Publishing is a little less entry-friendly in Brazil, I've observed. You can already have a decent amount of money from other sources so costs become no object, get picked up by only a handful of publishers or rather approach things…
Continue Reading →I haven't dove into the housing market yet, but having friends who have done it, they tell me the quest for the perfect place frustrating and the "perfect place" fairly elusive. Some have ended up buying lofts for the endless…
Continue Reading →Fuct, one of the longest-running streetwear labels around, now has an online shop open for business. Unafraid to be brassy or polemical, the brand has lasted because of the O.G. ways of creator Eric Brunetti, whose less than flattering opinions…
Continue Reading →Sao Paulo's the shiz-nit when it comes to the swarm of talented graffiti artists living and producing there, and along with that scene comes a teeming skate world that keeps gaining ground. The other day while stopping to eat at…
Continue Reading →When I first peeped the Excubo Jacket made especially for sleeping on the bus or subway by industrial designer Matthew Gale, I laughed. But then I remembered a million late nights watching people on the metro play the doze-off game…
Continue Reading →It's a shoe-in; the gang over at Keep Company are having a massive 60% off sale starting Friday through Sunday of selected shoe styles on their site (and if you live in L.A., the sale's Friday in the store). Your…
Continue Reading →While CNN covers the important events and YouTube the completely unconsequential fodder, there does exist an in-between dimension that gets buried somewhere in the backyard of alternative media. Tired of not liking what they were seeing and totally bored by…
Continue Reading →You can't eat this one, but you'll have to cook it to see what you're getting: in what is a sumptuous and scrumptious idea pointed out to us from Dezeen, Croatia's Bruketa & Zinic agency designed part of food company's…
Continue Reading →We get up at all times of the day. We work into all times of the night. We don't wear blue collars, but like the carpenter's belt or the laborer's lunch box, we bear the mark of our social class…
Continue Reading →Can a piece of furniture be so damned sexy that it can be seductive? I'm not usually attracted to that kind of wood, but this hot lil' number, "Mondrian" by Portuguese furniture design group Boca do Lobo is giving off…
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