WebUrbanist has a fun roundup of chairs and sofas that you probably don't want to sit on. Among them, a cactus couch (it's not real, but still painful to imagine), the electric chair, and Tokujin Yoshioka's natural crystal chair, which I posted about back when I was guest blogging.
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A woman who appears to have been inebriated fell onto the tracks in a Boston subway as a train was rushing towards her. People on the platform frantically waved at the train, which stopped in the nick of time.... More.
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Yves Béhar (who is in an epic struggle with Marc Newson to claim the title of "sexiest industrial designer alive") designed this vibrator. It looks like a Miyazaki cartoon creature. The Form 2 takes a two-pronged approach to the vibrator, giving its user what they're calling "Sensation in Stereo.... More.
Michael Jackson's funeral cost one million dollars. His final outfit cost $35,000, and the flowers cost $16,000. Lord. Obviously I'm no MJ anyhow, but when I die, if there's a mil lying around? Feel free to bury me in nekkid dirt and use the rest to feed pie to starving kids.... More.
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Someone should actually make that cactus couch! It could be green pleather and the spines could be soft threads or something. But how many people would actually go as far as buying a novelty couch I wonder...
There's "uncomfortable" and then there's just painful. Cactus chair falls squarely in the latter.
Jana Sterbak is disappointed.
Cool! A peyote davenport!
actaullay- i might buy it, for the right price, of course! do like the visual of it!
Looks like you need one of those Indian fakirs for this one.
Is anyone else reminded of echinocactus grusonii, also called "mother-in-law's cushion"?
The narrow chair from Woody Allen's Sleeper should be on the list. (And I wish I could find a picture of it.)