The main aim of the project was to make things instinctively and force myself into making decisions quickly. I believe that some things can only be discovered by getting your hands dirty and just doing it. Try it, see if it works, if not then adjust it or learn from it and do something different. I think when the mind is concentrating on what the hands are doing then the sub-concious mind gets freed up to observe and make creative links.

Between lampshades made out of bread, onion ring fabric, beautiful repeats and hilarious hillshoes designed to make walkin up and downhill easier (below), Wilcox seems to access to a free form creative association many people lose as children.

When you are fully charmed by the originality of his whimsical inventions, then you should immediately click over to his cartoon drawings for some Shel Silverstein style chuckles.

Two watches, actually, as long as we’re going through all the trouble.

This was an awesome collection. Really, really, really good.

Also, I love pirates and wish good on the lady pirates who diy’d this instantly.

The door picture has given me so many deep laughs, but I always ask myself: How could that work?

I know it seems insane and in a way it is insane. It might be true that this works best as a framed photo as the artist (unknown to me) intended. It’s easy to own a mid-century chair. But it takes some real work to take a poorly designed, laughable item and reframe it - to place the ugly in a context where it becomes beautiful, original.

It’d be easy to hang the door as a piece of art in a room while lots of camel and carmel colors.  It’d be funny to have this be the exterior door to an extremely minimal, all white room. It’d be awesome to have this be the interior door in a room piled with gaudy pieces from all eras. Think cheetah prints, white bear rugs, baroque vases in pink and blue, lucite tables, maybe some taxidermy or neon. Teddy Ruxbin and velvet paintings. I’d say a Precious Moment or two, but that seems too awful…at least for now. Maybe Shary Boyle figurines instead. That chic knows what I’m talking about.

As for the fountain? Anyone could put that fountain in their front or backyard and strike me as a genius of comedy.  I would love to see that in front of almost any style of home, but I also have a decanter sitting on my desk right now that is shaped like deer with its front legs on a rock. You pull the head off to pour booze out.  God bless Jim Beam.

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…stolen long ago and never replaced.

I met this old lady once who stopped growing vegetables because she walked into her garden one day to find an adult man with brown paper sack straight helping himself to whatever he wanted!

I always thought it was supremely sad that she let her bitterness over the theft kill her love of gardening. Also, that man should be ashamed - grocery shopping in an old lady’s back yard like that!

So, maybe it’s time l get a new player and let the booty shaking, foot stomping good times roll. again.

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Hot.

Tom Pecheux for M·A·C Cosmetics created for the Emanuel Ungaro show.

The coup of science, engineering, technology and imagination that made the below photo of the galaxy possible = pretty good work.

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sandra backland