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Great Magazine Covers #1 – Sonny Liston & Esquire

“The statements inside (of a magazine) are useless unless there is a statement on the outside.” George Louis Magazine covers nowadays are, for the most part, atrocious. Wandering past a newsstand, or visiting Borders is a numbing experience. As print media slowly chokes around us (only this week, Maxim UK followed its US sibling to
Posted April 5, 2009

Alejandro Jodorowsky Has More Ideas Than You.

Let’s talk about the Unkle video that recycles the ‘Fully Flared’ opening you saw about 14 months ago. Just kidding, let’s not. I’m really not that big an Unkle fan. There’s things in life deemed hugely influential that you’re somehow obligated to like. Some wild-eyed zealot will stagger up to you in a social situation
Posted March 23, 2009

Fishtail Parkas

The dumbing-down of mod and modernist styles to sledgehammer out the original refined mindset into little more than Vespas, Weller and Fred Perry is a disgrace. To skim over the surface defeats the intent of the ‘movement’, with its ultimate attention-to-detail – a perplexing mass of US, Italian and British elements, side or back vent
Posted March 15, 2009