Brendan Jamison : Tate Modern and Neo Bankside sugarcube sculptures

Brendan Jamison is a sugar specialist, well sculpturer anyway. These amazing images are of his latest sugar works of the Tate Modern building, Neo Bankside and Helen's Tower (Bangor).

The Tate Modern sculpture was commissioned by Native Land & Grosvenor for the 2010 London Festival of Architecture, NEO Bankside Pavillion, Southbank. The Tate building itself built to a 1:100 scale took 3 months with a whopping 71,908 sugar cubes to complete!

Neo Bankside is designed by world-renowned archictects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. Tate Modern is designed by Herzog and DeMeuron. The original bankside power station was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott.

Read more on the BBC website or visit Brendan Jamison's website.

Dr. Martens 50th Anniversary : Cinematic Orchestra cover Lilac Wine

Dr. Martens has reached it's 50th Anniversary, to celebrate they have asked 10 artists and 10 directors to record and produce a cover of a cult classic that to them represents the spirit of the people who have worn DM's over the last 50 years. Watch the videos here.

This video is of The Cinematic Orchestra's cover of Jeff Buckley’s Lilac Wine.

Other artists and tracks covered for Dr Martens are:

Noisettes
Ever Fallen In Love With Someone You Shouldn't've : Buzzcocks
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The Duke Spirit
If The Kids Are United : Sham 69
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DāM-FunK
Things That Dreams Are Made Of : The Human League
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Buraka Som Sistema
Buffalo Stance : Neneh Cherry
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COMING SOON

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Dirty Old Town : The Pogues
Release date: 20 Aug

N.A.S.A
Chase The Devil : Max Romeo
Release date: 3 Sep

VERBAL + YOON
Cherry Bomb : The Runaways
Release date: 17 Sep

The Raveonettes
I Wanna Be Adored : The Stone Roses
Release date: 15 Oct

Michael Davis of MC5 & D.O.A.
Something Is Not Right With Me : Cold War Kids

Antony Gormley : Critical Mass at the De La Warr

I've just been to visit the De La Warr Pavilion back in Bexhill and had a quick look around Antony Gormley's Critical Mass exhibition on the roof top terrace. The exhibition is running there until the 31st August 2010 and is free of charge.

The arrival of Critical Mass at the De La War is the first ever sculpture installation on the roof top terrace. Critical Mass is one of Antony Gormley's most known works, made up of sixty life size cast iron body forms. All of the haunting bodies were cast from molds of Gormley's body.

I'd seen the exhibition previously but had not realized the original concept for the casts. The literature at the exhibition explains, "...The first impression is of some kind of trauma, perhaps an act of violence perpertrated towards the masses such as terrorism or genocide (The work was originally made for a huge railway terminus in Austria, thus consciously connecting it to the victims of the Jewish holocaust."

Another great exhibition at the De La Warr! If you're in the area, its definitely worth taking a look.

Sasha Prood - Explorations in Type

Some great illustrations and typographic explorations from 'designer/illustrator/artist' Sasha Prood, visit her website for more images of her work.

Pimp your MacBook with 'Stick with me baby'

...The only thing Steve Jobs forgot to add to the ipad.

Stick with me baby stickers are sure to spice up your MacBook! They are pretty cool, who can deny the handlebar mustache?!? These are a must for every Mac lover out there!

David Mach's Coat Hanger Gorilla

This huge Gorilla statue was created by David Mach for the The Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition. The Gorilla has been brought to life using metal wire coat hangers and is called 'Silver Streak'.

Amazingly this is the Royal Academy or Art's 242nd year of exhibiting! This years exhibition is open to the public until August 22nd 2010. Visit the Royal Academy of Art's website for more information and to buy tickets.

Stella Artois have found the heir to Jacques d'Azur's ticket at Cannes

Well this is the culmination of the worldwide search by Stella Artois for the true heir to legendary film producer Jacques d'Azur. Looks like the lucky winner had a swell time too! See the initial campaign video here for the search for Jacques d'Azur's heir.

RIP Jacques d'Azur, it's what he would've wanted.

Malibu by U Competition

Malibu has just launched a new Limited Edition bottle called Malibu By U. The idea of the new bottle is to give a blank canvas to the public to apply their own design for the bottle.

To kick start the competition, Malibu enrolled the support of graffiti artists Jimi Crayon, Pinky and MNKY, who have designed their own bottle (you can check them out here on Malibu's Facebook page. Anyone can enter, either using Malibu's online 'studio' where you can create a design using preset creative tools, or get yourself a bottle of the stuff and create a physical one!

View the online gallery at www.malibu-rum.com/byu. The competition is to win one of three trips to one of many world wide destinations. The designs all have their own vote counters here's my attempt...

Vote for me!