During our visit to Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance last month, our hosts at Infiniti teased us between dinner courses with an enigmatic poster board. The image was of a spot-lit automotive grill, nothing else — the equivalent of showing a flexed bicep to tease the next Dwayne Johnson shoot ‘em up. It revealed absolutely nothing, […]

Architectural hot spots from around the world — new places to shop, eat and drink — are always exciting to visit because of the products they offer, but often few stop to admire or appreciate the way each establishment is thoughtfully designed and structured. Surely the designers of the buildings in the Architecture Now! Eat […]

What do you do when you have an epiphany, and unknowingly strike upon genius? Why, you try to repeat it. And what do you do when that bolt of brilliance takes the form of a Book of Boobs In 3-D? That’s pretty simple: you take more photos of boobs (aka life’s universal salve), and you […]

Sure they may be a bit aesthetically challenging, but Santa Cruz‘s new Beer Cruzer skateboard collection is sure to hit many a man in a well considered sweet zone. Combining two of his greatest loves and/or reasons to hurt himself — beer and skateboarding — the venerable Santa Cruz Skateboards line connects with everyman brewery […]

For anyone who enjoys both the sight of a well-designed building and the written word as much as I do, pay close attention. Moleskine, the Italian brand best known for their notebooks, planners, and journals, is launching a series of cloth-bound monographs, entitled Inspiration and Process in Architecture. The collection looks into the design process […]

Tonight, March 4th from 7-10pm at the Mishka retail space at 350 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY Dust La Rock will be exhibiting a collection of works entitled B.K. Scum, inspired by Genesis P-Orridge and her seminal band Psychic TV, and TOPI. The experimental sound collective and multimedia pioneers (in addition to her industrial group Throbbing Gristle) […]

English cobbler Grenson and the Amsterdam boutique Tenue de Nîmes have just released their second collaboration, the Denim Blue boot. The material used on the limited edition boot is fine Expresso Cyclone leather combined with the roughness of British Millerain canvas — the juxtaposition of which embraces the fundamental idea of the collaboration: old meets […]

To mark the 11th anniversary of the death of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, Los Angeles-based artist Carlos Ramos will exhibit his collection of paintings inspired by Kubrick’s best films. The exhibit, aptly titled Kubrick, opens this Saturday, July 10th, at the Copro Gallery in Santa Monica and will be on display until August 3rd. Ramos faces […]