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Apple fanboys, the smell of a new MacBook Pro has got to be the equivalent
of that new car smell. And now, it's in fragrance form, thanks to Melbourne-based
performance artists Gavin Bell, Jarrah de Kuijer and Simon McGlinn:
A few months ago these young artists approached Air Aroma seeking assistance with creation of a unique fragrance for their upcoming art exhibition. The aroma requested for the project was the scent of an Apple product being opened for the first time.
A distinctive scent can be observed when unwrapping a newly purchased Apple product from its packaging. Apple fans will certainly recognize this smell. The scent created for Greatest Hits encompasses the smell of the plastic wrap covering the box, printed ink on the cardboard, the smell of paper and plastic components within the box and of course the aluminum laptop which has come straight from the factory where it was assembled in China.
Sadly, it's for an art performance only and you can't buy it: Link - via The Verge
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They might not be real dresses, but as a geek gal, I sure wish some ambitious fashion designer would make these adorable drawings by illustrator Robin Kaplan into a reality. In the meanwhile, I guess we’ll have to appreciate the great drawings of girls wearing dresses inspired by Doctor Who, Star Wars, Pokemon and more for what they are.
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Let's face the god-awful truth: you will never ever be as hip as these hipster kids, especially when they wear those oh-so-cool Very French Gangsters prescription eyeglasses.
Whodathunk that being four-eyes is now the new hotness? Link - via Notcot
If you've got a teen who's been bugging you about going to prom, then you probably already know this: prom is much more expensive nowadays than when you went oh so many years ago.
USA Today business reporter Hadley Malcolm (right, above), who still looks good in her original senior year high school prom dress, reports that the average prom spending is - sit down moms and dads - over $1,000:
Read the rest of the report over at USA Today: LinkProm is the new wedding, and spending on the springtime high school dance is climbing within reach of celebrations of holy matrimony.
Mary Stirsman says she couldn't imagine buying her 17-year-old daughter Madison the $500 dress she found at an Indianapolis boutique on one recent shopping trip, because Stirsman only spent $800 on her own wedding dress. But a higher price tag is the new norm for an increasingly lavish event for which teens and their families are dropping loads of cash on one-of-a-kind dresses and tuxes, limos or party buses, hair, makeup, jewelry, flowers, dinner and dance tickets.
This year, families with teens are expected to spend an average of $1,078 on prom, up from $807 last year, according to data from a survey released today by Visa that includes results based on a thousand telephone interviews conducted at the end of last month.
"This is social-arms-race spending. It's extreme," says Jason Alderman, director of Visa's financial education programs.
Saggy
pants may be a fashion crime, but can they land you in real jail? The
answer is yes:
Meet Lamarcus Ramsey.
The 19-year-old Alabama man was sentenced yesterday to three days in jail after he appeared in court with jeans that were hanging so low that an irate judge cited him for contempt.
The crime? "showing your butt in court":
The jurist added, “You can spend three days in jail. When you get out you can buy pants that fit, or at least get a belt to hold up your pants so your underwear doesn’t show.”
The bad news is that the dog isn't thrilled with its owner's latest lederhosen fashion obsession, but the good news is that it's now famous on the Interweb. Wait, that may not exactly be good news ...
Link - via Buzzfeed
Edward Linley Sambourne was a professional illustrator and cartoonist, but his hobby was photography. He took pictures of women on the streets of England to document their choice of dress, but rarely did the subject know he was snapping the pictures! Sambourne’s method would be a privacy issue today, but as the photographs are now over a hundred years old, they are a catalog of what women of the time looked like in their natural habitat. See more photographs at The Library Time Machine. Link -via Nag on the Lake
Forget Harry Potter! The Hottest Bachelor in Wizarding is none other than Draco Lucius (Luscious? Oh my!) Malfoy.
It must be true! I read it on The Witch Weekly ... I mean, Rita Skeeter doesn't lie, does she? Via Hearts Should Be Unbreakable
I know a lot of geeks hate prom, but honestly, the night can be a lot of fun. At my prom, I wore a white dress with white angel wings and my best friend/platonic date wore a black dress with black wings. Since we weren’t really a couple, neither of us ended up with a corsage or boutonniere. If I saw one of these around back then though, one of us certainly would have sported it -in fact, I probably would have worn one of these and she could have sported a Darth Vader boutonniere. Now that would have been stylish.
Link Via Geek Crafts
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From the bright and twisted minds at Keio University in Japan comes a set of robotic rings that appear to be made out of Furby’s eyes and mouth.
