The 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard represents the pinnacle of imaginative design and masterful craftsmanship. This unique guitar has become the Holy Grail of guitars in the minds of professionals and collectors the world over. Guitar legends such as Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Mike Bloomfield and Billy Gibbons, to name only a few, have forged their musical pathways utilizing the incredible tonal characteristics and playability created by the artistry of the 1959 Les Paul Standard.

1959 Les Paul Standard Reissue guitar isn’t just a simple replica, inch by inch Gibson paid close attention to each and every element of the guitar with historically accurate details. With only 500 models being constructed make sure you grab a piece of history and channel your inner Jimmy Page. Guitar fixtures include a figured maple top, one-piece lightweight mahogany body, gold top-hat control knobs with dial pointers, nickel ABR-1 Tune-o-matic bridge and nickel stopbar tailpiece, period-correct pickguard, single-ply creme top binding, nickel tuners with green buttons and a molded, bell-shaped truss rod cover. Price: $8,500.
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One of the more whimsical items on display at this year’s CES is this Baldwin High Roller luxury piano. The Baldwin High Roller piano from the house of Baldwin Piano Company is an ultimate music instrument that promises uncompromised quality and audio clarity. The High Roller high polished model M is a casino themed piano tailored by the creative mind of artist Ray Bishop.

With reflective keys and a poker-oriented theme, this one-of-a-kind baby grand piano was hand-painted. The keys of hand-painted piano are made from real ebony wooden sharps with radiused top and stain-resistant materials reinforced with maple to provide exceptional durability and note-to-note consistency. Price: $55,000.
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The Milwaukee Art Museum, USA is currently exhibiting a show called Act/React. The show is composed of interactive artworks by Daniel Rozin, Janet Cardiff, Brian Knepp, Liz Phillips, Camille Utterback and Scott Snibbe. All the works of unique art on show are unhindered by traditional interface objects such as the mouse and keyboard. Most of them instead employ computer vision technologies, more commonly known as interactive video.

Here, the combined use of digital video cameras and custom computer software allows each artwork to “see,” and respond to, bodies, colors and/or motion in the space of the museum. The few works not using cameras in this fashion employ similar technologies towards the same end. The art in Act React is entirely interactive adds to the experience of being enveloped within the work, as one sees and creates ones’ own reflection, ones’ movement and ones’ relationship with others throughout the exhibition.
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Gibson Guitar has announced the limited availability of the Gibson Dark Fire guitar. Embracing the spirit of innovation and technical advancement that inspired the original Gibson Digital guitar in 2006 and Robot guitar in 2007, Gibson’s Dark Fire guitar is poised to change the music industry overnight. The Dark Fire is easily one of Gibson’s most ambitious guitars ever made. Giving you an insane amount of user versatility in tone thanks to environment matching Chameleon Tone Technology and second generation Robot Guitar tech, the Dark Fire comes equipped with two pickups: a Burstbucker 3 and P90h.

Both are capped with new carbon fiber-like pickup covers, designed to match the Dark Fire’s finish. There are 6 low noise relay switches giving you more than 20 separate combination of pickup coils leading to an incredible variety of tonal possibilities. The world’s 1st run limited edition Gibson Dark Fire guitar has gone on sale on December 15, 2008 at 400 dealers throughout the world. Each store will be limited to carrying only 5 of the sought after guitars. Once the guitars are sold out they will not be reproduced. Price: $3,500.
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A famous artist Herb Williams presents 2 products of unique art – bull & dog sculptures. Most of us have outgrown our Crayolas by the time we hit puberty. Happily, Herb Williams never did. A sculptor who ingeniously uses crayons as his medium, Williams creates works that are not only strikingly beautiful but playfully allude to serious cultural symbols as well. Bull sculpture by Herb Williams is signed by the artist on verso, dated and titled with edition numbers. It’s cleat-mounted for flush wall hanging and made of multiple shades of crayons. Size: 26″ x 28″ x 22″. Price: $14,000.

Herb Williams’ dog sculpture has also that unmistakably happy smell, of course, and a palette that can’t help but pop. Signed by the artist on verso, dated and titled with edition numbers. Cleat-mounted for flush wall hanging. The dog’s made of cut yellow and blue crayons, wood and two-part epoxy resin. Size: 42″ x 19″ x 28″. Price: $18,000.
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In 1969, the first American issue of Penthouse sold out in a matter of days. England’s controversial magazine of beautiful girls, intelligent journalism, and intimate revelations had arrived. Now, on the fortieth anniversary of that first sold-out issue, Assouline presents a limited collector’s edition of the most iconic photographs in the magazine’s past four decades—an exalting compilation of Penthouse imagery in a work of provocative design.

This ultimate volume, presented on cotton paper, is an enticing celebration of the notorious magazine, elevating the iconic medium of American sexuality to a work of art.
Luxury book publisher helped craft a beautifully designed volume that looks more at home on a Le Corbusier coffee table than under a 13 year old’s bed. Price: $500.
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Matthew Rolston, celebrity and beauty photographer, has become a legendary photographer amassing an incredible breadth of work that covers 20 years of some of the most famous and recognizable photographs and magazine covers of all time. Rolston combines elements of style, staging, light and color to create indelible impressions of some of the world’s most scintillating and talented people, such as Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Drew Barrymore and Salma Hayek. Rolston’s photographs build a stage for his characters, imbuing them with the iconic power of vintage Hollywood at its peak.

His new book of unique art, beautyLIGHT collects all those shots in a proper coffee table tome. Available in a standard version and collector’s edition which includes a signed print. Price: $75-$2,500. Matthew Rolston’s distinctive work has been featured in such leading publications as Interview, Harper’s Bazaar and Rolling Stone, among many others.
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Since it evolved from the lute, the acoustic guitar has relied on the same, basic resources – wood and steel or a nylon-style thread. Blackbird Guitars has revised this tradition by building their guitars out of a carbon-fiber that is more stiff than wood but equally as resonant.

The Rider Nylon Blackbird from Blackbird Guitars is smaller than a full-size classical guitar, with exceptional projection, tone and sustain. The nearly indestructible carbon fiber unibody is ultra-light and all hollow, including the neck and head with a sound port at the head stock to maximize resonance. Price: starts at $1899.
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Looking for the perfect final touch for your home bar or simply love antiques and English history? I came across truly unique art pub signs from J. Peterman. Each authentic and hand-painted and many still in their original wood or metal frames, the collection includes subject matter going back to the time of Queen Victoria.

Some signs represent subject matter commonly used by pubs over the years while others are more unique, like the Wilton Arms sign shown here that honors the coat of arms belonging to the local lord. Price: $495-$1895.
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