Filthy (&) Rich

In the hit reality TV show , Jersey Shore, Snooki often gets down and dirty with the boys at the club .

When she's off on her own nights out, this girl knows her High life.

Not on booze, but on the goods.

Q... nice.

PS: The one in the white coat beside her looks like Boy George. Could it be?!

Diamonds in the Glass

'I like to drink champagne with diamonds in the glass. Just another case of expensive taste,'

rants Rap Diva Lil Kim in the #1 hit 'Lady Marmalade'.

Indeed, for those of you privileged a**es who drink the best liquids out there (yes, latest world news, people do tend to drink from taps.), yes, I do secretly love you'd get stuck in a drought or in the middle of the Sahara.

A thirst for anything blatant and ludicrous.

C'mon, if you like your expensive hard liquors, you 'll know that they come in the fanciest and most elaborate bottles and holders with matching price tags.

So why not make that the humble bottled water too?


Bling H20Mountain spring water frosted bottles encrusted swarovski crystals. Known as the “Cristal” of bottled water and regularly served at high profile star-studded events.

Bombay Sapphire ($200k/bottle) has come up with Revelation, a handmade crystal bottles adorned with gems and diamonds, which may magnetize even the richest drinkers to adore the masterpiece, no matter whether it is empty or filled. None other than Garrard, Baccarat and Karim Rashid, foremost names in luxury and design, in collaboration designed the limited edition Revelation bottle. The handmade crystal bottle is the first of a five-piece set that will be launched at five major international airports, i. e. London Heathrow airport on March 27, and New York, Dubai, Singapore and Sydney afterwards, for about three months. All the bottles will be finished peerlessly with sapphires and diamonds.

Evian Christian Lacroix Prêt-à-Porter Water . Glass bottle decorated with glittering snowy crystals. Very chic and elegant.

Okay ! Okay! I owe up. I admit to owning a pair of Evian Christian Lacroix bottled water myself.

There, I said it.

Q... sensual indulgence. ^^

Par!s in P!nk

Merry Christmas, Paris!

Your customised Pink Bentley has arrived! ^^

The hotel heiress recently received delivery of the car - a Christmas present to herself worth an estimated $200,000 - fulfilling a childhood fantasy of owning a vehicle like children's toy doll Barbie.




The 27-year-old socialite is planning to decorate the interior of the car in her favourite colour to match its exterior.

She said: 'I've just always wanted a pink car. I think when you're a little girl and you have the Barbie corvette you're always like, 'Oh I wish I had a car like this one day', so I think it just comes from being a fan of Barbie for so long.

'This is a car that I cannot drive every single day but I will be driving a lot. They put on protective tint on the windows so no paparazzi flashes can come through.'

Erm, Paris, and the whole idea of a Pink Bentley , being?

So you'd be anonymous despite the whole world knowing who's behind the wheel?

Paris, we've seen EVERYTHING that you ... are.

Pink Nipples and all.

Q

The RICH and CLUELESS

We all love cars.:-)

The bigger our coffers, the more extravagant our choices would be.

What wheels are you left to indulge in if you've got $1.5 million dollars to spend after that Mediterranean villa for summer fun, city pent-house loft for convenience and, like, 500 Louie Vuitton cases? And that spanking Ferrari you bought last month was like so 'last season'?

Get your self a Lamborghini or a Bugatti like this one here... and paint it so that you'd be spotted from space.....

Pure Stoooooopidity. Now, if i wanted Shamu , I'd getit.

Did it match the owner's new hair do or what? HOPE NOT. :-P

Rich Artist Poor Art

Art is suppose to be Valuable to the point of being Priceless.

Good art is subjective yet univesally liked. There is no bad art universally hated.

You just can't put a price on great art.

'less are those al cheapo art-furniture gallery (or Ikea), you can either have it or not, at a limiting price. Nothing is too little. Too much is still too much.

The measurables are just immeasurable.

So, I am particularly affected by this current artist that is spinning multi millions in the bank by glamorising the Capitalist approach to his art work.

Granted, past artistic greats died poor and tragic and when alive, were never appreciated, let alone seeing any possibility of using their strokes and brushes to put food on the table.

It took centuries after their demise , that people started appreciating their finer touches.

So, in a way, Briton Damien Hirst reflects how starving artists have come a long way from those pauper-days of yore.

But, I sense greed and opportunistic tendencies in him. A shameful turn how an artist himself aims for monetary gains over artistic transcendence.

Picasso pieces for instance, are known for certain skewed qualities and personality. So too are Botero's 'swollen-subjects'.

Hirst's works thus far are best described as morbid and grotesque.

Check out Saint Sebastian for instance, a suspended calf , tied to a post and pierced with dozens of arrows in a glass tank. George Michael paid a whopping 3.5million pounds for it.

A split shark fetched 10 million pounds. While 3 crucified sheep were sold for 6 million pounds.

Sliced, diced, chopped, cut and splits.... Hirst's contribution to the Art world?

Or will he be more remembered for the money he has made.

For a field not traditionally tainted by the lure of the fortunes, there by turning into an industry, has Hirst become what the residents of SoHo will now aspire to be?

Already photographers these days take pride and strive in not becoming a National Geographic staple but one for the stars such as the likes of David LaChappelle.

Already, Architects, once the profession of hailing the kings and emperors of the past as gods,besides the priests, are today, a victim of their own success in the commercial world of drawing for the extravagant, thereby creating cold and lavish monsters that say more of ambition than heritage and beliefs.

So will artists sell art not because of the love and spread of their craft but to quantify how 'drama' can take the place of more transient qualities such as artistic purpose of expression and personal style and charm?

Does his record 100 million pounds-selling diamond skull piece 'For the Love of God' make him more 'hip hop bling bling jeweller than a bona fide artist now?

I'm not surprised if the skull next appears in P Diddy's , Timbaland or Jay Z's next music videos. Or if they even bought it already as one of its secret buyers!!


The question remains :Is Hirst doing art for art or art for money and fame?


You decide.

It's just different from a multi-million dollar Victoria's Secret Fantasy Angel bra, you know what I'm sayin?... ^^ (This is Tyra wearing a US$11 million diamond-encrusted Fantasy Bra, btw)

Beauty and the Beast.

You know which is which.