No hablo español muy bien, so I have absolutely no idea what this film is about! I haven’t seen it, I haven’t read about it, I literally know nothing about it at all. All I know is that the graphics & imagery look pretty cool, and being a shallow individual, that’s all I care about. Check out the website and photography, to see what I’m talking about. You never know, the movie might be good too!

More information about the movie Yo Soy La Juani (spanish).

Ever felt the need to wrap up all your furniture in rubber? Rotterdam based Studio Jurgenbay not only come up with the most amazingly designed modern armchairs, they also come up with some really weird rubber-covered concept stuff. You would wonder who could ever use such a concept, but it looks like they found someone in Jean-Paul Gaultier.

See more work at the Studio Jurgenbey website.

Keep a look out for the signature grinning yellow cat. You’ll now find it all on buildings all over Europe (particularly Paris). The phenomenon is the subject of French filmmaker Chris Marker’s 2004 documentary, Chats Perchés (The Case of the Grinning Cat). In 2002, the yellow cat started popping up all over Paris, so Director Chris Marker filmed his search for more information on the infamous “Monsieur Chat” against the backdrop of international news such as the Iraq war.

See more of “Monsieur Chat” at the Monsieur Chat Flickr Pool.

Verdict: A two-hour version of Falco’s ‘Rock Me Amadeus’. That’s not to say I didn’t like it; embarrassingly, I quite like Falco’s ‘Rock Me Amadeus’. However, Falco was rocking the eighteenth-century costumes, baroque interiors and 80’s music well before Sofia Coppola got around to it.

View the trailer for Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette.

The Marie Antoinette Soundtrack is the real outstanding work of the film. Suprisingly, the modern day music by the Aphex Twin, 80’s tracks and classical pieces don’t seem out of place at all. This soundtrack, and Late Night Tales by Air (which also contains a mixtures of 80’s tracks and classical pieces — it must be a french thing) is all I’ve been listening to recently. For some reason, both albums have a cool calm european sort of chill-out vibe thing happening, which works for me!

A collaboration between Dutch designer Caroline Noordijk and Random International has resulted in the amazing Split 68 lighting system. The light attempts to “change the perception and experience of fluorescent lighting” by allowing people to manipulate the plastic clips that cover the light.

Fluorescent lighting has never looked so cool. It’s just a shame they won’t email me back with pricing information!

Click here for Split 68 information.

Evidence of the “Invasion” can be seen on city streets from London to New York. Spotting Paris based Space Invader’s mosaic tile graffiti can improve anybody’s trip around a major city. While the artist has made a fantastic job of launching the invasion by himself, now you can help support the invasion by grabbing a pair of these old school trainers from Space Invader. Simply color in the “space invader” on the sole, and start stamping your feet in the street!

You can buy a pair now via Space Invader’s Shop.

First of all, let it be known that I don’t speak french. So, for all I know, Dominique Ané (known as “Dominique A”) could be singing about almost anything — but, I don’t care! The music speaks for itself — as cheesy as that sounds. My iTunes has been playing the album L’Horizon non-stop since I bought it. It ticks all my boxes. Moody? Check. Dark? Check. Possible soundtrack to your imaginary life as a tortured artistic genius living in a Parisian garret? Check.

If someone translates my favorite tracks like ‘Antaimoro’ and ‘Rouvrir’, and it turns out he’s singing about sunshine and rainbows, I’m going to be seriously annoyed. In fact, I don’t want to know. Ignorance is bliss!

Amour — It’s written on the streets of Paris. Literally. A grafitti artist writes the word in white paint all over the streets of Paris hundreds of times a day. If you search Flickr for the word, you’ll find numerous shots of the artist’s work taken by the general public from a multitude of locations around Paris. The beautiful scriptive tag is immeadiatly recognizable.

It seemed the graffiti artist’s identity was initially a secret, but now he has been identified as Jean-Luc Duez. The story behind Duez’s reason for scrawling amour all over the Paris streets is fantastic (if you ignore the restraining orders).

“Before her there was nothing. After her there was room for nothing else.”

Read the BBC or Telegraph Article for the full story. I love the quote above given by Duez.

Another reason why Paris is an amazing city to visit!

I’m a hoarder. Like a Magpie, I’m drawn to shiny things. I feel the need to collect them, place them in a huge pile and then occassionally point at my shambolic mountain of random coolness . What I initially started as a thread called “Things of Random Coolness” over at DO, has now become a blog. So here we are. This is my blog. This is my shambolic mountain of random coolness. Feel free to point at it.