 250 years since jockeys began wearing silks in horse races – allowing them to be easily identified during a race – since which time they have been few changes until now…
In an effort to bring jockeys’ attire into the 21st century, Racing For Change – an organisation set up to broaden the appeal of horseracing – has commissioned a series of revolutionary new designs from students currently studying at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design.
A shortlist of 13 finalists has been announced and their entries will be shown at a public exhibition at Central Saint Martin’s Innovation Centre, along with each of the student designs initially submitted. Judges will be choosing one winner, whose designs will go on to be worn by the country’s top jockeys in a race at Britain’s premier racecourse, Ascot, on 9th July 2011.

Designs from Rachel Sale & Sophie Gate

Traditional coloured diamonds, stripes, chevrons and circles used on racing silks have been replaced by an amazing array of eye-catching modern graphics including;
• Racing colours based on the lucky combinations of fruit machine symbols such as oranges, cherries, the number seven and lemons – from Henry Griffin

• Lucky charms such as a wishbone, four-leaf clover, crossed fingers, a horse shoe, a rabbit’s foot and even a ‘lucky’ bird dropping – from Jessica Hall and Ella de Weijer

• Racing colours based on the theme of ‘Looks Like…’, taking items from a traditional British picnic and aiming to make life easier for the commentator and the race judge with their very differences, for example a scotch egg, slice of watermelon, an egg and cress sandwich and even a strawberry – from Rachel Sale and Sophie Gates.

Rod Street, Chief Executive of Racing for Change said:

“Racing silks have been around since 1762 when the Jockey Club decided that some form of differentiation was necessary in order to assist the race judge. Nowadays, they’ve all been standardized and have become rather boring so we thought it was time to create some new graphics, colours and visual ideas.

Designs from Maelle Bataille

Students who took part weren’t constrained by the current shapes and colours, but were expected to come up with striking designs that would communicate to punters, race goers and TV viewers. The students spent a day at the races and went away to design their racing silks for the 21st century. We have been very impressed with the quality of the work.”

In all 37 students took part in the competition, which was launched in March this year. The work of the13 finalists will be shown at a public exhibition at St Martin’s College on 19th – 20th May. The winning student’s designs will be sewn into silks to be worn in a special race at Ascot on July 9th.

Please visit www.lovetheraces.com for further information.

Do let me know if you are interested in this story, or featuring it on your own blog / site. It’s very on trend for colour blocking