Madonna

How could I have missed Madonna's latest album?

This one is about the "juxtaposition of tough and sweetness" (so say her reps) and it looks as though she nailed it. (just look at her!!)


I haven't heard any of the songs on the album so I don't know if she carries the candy theme through the actual music content, but I do find it interesting that candy is becoming such a pop marketing tool.


Madonna is BIG! Will McDonalds, Coke and Walmart soon be following suit with their candy-marketing campaigns?

Yucca (candy) Lamp

Check out the Yucca Lamp!

I immediately liked this product because it has been created with a goal to reducing consumable waste & ecological accountability AND looks great!

The shell of this lamp is made with hard candy and I'd love to get my hands on one to see how it performs in a residential environment. Oddly, I know a lot about working with hard candy and have seen enough to know that it doesn't always behave as anything other than what it is (i.e. a sticky mass of sugar).

Hard Candy always looks great (ohh, the beautiful translucence of hard candy) but the issue of stickiness is hard to get around. Even when coated with a resin, streams of hard-candy-stickiness have a way of trickling from the seams. Messy and hard to maintain, I can just imagine dust bunnies leaping onto the Yucca Lamp and holding on for-e-v-e-r where-ever they land.

And on and on my list could go. But I'm thinking the creators of this lamp MUST have found a solution to all the problems I could mention. And besides, who wants to dis the eco-friendly products in the world. This one looks great and is 100% biodegradable!

http://theideagroup.ca/consumablewaste/?p=123

Junior Mints

I would put this painting in my kitchen and I would feel cool-minty and light as air every time I looked at it.

I'm thinking I wouldn't feel so cool-minty and light if I saw an actual Junior Mints box on the ground outside my house, so why the difference?

This candy & box are just so darn pleasing. Could it be because they are larger than life (out of the ordinary and interesting) or am I being duped by their high subject of a portrait stature?

It is obvious this candy box is no piece of garbage (as one would assume the box on my front doorstep would be) and I imagine the artist spent a load of time examining and getting to know it. That attention shows and -dare I say- I feel it (what is it?) in the clean lines and detail of the painting .

Definitely feeling something and loving the Junior Mints!

see more at http://jeanvictory.blogspot.com/2008/03/another-candy-painting.html

Chew Them Up.

More gum! Though this stuff (unlike Maurizio Savini's art, November 29/08 blog) looks very chewed up and spit out.

'Chew Them Up. Spit Them Out' is in fact the byline for the ad shown here and I can't believe someone on Paris Hilton's team didn't point out that a campaign picturing her with this caption may not be so hot.

The ad for www.dose.ca is from a celebrity gossip mag I picked up at the movie theatre. I can't deny it is eye-catching and quite an accomplishment if it is in fact made of gum (not a computer generated image). But was team Hilton really so distracted they did not notice it kind of looks like Paris's brain is falling out? And again, how is it acceptable to be shown in an ad with a caption that says 'Chew Them Up. Spit Them Out'. Even if it is a [pretty cool] portrait in chewing gum.


I'm guessing this is a case of no publicity is bad publicity.

Candy Trike.

Candy and a tricycle. Hmmm...No question this one is for the kids though it does seem to be driving the point a bit hard.

Let's see, tricycle=kids / candy=kids / candy tricycle = kidskidskids!

I'm wondering if I should just let it be and enjoy the tricycle.

(Enjoying the tricycle! Have a sweet weekend.)

Pink Pucci

Pink and partly shiny, this Emilio Pucci coat dress is being described as "candy colored...defin[ing] elegance...and pure Jackie O" on the web.

Now this is my kind of outfit! It looks warm enough and stylish enough, though I have to admit I have never worn that much colour all at once. In fact, I haven't worn that much colour collectively since the day I was born.

I keep wondering what the WhatNotToWear lady would say. And I can't stop wondering because as much as I love this dress I cannot imagine a real person in a real street or partyscape wearing it.

Strangely, I don't think I would have a problem or be surprised to see someone else wearing the dress inside-out, showing the crazy Pucci print lining on the outside.

net-a-porter.com $1,455.00

Pastel world

Remember Candyland?

The lollipop woods? the ice cream floats? hmmmm. a fairyland of candy and neverending possibility. My memory about these things hasn't faded and I remember the romance.

It wasn't just the candy that made this game so great. Candyland was all about the calming pastel world of imagination, where adventure and surprise were just around the corner . It was about the exhileration of making it to the coast (cool winds blowing) and through the (presumably not-so-sweet-smelling) molasses swamp.

The photo shown here is as close as I could find to the version I played in the 70's and 80's and I feel a sad and disappointing void when I see 'new Candyland' at the toy store.

That beautiful, imaginary, pastel world has been coloured-up with primary blue, yellow & red (better for a child's educational development) and Dora-ed & Winnie-the-Pooh-ed to gather the homogenized masses.

I'm feeling a little crotchety for yesteryear. But really. When I was a kid....

Candy Cane Chair

As if sitting in a cafe with the right decor isn't enough, this great chair is called the Candy Cane Bentwood.

It took a second, and I do see the reason for the name; candy cane shapes, yes indeed. But what I see more in this Bentwood style, is the coffee shops along the Champs D'Elysees...


Un cafe, s'il vous plait ! (pas de bonbons).