Why buy the love of your life something obvious on the high street when you can buy this rather smart Space Invaders necklace?
Available in both yellow and pink, Super Invasion (to give it the correct name) is a large-sized alien invader with one big difference – it’s got hearts for eyes, just to add that bit of romance.
Available online, you can buy one for £15.
Big thanks to Heather for flagging up the superb mid-century artwork of Charlie Adam, which can be found at the Bungalow Graphics website.
The artist is a Brazilian, currently living in Chamonix in France – but you don’t have to go that far to buy the art, you can pick it up online. There’s a number of themed galleries on the site, including Alp Chic, Jazz a Gogo and Tiki Exotica, with prints available on MDF, signed and ready to hang. And there’s also postcards, t-shirts and homeware – which includes this rather cool melamine tray, available online for 15 Euros including postage.
If you like that, check out all the artwork and designs at the site.
I’ve tried to avoid covering anything from the glut of Transformers-related products out to support the film, but I’ve finally been won over by this Transformers Bumblebee audio speaker.
It’s for your iPod or MP3 player – just plug your in and listen to your tunes through the built-in speaker. But that’s not all, Bumblebee also dances and remixes your music, as well as flashing a few lights.
Yes, it’s a bit tacky, but probably very entertaining too. Yours for $58.90 (around £30).
Find out more at the Brando website
Claimed to be ‘the frankest and most honest portrait of Paul Weller ever written’, The Changing Man is a new biography of Paul Weller by Paolo Hewitt – and it’s set for release by Bantam Press on 24th September 2007 in hardback for around £18.99.
It’s said to be a twist on the typical biography (thankfully – there’s plenty of those around about PW), mixing Hewitt’s knowledge of Weller and his music making with an examination of Weller’s lyrics – selecting the key songs as a tool to explore the man’s character, as well as a few personal anecdotes to add a bit more depth and uniqueness to the book.
Note that this isn’t to be confused with Suburban 100, the Weller lyrics book that is also due out in September with a Peter Blake sleeve. Although it could well cover similar ground.
Looking for a large feature for your home, business or club? Check out the retro pop culture murals from Surface View.
The murals are based on classic images housed on Wayne Hemingway’s and Stella Mitchell’s Land of Lost Content British Cultural memorabilia site, including everything from vintage postcards and book covers to vintage and kitsch artwork, including the Vladimir Tretchikoff image above.
Surface View has digitally re-mastered the images into high resolution files enabling the pictures to be cropped and enlarged for a suitable mural size. And they can also be tweaked by a change of colour if you require.
If you’re interested, contact Surface View for a price and an idea of range.
Bored of the original Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album? Well, how about The Beatles’ classic mashed up?
That’s what you get with Cracked Pepper – all the original tracks mixed with other non-Fab Four tracks – and available to download absolutely free. Except it’s highly likely that this album’s material is illegal, so if you want to get it downloaded, I’d get it quick before it gets pulled.
You might like it – or you might like to annoy your Beatles-loving friends with it.
Find out more at the Cracked Pepper website
