The preview track from the highly blogged about new side project from Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij and Wes Miles of Ra Ra Riot excites me enough to finish my eco-spring cleaning and make room for a lot of madras. All this while my mind conjures up images of East coast trust fund kids and Consulate offspring cutting loose with Kanye and Jay-Z on a yacht in Montenegro, as the entitled youth bathe in cristal. g-d this is special.
I remember watching this movie on Saturdays when I was like 5 years old and thinking I was the luckiest boy in the world. However, let me preface any further commentary by saying: THIS MOVIE IS NOT GOOD. Rather, I feel it's important to be aware of it's existence if only as a indicator of how different the theatrical landscape is today. Yes, if you read that statement right, this thing was released in theaters! 1,000 screens. It actually made some noise at the box office. sh*ts crazy. Compound that with the fact that it was produced by Berry Gordy just to be able to synch his latest tracks to a some film product. Still, we stand awe and amazement that something like this once had a chance to light up the silver screen. Also, I just double checked Wikipedia's claim of a remake in the works with Samuel L. as "Sho-nuff the Shogun of Harlem." Apparently it's real. Guess that line about change in the theatrical landscape wasn't very well founded (hands in my pockets, kicking dirt as i walk slowly into obscurity)
This trailer is insane. Watch it with someone you love while taking the poisoned growth. Have a nice weekend.
The downtown boutique is open by appt. only. This outpost carries finely crafted goods and wears. They'll probably pour you a glass of bourbon and inquire about your life's trade. They may just hand you the bottle.
Secret Service. LA 1855 Industrial St. No. 107 Los Angeles 90021 213.402.1531
Generic surplus and Arkitip design magazine got together to create some limited footwear to commemorate the inaugural summmer season of the new Ace Hotel in Palm Springs. To combat the dry desert heat the collabo sneaker uses a specially designed mesh material that is also quick drying and non-slip to aid the feet Garçons working pool-side. The shoe and tote bag (made of the same meshyness) are part of an on-going collaboration between Generic Surplus and Arkitip. A co-design with some practicality and purpose built into it is a welcome sight.
Royal Dutch Gazelle began handcrafting bicycles back in 1892. Known in Holland as the "Mercedes Benz of bicycles," you might know them better as the bicycles that make Amsterdam look like the beautiful city that it is. I actually practiced a form of meditation where one imagines him or herself riding one of these through Vondelpark, staring at colorful Dutch citizens on a bright, sunny day. No longer, as a recent law was passed outlawing this form of meditation from being sold in Smart Shops by self-proclaimed "gatekeepers." For shame. You can still own the bike though.
All great westerns have a common denominator. Stellar headwear. Val Kilmer in Tombstone? Sick hat. Sam Elliott, Conagher? Sick hat. Actually, now that I think about it, Sam wears the exact same hat in every movie he does (see Tombstone, Conagher, Golden Compass?)
Mr. Tom Hirt, hat maker to the stars, is the man behind all those wonderfully hand-crafted brims we see on screen. However, Tom considers himself part of a dying breed with an estimated 50 hatmakers left in the U.S. that he holds as masters of the trade. Which is why, according to his site, he plans to start teaching a hat making course sometime this year to pass along this undervalued craft to generations who never knew they needed to learn it. It's also why we've posted about Tom here.
Oh, I forgot to mention. If you're looking to reach Tom, whether for a nice beaver felt Dakota or just to catch up on his hustle, Tom says, and I really quote "I don't check my email very often. And I'm probably out riding, roping, or dancing with the ladies, so if you want to reach me, why don't you just give me a call."
Over 4000 protesters took to the streets of London's financial district yesterday to express their anti-capitalist sentiments in honor of the G-20 global economic summit hosted by the city this week. The protest began peacefully but turned hostile as a few hundred protesters clashed with approx 50 riot police, who went about laying hat to the crowd with their signature truncheons. As I read further I started to ask myself, "isn't this a perfect time for the coppers to unveil their newest crime deterrent?" The cardboard bobby.
I can't help but think that any member of the brash citizenry who engaged in the bloody melee might have taken that extra moment to stop and appreciate the cost efficient measures undertaken by the British police forces if they had had a run in with one of these life-size bad boys instead of the real deal holyfield. Instead they got their asses handed to them and earned a free ride in the riot van. In any extent, I applaud the police brass for taking such a forward thinking step in law enforcement although it remains to be seen how far 28,000 dollars in die-cut cardboard officers will go in the line of duty.
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