Trouble in Paradise | Culture | Vanity Fair
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Trouble in Paradise | Culture | Vanity Fair
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/01/pitcairn200801?printable=true¤tPage=all
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Chocolate candle gracefully decomposes into fondant: 
The Salon Professionnel du Chocolat’s Fujisan is a candle made of chocolate. As it burns down, it oozes molten chocolate onto the cake in which it is mounted. I imagine this would require a lot of patience on the part of the dessert-eater, but it might make a cool centerpiece that the host lights up just before clearing the main course plates.
FUJISAN plays with 2 inescapable elements of birthdays: the candle and the chocolate cake. The idea is to revisit the “fondant au chocolat” by using the candle to obtain the warm heart of the cake. Planted in the biscuit, the chocolate candle melts little by little it and fills the “crater” of the cake. So, the time of a song, the fondant gets ready under our eyes.
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Cityscapes made from schoolbooks: 

Liu Wei, an artist from Beijing, is currently exhibiting a show called “Foreign” at the Almine Rech gallery in Paris. Wei’s art plays with cityscapes, and “Foreign” features cityscapes made from schoolbooks affixed with steel rods and clamps. To the right is Library No.4, above is Library No.6.
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Donor (12 Comments): 
Watch out, here’s a comic! It exists despite Tony exploring the world while Wes has been trying to bring people to justice.

I love the Lego wigs used in this Elroy Klee campaign for Mindplay. They’ve got the perfect mix of impracticality and strikingness to qualify as gen-you-wine coo-choore.
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(Photo: Niki Kits-Polman & Ebo Fraterman)
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Eric Sloane’s Weather Book: 
By means of insightful hand-drawn diagrams, Eric Sloan gives the best explanation I’ve ever seen of how weather works. Originally created to help sailors 50 years ago, it works for pilots, outdoor explorers, and anyone else dependent on a change of weather.
— KK
Eric Sloane’s Weather Book
Eric Sloane
2005, 96 pages
$10
Available from Amazon
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Profiles: Secrets of Magus : The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1993/04/05/1993_04_05_054_TNY_CARDS_000362341?printable=true
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