Having just become a father I guess I am sensitive to all things 'baby' at the moment... research has shown that babies respond to high contrast images - this book, Art for Baby, features work by artists that include Damien Hirst, Julian Opie and Bridget Riley. Certainly my daughter has a fixation with my girlfriend's zebra print dressing gown!... so at first glance I would agree with the theory... I'm going to get a copy when it's released on 2nd October...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/26/family

Cool Hand Luke - No man can eat 50 eggs scene.

RIP!

Why say it, when you can get others to sing it for you!...http://www.sr.se/P1/src/sing/index.htm

Image by Mario Mariotti: http://www.italian.it/mariomariotti/

Great new site from Uniclo... no big idea as such but a really nice way to show off their product range and guide users through to purchase... http://www.uniqlo.com/merino/

What with Lehman's going down the tubes yesterday, we can really say that the credit crunch is here.

So, after reading this article, http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2221575/credit-crunch-drives-sad-music, which reports that songs by the Smiths etc. are climbing up the download charts as a result of our melancholic state, I got to thinking...

What if I were to release a 2 CD album - CD1 would be '10 tunes to get depressed about the credit crunch to' and CD2 would be '10 tunes to beat the credit crunch'...

CD1 - titled - 'Pass that bottle of gin - I'm in a hole and ain't never coming out'

CD2 - titled - 'Fuck the credit crunch and pull yourself together - songs for the shamefully optimistic'

My initial thoughts were for CD1:

We go to get out of this place - The Animals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP1w5Hl8D0E&feature=related

Nirvana-In Utero-Rape Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpfSKNUmIfY

Johnny Cash - Hurt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go

Beck - Nobody's fault but my own
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFWsGa88APM

Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI-48M-LPGo&feature=related

Billy Holiday - Strange Fruit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs

Jeff Buckley-Hallelujah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKnxmkOAj88

Depeche Mode-precious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwXWVpg65Rs&feature=related

Joy Division - Love will tear us apart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0dfd_L4tDk

The Streets - Dry your eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHOf3s70w-c

Thoughts and suggestions...?