The ongoing Jeweled Objects of Desire exhibition is like a dream come true for any serious collector. It is being held at the Headly-Whitney Museum and will continue through July 31. Works by the likes of San Francisco-based Sidney Mobell are being featured. For those of you who don’t know, Mobell is well known for his Midas touch that even turns mundane things like mouse traps into extraordinary works of art.

So other than the spectacular 14 carat gold and diamond mouse trap, there is a gold garbage can to look out for. In fact there is a whole list of unexpected combinations of drab with the glam like the gold toilet seat, 2 million monopoly set made in rubies, diamonds, sapphires and gold, a gold-plated mailbox and a rather elaborate gold and diamond pacifier.

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One has heard of cakes costing the roof, and fancy diamond wedding cakes touching the moon as far as pricing is concerned. But an entire cupcake made of just diamonds!

Surely, no one earlier thought of pouring diamonds into something as mundane as a cupcake! Mervis Diamond Importers have made this cupcake topped up with eight round cut dazzling diamonds around its circular edge. It has a two carat Asscher cut diamond queening in its centre.

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If you have a house, let’s call it a mansion for more practical purposes, that would compete with the likes of Rihanna and di Caprio, then you need to make sure that just about everything that you allow inside your ‘humble abode’ goes along with the decor of filthy rich.

Cleaning your home is obviously not something you would do on your own when you’re rich enough for that mansion but your hired help should not be caught with even a vacuum cleaner that doesn’t declare your decadent lifestyle. Enter the Electrolux vacuum cleaner that is being touted as the most expensive vacuum cleaner available. Who cares whether this thing functions or not when it is studded with 3730 Swarovski crystals! The cleaner designed by Lukaz Jemiol, a Polish fashion designer, has found a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most expensive vacuum cleaner on the planet.

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Imagine Guinness Book of World Records creating two new categories for the feat, the world’s largest photograph and the world’s largest camera. Yes folks, this has lately happened and the credit for this goes to a three-story-tall image featured from an old California airplane hangar using a special camera.

Measuring more than 44 feet (13 meters/ three stories) tall and 161 feet (49 meters/ 11 stories) long, the hangar-turned-camera is the world’s largest camera, according to the Legacy Project that created this artwork.

The mission of the project was to capture a memorial image of the nearly 5,000-acre (2,023-hectare) Marine Corps Station El Toro, a decommissioned military base. Developers plan to build a 375-acre park, museum district, sports complex and countless homes here, which were decommissioned in 1999 after more than a half-century of use. The photo depicts the control towers, palm trees and a portable toilet.

The massive photograph will be displayed on 6 September at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and will remain there to catching eyeballs till 29 September. Mind you capturing this single image was a humongous task as almost six artists used a minute peephole in the hangar doors to project light from the outside onto a casing of light-sensitive fabric lynching inside the dim facility.

Few details about the canvas used:

A white fabric measuring 31 (0.9 meter) X 111 foot (34-meter) used 20 gallons (75 liters) of light-sensitive emulsion as the photographic negative. I am sure you would be aghast to hear that the bulky fabric imported from Germany, weighed 1,200 pounds (544 kilograms).

After divulging the material for up to 10 days, it was converted into a the size of an Olympic swimming pool, using 600 gallons (2,271 liters) of back-and-white developer solution and 1,200 gallons (4,542 liters) of fixer.