John Glenn coincidentally (but awesomely) threw out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium yesterday as part of a previously scheduled ceremony to honor Glenn’s service as both an orbiting astronaut and United States senator. Before heading out to the mound, Glenn, 91, was asked an extraordinary question: “Were you jealous of Neil Armstrong?”
The senator’s response made us proud to be Americans (and baseball fans)…»
via Fashion CopiousShoot for the Stars: Thanks to new advancements in cosmic cartography, you can watch the entire universe unfold in under two minutes. (It’s becoming our new screensaver.) [The Atlantic]
Cool Cat:The story of one man’s journey to stay sweat-free while still dressing in a socially acceptable manner—and the gadgets he’s found along the way. [NY Times]
Golds Are Great, But…: An impassioned cry to bring back America’s former glory as number one in everything, especially Guinness Book records. [McSweeney’s]
Bugatti Boy: Designer Duncan Quinn tells the tale of his high-speed weekend behind the wheel of a Bugatti Veyron in the supercar fever dream known as the goldRush Rally. [Driven]
Sunday’s annular eclipse through binoculars in Sacramento, CA.
(Turn around), every now and then the moon passes in front of the sun, leaving only a golden ring around its edges. Such was the case across China, Japan and the West Coast of the United States on Sunday, where the annular eclipse was most visible. Elsewhere, as expected, the eclipse was incredibly anticlimactic and simply led to some late-afternoon impromptu sneezing.
For those who stared at it too long, here’s what you may have missed over weekend…»
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If you’ve got $500,000, your next vacation could be on Mars.
That’s what PayPal cofounder and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says, at least. You’ll have to wait until 2014 and it’ll be slightly more dangerous than Jamaica, but otherwise, the stars are your new destination.
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Two Men and the City: Street Etiquette takes a high-contrast tour of Fashion Week, including some handsome duck hunter camo. [Street Etiquette]
The Never-Ending Flea: Marisa of Sig Other sets up a place to buy her favorite things, including city boots from Brooklyn Bootworks and a few Graham Withers ties. [The Sig Other]
Tweed and Flannel: A solid street shot from Guerreisms. We’re not sure about the hat, but the dad jeans are impeccable. [Details]
The Great Moon Rock Heist: Believe it or not, there’s a black market in moon rocks. This piece looks at the NASA special agent assigned to keeping it in check. [Gizmodo]
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Astronaut John Glenn aboard the USS Noa after having been recovered from a splash landing in the Atlantic Ocean.
Fifty years ago this week, when John Glenn completed the first of three orbits around the earth, he reported the presence of a bright light on an otherwise pitch-black, sunless horizon. Fearing that Glenn was hallucinating, the medical staff was called in to initiate a health assessment test. As it turned out, though, residents of Perth, Australia, had turned on every light in the city as a message of goodwill to the astronaut orbiting above. From then on, Perth would be known as “the city of lights.”
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NASA leaked their full catalog of Gemini photos earlier today, and we thought we’d pass along this one of test pilot Thomas Stafford on Gemini IX, gazing out into the wild blue yonder. Legendary stuff.
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We begin this week’s Reentry with news that a German satellite reentered Earth’s atmosphere over the weekend and slammed itself into one or more portions of Southeast Asia, though no one is sure exactly where. In a (only-slightly) reassuring statement from Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, “If [the flaming mini-van-sized two-ton comet] had come down over a populated area, there probably would be reports by now.”
Here’s what else you (may or may not have) missed over the weekend…»
Aside from reminding us how well “Cape Canaveral” rolls off the tongue, yesterday’s shuttle launch of the Endeavor also reminded us of one particularly handsome watch: the Breitling Cosmonaute.
Otherwise known as the first watch in space.
