British artist Billie Achilleos has crafted these Australian animal icons out of Louis Vitton bags to celebrate the vaunted French luxury label’s 25 years in the Land Down Under. They were commissioned by LV to dress up their flagship Louis Vuitton Maison store in Sydney — the highest level of LV shopping available, the Maison stores only […]

We were taken at first listen by the latest track from ANR (Awesome New Republic), the hurricane and natural disaster-inspired “It’s Around You” single. The University of Miami, School of Music duo — comprised of Brian Robertson (Keys, Vocals) and Michael-John Hanock (Vocals, Drums) — craft infinitely catchy songs built on synth riffs, swooning vocals and melodic […]

The latest creation of melting animals is meant to remind people of the hardship our planet’s environment is going through. Realistic sculptures of animals melting into the ground due to global warming are the product of Takeshi Kawano, a Japanese artist who created the pieces to ignite the thoughts and the opinions of people worldwide. The […]

We caught one-half of LA based songwriting/production duo Massif a little while back opening for LCD Soundsystem, and we gotta say they’re hard to pin down categorically, drawing influence from such disparate sources as Tool, The Mars Volta, Aphex Twin, Animal Collective, Battles and just about everything in between. So we kept an eye out […]

Jack Zagoory Designs, a pen and desk art company, offers some original and distinctive designs for the workspace. One of their latest collections includes the Animal Staple Removers. Animal lovers, history buffs, mythology aficionados and Money Men will enjoy the ingenious (and necessary) desk art piece. Featuring 12 pieces, the collection includes a lion, eagle, dragon, […]

From the deranged mind of Enrique Gomez de Molina we are treated to animals that look like malevolent pets plucked from the hellish fires of the underworld. The taxidermist stitches together a menagerie of animals into ones we could only dream of… or more likely, have sweat-inducing nightmares about. With names like “Sunday Morning”, “Crabby” […]

Christian Louboutin’s latest ultra-luxury sneakers are these Louis flat high-tops. Dressed in an obsidian black “Python Crystal” material, the shoes appropriately showcase the reptilian skin as the featured star. Plain black sole and matching tonal laces accent the shiny, scaly snakeskin wrapped around the high-tops. Find the French designer’s Louis for the bargain basement price […]

Takayuki Hori’s Oritsunagumono takes Origami, the traditional Japanese art of paper folding, and reshapes it with an environmental-themed collection of translucent skeletal Origami works. Oritsunagumono (“things folded and connected”) is made up of eight endangered species native to Japan’s coast — even more imperiled after the recent earthquakes and tsunamis. They are made of translucent […]