The Consumer Category
We bring you the chic and unique, the best and most bizarre shopping offers both online and offline. We offer you tips on where to buy, and some of the less mainstream and crazy, individual and offbeat items on the internet. Anything that can be bought and sold can be featured here. And we love showcasing the best and worst art and design.
Bodies Revealed opens in Liverpool – photos of man unskinned
PHOTOS: A MODEL showing inner workings of the human body, part of Bodies Revealed, an exhibition, staged by Atlanta-based Premier Exhibitions, which has been set up in a former music store in Liverpool city centre and opens its doors to the public tomorrow. Dr Roy Glover, the chief medical director for Bodies Revealed, said: “The collection of exhibits will allow visitors the chance to explore and discover the wonders of the human body in a completely new way.” (It’s what Spain’s No.1 Jesus would have wanted.)
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Posted: 31st, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Todd Akin ‘rapes’ the Vagina Macaroons
TODD Akin can now dissect and at all the vagina he wants thanks to Miss Insomnia Tulip and her anatomical macaroons.
Akin just needs to call at the 2012 Eat Your Heart Out pop-up anatomically correct cake shop in London’s Pathology Museum at St. Bart’s.
The shop will be trading from October 26 to 28, 2012. Anyone attempting entry outside those times, when the store is ‘asleep’ or shut, will be repelled by female magic…
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Posted: 30th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
India fashion shop brings the Hitler label to the world
TO Ahmedabad, Gujarat, where fashion store owner Rajesh Shah fronts his store named after Adolf Hitler.
Mr. Shah named the shop after his business partner’s grandfather, who earned the nicknamed Hitler, on account of his shared love of tickling, chewing gum and, rumour has it, genocide, torture, rape and raspberry Snow Cones.
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Posted: 30th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comments (3)
How male fashion work (video)
HOW male fashion works. Language makes this NSFW:
Clip from series 3, episode 1 of Burnistoun.
Posted: 30th, August 2012 | In: Fashion, TV & Radio | Comment
Motivational animal photos (with tree support group)
ARE you motivated? Are you in touch with your inner penguin? Phil Lucas, motivational gnu guru, has been collating images of how animals can inspire humankind. (The thoughts of the tree are not know.)
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Posted: 30th, August 2012 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment
Final Draft advert fail: When inspiration goes on strike
BUDDING and working scriptwriters use Final Draft. you can now get the Final Draft app for iPad – “the perfect solution for screenwriters and filmmakers who want to write, read and edit scripts.”
Bill Oakley spots the advert:
@thatbilloakley: “This is an ad for the industry-standard screenwriting software depicting their idea of someone writing a screenplay
Inspiration strikes:
Posted: 30th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Cecilia Gimenez’s Elías García Martínez’s Ecce Homo is a hit with toursits
CECILIA Gimenez’s updating of Elías García Martínez’s Ecce Homo (aka Ecce Mono) has turned the fresco into a big hit with tourists. The Spanish town of Borja is now famous:
On Saturday, hundreds of curious visitors queued up outside the Iglesia del Santuario de Misericordia church, where the image is painted on a column.
“The previous painting was also very pretty, but I really like this one,” a woman who had travelled to the town said on public television.
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Posted: 29th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Gay couple sue airline that taped dildo their luggage
LEGAL news: Christopher Bridgeman and Martin Borger are suing Continental Airlines. The couple claim they were humiliated when the dildo they’d packed into their luggage was removed by persons unknown, covered in a greasy substance and taped to the outside of their bag.
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Posted: 29th, August 2012 | In: Money, The Consumer | Comments (10)
The Bic Pen Just For Women – the funniest reviews
THE Bic Cristal Biro for her – “Easy Glide — feel the smoothness” – is the pen that keeps on giving. On Amazon, reviews have been enlightening:
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Posted: 28th, August 2012 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment
New York’s The Place restaurant dishes up a terrible advert (video)
THE Place is an eatery in New York’s West Village. It has produced one of the worst adverts ever. “We were looking for special…and we found magical”. In a cave:
Posted: 27th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comments (3)
Bournemouth police seek Sainsbury’s iPad flasher
TO Bournemouth’s Castle Point shopping centre, where at the Sainsbury’s store the kids playing with a demonstration iPad happen upon a photo of a man’s penis.
The parents of nine-year-old twins Mollie and Millie, and eight-year-old Maisie Finn have reported the photo to police. They told Sainsbury’s, which offered them £150 in compensation.
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Posted: 27th, August 2012 | In: Technology, The Consumer | Comment
Toyota’s new car advert features Topless bikini model (video)
THIS advert features 19-year-old Ukraine-born transgender model Stav Strashkosel and the tagline: ”Not in trend, not casual, not for everyone.”
Says Strashko:
”Omg Its finally out, my ass and face on toyota’s new auris commercial!!!!”
What no Yaris?
Posted: 27th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
The world’s best billboards: the Martor Solingen razor blade pigeon halfer
THE world’s bet billboards: In Germany, Martor Solingen’s razor blades are so sharp, pigeons do not stand a chance:
Spotter: TrendHunter
Posted: 25th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Ron Swanson reaches his Internet moment (video)
THE Ron Swanson moment:
Posted: 25th, August 2012 | In: Technology, The Consumer | Comment
The Sleeping Beauty artwork seeks real life princes and princesses
THE Sleeping Beauty installation at the National Art Museum of Ukraine features sleeping women. Men are invited to kiss them once on the lips. If the woman opens her eyes, man and woman are contractually obliged to marry.
