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A Brush With Fame: Can You Match The Celebrities With Their Artwork?

It's not that unusual that an actor, singer/songwriter or musician is also adept with a paintbrush. After all, they are known for exercising their right brain and are considered 'creative' types. But apparently the same holds true for some serial killers, dictators and other notorious figures.

Just for fun, I've posted ten pieces of artwork below by the following famous and infamous people; Adolph Hitler, James Dean, Eve Plumb (Jan Brady), Dr. Jack Kevorkian, Sylvester Stallone, John Wayne Gacy, Katharine Hepburn, Tony Bennett, Bill Maher and David Bowie.

See if you can figure out who painted which pieces (answers are at the end). Those of you who are extra savvy may be able to tell by styles, subjects and eras.

1. Portrait Of Billy Gunn

2. Downtown Los Angeles

3. Birds

4. Shelter at Fournes

5. Dedication to 9/11

6. Head IV

7. title unknown

8. Real Patriots Pay US Taxes

9. For He Is Raised

10. Chrome napkin and ketchup

Answers:
1. actor and legend James Dean

2. singer and artist Tony Bennett

3. serial killer John Wayne Gacy

4. dictator and mass murderer Adolph Hitler

5. actor and artist Sylvester Stallone

6. singer David Bowie

7. actress Katharine Hepburn

8. pundit Bill Maher

9. Dr. Jack Kevorkian, advocate of euthanasia

10. actress and artist Eve Plumb (Jan Brady)

Relevant Links:
• Tony Bennett's own website
• Pop Life Art has many celebrity artists and their work
• You can check out the art work of more serial killers here.
• You can purchase some of Sylvester Stallone's paintings here
• some of the images in this post came from the Art Celebs Gallery where works by Bill Maher and Phyllis Diller amongst others are available for purchase
• Actors as Artists is a book authored by actors Jim McMullan and Dick Gautier (Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc.) that was first published back in 1992.

Chanel's Mane Event. The Winter 2010-2011 Haute Couture Show.

The newest haute couture collection from CHANEL premiered July 6 at the Grand Palais in Paris. The collection was filled with rich brocades, luxurious sequins, ruched boots, new longer length dresses, some seriously puffy sleeves, tousled hair and lions. Yes, Lions.

One of Karl Lagerfeld's most sumptuous and elegant collections to date, the Chanel show and collection were punctuated with multiple appearances of the King of the Jungle.

The set in Paris, designed by Stéfan Lubrina, had an enormous statue (reported to weigh 8 tons) of a Lion through whose giant paws the models strutted Karl Lagerfeld's latest looks. You can view a video of the construction of the set here.

The set was based on this marble statue:

Lion heads adorned the invitation, the press kit, some of the jewelry, some of the gowns and even were embedded into some of the fabrics.

The invitation:

Karl Lagerfeld shooting the press kit:

A Chanel gown with sequined lions:

Chanel dresses with Lion head accents:

and on the jewelry:

Even the groom in the the finale donned a giant lion head:

A video of the fashion show:

To see the entire Chanel Winter 2010.2100 collection go to the Chanel site.

The Bubble Blo, New Inflatable Jacuzzi Tub from Blofield.

Blofield, whose high styled inflatable Chesterfield Sofa has been the recipient of the Red Dot Design award and whose pieces I profiled in my Inflatable Goes Formal post has just introduced the Bubble Blo, an inflatable hot spa.

It comes with an included power pack to provide warm water and bubbles, and like all their products is inflatable via their air-design, comes with its own bag and is easy to transport. It will be available with customized wrapping in every design, color or print imaginable.

above three images courtesy of NOTCOT.

The Blofield Bubble Blo will be officially launched during the Maison et Object show in September but is already taking pre-orders via their site.
Blofield Air Design Furniture

By no means the first to create an inflatable spa tub, companies Palm Springs Outdoor and MSpa both make portable outdoor inflatable spa tubs: