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Odin New York Menswear Shops

Written by Andrew Payne on March 31, 2010
Fashion, Menswear, NYC

Odin in the West Village It’s always worth noting when you come across a shop that is run by a staff as nice as the clothes they sell. A lot of times it seems that the attitude grows exponentially with a shop’s price tags. Not the case at the Odin shops in NYC. Both the [...]

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Le Labo | Perfume & Candles, Quality & Packaging

Written by Andrew Payne on March 29, 2010
Housewares, NYC, Packaging, USA

Le Labo Fragrances on New York’s Elizabeth St. combines beautiful packaging and presentation with top quality products.  Make sure to walk down Elizabeth slowly though, as the outside of the shop is so understated that you may stroll right on by.

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Muck Boots

Written by Andrew Payne on March 27, 2010
Fashion, Menswear

The Chore With the weather being as it has been over the last couple months, you need to have dependable footwear. Just yesterday, I spent 6 hours kicking a shovel into the mud and brush slopping through the continued spill-off of the recent rainstorms.  My 7 year old Muck Boots were with me the whole [...]

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My Top 5 Creative Productivity iPhone Apps

Written by Andrew Payne on March 25, 2010
Computers, Design, iPhone, Software

Dropbox By far, one of my absolute favorite applications I’ve come across in years. It is made for both Mac and PC Desktops, as well as iPhone. Dropbox is as the name implies, a central “drop box”, where you can store and exchange files between home and office computers, between colleagues, even as a web-based [...]

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Quarter Productions | Stebs Schinnerer

Written by Andrew Payne on March 23, 2010
Film, Photography, USA

It’s fantastic to see a group of very talented artists getting their due respect and proper exposure. I’m fortunate to have been introduced to the group The Fringe Movement via Michael Dacey (Repeat Press). The Fringe Movement is a cooperative of sorts in Somerville MA, consisting of about a dozen artists/businesses, each working in various [...]

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Silhouettes

Written by Andrew Payne on March 21, 2010
Computers, Design, Film, Graphics

Alfred Hitchcock and Carey Grant The beauty of silhouettes is how your mind fills in the missing elements. The tricky thing about creating effective silhouettes is deciding what to take away and what essential details to leave behind. Or in the case of the above photo of Alfred Hitchcock and Carey Grant, the subject matter [...]

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Kim Beck | Weeds on the High Line

Written by Andrew Payne on March 19, 2010
Art, Design, NYC, Printing, USA

When I first picked up Kim Beck’s A Field Guide To Weeds in the bookstore, only opening to the first couple pages, I thought I had a clever new sketchbook in hand. Going in a little further I started to see that what I had was more of a finely-tuned mini coffee table book or [...]

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Spring is Coming | Most Epic

Written by Andrew Payne on March 18, 2010
Film

Dust off those Vans and unfold the shorts because Spring is coming! (I hope the sun hasn’t made me overly optimistic today.) Most Epic from Quarter Productions on Vimeo.

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Iron Works | New York City Foundries

Written by Andrew Payne on March 17, 2010
Architecture, NYC, USA, Vintage

As you can note from the small stamp in the lower right, the above ironwork is imported from a foundry in India- not the case for most of the last century.  Most of us think of Pittsburgh as being the only home of US steel, but New York City was actually the base for many [...]

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Michael Dacey | Repeat Press Letterpress Studio

Written by Andrew Payne on March 15, 2010
Art, Design, Film, Printing, USA, Vintage

I love the internet’s ability to create connections. Stopping by my friend’s blog A Continuous Lean a couple months ago, I was treated to a video (by Quarter Productions) of a letterpress printshop making some coasters for Highsnobiety.  The video was so well done that I wanted to find out more about the people behind [...]

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