If the nonsensical gibberish spewing out of the little alien bird creature has made your life a living hell, why not get revenge and show the world how much you hate Furby at the same time? Or you can use these rings to start your own ventriloquist act and become a hundredaire!
Wearing these creepy rings means your fashion sense will truly isolate you from the rest of the world, but at least you’ll still have someone to talk to!
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USA! USA! USA!
Still, Jeremy Scott’s USA Sunglasses need Alaska and Hawaii. I suggest that they be added on thin metal rods, scaled to the map.
Link -via Boing Boing
But it’s not a functional gumball machine, which would be cool. Think of that as the future. Who needs flying cars and holodecks? We need gumball machine dresses, and Etsy seller Coyote Peyote has taken the first step toward making that dream a reality.
Let me put it out there right away: the link has a lot of NSFW photos. That being said, if you can handle seeing a few naked breasts, this fantastic collection of crazy cosplay costumes from the swinging seventies are all worth a long look. The pictures are all courtesy of io9 writer and long-term convention attendee Ron Miller.
Sure these hand-painted shoes by Reddit user lumpyheadedbunny look great, but for $350 per pair, I’d hope they actually give you Sonic’s super speed. To be fair though, each pair takes between 45 and 60 hours to complete, so they’re a bargain when you consider the man hours required to make them.
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It can’t be said that they lack chemistry, that’s for sure.
While we’ve featured plenty of geeky weddings, I think this might be the first one based on science. And the theme penetrated every aspect of the wedding:
“They fell in love with the idea of the scientific geek wedding theme because of the incorporation of a lot of glass elements such as beakers, petri dishes, test tubes, eye droppers, which would all have very good light-catching elements,” writes Wedding Chicks. “All of these scientific elements were sourced from laboratory supply houses so that they would be 100% authentic.” When the guests arrived they were able to sign in at the Periodic Table of Elements!
What do you guys think? Geek chic or geek reek?
Link Via The Mary Sue
I don’t know about you other ladies, but while I have plenty of geektastic tees in my wardrobe, I’m certainly lacking when it comes to R2D2 skirts. Fortunately, Etsy seller GoChaseRabbits is here to correct that fashion faux pas with this adorable piece.
Link Via Geeks Are Sexy
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This certainly put a new spin on Eric Carmen's popular song Hungry Eyes. That's a real advertisement for Burger King Netherlands, which prodded customers to "get a tasty new look." Link - via BellaSugar
Defendants
have been wearing suits and ties to appear like upright citizens to juries
for a long time, but that may not be enough for some. These people need
... hipster glasses!
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Brittin noticed that 5 men he was prosecuting for a series of killings were wearing large-framed, non-prescription glasses, and decided to blow the Hipster Glasses conspiracy wide open:
Non-prescription “hipster” or “personality” glasses are on one hand simply a fashion fad. But they’ve also become something of a sensation in the District’s courthouse scene: Attorneys say inmates trade them before hearings, while friends and family sometimes deliver them during jailhouse visits. Some lawyers even supply them themselves. [...]
“They’re masks. They’re designed to confuse the witness and influence the jury,” said one prosecutor who is following the trial. Another said the defendants were “putting on a schoolboy act.”
Other defense attorneys chimed in on the effectiveness of the Hipster Glasses:
New York defense lawyer Harvey Slovis makes all his clients wear glasses: He calls them part of a “nerd defense.” The glasses, Slovis said in an interview, make people appear less intimidating. “Yes, it works,” he said.
Link - via The Look (Image: The Hipster Ariel Meme)
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Short
men have been wearing discreet "lifts" for a long time, but
this is something else. Behold, the "meel" or man-heel, the
newest fashion trend to hit the streets.
Hairy legs and stilettos? Now that's a shoe-in for a blog post on Neatorama:
Mr. Wagner was otherwise dressed in men’s clothing: a loose-fitting black tank top with a pair of tapered black pants. He had a neatly trimmed beard, and a pair of black-framed glasses sat perched on his nose.
“I never leave the house with less than eight inches on my feet,” he said cheerfully. “It helps you see over the cattle.”
