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Gagas Workshop
25 Nov
Forget the partridge in a pear tree. It’s the 12 Days of Gaga! We will release a new limited-edition product each day until the opening of GAGA’S WORKSHOP at Barneys. They won’t be available long, so make sure to come back daily to check out all the items.
I am dying over the Lady GaGa pop up grotto at Barney’s in New York – Gagas Workshop. The website is clever, interactive with special social media discount codes hidden around New York. All the products are great too with something for all pockets – even if you don’t like Gaga there is a touch of whimsy / nuttiness about them such as these amazing nails below!!! Clearly when it comes to creativity alter egos are the way forward 
Oh and 25% of all proceeds go to her Born This Way foundation.
Flame Press on Nails - $225
Gaga Lollipop $25
Gaga Ornament $25
Gaga Bust Candle $335
Saving the best to last I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Gaga edibles:
Geeky Ribbon
11 NovWith Stay Puft still being such a baby company I can’t afford to send impressive festive hampers to my clients [always looking for more ] so have gone done the creativity route… Money aside I think ‘homemade’ says a lot more about the way I work regardless. Anyway check out the ribbon I ordered for this project…
Adventure Hamper (they had me at functional pickles)
5 Aug
Whilst I could happily just post this picture of Bompas & Parr taken by the amazing Nathan Pask I feel compelled to post some information about their great hamper which will be on sale this Christmas at Selfridges I mean it contains functional pickles and triumphant drinks for starters… If my Dad was still alive (love you Dad RIP) then this would have made the perfect present for him, maybe that’s why I love it so much…
This Christmas, Bompas & Parr is launching an Adventure Hamper available exclusively at Selfridges from 15 December. Hampers used to be about exploration – provisions to stimulate and succour warriors, missionaries, and adventurers as they ventured across the world.
The Selfridges and Bompas & Parr Adventure Hamper restores the hamper to its pedestal of manly vigour. The sort of thing that inspires and provisions you for adventure. Conquering uncharted mountains passes in Afghanistan, exploiting mineral resources in the Amazon or re-discovering and mapping the lost River Fleet in the heart of London.
The Bompas & Parr Adventure Hamper contains an array of provisions and equipment to inspire adventure. These include functional pickles and jams that will help with malaria, altitude sickness, insect bites and jellyfish stings to more exotic kit like the hand customised ice axe, Saint Barnard Keg filled with overproof gin or bio-luminescent lollies for mountain rescue.
Each hamper comes with a guide book and manual created by Bompas & Parr to help your adventure, and the creative duo will also be building an in-store installation in December which the public will be invited to explore.
Harry Parr of Bompas & Parr comments: “Most hampers today are shrivelled husks of former glory. disappointing corporate gifts containing lame Christmas puddings and wimpy brandy butter. The B&P Adventure Hamper for Selfridges destroys other hampers. We want people to make their own adventures and the kit in this hamper will gives you the edge. Even if you don’t use the ice axe to climb frozen waterfalls it’s certainly handy in cocktail-based situations. And flares are useful whether for attracting the attention of rescue planes and for kick-starting the office Christmas party.”
EDITOR’S NOTES
The Bompas & Parr Adventure Hamper will be available at Selfridges from 15 December, £699.99 each in a limited edition of five. One lucky hamper owner will be invited to join the Bompas & Parr crew on their Arctic adventure. Dates TBC.
Contents:
Wadding/Packaging
Shredded white paper mixed with orange flash paper for starting fires
Supplies
Functional Jam
Cucumber and quinine jam (anti malarial)
Milk jam (a high fat jam for cold climates)
Raspberry and violet jam (for altitude sickness)
Functional pickles
Cranberry, star anise and myrrh (antibacterial)
Garlic and mustard seed (to stop insects biting)
Pickled shallots and juniper (to wash jellyfish stings)
Sweets and Energy Snacks
Taste of victory napalm gum
Caffeinated confits
Bioluminescent lollies for mountain rescue
Trail mix
Kendal mint cake
Drinks of Triumph
Magnum of champagne
Saint Barnard Keg of oak aged gin
Coffee and cigarette elixir for a liquid breakfast
Chocolate elixir for energy
Tobacco
Snuff
White Cavendish Tobacco
Tools
Flare – used for rescue or general pyrotechnic display
Ice axe – climb glaciers or break up ice for drinks
Flag of conquest/picnic blanket
Maps for adventure
Compass
Adventure manual
About Bompas & Parr
Bompas & Parr works in the space between food and architecture. Projects explore how the taste of food is influenced by synaesthesia, performance and setting.
In the past Bompas & Parr has collaborated with Lord Foster and Heston Blumenthal to design jellies, flooded a grade one listed building with four tonnes of alcoholic punch that visitors boated across before drinking, created a breathable cloud of G&T, charted the complete history of food, concocted a flavour changing chewing gum and built a chocolate waterfall flowing at a rate of 12,000 liters and hour.
Bompas & Parr’s first book Jelly with Bompas & Parr is now out published by Anova and Cocktails with Bompas & Parr will be published in September 2011.
Bompas & Parr’s has worked with The Barbican Art Gallery, Disney, Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Salone del Mobile, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Victoria and Albert Museum and Wellcome Collection.
For more information visit www.jellymongers.co.uk
Julian Assange does Charlie Brown
31 Dec
I honestly had to look at this post really really carefully as I was convinced it had to be a fake – it isn’t!!! I know OMG / WTF and so forth. I fear (I say fear I don’t give a shit) all the pressure caused a mental breakdown in which he believes himself to be Charlie Brown…
Newsweek have gone all OK Magazine and inexplicably posted an exclusive set of massively cringeworthy photographs (& fuck awful descriptions) featuring Julian Assange entitled “Julian at Christmas”. It pictures him in various set up ‘country scenes’ (such as collecting logs) which results in him looking like the love child of Rhidian & Guy Richie – other details I particularly enjoyed are the advert for Apple & the world’s shittest Christmas tree. As for the santa sack saying “I’ve been a very very good boy” oh purlease…
Fuck me it’s only one stop short of a Hello magazine feature (I had to look at it from behind a cushion) & I doubt that has been totally ruled out either yet. He’ll being going out with a Cheeky Girl for good publicity next… In fact scrap that it is EXACTLY the same as a Hello feature, just one that has been published in a different magazine.
Have it body painted on instead 
A Kiss Christmas
23 DecI am not a fan of Kiss but even I am tempted by having a 2011 Kiss Christmas Tree – pure rock kitsch no matter what your taste in music is!
