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Church Tank Type 5A — by Kris Kuksi

2007 Mixed media; 10"H x 5"W x 12"D.

The artist is bunkered down in Hays, Kansas.

His solo show opens November 22, 2008 at the Joshua Liner Gallery in New York City.

[via Juxtapoz]

Kitten Mitten

From the website:

Kitten Mitten

She'll be totally smitten.

Save your fingers from claw marks and bites while still giving your kitten the exercise and play she/he needs.

Each extra-long glove finger dangles a tough, colorful mouse made for pouncing, hanging on an elastic cord for extra bounce.

Canvas glove.

18"L.

$12.95.

Is Scotsman Clark Aitken the world's most fanatic car detailer?

I'd nominate him (below), for sure.

Here he shows you — in copious detail richly interspersed with photos, a few of which appear above and below — how good a six-month-old Pearlescent Balloon White Lamborghini Gallardo with some 400 miles on it can look after he devotes a total of 55 hours (including 32 hours of machine polishing using the world's finest tools and materials) to it.

Wonder what he charges for what he calls the "Ne Plus Ultra™ Hyper Detail," the latest offering from Polished Bliss, his firm in Kintore, Scotland?

"This is a new service option we are offering to supercar owners throughout Scotland who want their vehicles to receive a detailing as close to perfection as physically possible (without replacing any parts or adding paint) leaving no surface untouched. No time limit is set for this service; it simply takes as long as it takes, over a minimum of 7 days (to allow enough time for multiple bespoke premium carnauba wax coats to fully cure)."

[via James Thornburg, who wrote, "The most meticulous car detailing I’ve ever seen. This guy is nuts."]

I must demur, James: I see little — if any — difference in his approach to a vehicle from mine to bookofjoe.

I will stop at nothing — nothing! — to get it right and Aitken's my twin in this regard.

Diss him, diss me.

You'll have plenty of company, that's for sure.

But I'm okay with that.

Hannah Montana Singing Pen

This is how you know you're big in today's world — when you're featured on a pen.

Patience, joe....

From the website:

Hannah Montana Singing Pen

Hannah Montana singing pen is the "write" gift for any Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus fan!

Colorful retractable ballpoint pen features the likeness of America's latest teen sensation.

Just click to hear one of Hannah's hit songs!

Includes button cell batteries.

Assorted colors and songs.

8-1/2"L.

$8.98.

Things are seldom what they seem — by Michael Paulus

Q.E.D.

[via Milena]

Stainless steel wallet

From the website:
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Stainless Steel Wallet

Woven using 25,000 stainless steel threads that are three times thinner than a piece of paper (0.001"), this wallet has a hand as smooth as silk and strength that surpasses leather.

Impervious to stretching or staining and without sharp corners or the inherent bulk of other wallets, this stainless steel is the same metal screen found in the architecture, aerospace and automotive industries, resulting in a thin profile that allows it to fit into a front pocket.

Resistant to corrosive materials such as salts, acids and seawater, the tightly woven steel also passively resists radio frequency hacking — the latest identity theft technique that attempts to scan newer credit cards.

The wallet has three credit card slots, two internal pockets, an ID window and one large pocket for bills.

4-1/4"L x 3-1/2"W x 1/4"D.

4-3/4 oz.
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Because rust never sleeps.

$89.95.

'100 extensive university libraries from around the world that anyone can access' — Free

The way we like it.

Wrote Kelly Kilpatrick, "Universities house an enormous amount of information and their libraries are often the center of it all. You don't have to be affiliated with any university to take advantage of some of what they have to offer. From digital archives to religious studies to national libraries, these university libraries from around the world have plenty of information for you."

[via Milena]

Can you identify the university library pictured above?

Caged Feet —€” from Yves Saint Laurent

Unveiled

last week

in

Paris.

[via shoeblog.com and style.com]