Eye Spy With My Little Eye

Catch it Before its Gone: The Selby Book Online

Interior photographer Todd Selby makes an interesting business decision by putting up his glossy US$35 book - The Selby Is In Your Place online, completely free, till Friday. The book debuted 6 months ago after his successful blog The Selby took the interior-sphere by storm, Todd showed the world a daily dose of creative homes and scribbles, and even secured a deal with Cole Hann, happy snapping for the "Inspired Lives" campaign. Drumming up sales by giving prospective buyers a little now you've seen it, now you don't, now you want to buy it, is actually, pretty genius for its cause.  A little internet booster after 6 months of department store book signing and word of mouth marketing. Would you pick a copy after previewing the pages of the book? 

 

Available at Page One and Amazon.com

Pop-Up Cult: The Monocle Shop @ Lane Crawford Pacific Place

Mockery: Obsessive Consumption by Kate Bingaman-Burt

I was in the process of unpacking my first "dream flat", bags of red white and blue's crowding around my dining table, small carton boxes stacked on top of medium carton boxes on top of large carton boxes, scattered here and there like an unfinished lego project. Sea of "Misc" bags, better named "excess" haunting my burgeoning deadline of "fully unpacking". A thought, what have I done? A decade of my life now summarised as stuff?

 

What a scary thought! When eyespy thought of confessing, someone did my job, via a drawing log of what she had bought every day! The mundane, the necessary, the excessive and the guilty are all laid out in pretty little illustrations called Obsessive Consumption. Ingenious! And definitely a wake-up call to all of us.

"I make work about personal consumerism, market economies, guilt, joy, excess, more guilt, gifts, celebration, repetition, and the community of these shared experiences." — Kate Bingaman-Burt

 
Maybe I should buy a little coffee table reminder of this sad reality.
Oh wait! I'm shopping again... The irony!

Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today? is available on Amazon

Book Crave: The Sartorialist - Scott Schuman

Good looking pedestrians, stunning photographic display. I'm not sure if most "normal people" outside of the fashion industry look THAT good, but hey, my favourite blog is now a book ! I especially love his collection of Milanese men in light suits, slicked back hair, handkerchief adorned and of course, the summer sockless loafers. Refinery29 mapped out the How To Guide To Getting Shot By Sartorialist, which I thought was pretty hilarious and possibly accurate.
Someone out there, buy me a copy!