Tim Bessell surfboards began its artist series not long ago, beginning appropriately with a set of Warhol-inspired surfboards. Newest in the series, and conjured up during Dave White’s visit to the SoCal area, the Dave White and Tim Bessell collaboration will feature White’s artistic interpretation of a Great White shark and will appear on a 10-item […]

Originally released in 1983, and true to the crazed and hallucinogenic Thompson/Steadman style, The Curse of Lono returns, a sort of fear and loathing in Hawaii that Taschen acquired and released a decade ago — and it immediately sold out. Featuring the unhinged ramblings of Hunter S and truly psychedelic art of Ralph Steadman, Taschen’s hardcover The […]

Part II of the Elf’s Swimming With Sharks adventure. Click HERE to first read Part I…  Above image courtesy of Bill Fisher …The water was clear. Mackerel swam around us, but my mind was on bigger fish, obviously. Where were they? When would they show up? Would there be a sound? For about a minute […]

The Elf has been documenting her plight with unemployment here for awhile now in her Bureaucracy for Breakfast series (read previous posts HERE), and since Day One she’s been trying everything from auditioning for Jerry Springer because it paid $500 to speaking gibberish in a meditation class. Well last month she traveled to Guadelupe Island, Mexico […]

The continuing saga of one girl’s plight with unemployment… and now, she finally has to face her greatest fear: Swimming with Great White Sharks… Read previous posts HERE It’s cool to be an adrenaline junky, like Bodhi taught Johnny Utah to be in Point Break. Remember the look of pure ecstasy on Keanu’s sexy face […]

For the last nine months our very own Elf has been writing about her continuing saga of being laid off and unemployed for LIAS. Her column, Bureaucracy for Breakfast, was picked by Chelsea Handler’s Borderline Amazing Comedy website as a featured blog, and now The Elf is trying to turn her adventures into a book. […]

Designer Raymond Hau has created a line of iPad sleeves/clutches made from exotic skins, many sporting unique luxurious textures. The line includes genuine black python (above), hair-on calfskin, lizard, crocodile, ostrich and even shark leather, all featuring interiors fully lined with quilted lamb skin. The premium lamb offers ultra soft protection for your beloved Apple […]

In this giant supermarket we live in, your life is full of many options. For instance, you can sleep inside the cartooned guts of a Tauntaun Sleeping Bag, inside the gaping maw of a 7 Foot Giant Shark, or even a wrapped up in a very realistic Grizzly Bear. But is that all, you may […]