How does it feel it hear your song on Lupe Fiasco’s CD?

The Cool, Lupe Fiasco featuring NIKKI JEAN

Two winners were awarded title of the “world’s most beautiful bottom“.

19-year-old Kristina Dimitrova from Bulgaria and Andrei Andrei aged 24 from Romania won the women’s and men’s categories in the world’s best bum contest, organised by the underwear maker Sloggi.

Checkout the official Sloggi web site for their take on hot or not.

JWT’s list of 80 Things to Watch in 2008, in alphabetical order:

1. Africa (foreign investment and development in)


2. Antibiotic backlash


3. Assisted marriage


4. Beijing 2008


5. Blue replacing green as the environmental movement’s color du jour


6. Brain exercises


7. British actress Keira Knightley


8. Carbon tax


9. Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang


10. Classical musician Gustavo Dudamel


11. Climate sightseeing


12. Continuation of comebacks (Indiana Jones, The Cure, etc.)


13. Cooperative consumption


14. Couch surfing


15. Country branding (Oman, Indonesia, etc.)


16. Designer Phillip Lim


17. De-teching


18. DJ Tiesto


19. DNA-based exercising


20. E-clutter (and e-clutter consultants)


21. Eco-fatigue


22. E-mail etiquette


23. Facebook suicides


24. Fashion label Vena Cava


25. Foreign government investment (e.g., China, UAE) in U.S. companies


26. French President Nicolas Sarkozy


27. Game 3.0 (gamer-generated global gaming)


28. Google’s Android


29. Gossip Girl


30. Gphone


31. Green weddings


32. Higher education online


33. Hip-hop’s Retro Kids


34. Humbling of the hedge fund manager (anti-excess post sub-prime)


35. Hybrid taxis


36. Indian actress Deepika Padukone


37. Intellectual luxury


38. Investigating ingredients


39. Japanese designs (Tsumori Chisato, Uniqlo, Muji, etc.)


40. Kitchen appliances as new power tools


41. Lifestyle curators


42. Lipstick trumping lip gloss


43. Manga-inspired clothes


44. Mobile technology explosion


45. Mobulimia


46. Music as awareness driver; concerts and other residuals as cash cow


47. Musicovery (music tailored to moods)


48. Myanmar


49. Nollywood (the rise of Nigerian cinema)


50. Outsourcing to Ukraine (and other Eastern European countries)


51. Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto


52. Pantone’s 18-3943 (blue iris)


53. Pets in the office


54. Prius homes


55. Radical transparency


56. Radiohead repeats (name-your-own-price music)


57. Recycling into fashion (Nau, Gary Harvey, etc.)


58. Selfless as the new selfish


59. Sex and the City, the movie


60. Shiny Toy Guns (the band)


61. Skiing in novel spots (Kashmir, Japan, Greenland, Russia, Korea, etc.)


62. Single men saying no to sex


63. Skype sex


64. Smart Cars in American cities


65. SNS (social network service) brand communities


66. Spanish actor Javier Bardem


67. Staycations


68. Sturking


69. Tequila as the new wine


70. The N-11


71. Third screen (the mobile screen) rivaling the first screen (TV)


72. Trans-ertainment


73. U.S. gymnast Shawn Johnson


74. U.S. presidential election


75. Vicarious consumption


76. (Video) Gaming Olympics


77. Virtual gifting


78. Wannabe young Internet entrepreneurs (a.k.a. Mark Zuckerberg copycats)


79. Weak dollar/strong euro


80. Women juggling men

Tobias Wong’s Money Pad

This ad for Hombre magazine was voted Best Print Ad by Ads of the World.

These double page spreads were glued together and had to be forced apart to see the ad.

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Creative Directors: Pablo Capara, Sebastian Olivieri
Copywriter: Carolina Mendez
Art Director: Diego Salas
Via: Advert-Eyes

MAVO’s interior designer Masayuki Takahashi recently designed the ultimate weapon—the condom gun. So next time you’re ready for that special moment, shoot a rubber at your lover.

Tokidoki and Onitsuka Tiger will create beautiful shoes together—a match made in heaven.

I heard this inspirational segment on NPR about Todo list and how the act of writing one’s desires and wishes can transform your life. Maybe it wasn’t that transformational, but it was a great listen. Checkout the web site and NPR segment.

About Sasha Cagen:
“Lists can be about anything—from flossing to finding a soul mate, from buying carrots to becoming whole. When we read other people’s lists, we uncover the range of meaningful and mundane things that are on their minds. Lifelong hopes and daily tasks mix together, and “organize sock drawer” is on par with “get teaching credential,” which is sometimes exactly how life feels.”

I stumbled upon this great site called Amp, a site for new, undiscovered, indie musicians from Asia. They have lots of different music genres, but I’ve been hanging out in the Hip Hop section where they have artists from Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand just to name a few spots.

Checkout this track by Rebel Scum called The Resistance.

“About Rebel Scum (From their website)
From the tumultuous times of the late 80s hip hop scene, fueled by reactionary crews such as Public Enemy, NWA, Gangstarr and A Tribe Called Quest, a break from the carefree attitudes of rap music as they were then was achieved. Rhymes and soundscapes were more angst than gangs, more saying what you think than describing what you’re blingin. Backpacker rap was born. A seemingly borderless demographic stood up to present their unique work, with a few crews graduating from the indie market to much larger label-backed success. Rawkus Records, the Hieroglyphics crew, Jurassic 5, The Living Legends, The Wu-Tang Clan, Anticon Records, Company Flow and Definitve Jux: all were at the forefront of this new movement. White suburban kids, skaterboys and college undergrads became a strong fixture in support of hip hop. Access to home studio equipment became more affordable, and the internet became a major conduit for this new branch in hip hop music. From the States, backpacker rap quickly spread to other lands.

The Rebel Scum is a direct product of this new environment. The members – Cliq, Illson, MicWreck, HQA and WordsManifest – having been active in making and performing hip hop music since 1998, from various crews, came together as one unit in 2000. Preferring to rely on their own resources and to come out with their own sound, they built up their own home studio and began dropping joints online.”

Steve Mykolyn, Creative Director of TAXI, came up with The 15 Below Project—a jacket for the homeless.

The jacket is breathable, waterproof, lightweight, and the lining is made of pockets, yes pockets. These pockets can be stuffed with newspaper to provide adjustable levels of insulation from the cold.

“It’s a lifeline for people without homes. They’re a pretty low-cost, immediate way to address a huge issue,” said Paul Lavoie, co-founder, chairman, and chief creative officer of TAXI. “Our approach to solving problems – of any sort – has always been to question convention. This won’t eliminate homelessness, but it can make a lot of people more comfortable.”

Checkout the video.