As a direct descendant of Swiss craftsmen, trust me when I say we absolutely love making things with our hands, to the point that it’s essentially a part of our well being. Following this tradition is Zai Skis, hand making their skis through an elaborate process, reaching the highest level of quality and precision. These bad boys look like a work of art, and shred snow with the same precision as which they are made. [CoolHunting]
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27_January_2012 | Random |
Founded in the late 1800′s by baseball player Albert Goodwill Spalding, A.G. Spalding & Bros. has been historical known as a quality sporting goods company. Over time, they expanded their products to include accessories, leather goods and my favorite, the watches. I really like the bold numbers and vibrant colors of these timepieces, embracing the american heritage style the company was originally founded on. 25_January_2012 | Fashion |
Looking to spruce up my apartment with some more vintage americana decor, I stumbled upon the Metal Filament Pendant at Restoration Hardware and became inspired to seek out alternative brands that might carry a similar style of light. To my delight I found this series of Industrial Pendant Lights at Rejuvenation that offers multiple colors, sizes and shapes of this classic style suiting any need. Their goal was to create reproductions of vintage reflector pendant lamps, and the results are a very handsome piece of lighting. 24_January_2012 | Design |
23_January_2012 | Design |
Even in the dead of winter you can always count on us Californians to be able to conjure up the essence of the beach and summer, mainly because it’s such an important part of our culture, but also that we can still go to the beach when it’s 75 degrees in January. Los Angeles natives and disco masterminds Classixx have released this week a new track called “A Fax From The Beach.” A smooth Caribbean beat with soothing synths, very relaxing like listening to waves hitting the shore. The photograph above is one I shot in the Pacific Palisades a few weeks ago which could easily be a sunset from mid summer or mid winter. Very serendipitous to capture a seagull in the frame at that exact moment. 20_January_2012 | Music |
It is kind of hard to explain exactly what the Seaquence Music Generator is without opening the site a playing with it yourself. In a sense it’s a program that creates a variety of musical organisms that live in a petri-dish like composition that is all completely customizable by the user. Each organism can be adjusted to produce sound at a high or low frequency, and then further manipulated to play a grid of notes at various BPM (beats per minute.) Go check out Seaquence and start making your own masterpiece today. 19_January_2012 | Music |
Famous for using Ford engines and drivetrains in their Italian designed automobile, DeTomaso made waves in the 1960′s and 1970′s with it’s very exclusive and sexy sports cars. Recently, a concept design has been developed to revive the legendary Mangusta model. The very aggressive front end and sharp muscular lines make this design a brute force to be reckoned with. So many concept designs I am seeing lately are so curvy and organic looking, when the greatest sports cars in history have a more simple and angular design such as this. [Driven] 17_January_2012 | Motorsports |
Dusty Signs from Hunter Johnson on Vimeo. The art of lettering and sign painting is one I have always been enamored with. It has a level nostalgia and character that can get lost in today’s technology driven fast paced world. Dusty’s Signs takes the time and effort to hand paint each of their pieces giving a lot of detail and personality to their craft. Whenever I’m cruising around Los Angeles, I always get excited to see hand painted wall murals, window paintings and signs such as these. [Neusblog] 13_January_2012 | Design |
12_January_2012 | Fashion |
In the past two decades, there has been a beer renaissance in the USA. All over the country, craft breweries have started from the ground up to provide their various regions better and fresher beer than the likes of national breweries like Coors, Miller and Budweiser. On the west coast, we grow from our own soil arguably the best beer making ingredients in the world (hops and barley), allowing for a plethora of world class craft breweries to thrive and continue to pop up. In California, North County San Diego and the Bay Area have always been the large craft brewery hubs in the state, with Los Angeles suprisingly being a dead spot for beer makers. But not any longer because in the last 5 years there has been sudden flurry of craft breweries popping up in the greater Los Angeles area such as The Bruery, Craftsmen, Ladyface and Eagle Rock Brewery, with the latest addition to the club being Golden Road Brewing located right in Los Angeles proper just north of Downtown. Now, when you have a craving some fresh local beer you can stop in to get growler filled, buy some of their new 16 oz cans at local bottle shops or stay around at their gastropub on site. People always ask me “what is the best beer?”, and my usual answer is “whatever is local and fresh.” Support your local brewery, and head down to Golden Road today.
The world of pop art has seen some great works over the years, pioneered by Andy Warhol in the mid century, but as of late most new “pop artists” have created works that are just thoughtless derivatives of the originals (i.e. Mr Brainwash). In a very enlightening fashion, Chilean illustrator Fab Ciraolo has taken the theory and process of pop art yet executed his works in his own unique style, placing famous figures of the past like Salvador Dali and Frida in a modern day context. The close attention to detail, and his whimsical style of portraying the characters, give their poses, clothing and attitude an abundance of personality not seen in most pop art. Dali sporting a leopard print vest and Frida rocking a Daft Punk shirt is absolutely brilliant. [CoolHunting] 10_January_2012 | Design |
The January of installment of the monthly Doppelganger Mix spans odd ends of the music spectrum, but comes together nicely as a whole. We start with some funky love songs from italian nu-disco masters Tiger & Woods to an old school jam by Kylmaxx. Next moving to the heavier deep house track Reginald’s groove and closing out with Mark E’s slammin’ disco-house jam R&B Drunkie which takes samples from a Janet Jackson. Whether heavy or mellow, I like to think the progression of tracks in this mix attain a continuous funky groove and open your ears to some very talented artists contributing to the new disco/funk scene. Tiger & Woods – T&W Lab File #01 6_January_2012 | Music |
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