Best Made‘s latest ode to fine tool making is their new “Higo” knife, aka the Higonokami. The Higonokami is a famed Japanese blade that has been made by the Miyamoto Manufacturing Co. since the 1920s, and has grown to prominence with over 50 other manufacturers also making the blade. Best Made’s slim profile version is crafted of laminated Japanese white […]
As is the case almost every year, 2013 was loaded with amazing music put out by the most creative artists of our age. We posted mixtapes from some of the biggest names in hip-hop like Pusha T, Gucci Mane, Lil Wayne, J. Cole, Killer Mike x Big Boi, Jay-Z + 9th Wonder and then other tapes by […]
Los Angeles-based Meister — aka MSTR — has just launched a new collection of watches for their upcoming 2014 season. While they maintain the rugged male-oriented aesthetic Meister is known for, the newest line moves away from the large, bold-faced watches of yore and evolves toward a slimmer, more refined style — one heavily influenced […]
French designer Harold Sangouard’s Harow firm has designed this not at all morbid chair shaped like a skull. Fans of Shakespeare, Norwegian Black Metal, Alexander McQueen and the Punisher can all rejoice, as they now have a place to rest their bizarre rear ends. The Skull Chair features a very geometric design of a human […]
Now, a toy that you took everywhere in your youth transforms into a toy you can take everywhere into your arrested development. The good nerds over at ThinkGeek have created the Nerdtendo Gamebooze flask which, if you lack powers of deduction, is a flask decorated to look like the Nintendo Gameboy of your childhood. As […]
The great Herbaliser, aka Ollie Teeba, has made many a world class mix in his day. Not simply satisfied with blending 20 or so jams together, the Herbaliser instead creates mixes with large scale concepts, or thematic motifs, that elevate them to the level of soundscape. Such as with this mix for Solid Steel’s 25th […]
We’re long time fans of the people over at Best Made, who specialize in handcrafted goods that live up to their name (our favorite probably being the Axe & Axe Sling). Now they’ve teamed up with world renowned Japanese swordsmith/knifemaker Toshiki Nambu to craft a set of Jiro Ono-worthy kitchen knives. The 71-year old artisan […]
Of course the ideal way to tell the time is with a Bell & Ross chronograph (in our little world, at least), but there are other options. Some prefer to simply use their iPhones as timekeepers. But where’s the style in that? If you want to elevate your clockwatching game to the next level, you […]