While I’ve been a fan of Confederate bikes for nearly a decade, the brand has had its share of legal issues — from going bankrupt after Hurricane Katrina trashed their factory and leaving many who had paid deposits high and dry, to its subsequent move to Alabama and then recently trying to relocate back to […]

Preservation Hall Jazz Band has recently collaborated with legendary Tom Waits to create a limited edition 78 RPM record, with only 504 copies available to the public. All proceeds of the record will be going towards the Preservation Hall Jazz Band Outreach Program, which is devoted to teaching kids between the ages of 9 and […]

We were excited for our compatriots over at Deus ex Machina when they opened up their Bali Motorcycle and Surf Shop, and were looking forward to their next project. They just dropped a new video called House of Simple Pleasures, and the title really just nails what it’s about: the Deus philosophy of living, which […]

The Pentax Optio NB1000 is a traditional 14 megapixel point-and-shoot digital camera, with the small adaptation that it features a front Lego-style surface that uses “nanoblocks” made by the Japanese company Diablock. You therefore can customize it however you see fit — like a Lego portrait of Terry Richardson, or a tiny Jeremy Scott sculpture, […]

It’s not always the World’s Most Powerful and Expensive or World’s Most Exclusive or World’s Most Beautiful bikes that tickle our fancy, sometimes it’s the total opposite — especially if the heart and soul of the bike is pure. Such is the case with the Deus Canggu bike shop in Bali — an intersection of […]

Cap is exactly what it looks like: a stool shaped like a spray can cap, the ultimate symbol of graffiti culture. Developed by the amazingly named underground Swedish design team Don’t Feed the Swedes, the duo had to re-form under their new moniker DFTS Factory to get the Cap into production. “We made a prototype […]

I’ve been an appreciator of Shinya Kimura’s vehicular creations for a little while now, introduced to his “ZERO” style a couple years back by some friends. Shinya’s style is either love it or hate it — I know, because I’ve felt both ways. At first I couldn’t acclimate myself to the raw, hammered look of […]

French retro helmet designer Les Atelier Ruby have long sold their helmets at Parisian boutique colette, but they have now premiered a new helmet project called “Costume“. Customize your very own helmet among 4,000 combinations, centered around their famous blue “colette” design. Seems like a good idea — most of their editions have been penned […]