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they’d be better-off selling it for what it is… it’s not an action-film for gods sake, it’s a drawn-out drama. the packaging is aaaalllllll wrong!!! by dd
talking about vintage toys
1/32 scale slot car
a comparison of the available tracks, as you see the carrera allows ample room for turns!
ok while on this subject I may add that I just recently purchased the german built carrera slot car kit with 2 additional cars. now the one I need to get is this BMW 2002. by dd
WHAt the hell is SUBBUTEO?
recently issued commemorate sterling silver figures.
original team in box… note: goalie in green and blk. this box is even more vintage than i remember!!
the subutteo beatnicks on any given london corner back in the days.
o.k., I was sure nobody would know about this, but I was amazed to find it had such a following in the US! theres even an american subutteo asociation? they even have a listing of their 2008 national champions!! I must admit I grew up on this vintage game, and I loved it’s simple genius approach. as a 4th grader I had every team imaginable, from arsenal to brazil. I would beg my sisters to bring me new stuff every summer when they returned from boarding school in britain. I got the stadium and the crowds one summer, the stadium lights, various teams and the referees on another, the kicker and eventually the whole thing. while my friends played video game pong I chose to flick to kick! o.k… getting all teary eyed here… now in case you are laughing by now, hear this: “after 60 years since first release subbuteo is the probably world’s biggest selling football game. yes that’s right, not Fifa or Pro Evo nor the classic Sensible Soccer; it’s subbuteo that blows them all away. now fair enough up until now subbuteo has always been a board game of sort’s but it was only a matter of time it made its way onto our screens… read more.” by dd
Malcolm Sayer: the designer of C and D type Jaguar cars
the XJ13 with a V12 engine. this is an exceptionally lovely view of the car. now that is an amazing piece of aerodynamic art designed by malcolm sayer (1916-1970). the original 1960’s prototype of the XJ13 is worth an estimated £14 million (about $27 million or €18 million)
sayer was the designer of jaguar cars and one of the first engineers to apply principles of aerodynamics to car design. his designs included the now famous jaguar C-type (also called XK120-C, due to its being based on the jaguar XK120) Jaguar D-type jaguar e-type jaguar XJS (although the car launched several years after sayer’s death). by dd
God Save Chris Sauvé
chris sauvé is making fashion graphics a part of our lives once again. check him out if you can keep up! … love the bloody heart T seen online, want one, need one! by kl
longing for norwegian summer
photo by julie pike; a norwegian photographer and proud of it! she captures the beautiful nature, the people, the fashion and the sensuality. makes me homesick for the looong summer days, fresh air and swimming in the fjord. by kv
antony and the johnsons
above: antony hegarty below: antony and the johnsons epilepsy is dancing
ok, this man seems nuts on first encounter, but his voice is straight from the heavens. first time I heard him sing was during a documentary on leonard cohen, my reaction went from who’s this nut trying soooo hard, to my god, he’s amazing. check out the “Hercules And Love Affair” (remixes courtesy of PP) with antony on a few of their tracks. quite nice. i saw him at a cafe one day while having lunch and told him how i came to know of him, he was shy and sweet. by dd
THE NEW MUSEUM IS JUST A COOL FACADE… LITERALLY
not all bad, but in general the exhibition ‘the generational: younger than jesus’ at the new museum and events surrounding reinforce how the new york art scene especially has something very wrong with it. even after the art market bubble has burst, it seems artists with little more than a keen trend-watching sense are getting most attention. where is our future utopia of genuine ideas, unique voices and the ‘governance’ willing to listen? … but I guess this is still new york after all, and the louder you are the more people hear you. by kl
very cool book – photography of andré kertész
so simple, so black and white. by kl
Good jeans
levi’s commercial: onion peel video. not only a great spot, but also so spot on for levi’s by kv
clearaudio turntable
“this fellow, made of wood and aluminum, weights in at 770-pound and has a magnetically driven sub platter that eliminates contact with the main platter and a nifty real time speed control.”… and cost 125,000$US! at NYLVI by pp’
Jean Touitou rules of style
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We’re not living in a very creative era. That’s not good or bad; it’s just the way it is. I think it’s in very bad taste to buy art right now. People should leave it to the hedge-fund owners who want to satisfy their wives. “Hey, I bought a Chinese avant-garde thing.” Good for you.2.
I think it’s very important to look sexy at home. I hate it when people say, “I will take this to the countryside because it’s not fashionable anymore.” I love being well-dressed when nobody’s looking at me.
I think it’s very important to look sexy at home. I hate it when people say, “I will take this to the countryside because it’s not fashionable anymore.” I love being well-dressed when nobody’s looking at me.
3.
At hotels, they always mess up the cleaning. They will do a crease when it’s not necessary. You give them a cotton shirt and they dry-clean it. It smells funny, so you have to rinse it again. So I travel light.
4.
If you can tell a man’s sexuality by the way he dresses—like a “gay” uniform or a “macho” uniform—that’s disgusting.
5.
Nowadays, people work out way too much, and they look like invaders from another planet. A guy who works out two hours a day—focusing on his chest because he thinks it’s sexy—you can’t dress him, even if you send him to the best designer or stylist in the world.
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Finance men have money but no taste. They’ll say, “My wife thinks this tie looks good on me.” They don’t focus on what’s beautiful and what’s not beautiful—they leave it to women.
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The rock star who uses a personal stylist to dress him should go to jail. If you’re doing rock and roll, you should know how to dress. You shouldn’t need to hire anybody.
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Anybody can be a good guest for dinner. When it gets delicate is after one day. The worst guests are the people who come to your place and in the morning they say, “Okay, what do we do today?”
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I once wore a pink, ruffled shirt for dinner, and I wish I had never done it. I thought it was funny, but I felt so bad in it I realized I don’t have the humor to deal with ugliness.
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After you’re 35, it’s difficult to drink unless you’re running 10 miles a day. I’m not talking one dry martini every Saturday or something. I’m talking three dry martinis a night. And I don’t think that’s possible—it’s too much poisoning. It’s not a very sexy way to talk about drinking, but that’s the truth.
even if borrowed from “style.com”, looks better out of it’s context. by pp’
