Kim Kardashian Worries She'll "Go Crazy" Living With Kris Jenner

With her own home undergoing a massive renovation, Kim Kardashian had a few reservations about moving in with mom Kris Jenner while pregnant with daughter North West. In the July 14 episode of E!'s Keeping Up With the Kardashians, the 32-year-old reality star balks at the idea of bunking with her family -- and big sister Kourtney Kardashian backs her up.

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After Kim reveals she's looking at rental properties, her talk show host mom offers another option. "You don't want to be all the way on the other side and you need one of us," Jenner, 57, warns her pregnant daughter. "You're going to be isolated in Beverly Hills with a baby."

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"Live with me in this gorgeous house," Jenner continues. "That would be the perfect scenario."

Kim Kardashian worries she'll "go crazy" living with Kris Jenner -- and says she hates her mom's black toilet paper.
Kim -- who welcomed her firstborn with Kanye West five weeks early on June 15 -- says she hates her mother's "black and white" decor. "I can't take a shower in a black shower," she complains. "The toilet paper's black. I like to see what I'm sh-tting and what I'm wiping."

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Kourtney, 34, then chimes in, warning her sister, "The toilet paper also leaves little black dots in your vag." Jenner offers to buy white toilet paper, but her daughter is still on the fence. "I just know I'm going to get crazy and I'll go crazy living her," she says. "I don't know what to do."

Keeping Up With the Kardashians airs Sunday, July 14, at 9 p.m. EST on E!

These Crazy Guns Shoot Pewter, Plastic, and Paper Mache

A file cabinet, after an encounter with the paper mache flamethrower.

 

You can take pretty much any kid to an arcade, drop a few quarters into whatever Resident Evil knockoff you find there, put the fluorescent blue Uzi in their tiny little hands, and they’ll know what to do. It’s a sad truth, but it’s the truth nonetheless. Give that kid one of James Shaw’s homemade weapons, though, and instead of dead zombies and night terrors, you might wind up with an end table.

 

Shaw hacked together the trio of decidedly non-lethal firearms for his final project at the Royal College of Art, in London. One specializes in plastic, blasting out clumped spaghetti strands like the Play-Doh factory toys of yore. The resulting multicolor towers look a little bit like a mountain of soft serve trying to transform into a monster from a Guillermo Del Toro movie. Feed it a glass tabletop, and it’s ready for the living room. Shaw’s paper mache rifle is a two-handed affair, giving any object in its path a thick, bumpy coat of pulp. Rounding out the collection is a pewter-drizzling, submachine gun-style contraption, perfect if you’ve ever wanted to play as a “drip castle” in Monopoly.

The plastic-shooting rifle, in all its glory.

 

 

The unusual tools were born out of the designer’s interest in new means of making, specifically ones involving additive techniques, like those used in 3D printing, as opposed to traditional subtractive methods. Imagine Michelangelo in 1504, putting the final touches on his masterpiece David after having spent two years chiseling it down from a solid 10-ton block of marble. The process Shaw’s exploring here is pretty much the opposite. But the form the tools take isn’t as strange as it might seem. We have nail guns, spray guns, and handheld drills, Shaw points out, something he attributes to “our desire to dominate and master materials and our environment.”

The resulting multicolor towers look a little bit like a mountain of soft serve.

Shaw’s guns, however, go against that idea of mastery. The designer envisions a more “organic” future for the built environment, one that will require new types of tools. “Objects are always informed by what made them,” he says. “From wooden tables to laptop cases, the form of objects is totally dictated by the machines and processes that created them.”

 

And while multicolor fro-yo furniture may never take off, there is reason to be excited about technologies that give us new ways to create with real, physical stuff. For proof, look no further than the 3Doodler, the handheld 3D-printing pen that recently showed up on Kickstarter. What will it be useful for? Who knows, but it was compelling enough to raise about a billion dollars in crowdsourced funding.

 

That element of unknown potential, Shaw says, is much of the fun of projects like his homemade guns. “The exciting thing about making new types of tools is that they will necessarily allow new forms and types of objects.”