Lennon’s Toilet (£1,000) John Lennon’s toilet is among the highlights of an auction of Beatles memorabilia. Bids are invited for Lennon’s toilet from Tittenhurst Park, his Berkshire home between 1969 and 1972. Lennon told a builder, John Hancock, to keep the porcelain lavatory and “use it as a plant pot” after he had installed a [...]
When it comes to boots, leather is the material du jour—and the more exotic the leather, the more fashionable the boot. Add in a fashionable designer like Louis Vuitton or, say, Manolo Blahnik and you have a recipe for the most expensive boots in the world. Spanish fashion designer Manolo Blahnik bought his first boutique, [...]
Estimurl.com is one of these tools that let you estimate how much a website is worth. The reasons people might look up that information can obviously differ greatly. Some might want to find that out because they are really impressed by the design and layout of a site that they chance upon, and they entertain [...]
It’s said your name is your virtue and in business it means goodwill. And on the Internet, it’s a trend of the past where a .com company wants rights to an .org domain name. One such .org domain called ‘poker.org‘ got sold with a price tag of $1 million. The domain marketplace Sedo, has brokered [...]
“My skin is dark but my heart is white”, the ultimate racist phrase on this ad portraying a Native American -apparently- willing to support Canadian Patriotic Fund. (Link) Racis ad for Aunt Jemima’s Pancakes, the most famous self-rising pancake mix of old times, created in 1889 by Chris L. Rutt. He might have thought: what [...]
XL and XXL condom users seem to have a lot of problems and Durex knows it. The company showed these problems in their creative ads and instantly gained a huge popularity. While those with XL just have to wear longer kilts in Scotland, the girlfriends of those with XXL have a much harder time adjusting [...]
12 Strangest Ties Soft Serve Shaped Tie ($29.95) Pouring Beer Tie ($15.99) Hot Dog Tie ($14.95) Space Invaders Tie ($24.95) Crossword Tie ($14.95) New York Taxi Cab Shaped Tie ($29.95) Pong Tie ($24.95) Eye Chart Tie ($14.95) Tetris Tie ($24.95) Keyboard Tie ($16.95) Crime Scene Tie ($24.95) 8-Bit Tie ($14.99)
10 Creative Bathroom Ads Ski Jump Toilets for Georgia Max Coffee (Japan), allows everyone to feel like a ski jumper at the top of the ramp Schizophrenia awareness: “Schizophrenia can be treated. Seek help.” This paper towel holder was used for the Save the Trees awareness campaign (Shanghai). They changed the covers on these holders [...]
15 Creative Ads in Unusual Places Mondo Pasta Tangled phone lines are a common sight on the streets of Bangkok, so Procter & Gamble decided to take advantage of how they resembled long strands of tangled hair. To promote P&G’s line of Rejoice conditioners, a large green comb was placed on the telephone lines, reading: [...]
Promoted by design and architecture expert Andrej Statskij and his partners, the Ooops Design Awards selects some of the ugliest, silliest and most useless product designs of each year. Meet some of the awarded products, plus some other hideous items we found around the web. The “Chair ONE,” designed by Charlotte Kingsnorth. (Link) The “Cipria [...]
Blind Man (Levis) A banned commercial of Levis Jeans that aired in the United Kingdom, the setting is a public bathroom. A guy holding the white cane most of the time is not blind. He’s just holding the cane for the old man. But when that hot woman comes in and she starts changing in [...]
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1. The Blue Heart The Blue Heart diamond is 30.82 carats. The gem was cut into its distinctive shape in 1909-1910 and was bought by Cartier shortly thereafter. Since then it has bounced around from a wealthy Argentinian woman, Van Cleef and Arpels, a European family, Harry Winston, Marjorie Merriweather Post, and, finally, the Smithsonian, [...]
