aloha nico.

J.Crew Upper East Side Mens Shop from Michael Williams on...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:58:58 -0600

J.Crew Upper East Side Mens Shop from Michael Williams on Vimeo

Music is by native son of Ohio Mr. Dan Auerbach (Whispered Words — Keep it Hid).

The Supra Belay would look really nice it were to be paired with...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:50:00 -0600

The Supra Belay would look really nice it were to be paired with a nice herringbone jacket or something. Just sayin’.

[Sneaker Freaker Magazine]

‘90210,’ That Oh-So-’90s ZIP Code, as It Was and Will Be

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:32:08 -0600

‘90210,’ That Oh-So-’90s ZIP Code, as It Was and Will Be:

When Teenage Angst Had Its Own ZIP Code » In honour of 9-02-10, Dave Itzkoff presents an oral history of Beverly Hills 90210.

Dr. Martens Suede Wing Tips

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:46:48 -0600

Dr. Martens Suede Wing Tips

Chain Link Heels: Tania Spinelli For Jen Kao “Mentioned as...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:26:50 -0600

Chain Link Heels: Tania Spinelli For Jen Kao

“Mentioned as a hot fall item on Elle back in March, Tommy Ton recently captured them out and about. They’re designed by New York-base shoe designer Tania Spinelli for womenswear designer Jen Kao.”

Do you all realize there's exactly 45 minutes until...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:13:58 -0600

luxuriousvulgarity:

morganism82:

9/02/10! I’m dying!

Can we declare it a national holiday?

Everyone should wear there best clingy dress, tiny florals, bangs, and mid calf boots with white socks to celebrate!

Team Brenda and Team Kelly will unite… for one day only… to celebrate MY FAVORITE FUCKING THING ON THE EARTH!

Pass the U4EA and crank the sweet synthesizer grooves of David Silver, maybe Dylan will swing by in his Porsche roadster to wisk me away. Maybe?

Just Maybe…

How good are we at estimating other people's drunkenness? (BPS Reseach Digest)

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:10:22 -0600

How good are we at estimating other people's drunkenness? (BPS Reseach Digest):

mittenstategirl:

onemoretimewithfeeling:

psychotherapy:

Sloshed, trollied, hammered, plastered. We’ve done a sterling job of inventing words for the inebriated state, but when it comes to judging from their behaviour how much a person has drunk, we could do (a lot) better. That’s according to a review of the literature by US psychologist Steve Rubenzer.

We all have our trusted indices for judging other people’s drunkenness. Perhaps it’s when the eyeballs start floating about as if under the control of a clumsy puppeteer. Or maybe the effusive ‘you know I love you’ delivered with a trickle of dribble. However, the vast majority of studies find that lay people, police officers and bartenders are in fact hopeless at distinguishing a drunk person from a sober one, at least at moderate levels of intoxication. To take just one example, after watching drunk and sober people being interviewed and negotiating a stair case, bartenders rated them as slightly, moderately or very drunk with an accuracy of just 25 per cent…

Really interesting, actually. I maintain that it’s hard for people to tell I’m drunk until I’m sloppy because I act drunk most of the time (odd train of thought, clumsiness, silliness)

Is this racist? Is that racist?

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:51:24 -0600

Is this racist? Is that racist?:

lenachen:

Chances are, if you’re asking, it’s probably racist.

Another interesting discussion that I’d been following the past few days on robot-heart-politics’ blog: how White people feel unfairly called “racist” when they have racial preferences in dating or express a seemingly benign curiosity about others’ background.

Look, you can defend your dating preferences all you want; you can call them “preferences” instead of a fetish. If you “tend” to be attracted to a specific race to the point where you’re largely dating only people of a specific race, you are likely fetishizing something. I say this as an Asian woman who knows firsthand the irresistable allure of my “delicate” feet, my “olive” complexion, and my “mysterious” eyes. These are phrases taken verbatim from my personal dating experiences. And you know, there’s definitely a difference when I’m dating White people who don’t fetishize me. When I’ve dated or hooked up with guys who don’t have any discernible dating patterns, they don’t make remarks about me that are specific to things that have to do with my race. They don’t tell me that Eastern religion is so “peaceful”, expecting to me to understand their New Agey sentimentality, or offer compliments that could very well apply to any random Asian chick on the street.

Yes, non-White people may also prefer to date those of their own background, but their reasons for doing so are often related to wanting shared life experiences with their partners. This, too, is a limiting way of looking at relationships, but it’s not racist to date on the basis of compatibility. It is racist, however, to think that Asian features are more attractive and to assume that this is a natural preference that you just can’t help. It’s just the way you were born! Well, maybe it feels “natural” to you, but you weren’t born into a vacuum. We’ve all grown up in a world where we are fed messages all the time about what’s beautiful and what’s not. We’re influenced by sexualized portrayals of minorities in mass media. No one just is or just isn’t attracted to XYZ racial group. Even the most enlightened of us out there make assumptions about others on the basis of cues like race, gender, class, etc. And no one is immune to that.

Along the same lines, why is it that non-Whites take so much offense to being asked about their ethnic or national origin? Because it would never occur to me to ask a White person where they’re from. Me the Living, the blogger with whom robot-heart-politics was having this discussion, presented this dilemma: while speaking with a stranger at a parking garage, she detected that he had an African accent. Yet even after she gave him cash for his parking because he had only a credit card on him, she “was still nervous to ask if he was from Africa for fear of insulting him”. She writes that “we should be able to ask questions about other people without it seeming malicious/with ill-intent”. Which is fair if you’re talking with a social acquaintance, but a stranger who you’ve only known for a few minutes? No, I don’t think it’s really appropriate to ask someone where they’re from just because you’d like to satisfy your curiosity about their accent. I am asked where I’m from all the time by strangers, and you know how that conversation goes down?

