“Call it crazy or ironic or simply perfect justice, but when I stopped starving myself, my career took off. That was when I shot five international editions of Vogue and became the favorite model of the great Steven Meisel.” From the book Hungry by model Crystal Renn.

Click here for a some good music (made with auto-tune) featuring astronomers Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking.

Illustrations made by Scott Wade on dirty car windows!

Ten leading designers have been commissioned by the Cooper-Hewitt museum NYC to develop new uses for sustainably grown and harvested materials in order to tell a unique story about the life-cycle of materials and the power of conservation and design. The exhibition, called ‘Design for a Living World’  is designed by Abbott Miller (Pentagram). Isaac Mizrahi was challenged to design clothes using pure salmon skin. For a perfect mix between ecology and glamour he asked a Parisian artisan to produce paillettes out of the leathery salmon skin. Nice!

Inspired by international handicrafts and materials, Carla Peters designed a collection of objects. She supports local craftsmen with her work and is selling it in Europe under the new name Wondarable.

Sir Richard Branson’s VMS Eve is expected to make its first ‘captive carry’ flight with SpaceShipTwo attached by the end of 2009. 287 Seats are reserved worldwide. Dutch people can book their flight here.

At PicNic the RidgeBlade, by Power Collective, won the Green Challenge Award of € 500,000. It is fitted on the ridge line at the top of a building and collects the prevailing wind (this is where the wind is forced over the roof surface), accelerating the airflow through the turbine, generating electricity.

Jay Cutler is the designer of the world’s best body: Mr. Olympia 2009.

It really works when a young designer collaborates with a traditional company: I just discovered these perfect little Brooks saddle bags via Ben Wilson’s teeter-totter.

Strong seesaw for adults by Ben Wilson, especially created for an exhibit of Brooks England - the worlds oldest bicycle component manufacture.