As the year ticks away and 2008 slips into 2009 we decided that having a post centered around Man’s keeper of time : The Clock. No matter if you have your clock in the centre of your mantlepiece, hoisted high on the wall or merely glowing from your DVD recorder, it’s there to remind us all just how short a day really can be.

Perhaps your a person whose goverened by Time, constantly checking the clock or watch and fretting where Time went. Or you may be the type who manages Time better than most and knows how to waste Time well. However, you run your day, having these contemporary retro clocks, in and around your home can show others that you at least know how to have a good Time.
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Selling a house in a time when house markets have taken a hammering from the global economic downturn can seem like an impossible task. But there is hope! People are buying houses, sure, not in the numbers during the pre-credit-crunch days but buying they are. And when you have the Head of Barclays Bank claiming, that house prices will tumble by 30% in the forthcoming year, it really drives home that the position of strength lays with the buyer. Which means if you are a seller, then you have to do more than bake cookies and boil some fresh coffee to entice a buyer that your home is worth buying.
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It looks like there is only one colour to be decorating your home in this Christmas : Purple! From cards to tree decorations to christmassy ornaments, purple is the colour to be seen in this Christmas time. But why purple at Christmas time. We’ll Purple is an extremely emotional colour that represents a number of various things to many people. It is highly associated with Royalty and thus the correlation with the King of Kings being born on Christmas Day. It also very heavily associated with advertising rich luxorious products, which during the Christmas period is a well known excessive time.

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The new Playstation development called Playstation Home was available for download today, 11th December 2008. The idea behind Playstation Home is to allow gamers (users) the ability to create a digital avatar of themselves that can interact with other users avatars. Each avatar will also have their own living quarters in cyberspace. And this is where it gets interesting. To achieve real life effects, each avatars living space or apartment has been designed by contemporary furniture designers Ligne Roset providing virtual furniture.
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Like most people I like to be sociable and you’ll find me at my most sociable when I’m propping up the bar down at the local pub. Now, I’m reaching a certain age, I’m getting to thinking about turning one of the kids’ rooms into my own personal space. OK, fine, I know my kids are not even out of primary school yet, but you have to plan ahead, is my motto. Within my personal space I’m already decorating and filling the place with all types of man things : and the thing at the very top of my list is a Home Bar.
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Recently, I came across a new concept and style of taking photographs and videos called : Tilt Shift. The idea behind Tilt Shift is to photograph real life objects, places from above or a far-off distance then manipulate the image to create a miniature-scale model. It really is an ingenious idea and some of the creations using the technique are mind-blowing fantastic. It won’t be long before these Tilt Shift images will be called contemporary art.

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It is getting near that time of year again where we see the furniture sites buy up some precious TV air time to advetise their wares. With contemporary furniture, it is slightly different, as it not yet a mass market in the mainstream, however more and more people are turning to modern furniture to help stamp their own mark with their interior furnishings.

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In the not too-distant-future don’t be suprised to find yourself sitting on your favourite chair in the house that arches over your head to reveal a Hi-Definition touch screen where you’ll be downloading the film you wanted to hire for the night and chatting to your buddies on Twitter as you all watch live streaming of the game that is being played just now. The door bell sounds and you flick the arm rest to reveal a small video monitor that shows the pizza delivery guy outside your door that you ordered and paid for online just 20 minutes ago. You pause the chair’s massage mode and shout the kids downstairs for dinner.

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On January the 20th 2009, America will place a new man at the helm of power, in what is commonly known as Inauguration Day. Barack Obama and his family will then move into the White House for the next 4 years at least. And, boy, does Mrs Obama, have a great chance to ‘make change’ in the White House by giving the place a modern contemporary makeover.
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It was a golden era for the silver screen and those who were part of it shall be forever remembered as demi gods within our culture. Stars such as Marlon Brando, John Wayne, Clark Gable shone in an era when scripts were filled with wonderful dialogue and even popular singers of that time, Elvis Pressley, Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack, were thrust onto the big screen with various levels of success. Vintage Hollywood it was and still is.
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