Moët & Chandon Champagne Vending Machine at Selfridges

THIS SHIT CRA!!!!!!

Just in time for Christmas, Moët & Chandon’s mini bottle vending machine offers sparkling stocking stuffers. Simply press the red Moët & Chandon button and watch as the golden arm carefully selects your bottle and elegantly delivers it via a glowing cylindrical window. Each 200ml bottle, costing $29, is wrapped in gold and features 350 art deco-inspired Swarovski crystals.

DELL ULTRASHARP ULTRAHD 4K MONITOR

Available in two sizes, 32 inches and 24 inches, these monitors are made for graphic designers, photographers, video and game designers, CAD designers, and others who demand stunning resolution on a huge screen. The 32-inch model features 3840 by 2160 resolution on a 31.5-inch screen — while it and the smaller 23.8-inch screen are capable of delivering four times more visual information than your standard HD monitor. Both deliver excellent color reproduction, with support for most of the industry standards, precise calibration, and the ability to deliver nearly the entire color spectrum.

Hotel Beaux Arts Miami

I THINK IMA TRY THIS OUT ON THE 27TH

The rooms themselves are a tech and ultra-modern décor lover’s dream, tricked out with Bang & Olufsen remote controlled video and sound systems and flat-screen TVs, in-room iPads, a personal electronics connectivity panel, in-mirror bathroom televisions and push-button sinks that slide from hot to fold with the flick of a finger.

Sole Collector x Nike Air Zoom Flight The Glove

Air Zoom Flight The Glove QS
Color: Legion Pine/Tour Yellow
Release Date: 12/07/13
Price: $150

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”
-Andrew Jackson

Where Indie Artists Are Making Most of Their Money (From the Magazine)

Independent artists have never had access to so many customers. A single distributor can get an artist’s music into digital services around the world. U.S. artists were getting Spotify royalties before the service was available stateside. Now they’re getting royalties from Deezer, Bloom.fm and other services not yet available in the States. Since distributors have added their catalogs to YouTube, independent artists can reach listeners through the world’s most popular video service.

Access to consumers has meant hundreds of millions in revenue through the years. CD Baby has paid out more than $300 million since it was founded in 1998. TuneCore has paid out more than $330 million since it launched in 2006. This year, CD Baby expects to pay out $58 million — that’s cash to artists minus the company’s distribution fee. This year’s distributions should be about 9% higher than the $53 million paid out last year and 35% greater than 2011’s distributions of $43 million.

The future may be streaming, but independent artists get most of their revenue from downloads. CD Baby artists will receive 77% of their revenue from downloads, down from 80% last year and 81% in 2011. CD Baby marketing manager Kevin Breuner says that about 73% of digital revenue and about 61% of total revenue comes from iTunes.

Streaming revenue is small but growing. This year, CD Baby will get 8% of its revenue from streaming services, up from 5% and 2% in the previous two years. Subscription services like Spotify and Rhapsody are included in CD Baby’s streaming revenue. Noninteractive services like Pandora and SiriusXM, which pay royalties through SoundExchange, are also not included.

Also excluded from the streaming figures is YouTube, a service long used for promotion that is gaining as a revenue source. CD Baby has delivered its catalog to YouTube and the company is experiencing strong revenue growth. CD Baby has paid out more than $1 million, and the last quarterly distribution was about $300,000. “It’s something we think is just going to explode,” Breuner says.

Independent artists are aided by continued demand for physical product. CDs and LPs will account for 15% of artist revenue this year, even with last year and down slightly from 17% in 2011. Some of that revenue comes from CD Baby’s partnership with Alliance Entertainment that puts independent artists’ albums into brick-and-mortar stores. But those figures don’t tell the entire story. Not counted in CD Baby’s artist distributions are artist earnings from selling CDs and LPs themselves. Anyone who attends concerts frequently knows the venue merchandise table is one of the last bastions of physical product.