The Mighty Book of Boosh

The Mighty Book of Boosh, described by their website as a "beautifully illustrated Christmas humour book" comes out next week. This is great news for die hard fans of the surreal cult BBC TV comedy show The Mighty Boosh (like us). Dave Brown (who also plays Bollo the gorilla in the show) has art directed and designed the book and contributed the bulk of the book's photography. To read a more in depth review and get a sneak preview of the book CLICK HERE for the Creative Review Blog.

Vogue Hommes Japan

The first issue of Vogue Hommes Japan hit the newstands yesterday. The main editorial is styled by avant guarde stylist Nicola Formichetti and photographed by Hedi Slimane. The Japanese already like it better than it's international brother magazines and we probably will too!

The must reads

How To Avoid Huge Ships: And Other Implausibly Titled Books marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Diagram Prize, the Bookseller’s momentous annual contest to determine the oddest book title of the year. Baffling titles such as Bombproof Your Horse, Fancy Coffins To Make Yourself and People Who Don’t Know They’re Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It have all been recipients of this glittering prize, along with Reusing Old Graves: A Report on Popular British Attitudes and If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start with Your Legs. Out on September 8th. A must have for anyone with a quirky sense of humor!

Guestblog: Recommended by Tamara

Want to escape the 9-5 mundane working desk-feeders & become a part of the live anywhere, work from anywhere, ‘New Rich?’ So do I…
I’ve been reading ‘The 4 Hour Work Week,’ by Timothy Ferriss…
Learning about how to cut the fat, basically...Stop doing things that take up too much time: Obsessively checking your Facebook page every 30 minutes, or running 5 instant messaging programs at once, or even the simple errands you feel you need to run every day. He also refers to a way of thinking, called the 80/20 Principle, which is brilliant. Only 20% of the things we do directly effect our productivity. That means 80% is just the filler, or bullshit – as I like to say. Now, I’m not necessarily going to walk away from reading this book working 4 hours a week and outsourcing my menial tasks to personal hired assistants in foreign countries (yes, there’s a chapter on this)…But I am seriously digging deeper at what it is that I want to be doing with my skills, and with my free time. The problem with so many of us, is that we complain about work, ‘I’m so bored…’ or ‘My job sucks…’ – but when you’re faced with the question: If your bills were paid and you had money in the bank, with plenty of free time to do whatever you pleased – what would fill your time? What are these dreams you’re being held back from? Yep, its making me think… The lifestyle of the ‘new rich’ centers around valuing your time…who said that retirement has to be for our geriatric years? Ferriss outlines all the ways you can work as little as possible, do what you want, and realize your dreams. May sound a bit sugary, but I’m gonna give the book a whirl, and see what happens. To buy it now, and for more excerpts from the book, tips & the author’s blog CLICK HERE. To check out July's White Hart accessories feature with Tamara CLICK HERE.

Where books grow trees

You can sell your unwanted books to Greenmetropolis.com for money and help save our environment. By recycling used books not only are they saving existing trees, they're actually planting new ones. GreenMetropolis.com donates 5p for every book sold to the 'Tree For All' campaign run by the Woodland Trust.

Recommended by Smithy

That's right, Sir Paul has a blog too. We saw this yesterday on Paul Smith's blog on Vogue.com and since we love New York in the 60's and Bob Dylan we decided to pass it on.

An oldie but a goodie...

Published in 2005, Louis Vutton: The Birth of Modern Luxury was one of the first in depth books about one of the world's most famous luxury brands. It's 616 page compilation of archival art, product designs and sketches, ground breaking advertising, and more. It also examines the lives of the company's first 3 leaders (one of which invented the modern trunk) and the conglomerate's development under their leadership. It's a great book if your into this kind of thing. The book was compiled and written by Paul Gerard Pasols, former director and long time consultant for Louis Vutton.

A work in progress...

Our friend Molly's tattoo. Isn't it amazing???? Molly (along with friends) has just launched a bi-annual arts and culture journal called Dossier which is an intriguing collection of art, photography, fiction, poetry, and crossword puzzles (which Molly contributes herself).