Going through my closet, I realized a great deal of my sweaters are beat to hell from years of abuse and wear. Recently, the hunt for a couple of new items in the knit department has led me to the best of the best when it comes to this season’s weather. Once again the classics [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Season’s Sweaters
Posted in Fashion, tagged sweaters on October 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wild Strawberries
Posted in Film, tagged ingmar bergman, wild strawberries on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Photography Spotlight – David Douglas Duncan
Posted in Film, Travel, tagged david douglas duncan, photography spotlight on October 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A new series setting the stage for beautiful, timeless photographs over the past two centuries. This first photographer featured will be David Douglas Duncan. These photos were taken and published in 1958, and they caterogize Pablo Picasso’s private life. To see the entire set, view here.
JJJJound Highlights
Posted in Film, tagged fall, jjjjound on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fall is most certainly in the air now, and who better to offer the perfect aura than JJJJound who beautifully portrays every season, colorshade, and object to perfection.
Snakebites
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beer, beer cocktail, cider, lager, stout on October 20, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Being a lover of beers such as Guinness, New Castle, and many more…while loving the opposite spectrum in cider such as Strongbow and K; The Beer Cocktail is just as much of a fine dining experience as any bourbon cocktail. It is a common ground between the overly sweet, light cider and the bitter, thick [...]
Take Ivy ‘82
Posted in Fashion, tagged Ivy League, take ivy on October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Heavy Tweed Jacket, one of the best Trad blogs around, featured an incredible spread of a Take Ivy issue from 1982 featuring Brown and Cornell. If you’re regular at ACL, you will remember the inspiring scans of the book Take Ivy by Fujingaho. The 80’s spread is a bit more modern which is interesting to [...]
Old Money
Posted in Fashion, Travel, tagged Ivy League, old money on October 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A term I personally never heard until this Ivy Style article on it. I never realized I have always kind of fallen into the category whether I knew it or not. Being in a lower income bracket than most bloggers of the same vein; Hand-me-down’s, vintage pieces, and scouring the thrift stores and ebay for [...]
The Rugged Museum
Posted in Art, Fashion, Film, Travel, tagged free & easy, Navy, rugged museum, steve mcqueen, usn on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you are a fan of ACL, then you have certainly seen the Free & Easy scans from Mr. Williams. Not until recently did I find they have a store now open called The Rugged Museum, and judging by the online items and pictures from the store…it’s quite an incredible feat. The way the Japanese [...]
Sailor Jerry
Posted in Art, Travel, tagged Navy, usn, sailor jerry, tattoos on October 12, 2008 | 7 Comments »
A Sailor without a tattoo is like a ship without grog: not seaworthy.” – Samuel O’ Reilly
Back when the Navy offered a more roughneck life of galavanting around the world putting forth hard work, women, and whiskey…Sailor Jerry left permanent pieces of art on them. Enlisting in the Navy at 19, an staying enlisted for [...]
