Azealia Banks - 212 ft. Lazy Jay

I don't know what it is about this song, but I love it. It's probably mostly to do with the video: a really innocent-looking smiley girl, with the pearliest of white teeth, in a Mickey Mouse top, singing/rapping obscenities and dancing like a cool, calm and collected crazy person. (You'll have to watch the video to understand what I mean.) And then there's Lazy Jay, living up to his name in the background.

Be warned, it's catchy!

Happy 448th Birthday to William Shakespeare

Today marks the great playwright William Shakespeare's 448th Birthday! 
I'm not sure Moonpig can provide cards with such large numbers on it...

Here are a list of phrases we owe to our very, very old friend:

Image sourced from TimeOut London.

Rethink your Drink

Just putting things into perspective for y'all. No wonder Vodka & Red Bull has been rumoured to kill people: the energy from Red Bull masking the buzz and depressant effect produced from the Alcohol, PLUS a whole load of sugar - doesn't sound good to me. Although I'm curious as to why there is any sugar in the bottle of water...

100 Days Until the London Olympics!

Keep track here.

Texts from Dog

Amazing blog I have just stumbled upon that will (often) have you literally howling with laughter. (See what I did there?)

The concept? A guy gets texts from his dog and he posts the messages on his blog. Totally normal.

Here are some of my faves:

Disney Couture

Artist Dante Taylor has given us a different perspective of the once-sweet and innocent damsels from the Disney movies of our childhood. The Vogue Princesses series shows them all grown up, giving them an edgy look, typical of fashion magazine covers.

Art gone skinny

Anna Utopia Giordano, a female Italian artist, has digitally sliced and diced some great images of voluptuous nudes from the past to make them into a more idealistic 21st century vision of skin and bones - what many consider to be the image of perfection and ultimate beauty. Her images are actually quite shocking as she reveals the modern attitude towards the ideal female form. The difference between the past painter's images of Venus, seen as the most beautiful women in mythology, and the miniature visions of skin and bones that is supposedly 'beautiful' these days is actually quite worrying.

It will be easier to see the images if you click on them and scroll through them by using the thumbnails along the bottom.

I think it's important for us all to ask ourselves which four of the eight images above we prefer the look of.

Fooblr.com

Really interesting new project that is about to launch a phone application which will enable people to share their meals 'where they are profession chefs, talented cooks, or passionate foodies.' Fooblr, check it out! 

I saw this poster in foodie Borough Street Market yesterday and was really intrigued. I have yet to e-mail the guy though - just gotta quickly churn out 5500 words of feminism and italian crime fiction essays first, and then a quick presentation on Japanese female artist Yayoi Kusama (whose exhibition is currently at the Tate Modern and it well worth a visit!)