Fraud, plagiarised, copied, ripped off call it what you will. A Hong Kong based publisher has blatantly ripped of dozens of artists and online interviews and put together a book it’s selling for US$100.

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So true….

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We all love those great pics on the front of food packages (or even TV junk food adverts) that show us mouth watering delights. When you get it home though and prep it, the sad reality is often far from what sold you on it.

Pundo3000.com (don’t ask us, it’s a Euro thing) did a great comparison.

[Check it out here]

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Here’s an interesting little slide presentation for completely insane house and structures that people around the world have built over time. Well worth a look as some of them are just unbelievable.

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Everyone’s going to be posting this we are sure, so we don’t want to miss out either. Bjork’s new video, Wanderlust has just hit the screen after a year in the making by San Francisco based Encyclopedia Pictura. It’s a 3D visual feast well worth watchin, as most of Bjork’s videos are.

[Check out the Quicktime (BIG) here]

From the wires:

Philippe Starck tells magazine design is dead

Renowned French designer Philippe Starck says he is fed up with his job and plans to retire in two years, in an interview published in a German weekly on Thursday.

“I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact,” Starck told Die Zeit weekly newspaper.

“Everything I designed was unnecessary.”

“I will definitely give up in two years’ time. I want to do something else, but I don’t know what yet. I want to find a new way of expressing myself …design is a dreadful form of expression.”

Starck, who is known for his interior design of hotels and Eurostar trains and mass consumption objects ranging from chairs to tooth brushes and lemon juice squeezers, went on to say that he believed that design on the whole was dead.

“In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant,” he said.

Starck said the only objects that he still felt attached to were “a pillow perhaps and a good mattress.” But the thing one needs most, he added, was the “ability to love”.

Source: Agence France-Presse