Lighting the Fuse

With summer behind us, I feel its only fair to keep spirits up with a little series about superyachts. Of course I have written here before about, amongst other things, Mukesh Ambani’s yacht. But lets focus on some more. The first is called Sea Force 1. She is owned by a London banker who wanted […]

Could this be one of the best cars never made? I have written on the subject of unusual and very unusual here before. But this one really captures the imagination. This concept car designed and built (in all too low quantities) by Australia’s Holden Motor Company is incredibly beautiful. The lines, the way you get in, the […]

The United Colours of Benetton advertising has always courted controversy. Remember this one from 1991? Well they have done it again, with images probably inspired by this iconic 1979 image of Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honeker then the leader of the German Democratic Republik. For an excellent explanation of the history of the kiss that […]

Ladies and gentlemen, this is officially the most expensive photo. Ever. The Andreas Gursky photo has just been sold by auction at Christie’s for the eye-watering sum of USD 4,338,000 presumably to an anonymous buyer who likes rivers. Click here to see the Christie’s page for the auction  lot. Admittedly it is a very BIG photograph, which […]

Take an inspiring and inspired trip around the world from the comfort of your own lounge with this extremely well stitched together and edited film. In their words: 3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage… all to turn 3 ambitious […]

I actually thought this was an April Fools gag, it would have been pretty funny if it had. But the article appeared on the 30th of March, so sadly that option is out. Which article am I talking about? Apparently (According to this Daily Mail article), a house in Swansea looks like Hitler. The house […]

Wow. Some of these pics are a tad  on the disturbing side, many are also incredibly beautiful. Amazing to see what Barbie is up to these days! Certainly the attention to detail in each of these scenes is incredible, even if the subject matter of what Barbie is getting up to is, well, less cool. […]

Just a quick post to tell you that I have finally gotten around to creating a Music tab (at the the top of the blog, above the picture). I will try and upload mixes regularly, you can listen, download / comment etc. Feedback is definitely welcome. The intention is to try and find / upload some really […]

So as a world record holder myself (see here if you were not aware that I hold the world record for the most number of consecutive alternate eyebrow twitches in a minute), I can see the attraction of wanting hold a world record. This guy already had 11, so not sure why he felt the […]

These pictures were taken by photographer Tim Allen, while the BBC was shooting a recent programme called “Human Planet“. I actually missed the programme (will def catch up with it on iplayer). But the images that Allen took are incredible and even just on their own, even more so with his own storytelling of how […]