23 Mar
Only 125 times more accurate than most existing chronographs

TAG Heuer just announced the MIKROTIMER Flying 1000 Chronograph — the world’s first mechanical chronograph able to measure and display the 1/1,000th of a second. That’s one-thousandth, which is 125 times more accurate than most existing mechanical chronographs and 10 times faster than TAG Heuer’s eminent Carrera Mikrograph 1/100th Second watch, which was first presented […]


21 Mar
Formula One technology-derived carbon fiber bike

In order to celebrate the upcoming launch of its new Range Rover Evoque (see below), Land Rover’s design department has crafted a bicycle ostensibly built to match with its more active lifestyle SUV. The luxury British brand’s aerodynamically-optimized frame is made entirely of carbon fiber, and was created using F1-derived technology by premier carbon bike […]


18 Feb
Lüneburg Black Forge one piece blade

While it’s always nice to have a some fine J.A. Henckels, Kasumi or Wusthof knives to lay down the slicing law in your kitchen, there’s a lot to be said about the brute beauty of a hand-forged, one piece blade like the one above. In today’s cooking, there are a thousand knives designed for a […]


8 Feb
Not one, not two, but three bags in one

Austrian bag and fine accessory maker Hardgraft’s 3Fold bag may be just about the only small bag you’ll ever need. Looking at the photo above, it may appear to be just an overnight bag. But it has you fooled, the bag can actually transform into two other bags completely different in form — you can […]


28 Jan
Hand sculpted wild animals to benefit wild animals

San Francisco-based artist Markus Diebel has created a line of jewelry that benefits a good cause: the manymals. The idea behind the design was to create animal charms that hang naturally from the necklace as they would in their indigenous habitat. Each animal is hand sculpted and scaled down, then cast in sterling silver. The […]


20 Nov
Madman Mundt and The Elf discuss all things Aronofsky

Madman Mundt and the Elf were guests at last week’s AFI Fest and attended the Los Angeles premier of Black Swan. This is their collaborative review. Black Swan is out in the US on December 1st. The Elf: I’m a sucker for a dance movie. Ballet specifically. Whether it’s Fame, Flashdance, Center Stage (starring a […]


10 Nov
Hand-stitched and crafted luxury leather high tops

God these are some beautiful shoes, courtesy of Japanese cobbler sak, aka Hiruma. Elevating the art of shoe making to an artisanal level, the Japanese born sak chose to study and practice the art of Italian craftsmanship in Florence, Italy for nearly a decade. This is his third collaboration with Converse — after tackling the […]


15 Oct
Joshua Ben Longo's "So Hush You Little Ones" Belgian exhibit

We loved Joshua Ben Longo’s work so much when we first saw it, we knew we needed to show the world (peep the feature and interview, it’s well worth it). Since then Longo’s made a widely played European commercial villainizing cell phone rates, and now he’s having a major exhibition in Belgium which opens November […]