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Best Of The Rest: The Week In Creativity Including Robyn Meeting Robo-Robyn

We're thankful for tentacle art, the Palace of Versaille's new bling, and Robyn meeting robot Robyn.

This week we were thankful for…

*Ivan Puig's trippy new installations. [123 Inspiration]

*The existence of Existential Bummer. [The Artful Desperado]

*NYC's legendary Mudd Club getting a new scent--we just couldn't get that Talking Heads song stuck out of our heads. [HintMag]

*Paper Magazine's pretty great Art Basel guide. [PaperMag]

*Designers geeking out over Marimekko. [Mediabistro]

*Art created from earthquake refuse. [Trendland]

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*NYMag listing their favorite holiday display windows. Personally our favorite was the one above from Joanie Lamercier. [NYMag]

*The Palace of Versailles getting its first permanent installation--a "12-metre-high stainless steel installation, weighing just less than 500kgs, is adorned with more than 800 Swarovski crystals and illuminated by multiple LED lights." Stay flashy Versailles! [Design Indaba]

*10 Nigerian hip-hop wedding videos. No further explaination necessary. [OKAfrica]

*Cheeto still lifes (lives?). [Art Fag City]

*Icy Intervention making central Rome look high-tech. [Evolo]

*Folks improving school lunches via design. [NYTimes]

*UK-based record store Rough Trade opening in Williamsburg, and everyone in BK (including the VICE staff) going nuts. [RoughTrade]

*A ring that could potentially allow the deaf and mute to literally speak with their hands. [Prote.in]

*Crazy tentacle art. [FilthyLuker]

*The delightfully fresh and far-out photography of Synchrodogs [The Cut]

*Andy Warhol's cake doodles. [DesignTaxi]

*And Robyn meeting a robot named Robot. [Vulture]

Have a great break everyone!