Mr. Wagner was not the only man wearing high heels (but no other women’s clothing) that night. At Mr. Black, Luke Nero, a promoter, estimated that 10 or more men were traversing the dance floor in a pair of pumps. “I went to a loft party yesterday, and there was a guy in normal shorts, normal tank and really hot red pumps. That’s it!” he said. “Everyone was like, ‘Oh my God, I love those shoes!’ ”
Tricia Romano of the New York Times struts the stuff: Link (Photo: Amy Dickerson for the NY Times) - via Oddity Central
A formal apron? A Pikachu pinafore? With all this tulle, you wouldn’t be making a mess in the kitchen with it, but put it over dress and it’s perfect for prom or any other cosplay event! Custom made for you by Amanda Marin, it’s available from Etsy shop Darling Amy. Link -via Geeks Are Sexy
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Jousting against Superman? Better get a lance made out of kryptonite first. I don’t know about you guys, but I’d love to see these guys turned into a movie.
Link Via Geeks Are Sexy
Want a new hairdo that will also watch your back? Then check out this cyclops inspired hair creation, which comes to you courtesy of Biglilkim.
She really knows how to make an entrance and an exit, and I pity the fool who tries to sneak up on her from behind, because the eyeball on the back of her head has been known to shoot purple laser beams at bad guys.
Link –via Obvious Winner
This incredible prop looks like it’s been through a hundred years of intergalactic conflict, and appears to weigh a ton, just like the one carried by Boomers in the video game franchise Gears of War.
Created from scratch by Ryan and Dena Palser of Kronos Props, it’s the perfect way to launch some nasty little Diggers at the Gears and take over the planet, one emergence hole at a time.
I’ve seen some Gears of War cosplay, mainly Gears in COG armor, but have any of you seen Locust cosplay on the interwebs? If you have, please share!
Link –via Rampaged Reality
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Sure a leafy bathing suit is sexy, but it’s not exactly comfortable in the cool weather. That’s why Hanie Mohd has given some of the most famous ladies of comics new costumes that are a lot more comfortable for chilly seasons.
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Whoever wears this dress is going to have an agonizingly long wedding. A bridal gown train nearly two miles long stretched across the center of Bucharest, Romania on Tuesday. According to Guinness World Records, it’s the longest train in the world:
The train, which took 100 days to stitch, was crafted by a team of 10 seamstresses, said salon spokeswoman Lavinia Lascae.
4,700 metres of taffeta, 5.5 metres of Chantilly lace, 45 metres of lining, 1,857 sewing needles and 150 spool threads were used in the creation of the gown and train.
The lace was imported from France, while the taffeta and other fabrics were purchased from Italy, costing approximately £5,000, she added.
You can view more pictures at Bit Rebels.
News Article -via Bit Rebels | Photo: Reuters
This was the first year that the WonderCon (Comic-Con’s little sister) was held in Anaheim instead of San Francisco, unfortunately, that didn’t mean that the weather was any better. In fact, it was pouring the better part of the weekend. While the poor weather and smaller size of the convention meant there were far fewer cosplayers than at Comic-Con, the diversity and quality of the costumes was definitely impressive. Here are a few of the best costumes as photographed by Zeon and myself.
There are always a lot of Batman costumes at any convention, but with The Dark Knight Rises coming out this summer, there were even more than usual -including this sexy group of cosplayers. There was also a matching Harley Quinn, but I didn’t get a good picture of her. Sorry boys.
Cat Women and Riddlers were particularly popular at the convention.
Harley Quinn was also a pretty popular costume, which is interesting since they still haven’t put her character into a movie yet. Nolan, maybe you should take note of that fact.
Cross-play was also a pretty big trend and this adorable Robin and Green Arrow did a great job at adapting their costumes accordingly.
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The premiere of Mad Men was last night, but for those of you who can’t get enough of Don Draper, Aaron Saucier offers a great series of jewelry based on the show. For the ladies, there are necklaces, for the gents, the cufflinks and tie clips are quite classy.
Link Via Laughing Squid
Little girls playing with dolls are cute. Big girls pretending to be dolls?
Here's 15-year-old Venus Palermo, known online as Venus Angelic, who attained Internet fame by creating video tutorials on how to turn yourself into a living BJD (that's Ball Jointed Doll) with cosmetics and contact lenses:
Watch her interview with Right This Minute - via Huffpo
I have given a name to my mane, and it is Batman. Master hairdresser Radames Perez carved this image into the head of this unidentified, luckiest child in the world.
Link (Facebook login required) -via Blame It on the Voices
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Feast
your eyes on this, Neatoramanauts: the world's first diamond ring. But
but, you say, diamond rings have been around forever. Yes, but not like
this: a ring carved straight out of a single giant 150-carat diamond,
by Shawish Jewelry.
Yours for a mere $70 million.
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