PlaidBench Collection

Pretty execution of a concept that I can't really get my head around from reading the designer's (Raw-Edges Design Studio) comments:

A collection of furniture assembled out of interlocking iconic urban benches into a plaid surface. Stripes arrangement is a common element in iconic benches. Many of the very common archetype benches happen to be shaped in this way. Stripes are also the fundamental element in textile check/plaid pattern where they arranged together in a vertical and horizontal fashion. Making a graphical connection, Raw-Edges created this large set up of different wood benches that interlocked to each other perpendicularly in order to achieve a Plaid/Check patterns.

These are really beautiful pieces, but if I bought one of the tables, would I be able to get it with just four legs? The plaid is great. Excellent. If it was a shirt, I'd buy it. I think it's brilliant. I just don't want an eighteen-legged coffee table. Or a six-legged garden bench. I think that's reasonable.


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Seven Ghosts

Absolutely amazing. Tom Curren and friends surf a tidal bore on a river somewhere in Indonesia.

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Fight for Your Right Revisited

This is a trailer for the new Beastie Boys short film Fight for Your Right Revisited. It is, as the kids say, epic.

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Seoul Sub→urban

Seoul Sub→urban is a blog written by freelance writer Charlie Usher and...pictured by? Is that the right way to say it? It's not "illustrated by," because that implies non-photographic pictures. It's not "pictured by," is it? Yeah that's probably incorrect. Anyway, the pictures on the site were taken by Elizabeth Groeschen.

The goal of the project is to show the expat community--and the world at large, I suppose--that there is more to Seoul than the ubiquitous Hongdae-Downtown-Itaewon-Gangnam loop by writing a guide to the city--one subway stop at a time. As the sidebar on the homepage points out, the Seoul Metro has over 400 stops, and most of those remain neighborhoods commuters hurtle under or over on their way to places of greater import. A visitor's guide it's not, but it is probably the most useful and well-documented guide to the city for people that actually live here that I've yet seen.

While some of the posts seem to be a little down in the mouth for a guidebook-esque blog--"To give you an accurate idea of what there is to see and do around Gubanpo Station, suffice to say that I knocked this post out on my lunch break"--overall the pair have shed light on some parts of Seoul that the average expat hasn't seen, like Ichon-dong's "Little Tokyo" or the antique market at Dapshimni station.

Beyond the more "famous" attractions and districts, there is virtually no easily accessible English language information on the remaining parts of this city of 12 million people. I wish these cats the best of luck with their project and recommend the posts to anyone living or planning to live in 서울.

Here's a link to a write-up from the Korea Herald.

Justice: Civilization

Ed Banger act Justice is back in the cut with Civilization, their first new track in four years. Saw them live in Seoul last fall and they were dominant, even with the likes of Fatboy Slim and Armin Van Buren sharing the bill.

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Geneva Motor Show Specialty Manufacturer Highlights

Yes, that is a full chrome Audi R8. Disgusting.

Just disgusting.

Baufeld 10 by LOVE Architecture and Urbanism

An innovative design for a Hamburg harbor development known as HafenCity. I like the use of asymetry and the lack of stainless steel and curving glass, which are getting a little played out in my opinion. Says the architect:

The Baufeld 10 project was developed in a joint building venture. This means that the various future residents worked together to create a real community for the new building. Within this model, individualists connected with each other with the goal of building THEIR communal house.

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Overdue Shoe Posts

I really like shoes. Crispy, tasteful, delicious sneakers. I used to post about them all the time. Then I stopped. I haven't reached a conclusion as to why this occurred, because I haven't bothered to analyze the trend, because really I just don't care much. There you go. Tracked it back to the source.

Here's the adidas Originals SL72 Bluebird, which should be available at "select adidas Originals stockists," whatever that means.


This one up here is the David Beckham x adidas zx800 DB. I like it, I guess I'll leave it at that. Comes in the white and blue colorway and is currently available here. Wow, you know what? That fucking shoe costs almost $200. Fuck you Beckham.

Last but not least, here are some pics of the Lacoste line that is being produced for the English outlet Size?. I had a real moment there when I tried to figure out whether to put a period after Size? or just let it be since it is, technically, a proper noun--to wit, the name of a business--that simply utilizes a punctuating character in its trademark. I opted for the period because I'm a pretty big stickler about this language I ramble in.

Anyway, I especially dig the chukka style boot, but the other crap is pretty good too. Available at Size? stores across the UK from the 21st of March, 2011.

I'll try and stay on top of this footwear thing a little bit more, and also try to keep the number of posts with videos a little lower. I know I get bored with that shit too.

adidas bluebird and lacoste for size? via hypebeast
zx800s via sneakerfreaker

SebastiAn – Embody (Directed by So Me)

Good beats and a whimsical notion that any time this song is played there is a young black kid dancing somewhere nearby.

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Innersection Winner Matt Meola

Above is the Innersection segment by winner Matt Meola, who hails from the frozen tundra of Maui.

Innersection is a collaboration between deep pocketed film producers, surf filmmakers, and surfers to produce a free-surfing DVD. Basically, surfers and their film crews make short film segments and submit them to the website, then Innersection members vote on which segments are the best. The overall winner receives a prize of $100,000.

As a novice surfer and someone who prefers watching the pros go after big waves rather than airs and other "competition" maneuvers, I'm fairly indifferent about the performance. The kid is obviously talented and some of his rides are unbelievable, but I really don't know enough about this type of surfing to say one guy is better than the other.

Regardless, $100k is a grip of cash for a guy like Matt, so congratulations on the win and the exposure.

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