Martika and Eminem sung about them, but Mike Hunter has done one better with his mock miniature photography. We're talking about toy soldiers.
Take a look at his website for more information.
Images copyright of Mike Hunter
Catherine Ledner is a wallpaper designer from New Orleans, and as we all know, there is nothing more boring then watching paint dry and looking at wallpaper samples. Whereas scatter cushions are different right?
Anyhow, Catherine has been a bit more inventive about the process of choosing wallpaper and taken photos of various animals positioned in front of her designs. She's quackers! She's barking! She's havin' a gee-raffe! <insert more puns here>. But for some weird reason it works. So we are all off to Chessington with some of our products.
Take a look at Catherine's website.
Images courtesy of Catherine Ledner
Shopping can be stressful, that's why God invented Firebox.com, right?
French photographer Denis Darzacq has captured some amazing images in his 'Hyper' collection that we thought you should see. It definitely puts a different angle on how we shop.
All images are copyright of Denis Darzacq
On May 4th Sarah Lu the creator of Youdoodoll held a competition to find an artist to design and create a mural for them on the giant Pepe Jeanswall on Portobello Road London. The theme was "Miniature versions of us will take over the world"
Firebox's Customer Service agent James Powell entered a design based around World Domination. Showing two cartoon style characters with the blue prints for their Youdoodolls to take over the world.
All the entries were whittled down to a final 3 (including James's!) and so it was decided that the only way to settle things would be via a “Paint off!”. So on the 9th June James, along with two other finalists (Jacob Jacobs and Giulio Bigazzi) came to the Pepe Shop on Portobello road and started to paint a smaller version of their original designs.
The judging was then filmed for BBC2's next series of Dragon's Den by Sarah Lu (on behalf of Youdoodoll), Douglas Cordeaux (Pepe Jeans Creative Director) and Deborah Meaden (Dragons Den) judged the 3 pieces and decided on a winner. After a lot of paint splatter, sunburn and random comments from passing children and drunks out for a stroll, James was awarded "2nd Runner Up"....thats third place to you.
More photos of all the work and James's sunkist gurning face can be found on the Youdoodoll blog page.
If you find yourself walking around Waterloo station, having been stood up by your internet bride under the clock, why not skip to Leake Street tunnel. For this is no ordinary smelly tunnel, this is Cans Festival.
Whether you are a secret Banksy style graffiti artist or someone who appreciates the humour and political nature of street art, the Cans Festival London event should certainly be on your exhibition list.
Any finally... now it's getting hotter, what have we been thinking about at Firebox HQ?
Where does Margaret from The Apprentice go on her holidays?
