Cheese and Crack – Crackers, Cheese & Charcuterie from a Food Cart in Portland, OR
Lunchables and mom’s sack lunches kept us happily fed when we were able, young and growing bodies. We’ve since moved on to cheese plates while we’re out on the town and now plenty of restaurants offer custom cheese and charcuterie plates. It’s fun to do at home and now Cheese and Crack, the brain child...continue reading
Stuck Up Piece of Crap – STICKER Book, T-Shirt and StuckUp Stickers iPhone App
STICKERS: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art from Rizzoli New York has been available for quite some time now. If you’re not hip to the book, it features over 4,000 stickers ranging from the worlds of skateboarding, street art, DIY culture, music, and branding. The voluminous treasure trove pof inspiration also includes introductory essays by Shepard...continue reading
Moon Juice Shop – Hydraulically Pressed Juice in Venice Beach, CA
I have to admit, I was skeptical at first. The idea of spending $9. or better yet $12. on a juice that’s hydraulically pressed between 2 steel plates, a process that doesn’t heat or oxidize the produce, was a bit hard to swallow. It took...continue reading
Bones Brigade: An Autobiography – Documentary Trailer
Stacey Peralta brings us an autobiography of the Bones Brigade team. The film is about the birth of modern skateboarding and it showcases the personalities that helped define and shape the sport as we know it today. Regardless of whether you preferred Christian Hosoi’s style or Tony Hawk’s bag of tricks during their head-to-head heyday...continue reading
Fashion Stars: John Varvatos Slings Classic Rock Icon Photographs
Even if John Varvatos himself has been busy with his duties as celebrity mentor on NBC’s new reality competition series, Fashion Star, his men’s fashion line hasn’t missed a beat. The John Varvatos Collection is always consistent, the purchase of a few key pieces can provide simply undeniable classic styling for any fashionable male. Today...continue reading
Intersection from Designer Tamer Nakışçı aka Studio/Nakışçı
Intersection was a site specific installation, constructed under the Galata Bridge, that combined simple lighting techniques with the complexity of water. It was constructed by using 1.6 km of elastic rope. The piece was created for Istanbul Design Week 2011. Intersection’s designer, Tamer Nakışçı, says that the installation was an exploration of the connections between different times, techniques, dimensions and...continue reading
Atlas Obscura: Obscura Day – Urban Foraging in Central Park
Atlas Obscura presents Obscura Day, an international celebration of unusual places, full of expeditions, back room tours & explorations of the hidden wonders in your own hometown. April 28th, 2012 – EVERYWHERE. If you’re in New York you can join “Wildman” Steve Brill for an Urban Foraging...continue reading
Stillhouse Distillery – The Original Moonshine Clear Corn Whiskey
The Stillhouse Distillery is located in Culpeper, Virginia. It’s here at the famed Civil War hotspot that Chuck Miller began farming with his wife Jeanette in 1975. Five years later, Chuck decided to start making legal moonshine but in the same fashion that his grandfather did decades before. After...continue reading
The Avant/Garde Diaries: Transmission LA: AV Club at the MOCA
While neither this post nor this website are sponsored or underwritten by Mercedes-Benz or its affiliates the second issue of The Avant / Garde Diaries Transmission Series that recently arrived in LA is. That shouldn’t stop anyone from doing everything they can to visit this FREE festival that’s hosted by the MOCA, open daily from April 20th...continue reading
Superfly Presents – The Great GoogaMooga at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park
Get ready for The Great GoogaMooga. We’re admittedly late to this one, very late, but that won’t stop us from attending the self proclaimed amusement park of food & drink. New York, prepare yourself for approximately 75 food vendors, 35 brewers, 30 winemakers and 20 live music performances...continue reading
NOWNESS – Daphne Guinness: Undressed by Director Brennan Stasiewicz
Director Brennan Stasiewicz was lucky enough to spend some quality time with Guinness family heir Daphne Guinness. The result is a short that follows the eccentric fashion socialite as she gracefully moves from patron of the arts to performance artist. via NOWNESS, which launched in 2010, as the editorially independent website of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the...continue reading
Mast Brothers Chocolate
Rick and Michael Mast, better known as The Mast Brothers, started producing handcrafted chocolate in their Brooklyn, NY apartment nearly six years ago. Fast forward to their current factory space in Williamsburg that includes a tasting room, a test kitchen, tours and the newest addition, a pastry chef from Finland. Well done gentleman. To say...continue reading
