Picasso's Women Of Algiers Sells At Auction For An Obscene One Hundred And Eighty Million Dollars...

Pablo Picasso's painting Women Of Algiers
sold recently at a Christies New York auction for an obscene one hundred and eighty million dollars. It previously sold eighteen years ago for thirty two million dollars. There's money to be made from art. And money as we well know is much more important than human beings.
In India, seven thousand people die of stavation every day and there are nearly eight hundred million other people on this planet starving to death too, many of them, women of Algiers...

The Beautiful Danish Designed Minimalist VIPP Shelter...

VIPP have been working with steel since
the 1930's when Holger Nielsen founded the company in the small town of Randers
with the sole purpose of producing
a beautiful rubbish bin.
Yes a rubbish bin. Rubbish bins were a very important item, a status symbol and certainly a way of keeping ahead of the Joneses back then, not that there were many Joneses in Denmark.
Holger was so successful with his venture, his iconic pedal bin that is used around the world  proudly takes it's place in New York's
Museum of Modern Art.
Now the design team headed by Morten Bo Jensen have taken the company's reputation to another level with this beautifully designed and manufactured prefabricated steel shelter that comes with everything except the new owners food, wine and a site for the minimalist 592 square foot home to sit on.
There's more here, here and here...

Kat O'Sullivan's Amazing Technicolour World...

New York based artist Kat O'Sullivan's house, which is more like a psychedelic retreat,
featured here about three years ago when it was a work in progress.
It still is and likely to be forever.
And so too is anything this colourful character applies her wonderful wacky art to.
Kat is someone with a great sense of humour who does not do boring, applying a zillion shades of brilliance to everything around her.
You can check out the wonderful upcycled sweaters and clothing she's been creating for over twenty years here...

432 Park Avenue. It's Life Jim, But Not As We Know It...

432 Park Avenue New York.
432 Park will suffice.
It's an exclusive address.
A bit like Ramp Road really.
Seen here is a look at life in the US$95m penthouse at the top of the tallest condominium building in the Western hemisphere.
With stunning views over Manhattan.
Designed by architect Rafael Vinoly with interior styling by Deborah Berke, it's life at 1396 feet. Towering over the One World Trade Center without its spire at 1368 feet, the Empire State Building at 1250 feet and the Chrysler Building at a lowly 1046 feet.
It's life Jim, but not as we know it.
And that's ok...

Why Would American Dave Rahimi Fly From California To Sydney Australia To Buy The Very First Apple iPhone6...

Why would American Dave Rahimi fly all the way from California to Sydney Australia to buy the very first iPhone6 other than Apple's Sydney store was, because of the time difference, the first store in the world to open it's doors?
And why would Moon Ray and her husband from Jackson Mississippi wait in line complete with solar chargers, thermal mats, inflatable chairs and mattresses and a membership of the local YMCA so they could have showers, for nineteen days to purchase the first iPhone6 from New York's Fifth Avenue Apple Store?
Five minutes of fame? Something to tell their grandchildren? To impress?
To define who they are as a person?
Who would know, but Apple sold ten million phones to their faithful worshipers in the first three days of the product launch...

Alfred Eisenstaedt's Famous Photograph Of The Times Square Kiss That Celebrated The End Of World War Two...

This image by Alfred Eisenstaedt of the sailor kissing the nurse in New York's Time Square is probably the most famous kiss photo ever taken.
Said to star US Navy sailor Glenn McDiffie and Nurse Edith Shain, photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt just happened to be in the right place at the right time and managed to shoot four frames of the two kissing as they, with many thousands of others, euphorically celebrated
the end of the second world war
sixty nine years ago.
He's seen here signing the photo many years later at his holiday home at Martha's Vineyard.
Seizing the moment just recently, ninety year old Sydnor Thompson, with the ardor of a much younger self, kisses his wife Harriette
to re-enact the famous photo. 
Comedian Chico Marx, commenting on Alfred's iconic image said the sailor wasn't kissing the nurse, he was whispering in her mouth...

Swedish Architect Nils Luderowski Builds This Very Beautiful Japanese Treehouse In New York...

I call it Scandanese.
It's when the beautiful simplistic qualities of Scandinavian design and the equally simple beauty of Japanese tradition combine to create the aesthetic harmony we see here.
Nils Luderowski, a Swedish architect domiciled in New York's Keene Valley has very successfully combined the best of both worlds using a mix of Swedish and Japanese elements in his wonderful Reinhold Treehouse at Long Lake in upstate New York.
Beautiful isn't it...