Puppies and Flowers

Originally posted 2009-11-03 09:37:12.

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Link to Fabian Perez’ extensive online porfolio.

Originally posted 2010-02-04 09:27:53.

Originally posted 2010-01-29 23:23:03.

Via: VideoSift

Originally posted 2007-05-15 12:01:31.

Originally posted 2009-06-18 08:24:43.

Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan spoofed David Letterman's Top 10 while accepting the first ever YouTube Visionary Award at the YouTube Live event. It's pretty funny.

Originally posted 2008-11-24 10:22:40.

Stunning photoshoot by photographer Steven Meisel and the beautiful Viktoriya Sasonkina. More recently known for this Calvin Klein campaign which was met with some controversy, not likely to happen with the current Louis Vuitton Madonna shoot.

Originally posted 2009-06-30 14:04:31.

Hold on to them here 

"Too sexy for my bus," woman told

A German bus driver threatened to throw a 20-year-old sales clerk off his bus in the southern town of Lindau because he said she was too sexy, a newspaper reported Monday.

"Suddenly he stopped the bus," the woman named Debora C. told Bild newspaper. "He opened the door and shouted at me 'Your cleavage is distracting me every time I look into my mirror and I can't concentrate on the traffic. If you don't sit somewhere else, I'm going to have to throw you off the bus.'"

Show me Miss Cellania's links

Originally posted 2007-07-18 19:56:23.

Originally posted 2010-08-19 12:42:41.

Originally posted 2007-12-20 13:34:09.

Part of apertures of metal band became digital display screen. Metal band and digital figures mingle together in proportion naturally. Without the face of “timepiece”, it displays figures only when needed but also quite vague existence, “time”.

VIA D&AD

Originally posted 2009-04-09 15:52:55.

Thanks Garry MBS

Originally posted 2009-02-24 17:11:40.

Link to Gizmodo. Thanks Donna

Originally posted 2007-05-30 20:12:45.

AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. These commercials were created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B). Founded in 1929, Benton & Bowles was a New York advertising agency that merged with D’Arcy Masius McManus in 1985 to form DMB&B. Major clients included are Procter & Gamble, Kraft, Schick, Vicks, and Post, among others. Commercials will be added in phased batches over several months in 2009. The commercials are a part of the D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles Archives found at the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History in Duke University’s Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.

Link to archive.

Originally posted 2009-09-17 08:09:37.

Because of the devastation of World War II, Russian “girls” in the ’40s and ’50s were taught to be tough and work hard.   I am saddened by the fact that Russia never had the chance to enjoy the happy pin-up times of America’s postwar period. In fact, cheerful American pin-up art was considered in Soviet Russia to be politically incorrect, decadent and flat-out immoral, the product of a culture that could never understand the true nature of the human condition.

By photographing exclusively Russian immigrant women in traditional all-American pin-up poses, I am inventing my own genre of Russian pin-up.  My concept is to portray pure beauty, femininity and sexuality, not to objectify but to empower. To those who identify the clues in my work, hidden to most non-Russian eyes, I am telling the story of a crisis of Russian national identity, and the frustration and confusion of self-identification with the Old Country, the New World and a diaspora caught between them. My goal is to bridge the gap and seduce the spectator with alluring imagery, trapping him into empathizing with a foreign element.

Irina Davis website.

Advertising Agency: Publicis Conseil, France
Executive Creative Chairman: Olivier Altmann
Copywriter: Olivier Dermaux
Art Director: Matthieu Vinciguerra
Account Team: Gaëlle Morvan, Manuella Perche
Photographer: Reza Behnam
Published: April 2009
Media: Outdoor and Press

Previously on Wonderbra:

Today’s excellent Wonderbra ad brought to you by Publicis Frankfurt…

Wonderbra — The Big Reveal

More Wonderbra ads — swimwear campaign

Wonderbra: stand behind the yellow line

Originally posted 2009-08-04 09:02:38.

Archive of Lesbian paperback artwork from the 50′s and 60′s. Pretty cool stuff, note the typo in image showing. Link

Originally posted 2007-05-08 21:29:46.

From PingMag, a Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things”

In Tokyo, you can wear these every night – in other cities, there will soon be Carnival. How about false eyelashes by Kakuyasu Uchiide! The brilliant Japanese head make-up artist of renowned Shu Uemura cosmetics will give you beauty obsessed people a tour through his current false eyelash collection for instant transformation into a mysterious Egyptian princess, an extravagant bird or a magical wood elf… We are not being silly here. PingMag spoke also to Uchiide about the perfectionist standards of beauty in Japan.

article with more examples

Originally posted 2008-01-23 15:21:20.

Link to article in French. Thanks Christo

Originally posted 2007-05-30 20:20:34.