This is, of course, how Prince Edward finally got a mate.
Ukrainian-Canadian artist Taras Polataiko explains:
“Everybody, any viewer, will have to sign the contract, which says if – this is very important, because nobody has to – ‘if I kiss the beauty and she opens her eyes while being kissed, I marry her’….It’s a really serious thing, it’s marriage.”
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Posted: 25th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Water Wigs: water ballons hit bald men in the head and give wonderful hair
WATER Wigs are the work of photographer Tim Tadder. Tadder and his team aimed “to capture the explosion of water at various intervals” by tossing water balloons at the heads of bald men. Drip-dry Water Wigs are here to help:
We used a laser and sound trigger to capture the right moments for each subject to create just the head of hair that fit best with the face. We chose to work with triads of colors to create images that are arresting and amusing at the same time. We feel the color helps transform the water into some more and adds greater visual interest.
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Posted: 24th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Bad ad watch: Killer shopping deals
BAD ad watch: Killer Shopping deals:
Posted: 22nd, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
1922: the Molby Revolving Hammock
IT’S 1922 and the Moby Revolving Hammock is all the go:
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Posted: 22nd, August 2012 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
Something happend to Elías García Martínez’s Ecce Homo
WHEN the Centro de Estudios Borjanos in Borja, Spain, received a donation from the granddaughter of 19th-century painter Elías García Martínez something happened. Martínez was known for having painted the Ecce Homo, a fresco on the walls of the church of Santuario de Misericordia. It was a fine work. Then a local woman – perhaps buoyed by the donation – took it upon herself to renovate the fresco. These three pictures together show what happened to the painting:
Picture on left: the original work.
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Posted: 22nd, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comments (2)
Fernando de la Rocque makes art from marijuana smoke
FACE of the day: Some of Rocque’s pot-stained prints are being sold for $2,500 each. A show featuring the work opened last week at a small alternative gallery in the stylish Ipanema neighbourhood. It takes him a week to complete a single print blowing about five joints’ worth of smoke onto a paper daily. Bill Clinton missed his calling…
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Brazilian artist Fernando de la Rocque stands in front of some of their pieces of art at the La Cucharacha, a small alternative gallery in the stylish, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday Aug. 20, 2012. Some of Rocque's pot-stained prints are being sold for $2,500 each. It takes him a week to complete a single print blowing about five joints' worth of smoke onto a paper daily. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Posted: 21st, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Michael Phelps to be stripped of gold medals?
NO-ONE has won more Olympic golds than Michael Phelps. He’s probably won more golds than most Olympic countries have won in their history. However, things are looking a little uncertain this week. See, Phelps’ 19 gold medals may diminish in number after he got chosen to front a new advertising campaign for Louis Vuitton.
The Olympic committee have a rather large beef with advertising, don’t they?
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Posted: 21st, August 2012 | In: Sports, The Consumer | Comment
Will Mountain Dew name drink ‘Hitler Did Nothing Wrong’?
SO. How did the campaign to find a new name for Dub the Dew go? Dub the Dew is an green-apple infused soft drink. It’s “Classic Mtn Dew with green apple attitude”. Well, the promotion is now at an end. The results are in. The winning name chosen by your the consumer is “Hitler did nothing wrong,”, which beat entrants like Diabeetus, Fapple and Gushing Granny.
Says Mountain Dew
“Dub the Dew,” a local market promotional campaign that was created by one of our customers – not Mountain Dew – was compromised. We are working diligently with our customer’s team to remove all offensive content that was posted and putting measures in place to ensure this doesn’t happen again. Mountain Dew has a legacy of engaging its most loyal fans to tap innovative ideas for the brand through really successful programs like “DEWMocracy” and “Your Malt Dew” and so we sincerely apologize to all of our fans who may have been offended by this customer’s program.
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Posted: 21st, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The Sandal Socks are an object of desire
SOCKS. Sandals. Socks and sandal? Socks or sandals? Sandal Socks?!Phew!!
Spotter: Dressed Like Machines
Posted: 21st, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Help! My taxi driver is wearing the wrong trousers
WHAT should a mini-cab / taxi driver wear to put his customers at ease, to assure them that they are in the hands of a professional? To Perth, Australia, then, where a driver is not wearing trousers. Jessie Gravett, 21, hired the cab. She took a photo of the non-trousers:
“There is possibly a legitimate reason for the lack of pants but I would think he would stop driving and be a professional about it. Not pick girls up. I didn’t take much notice of the driver when I got in, just shut the door and confirmed my drop off address in Spearwood, 35 minutes away. I immediately messaged my friends so they could keep tabs on me. I didn’t want to draw attention to his lack of pants because I was unsure how he would react. I was very uncomfortable.
“I put my keys between my fingers and unzipped my sharp studded boots because I wasn’t sure what his intentions were and I wanted to be prepared in case I needed to defend myself.”
Such is the power of trousers.
She complained:
“When I called they [Swan Taxis] said he had someone else in the car already for another job so at least they had track of him.”
Posted: 17th, August 2012 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Coloring for Grownups – adult fun with pens and crayons
FANCY colouring in something more than the loops in your signature and squares on Lotto cards? Coloring for Grownups has something new for the old:
Posted: 16th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
