Wow... Chongqing Edition

Upon first glance, MAD Architects’ latest project for Chongqing, China looks like an impossibility. The project, entitled Urban Forest, features a stacked set of floors that cantilever drastically from their central support. The floors are designed to bring more nature and open space into a densely compacted urban area.

Floor-to-ceiling glass windows offer users an uninterrupted panoramic of the city as a way to combine nature with the urban metropolis. Pools, trees and courtyards are scattered about the walk-around balconies providing an aesthetic which is quite different from the typical office or residential space.

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Spotted at archdaily

Major Lazer - Keep It Going Louder (Video)

Directed by Eric Wareheim.

Musically, not my thing. Visually.. if this doesn't scare you you're mental.

Pirelli 2010 Calendar - Rudeness x 12 (NSFW!)

Although I have posted the odd naughty picture in my time, I cannot post 12 of them and not feel like a dirty old man.

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Terry Richardson has really pushed the boat out this time with his 2010 Pirelli calendar work. For the uninitiated, the Pirelli calendar is, effectively, a high class version of those dirty calendars mechanics used to have up in the office (which I remember staring at as a boy while my mum's car got fixed).

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If you want to see the content (resolutely NOT SAFE FOR WORK), then click HERE.

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It's God's work in all it's beauty...

Extra-P visits Ameoba Records

I'm posting this for 2 reasons:

(1) The Large Professor is an excellent producer

(2) I've been to Ameoba in San Francisco. It's my spiritual home. I can literally spend 8 hours in there, just staring at the walls. In terms of hero-worship, the dude who owns these record shops is my God. If you like vinyl music, you must make the pilgramage to this store shop. In fact, I need to book a trip to the States soon, if only to do some shopping.

Gratuitous Kate Moss Pic

Click for close-up. What....? It's artistic!

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Shot for October's edition of French Vogue. Any excuse...

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Mr West's blog has further pics.

Wally Hermes Yachts - WHY

Good Lord!

Monaco yacht builders Wally have teamed up with France's premier posh-gear peddler Hermes to create WHY, Wally Hermes Yachts. If this ever gets built, I would pay money just to look at it.

Go to designboom to for more info/pics

Keri Hilson - Good Lord!

Wow. "Emerging R&B star" (?) Keri Hilson covers this months Complex mag.

Click image for the wonderful close up.

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And yes... it is worth it's own post.

BMW SX Concept Car

Nice. I want one. More on this over at likecool.

Nyle - Let The Beat Build (Video)

Shot in one take, and everything you hear is being played live, as the camera pans to them. Impressive.

Of course, this is a cover of the Kanye West-produced album cut from Lil' Wayne's (spit) Tha Carter III album.

Pirelli Calendar 2010 - Preview

The legendary tyre-makers 2010 nudie calendar (all done tastefully, of course) shot by pervy snapper Terry Richardson and featuring top end models like Daisy Lowe and Catherine McNeil.

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Click HERE to see a gallery of photos from the 2010 calendar, courtesy of fashionising.com

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The hat photo above (click HERE for a close up) will take some beating.

We have a son!

Tom was born yesterday, 8th Feb 2009, at 12:02, weighing 6lb and 6oz.

Here are two classic tracks about baby boys, by way of a tribute to my Tommy boy.

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To Zion - Lauryn Hill mp3

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Beautiful Boy - John Lennon mp3

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Exile - Another sample chopping masterclass

Exile using and abusing his MPC, chopping the living hell out of 'Funky Worm' by the Ohio Players.

Floating House - Ontario, Canada

I like this...

Though it's possibly not the best of living arrangements if you are prone to seasickness.

Spotted at archdaily.

Wow...

The above picture, that looks a bit like a giant pair of floating electric-powered lungs, or an angry brain, is actually a lightning storm in Chile. Click the image for a close up. It's worth it.

Then go Here and Here for more stunning 'photos of the year' courtesy of the Boston Globe.

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Spotted over at hypebeast

THAT Lotus is up for sale...

Next week, Bonhams auction house will be selling James Bond's swimming Lotus from 'The Spy Who Loved Me'. This was the greatest thing I had ever seen in my life at the time (and remained so until I saw Eva Mendes, and then in turn, Steven Gerrard's 91st minute equaliser against West Ham in the FA Cup final of 2006 replaced her).

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From Bonhams website: "The white 1976 Lotus Esprit from the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me, starring Roger Moore and Barbara Bach, will be sold by the international auctioneers on 1 December at its annual motoring Sale at Olympia, in West London. The car is expected to fetch £100,000-120,000."

Eating out - Okinawa style

The Naha Harbor Diner, found at the Banyan Town shopping centre in Okinawa.

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Click HERE for more pictures and info.

Bang & Olufson Serenata Mobile Phone

The above is a picture of Kanye West, bragging all over his blog about having 'copped' the new B&O mobile phone. I can't blame him. If I had one, I'd be doing the same right now. But, they cost over a thousand quid for an unlocked one, so I'll have to admire it from afar.

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Go HERE to see the detail and stats of this perfectly-formed, beautiful, shiny little bastard.

Man > Nature

Impressive, non?

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The 'viewpoint platform' on Mountain Isidor in Tyrol, Austria.

Go to Dezeen for more pictures and info.

Inner Mongolia is wrong

Kanye's weird listening session

So.... Kanye held a listening session for his new album 808's & Heartbreak in Los Angeles. From those who were there, it was a strange affair.

Held at a house in the middle of nowhere with passwords for entry, guests were greeted by the above scene... naked models, some of whom appear to be wearing a sheeps arse over there face in some kind of homage to Eyes Wide Shut. They were backlit by an interchanging light, from red to green to white and back. Then the album played with little or no comment about the tracks, and everybody left.

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Go to Kanye's blog for more pics of this crazy shit.