Me: I’m from California.

Stranger: But where are you originally from?

Me: San Francisco.

Stranger: But what about your family?

Me: They live in Los Angeles.

Stranger: But where do YOUR PARENTS come from?

It’s annoying, it’s unnecessary, and it’s not something that I owe a stranger. I know that it might seem really natural to ask a non-White person about their background, but I can attest from personal experience that this will not haunt you for the rest of time if you don’t find out. How do I know this? Because I’ve gone through countless social interactions with White people who never feel the need to ask me where I’m from or where my family is from! And as far as I know, they aren’t squirming inside with unquelched curiosity.

You can claim all you want that you don’t judge people on the basis of race, that race is inconsequential to you, that you are friends with plenty of minorities. Even if all these things are true, it doesn’t mean that you’re not being racist when you feel the need to “place” a person on the basis of how they look or sound. I don’t ever wonder whether my White friends are mostly Irish or German or French or whatever. This never, ever crosses my mind. But people wonder all the time where I’m from and even if they’re perfectly nice about it, it still makes me feel as if there is something that will always separate me from those who are White and allowed to walk around without being treated as objects of curiosity.

Obey + J-Lep An interview that sheds some light on the...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:22:46 -0600

Obey + J-Lep

An interview that sheds some light on the collaboration between Obey Clothing & J-Lep, the all-girl performance art band.

(by 80’s Purple)

Undefeated x New Balance Sonic 574 I love these. This colourway...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:10:54 -0600

Undefeated x New Balance Sonic 574

I love these. This colourway is really classic and could end up being New Balance’s Pigeon Dunk. It has reissue potential written all over it.

James Bond, co-founder of Undefeated, says the “reverse weave fleece that is loved by athletes and spectators alike is the perfect canvas to showcase and celebrate the classic American history of the two brands.” The New Balance x UNDFTD Sonic 574’s upper textile is a heather grey sweatshirt material sonically bonded with the synthetic suede complete with varsity “N” detailing. Undefeated will also be launching coordinating apparel for this project.

The New Balance x Sonic 574 is available in Grey and Black, and will be sold at Undefeated stores as of September 1st, 2010.

Starbucks, it is far too soon for the pumpkin spice latte to be back

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:31:36 -0600

edatrix:

(via ilouvreyou)

i love fall, but not as much as i love summer. i’m not quite ready either.

hydeordie: The new “Buildings” app for iphones tells you about...

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:16:27 -0600

hydeordie:

The new “Buildings” app for iphones tells you about the local architecture.

A free new iPhone application that shows architecture from across the globe is now available for download from iTunes.

Buildings is an application containing an encyclopaedia of architecture at the user’s fingertips. It supplies information, images and videos on over 2500 historic, contemporary and conceptual buildings. It lets the user find and learn about architecture nearby, across their country or overseas.

Using GPS technology to pinpoint the users location, Building is also a perfect mobile guide for travellers who can use their iPhone to find directions to buildings of interest.

and an excerpt from Archinect’s review:

The app is simply titled “Buildings”, and after playing around with it for the last week, I’ve become hooked. I’m finding myself launching the app as I move around Los Angeles to check which buildings surround me. The database is a little sparse for this user’s city, at the moment, but the open-source nature of this well-constructed platform will inevitably help fill out the gaps quickly.

Seems pretty cool to me.

Sidenote: Peter, please download this. Thanks!

Just watching Mad Men from last night

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:15:04 -0600

therealestsocksinthegame:

bluebears:

Does, “you smell good,” ever actually work?

More than one dude has said that to me in the past. It always makes me feel torn between rolling my eyes and laughing. I mean…stop smelling me. Weirdo.

Alternately, it just makes me want to blurt out ‘Sucker! I haven’t showered in two days!’, and then pause awkwardly as the other party attempts to discern the veracity of the statement.

Swatch New Gent Watch Collection Swatch just announced a...

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:31:46 -0600

Swatch New Gent Watch Collection

Swatch just announced a September 20th release of its New Gent model, a larger, and updated, version of the watchmakers popular Gent silhouette. It’s available is a whole host of color options, the collection for F’10 already boasts 10 combinations, with more set to release in the S/S’11.

This is a colette exclusive, with pre-orders going on over here.

Keds for Opening Ceremony Sneakers – France Edition No...

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:30:45 -0600

Keds for Opening Ceremony Sneakers – France Edition

No complaints here.

Mark Davis ‘Esther’ Bakelite Ring Metal jewellery is always...

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:00:44 -0600

Mark Davis ‘Esther’ Bakelite Ring

Metal jewellery is always nice, but there’s just something so intriguing about this bakelite ring by Mark Davis with a diamond. You can pick it up at Browns.

Robyn - Hyperballad Bjork Cover

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:54:45 -0600

Robyn - Hyperballad Bjork Cover

Winter Gloves — ‘Glow In The Dark’

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:57:07 -0600

Winter Gloves — ‘Glow In The Dark’

Artificial right arm, Europe, 1850-1910 Object number:...

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:51:59 -0600

Artificial right arm, Europe, 1850-1910 Object number: A602817

“Made from steel and brass, this unusual prosthetic arm articulates in a number of ways. The elbow joint can be moved by releasing a spring, whereas the top joint of the wrist allows a degree of rotation and an up-and-down motion. The fingers can also curl up and straighten out. The leather upper arm piece is used to fix the prosthesis to the remaining upper arm. The rather sinister appearance of the hand suggests the wearer may have disguised it with a glove. Among the most common causes of amputation throughout the 1800s were injuries received as a result of warfare.” — Science Museum

Fashion Photography by Christopher Tovo [Looks Like Good Design]

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:30:09 -0600

Fashion Photography by Christopher Tovo

[Looks Like Good Design]