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Got a problem? Need some help? Just standing there shaking your head? Don't know what to do? You're not alone. Send us a link to photos of your design quandary and let the Desire to Inspire design crew help you .... that's you lot ... the readers! This week's problem comes from Leigh. I know you can come up with some great ideas.

I am stuck with my fab new room, which is an extension on the back of my house, adjoining the kitchen. It has glass doors all along the back looking onto the garden. It is approx 20 x 12 feet in size but I do not know how to arrange it, or where to start. I have new oak floor, plan on a wood burner eventually, have white blinds on the windows, walls are creamy white. I have 2 arm chairs which I can recover, a leather sofa, and aim to buy another sofa, plus some other furniture. But what? Help!

When people ask me what Vancouver is like, this is the video I’ll show them. Watch the video in all its glory below.

Tombé du lit sans bien comprendre l'époque dans laquelle je me suis réveillé, qui cherche de toutes ses forces un juste milieu entre 1994 et 2012. Unknown - Tru Luv

Avan Lava is a project from NYC ft lead singer TC (Tom Hennes) and producers/musicians Le Chev (Narcisse, Fischerspooner) and Ian Pai (Blue Man Group, Fischerspooner). They sent along their upcoming EP Flex Fantasy scheduled for release February the 21st and I am mightily impressed! A great mixture of soul and nu-disco that is pretty irrisistable and will surely get many  booties shaking it on the dance floor. The first single from the EP is "It's Never Over" that you can check out below as well as the video for it. If this one doesn't get you pumped for some weekend dancing, I'm not sure what will. Best part is it's a freebie! Here's a few places you can catch them perform if you live in NY or gonna be at SXSW :: 2.11.12 - Brooklyn, NY - Glasslands 2.25.12 - New York, NY - Mercury (EP Release Party) 3.XX.12 - Austin, TX - SXSW

mp3: GORILLA VS. BEAR JANUARY 2012 MIX (94 mb)

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Ramones, I Wanna Be Sedated

Got sent this super pretty 2:39 min indie track "Old Boys" by Toronto band Bishop Morocco from their forthcoming EP of the same name scheduled for release March 13th. Absolutely lovely tune that I can hear over and over again. Can't wait to hear the rest of that EP. The good news for us is they are offering "Old Boys" as a free download via their site in exchange for your email. Not a bad deal right. Check out the stream of the track below and if you like what you hear you know were you can grab that gem. Bishop Morocco - Old Boys by Arts & Crafts

A 19 year old Demi Moore all up on this little kid at his birthday party in 1982. Whatever combination she’s got going on that night, it’s good stuff.

via, buzzfeed

Ill Al Skratch, Where My Homiez? (Come Around My Way), 1994

[directed by jerome d. hurd]

6 – 9pm at Lu Magnus.

Lu Magnus 55 Hester Street New York, NY 10002

A communist era Hungarian secret police training film.

via, dangerousminds

 

Lots of great looking shoes coming from the folks out in Cypress, California.

 

 

I’ve been using these the last couple weeks to mix the Sound Advice’s. I couldn’t be happier with the headphone’s comfortable fit and solid highs and lows. Perfect for the office and/or studio.

More info here

Architects Foster + Partners have attached a 35-storey tower onto the side of two renovated 1920s buildings in Vancouver’s financial district. (more…)

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• Abbey Lee Kershaw is the face of a new set of Gucci fragrances. The fragrances launch this March and all have names starting with "G" - Gorgeous Gardenia, Gracious Tuberose, Glamorous Magnolia, Generous Violet, Glorious Mandarin. G "because of Gucci, of course," explains the brand's creative director, Frida Giannini. [WWD] </ br>

• Jerry Hall returned to the catwalk this week to walk Jean Luc Amsler's couture show in Paris. The 55-year-old wasn't the only older model to grace the runway this week; Yasmin Le Bon, 47, walked Stéphane Rolland's couture show wearing a 110-pound dress. [Telegraph] </ br>

• Kate Moss says she is not joining Twitter anytime soon. "I just don't understand it. I don't get it at all." [Styleite] </ br>

• The first episode of The Fashion Fund - a web miniseries about the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund competition - premiered yesterday on Hulu. In it, Anna Wintour criticizes candidates' submissions, saying things like, "Well, this is just generic," and "I mean, it’s fine, it’s not offensive." The Cut Photo via WWD

>> Is Imogen Poots the face of Marni for H&M? This ad - which recently surfaced on The Fashion Spot - features what appears to be the British actress lounging in a leopard print-filled room wearing a super-shiny paisley ensemble. A QR code in the bottom left corner directs viewers to the campaign video, which - as WWD confirmed last month - was shot by Sofia Coppola. While the star of Coppola's video is as yet-to-be confirmed as the star of this ad campaign, we do know one thing: Coppola filmed the video last October in Marrakesh - and, judging by the Moroccan-style tile work in the background of this image, it looks like this photo may have been shot there as well.

