13th St. Revisited
I first eyed this wall on the corner of 13th St. and Gansevoort, NYC before the new year. I checked in again in January and then took photo above just a few days ago. I just love how the artist community has “collaborated” on it during the past few months. Continue reading “13th St. Revisited”
Moo Printing
Every now and then you come across a product-based company that functions like a service business. Moo Inc. knows their customers and loves to take care of them. With creativity, quality, customer service and reasonable prices, MOO Inc. is making some happy customers.
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Best Made Co.
The company name says it all- Best Made. To take something as old fashioned and mundane as an axe and made it so fresh that you want it like you did the first time you saw the iPhone, hey, that’s an achievement. Beautiful, yes, but these babies are also top quality. All Best Made’s axes are made individually to order, of handles made of Tennessee hickory, hand painted and varnished with heads of fine-grain steel, and shipped in a hand-made wooden crates.
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Nightwood Studio
Miner Chair
For Brooklyn-based furniture and interior design studio Nightwood, everything old is wonderfully new again. Co-designers and owners Myriah Scruggs and Nadia Yaron create one-of-a-kind, all natural, hand-built, furniture and textiles. But this work is not just designed and created. Each piece is built from salvaged, dismantled, and reconstructed vintage furniture and found items.
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Independent Fabrications+Bodega+BaileyWorks
You may remember my post (Fabricated Independence) a few weeks ago about the Massachusetts bike company, Independent Fabrications. Well, the people over at Quarter Productions and Highsnobiety/Selectism also found them interesting and made a fantastic video last week showcasing Independent’s collaboration (aka. Paper Labels) with Bodega and BaileyWorks. Check out the video below and also the Bodega Store for some seriously great bikes and accessories. I want!
Independent Fabrications X Bodega X BaileyWorks from Quarter Productions on Vimeo.
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Adobe Photoshop Cook
Have you ever wished you could control the real world with a few clicks of your computer mouse? Get so reliant on “Command-Z” to undo your mistakes that (if only for a moment) you believe you can use it in the everyday world? If so, than this video is for you. Made by a young Italian digital artist named Stefania. Really nicely done. Follow the below link to see more of her work.
Adobe Photoshop Cook from Lait Noir on Vimeo.
c.1930’s-40’s Depression Era Feedsacks
The later half of the 1800’s saw the introduction of farm and food products being shipped in cotton sacks. Usually made from 100% cotton plain weaves, varying in thickness, depending on the contents weight. The ones I’ve collected here are all from farm products, in a standardized 100 lb. capacity size.
I found these at the Rose Bowl flea market in Pasadena, CA. and was drawn to them by their amazing graphics. Really strong and bold, with all that beautiful natural weathering (staining, really). Seeing me ogling the art, the flea market vendor was happy to shed some light on the really interesting story behind these pieces (you may already know this, so I hope I don’t bore you).
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Paul Smith for Evian
The True Brit, and The Real Deal. Inspiring words from Sir Paul Smith- all nicely wrapped inside a beautifully produced video promoting his partnership with Evian water.
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Barneys New York, Coop or Co-op?
Barney’s New York Co-op: Not quite a cooperative, but definitely full of fresh merchandise.
Recently, while uptown near the Barney’s New York Madison Ave. store, a woman asked me for directions to the Barney’s Coop (not co-op, but “coop”). An honest mistake if she had only read it and not heard it pronounced.
The word “co-op”, a noun- short for cooperative, meaning “a jointly owned enterprise engaging in the production or distribution of goods or the supplying of services, operated by its members for their mutual benefit, typically organized by consumers or farmers.” With the definition in mind, you could understand why the woman would not quickly assume that her elite fashion destination would have a “CO-OP”.
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The Old with The New
Barcelona
Please excuse the unintentional travel blog feel of this post.
There are so many beautiful things to see in old cities. A lot of these “things” are of what physically makes up the city itself. Old buildings, walls, and streets all show the city’s historical blueprint. Nowadays, especially in our relatively young US cities, we tend to tear down the old to build the new. In more ancient cities, the methods of change and growth are far more incremental, leaving a beautiful layered history of the past intermingled with the present.
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