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10/19/11
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The Past

Dusting Off: Alpinism

As connoisseurs of history, we sometimes find styles, habits and turns of phrase from the past that we wouldn’t mind bringing back to the present, Doc Brown-style. This time around, we’re dusting off alpinism.

It’s hard to know the meaning of our lives.

We muddle through, doing the best we can, but we’re mostly making it up as we go, ignorant of any larger significance our time on earth might have.

So we’re just going to tell you. The fates have guided you to this blog post, and now we’re going to provide you with the purpose of your existence. We’re not even going to put it after the jump.

Your purpose in life is to ascend the tallest mountains on earth, bringing glory upon your name and country.

It sounded strange to us at first too …»
 

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08/29/11
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What's What

THE REENTRY: Monday, August 29

Hurricane Irene

Like an insecure lover, Irene silently came and went Sunday morning.

We wanted so much more from her, and we weren’t alone.

Maybe she was embarrassed by her appearance, all bent and bedraggled after a long night slamming The Outer Banks of North Carolina (which, according to CNN Meteorologist Chad Myers, “knocked the stuffing out of her eye.”) She seemed reluctant to arrive in Coney Island — and who can blame her, really. She’d been stripped of the only thing New Yorkers cared about: her title. A once promising, hurricane-ic starlet was now just a run-of-the mill ‘tropical gale.’

And Coney Island’s seen plenty of those…»

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08/23/11
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Sound & Vision

Doyle Mueser’s Self-Referential Tailoring

The Trivial Pursuits of Arthur Banks

This snap comes from AMC’s first digital-only offering, The Trivial Pursuits of Arthur Banks, which arrived online yesterday. The show follows Adam Goldberg as a meta-minded theater director who happens to be extremely well-dressed—the latter part coming courtesy of West Village tailor Doyle Mueser. We hadn’t thought of mod suits as a hallmark of existential confusion…but we could be convinced.

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06/23/11
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Labeled

Keeping Thin

David Hart

Plaid booster and critter aficionado David Hart just unleashed a new set of tartan ties via a charming web video. The ties are ultra-thin plaids that call Ed Sullivan to mind. If you’ve got any razor-lapeled suits in your closet (or you just love jazz violin), this one’s for you.

Check out the video after the jump…»

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09/16/10
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Axe Porn

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As you probably know, Best Made Axes are pretty handsome. But as any good customer should know, they have another purpose: chopping firewood.

To educate the consumers on that point, Best Made Co. recruited a cinematographer and a high-speed camera to record a series of five shorts known simply as Chop. Put simply, it’s a series of 1/40th speed shots of axes doing what they were made for. The result is something between an art film and a how-to video—and it does a pretty good job of showing how good a day of wood-splitting can feel. They’ll be rolling out the videos online this fall, but you can check out the trailer here»

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11/02/09
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LinkOut

Daria Werbowy is in the Reeds

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Range Life: She seems underdressed for farming. [Refinery29]

A Gentleman’s Guide to Not Getting Sauce on Your Face: The mechanics of eating a chicken wing, explained. Seriously, take notes. [Lifehacker]

Smash!: If you only watch one forklift catastrophe video today, make it this one. [Gizmodo]

Glow in the Dark: Seeper Interactive takes over Branchage, UK with one of the more impressive light shows we’ve seen.
[wejetset]

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10/30/09
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Art Threat

Ready to Rumble

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Unless you’ve got an unusually thorough sports calendar, you may have missed one of the most important boxing anniversaries on the books. 35 years ago today, Muhammad Ali and George Foreman converged on Zaire for the Rumble in the Jungle—cementing Ali’s legend and unleashing Don King on a more or less unsuspecting public.

In honor of the occasion, New York’s No Mas is taking a break from their usual diet of vintage-styled tees to produce a trio of animated shorts about the Rumble, including a spirited faceoff between Ali and a jumpsuited James Brown. Using live radio transcripts, audio collage and oil paints, it might be as close to the feeling of the real thing as we can get…at least on the internet.

See the videos»

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09/04/09
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Art Threat

Do Not Disturb

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This in-room installation piece just debuted at The White Hotel in Brussels, making for one of the more hallucinatory hotel stays in Europe. There’s a microphone just off-camera, and any sound it picks up gets translated into colored bubbles, which projected onto the wall above the bed. The result is a cascade of Technicolor circles, which bounce over the headboard, the night table and (eventually) the ground. It looks pretty good…but for the sake of our sleep cycle, we hope there’s an off-switch.

See the installation in action»

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03/12/09
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Sound & Vision

Canned Hamm

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It’s been a while since the last Mad Men episode, so we’re looking for we’d almost forgotten how much we like Jon Hamm. Luckily, he reminded us.

This Funny or Die clip showcases Mr. Draper’s comedy chops, taking on the role of a bailout-seeking Lex Luthor. Naturally, it requires him to trade his usual pomade-heavy coiffure for a bald wig, and the suit isn’t up to his usual standard, but we’re ready to be pitched just about anything at this point.

And as bailout seekers go, we still like him more than John Thain.

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03/10/09
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Ad Rock

Stay Focused

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We saw Killspencer on UrbanDaddy a few days ago, but sometimes it takes a bit of video to get our attention.

The west-coast marque makes bags out of discontinued military tarps—not a bad gimmick, but a little advertising never hurt anyone. So we were even more impressed when we ran across this video, we were understandably intrigued.

We could have done with a little less racking focus…but nobody’s perfect. The music (made from the rhythmic clicks and whirrs of a sewing machines) and the shots of the merchandise (always in quick shots or very close up) add up to a surprisingly effective spot that shows very little of the actual merchandise.

Of course, if people want to see what’s for sale, they can always look at the website. Like most spots, all this one really needs to get across is excitement.

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