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via Model.netThe Retrofitted Pant: Adding cargo pockets to your shorts is the new sartorial power move. [Midwest Style]
The Eye in the Sky: A crop of Chicago photos from Stanley Kubrick, before he was Stanley Kubrick. [Flavorwire]
Red Laundry: How to sew up a communist spacesuit, in case you needed a weekend project. [Gizmodo]
Rabbit, Run: Life lessons from the 1968 Playboy Club bunny manual. Note the dance steps, in particular. [The Hairpin]
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via LIFESafety First: Using a safety pin on your precious knit tie: an underrated sartorial power move. [A Suitable Wardrobe]
Rocket Man: Celebrating Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space. If you can get around the whole Cold War thing, there’s a lot to like. [T Magazine]
Bikes of Glory: A rundown of famous men and their motorcycles. Buddy Holly’s looking pretty good. [Art of Manliness]
Dropping Fools: Antenna’s ten favorite knockouts. It’s not a good day to be George Foreman. [Antenna]
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via LIkeCoolGet Your Ass to Mars: Giz scores live video of the first private orbital space launch. Welcome to the future. [Gizmodo]
Golden Years: Gilded Age will be hosting one of the better sample sales of the year (fingers crossed), if you happen to be in New York this weekend. [The Choosy Beggar]
The Other Corduroy Club: The best corduroy tie we’ve seen so far, courtesy of Hentsch. [FREE/MAN]
Harry Potter & the Morbid Aussie Troubadour: A strange story details how Nick Cave ended up in a Harry Potter movie. Mixtape fodder at its finest. [Pop & Hiss]
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via WBEFrame by Frame: Impossible Cool’s Sean Sullivan nails down the brilliance of Antonioni’s L’Avventura in six frames. And one of them’s the title card. [Complex]
Take a Hike: For their 50th birthday, Fjallraven takes a 50-mile hike through the Swedish Laplands. Can’t they just buy a convertible like everyone else? [GQ]
The Crafty Swedes: Speaking of which, Sweden is outpacing us in per GDP pop hits. We must not allow a club jam gap! [Foreign Policy]
To the Moon, Alice: Are the next generation of tech entrepreneurs headed into space? [TechCrunch]
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Beach House: Neither can we, to be honest. [Fashion Lane]
Get Your Ass to Mars: Space tourism’s looking realer and realer every day. [Jaunted]
The World Cup commissions 17 soccer-themed works, presumably as a marketing play for the gallery crowd. [The Moment]
Men With Hats: Matt Damon and Emily Blunt escape from fedoras in the Adjustment Bureau trailer. [/Film]
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Subscription Card: Claudia Schiffer appears in Tank Magazine, at least doubling their subscription list. [Fashion Copious]
Be Kind: Bootleg pot farms are on the rise. As always, WSJ makes the case for entrepreneurship… [Wall Street Journal]
Mirrors in Space: It’s happening. [TG Daily]
Sniveling 101: Mad Men’s Pete Campbell is significantly more pleasant, less scheming off camera. [Vanity Fair]
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If your spaceman obsession is still going strong, we suggest this timely item from friend-of-Kempt David Hart.
The bottom have is taken up by the Apollo lander, but there’s an ejected spaceman towards the top if you’re inclined to look, and both illustrations manage to be whimsical without crossing the line into kitsch. We’re guessing they’re a big hit at NASA.
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Spaced: For the Apollo anniversary, WWD posts a few space-age outfits. The pickup lines write themselves… [WWD]
Vroom: Tesla Motors’ first east coast showroom lands in Manhattan. [NYTimes]
It’s a Trap!: Entourage has been getting pretty dark lately… [The Awl]
The Final Countdown: Rick Reilly counts down the top 10 sporting events to see live. No Euro Cup? [ESPN]
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In honor of the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the National Air and Space Museum has taken its spacesuit collection out of storage, with everything from one-off prototypes to the genuine artifacts with moon dust still on them (via IO9). These particular models look a little baggy for our tastes…but hey, it was the 60s.
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Style: some people have it, and some neighborhoods really have it. To show you what we mean, we’ve partnered with Cadillac to present Style Shifters—a five-part, in-depth look at what the hippest gents in some of the country’s coolest neighborhoods are wearing now. Our intrepid photographers have roamed the streets in search of the most stylish guys around. Herewith, a few photos of what they found...
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is home to some of the country’s best bars and coolest restaurants—and, of course, some of the best menswear shops in the world. Naturally, you’ll find more than a few stylish individuals perched outside those locations (and no, not all of them are Billyburg hipsters). See what we mean below...
Style. The Mission’s got it. Union Square’s got it. But each of them goes about having it in a different way—the Mission rocking a more bohemian coffee shop vibe, Union Square hosting some of the best higher-fashion shops (and shoppers) on the West Coast. We rounded up a few of the most stylish folks from both. Have yourself a gander below…
Forget everything you know about Miami style—today’s Miamian is more LeBron and Wade than Crockett and Tubbs. So we started in the slicked-up South Beach and made our way to the hip, artsy enclave of Wynwood to get a good look at what Miami style is all about. See it all below...
Stylish Angelenos, past and present: Cary Grant. George Clooney. Arnaud Delene. About that last one: he’s among the well-dressed vanguard you can spot today on one of LA’s more trafficked street corners. We camped out along Abbott Kinney Boulevard in Venice in search of such figures—have a look at the results below. (Yes, including Arnaud.)
Dallas: home of Jerry Jones, Bobby Ewing and... a bunch of guys who don’t dress like Jerry Jones or Bobby Ewing. Behold the new Dallas in our next edition of Style Shifters.
This stainless-steel number is the sportiest of the bunch—it’ll put a run-of-the-mill diver to shame on the high seas, but it’s still polished enough to wear into the boardroom.
This watch has the best of both worlds: the strength of stainless steel and the luxurious touch of rose gold—which solves any questions you might have had about matching your watch to your cufflinks.
Switching out a stainless-steel band for the handsome warmth of leather can give a watch a whole new life. Luckily, that doesn’t mean sacrificing any of the top-notch mechanics for the added dressiness.
If you weren’t sure which way you were leaning between stainless steel, rose gold and leather, your decision has just been made easier: all three. Opting for the brown leather band in this situation only serves to improve the watch’s warm and luxurious feel.
This is the statement piece: a rose gold case and band with all of the trappings of a meticulously crafted chronograph. There’s something here for bons vivants, race car drivers and titans of industry alike. The two registers circled in gold to match the case add a particularly dapper grace note to the white dial.
Switching out a metal band for the handsome warmth of leather can give a watch a whole new life. And when it comes to this Cartier, that new life involves a calendar full of cocktail attire and using “weekend” as a verb.
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