The H&M for Marni collection hits stores March 8.

>> Is Imogen Poots the face of Marni For H&M? This ad - which recently surfaced on The Fashion Spot - features what appears to be the British actress lounging in a leopard print-filled room, wearing a super-shiny paisley ensemble. A QR code in the bottom left corner directs viewers to the campaign video, which - as WWD confirmed last month - was shot by Sofia Coppola. While it is yet to be confirmed that the star of Coppola's video is the star of this ad campaign, we do know one thing: Coppola filmed the video last October in Marrakesh - and judging by the Moroccan-style tile work in the background of this image, it looks like this photo may have been shot there as well.

The H&M For Marni collection hits stores March 8.

For this installment of “Artist Eats,” David Choe begrudgingly shares his favorite place to eat. Choe is a Los Angeles-based artist, high-stakes gambler and blackmailer, whose refined taste in food ranges from Chicken Littles to desserts made of paper.

Continue reading for his answer.

“I’m very scared to answer this question because it’s literally a bar that seats only 12 and has only six broilers, so if there’s even a little line it takes fucking forever to get seated,” Choe says. “I’m hesitant to bring any more traffic, even one more new person, to this joint. But this is the fucking spot that would be my final meal on death row. It’s The Broiler at the Palace Station in Las Vegas, but it’s more specific, because don’t go into the restaurant, the Oyster Bar is right outside to the left and the food they serve is different.

“I been gambling in Vegas for 20 years and I’ve entered the strange world of high-stakes gambling for 10 years. When I entered that matrix, a whole other reality opened up to me—drugs, women, 10k suites and thousand dollar meals at places started by dudes like Jose Andres and Joel Robuchon open their legs wide to me. I ate at Jose Andres spot at Cosmo and they served appetizers on giant ceramic fists and dessert was sheets of delicious paper (I’m not making this shit up). So even with this shit available to me, there is not one trip I take to Vegas, where I don’t go to the Oyster Bar at the shitty local’s casino, Palace Station (thank god they made it 24 hours last year).

“I order an Arnold Palmer to drink, bacon-wrapped shrimp and a dozen oysters to start the best meal in the universe! Then I get the combo roast (fresh seafood, shrimp, crab and lobster schvitzed with brandy, cream and tomato) with a side of steamed rice (don’t get the noodles). You can pick the level of hotness from 1 to 10—I get a 6 (I’ve noticed I lower my hotness level as I get older, in my food and in my real life), and add okra and sausage (but sometimes the sausage is overkill) on most days depending on what time you go. Bob or JJ will be your cooks, everyone is good, but Bob is the best. Bob rules all. I’ll suck Bob’s dick. I have Bob’s number on speed dial. It is a hot, hearty, soupy mess that explodes into your stomach and you feel absolutely content and pregnant with a merman baby after eating it.

“The first time I had it, I loved it so much I ran back to my room to tell everyone I just had the best meal of my life, and they said, ‘Where? Let’s go! Take us!’ So I puked my combo roast out in the bathroom, and went back to Palace Station and had another combo roast 30 minutes later. This is also sort of an asshole move, but sometimes when I don’t want to wait, I bribe everyone in line to cut to the front. One time, I heard a guy in line telling his friend about all the bitches he fucks behind his wife’s back, while his fucking fat wife went to the fucking bathroom, so I told him I’d rat his cheating ass out if he didn’t let me cut. When she got back, she was pissed that he let me cut in front of them—dumb cunt.

“After I eat a combo roast, it’s like I just shot a huge demon spawn load onto my own stomach and it drips into my bellybutton and the hot magma melts into my belly and my soul, only to cuddle there with my stomach juices and strange sperms that I collected in my mouth from the previous night before blasting its way outside the gates of hell (aka my asshole… remember this when picking your hotness).

“Recently, I found out the owners of The Broiler also have a location in Chino one hour away from L.A. with the same menu, but Vegas is still one hour away by flight, and the food doesn’t taste the same without the stale cigarette smoke, sounds of loose slots and loose sluts and hope, fear and desperation in the air.

“As I write this in downtown L.A., my stomach is grumbling and I just booked a flight to Vegas this weekend, but I heard there’s a Kentucky Fried Chicken near USC that still has the discontinued Chicken Littles (the closest thing to a ippudo pork bun for me), but I’ve yet to make that excursion. So for now the answer to your question is, the combo roast from the Oyster Bar from The Broiler at the Palace Station.

“If you see me in line let me fucking cut!”

The Oyster Bar at Palace Station 2418 W. Sahara Blvd. Las Vegas, NV 89102

New Visitor Remix and of Sound of Arrows?? Oh, hell yes! Check it, download it, play it... Spread the gospel of good music to all, far and near. Have a great weekend everyone!!