Nothing better than candy and women, Will Cotton

William Cotton is an American painter born in 1965, Melrose, Massachusetts. His primary subjects are candy and women, often sensually combined. His paintings shows baked goods such as a gingerbread house, cakes, waffles and candy that he bakes himself in a professional oven at his NY studio. Visit his website at willcotton.com

"It is a vice. I do love sugar. But I used to have other vices too. I think the other vices have just fallen by the wayside, and sugar has stepped up a little bit to take their place."- Cotton.

"In the beginning, I was looking at ad icons as a metaphor for pleasure and desire. Something that would be really universal. There's something about sweets and sugar that makes most people's eyes light up a little bit, or at least understand that it's about a kind of desire that has no place in terms of necessity. So it's just for pleasure, and that's what I was after. I wanted to make a whole place that's just about pleasure." - Cotton. Read the full interview at the99percent.com

Dissecting the Guggenheim Bilbao by Frank Gehry

We all know the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. It is the museum of modern and contemporary art designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry in the Basque Country of Spain. Visit the museum website at guggenheim-bilbao and a virtual tour at guggenheim-bilbao.es

"The randomness of the curves are designed to catch the light"- Gehry. 

Opened in 1997, it was immediately hailed as one of the world's most spectacular buildings in the style of Deconstructivism. It has a structure that consists of radically sculpted, organic contours, even its titanium panels resemble fish scales. "The greatest building of our time"- architect Philip Johnson. 

Learn more about Frank Gehry at salon.com/people/gehry and his website foga.com and listen to his own words in the video bellow. Note that you may choose the subtitles in your language.

Travel with Gwyneth Paltrow to Bilbao and interview Gehry himself.

A great dissection of the challenges of building the Guggenheim Bilbao was done by National Geographic's Engineering Connections, hosted by cutie Richard Hammond (Top Gear). It really worth watching the 5 videos bellow.

That's what Balmain does to girls...

A playful Christophe Decarnin has gone Baroque and rock for Balmain this season. Lost somewhere between the high golds and brocade, frock coats, ribbon-laced boots, sequin, transparencies and lamé dresses. All this collection exudes sensuality  and confidence... can make any girl feel inevitably frisky. And those golden pants... Got to walk like you own the room girl! Browse the entire collection at style.com and visit their website at balmain.com

Balmain Automne Hiver 2010/2011
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