Originally release in 2012, Richmond native Matthew E. White recorded Big Inner in his own attic as a sort of experiment alongside the Spacebomb House Band. The album had a proper re-release earlier this year via Domino and has garnered an unexpected amount of acclaim and success. Sterogum sat down with our friend Matthew while in NYC [...]
Jennifer Hagler is an interior design-loving photographer, DIY-er, fashion fan, sometimes foodie & aspiring globe trekker with spot-on style and taste. We were so inspired by her minimal home style and beautiful photography that we asked her to style and photograph pieces from our new home goods collection in her own space. View the lookbook here, visit Jennifer’s [...]
In his new series Hipster in Stone, French photographer Leo Caillard updates some of the world’s most classic sculptures with some trendy new threads. Leo first photographed the most iconic sculptures at the Louvre in their undressed state and then enlisted the help of friends, who modeled modern fashions you might see lounging around Williamsburg. The [...]
French DJ and producer Breakbot (feat Irfane) recently released the video for the single, “Baby I’m Yours”. It was directed and handmade by Irina Dakeva and is a crazy hypercolor 2 1/2 minutes of a toe-tapping booty-shaking tune set against 2,000 watercolor paintings. Forget special effects and the employment of the latest CGI software, Dakeva went straight [...]
Heineken, working with Wieden + Kennedy, has decided to celebrate Father’s Day this year by popularizing some seriously bad (read as: awesome) dad jokes. The best part about this compilation is that everyone can contribute to the ever-growing collection of cheesy, eye-roll-inducing dad jokes by tweeting it out and hashtagging it with #dadjokes to @Heineken_US. The beer company has then [...]
Dieter Rams is a German industrial designer most known for his work with consumer products company Braun, and the Functionalist School of Industrial Design. He championed a “less is more” attitude towards design that is still highly regarded and is considered one of the most influential industrial designers of the 20th century. Here’s a look [...]
Our friends are spending the summer on the high cliffs of Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands of Spain. One of the most spectacular areas of Mallorca is the stony beach on the desolate northwest coast where the Torrent des Pareis, or Twin Rivers, meet the Mediterranean Sea, carving a path through the rugged Tramuntana mountains. The canyon [...]
With its diminutive size and unassuming exterior, the fig is often overshadowed at summer soirees by its fruity brethren. Strawberries, watermelons, blueberries, and the like are at every summer BBQ and pool party, but we think it’s time we all gave a second look to the unrated little guy of summer fruits: the fig. A [...]
Job & Boss is Brook Lane and Kirby Mckenzie, who work out of their West Oakland home studios to create handmade and indigo-dyed one-of-a-kind bags. In The Make visited Brook & Kirby to investigate their process and see how much individual care goes into each piece. Above is a video documenting the unpredictable and labor-intensive making of [...]
Neutrals don’t have to be boring. A pared-down palette is subdued and sophisticated. We rounded up some of the coolest street looks to prove it, so get out your greys, tans, creams, and everything in between.
FIVE to SEVEN is a collection of moving portraits of individuals in the kitchen. The above video features a denim designer named Tom making dinner and drinks for his friends in Topanga Canyon, CA. The name and essence of the project were inspired by the apéro hour tradition in France (and elsewhere) of getting together in the [...]
We’re stocked up with tons of new jewelry, including some of our favorite lines that are patiently made by hand, piece by piece. Here’s a look at just a few of the independent lines we are proud to carry. Wanderluster is made in New York City by self-taught jewelry designer Rammy Lee Park, who finds [...]
What are you supposed to do when you come across somebody so original doing something so unique that are no real terms ready to apply to it? You blog about it of course. Yeah, maybe not the best idea to try and write about something that leaves you speechless, but we wanted to share, so [...]
Three years ago, our friends at PlayLab had an idea: A floating pool that makes it possible to swim in a clean New York river. + POOL is designed to filter the very river that it floats in through the walls of the pool, making it possible for New Yorkers to swim in clean river water [...]
The most important things to remember when you head off to the beach this summer are sunscreen, sweet sandcastle building skills, and a good book or two. We asked around the office for some suggestions and favorite beach reads – some are new to us, and some get re-read every summer.
The good fellas over at The Hill-Side, brothers Sandy and Emil Corsillo, have teamed up with the venerable shirt makers out of Ashland, PA, Gitman Brothers to produce a series of seven short sleeve BDs that arrive just as summer rolls in ablaze and in full swing. Using a selection of Hill-Side fabrics from their [...]
Ian works in our shipping department, DJs in his spare time, and also acts as our team’s resident shaman. He’s got a truly unique take on style and on life in general, is the most laid back guy in the office, and we think Ian is someone that everyone should know. We asked him some [...]
Summertime is for long drives with the windows down and music up. We asked our friend Gene, a former East Coast-er that’s currently giving the West Coast a taste of his coolness, for his perfectly curated summer playlist to get us ready for sweaty car seats and for blasting in the blazing sun – or [...]
Frida Kahlo’s wardrobe recently went on exhibit in Mexico City. We’ve always been fans of her art of course, but the exhibit brought up a good point: Frida Kahlo really did have some rad style. The iconic late surrealist painter was known for her traditional, flowing dresses that she used to disguise her injured legs [...]
We’re big fans of pretty much anything food and drink. At this age in time, modern chefs have pages and pages of history to base new and exciting drink and food recipes off of. So in the midst of turning desserts into liquid and lighting drinks on fire, we’re going to take a step back [...]
RIPE presents a photo booklet compiling the work of Valencia’s Julio Pardo and Brooklyn’s Reggie McCafferty, each presenting a selection of their photographs from their travels through Asia. Both photographers have an incredible transcendental quality to their work, taking the viewers and instantly inserting them into the moment that the photo was taken, giving them [...]
Your dad may not be perfect. Maybe he gave you a black eye while playing catch in the backyard or let you try your first sip of beer far before you could ever appreciate it. But, we’re sure he did it out of love, and most likely looked super sweet while doing so. You’ve heard [...]
It’s not news that the sense of smell is strongly tied to memories. The olfactory bulb – the part of your brain that smells smells – is part of the brain’s limbic system, or the emotional center of the brain. It has intimate access to the amygdala, the part of the brain that processes emotion, [...]
Bocce is a ball sport belonging to the boules sport family. It is closely related to bowls and pétanque, with a common ancestry from ancient games played in the Roman Empire. Every summer with the onslaught of cookouts and outdoor gatherings, bocce once again becomes a popular game of choice for all ages and skill [...]
If you are currently “suffering” at some uninspiring desk job with what you consider to be long hours and pitiful pay, this chart should put your situation into perspective. Lapham’s Quarterly has created this interesting matrix that highlights some of the worst jobs in history. Kind of like New York Magazine’s Approval Matrix, only the exact opposite; Lapham [...]
Ryan Plett is a photographer and entrepreneur based in New York City. You may know him from You Have Broken the Internet, TravelWell, or his most recent pursuit, #CURRENTLY. We teamed up with Ryan, who shot the lookbook Nowhere Fast in Brooklyn, New York, featuring Leebo Freeman and styled by Carolyn Doolittle. Can you introduce [...]
Photographer and artist Jill Greenberg has created a controversial portrait series called End Times by literally taking candy from babies. Greenberg gave lollipops to toddlers and then took them away after a few licks, by doing so she was able to capture the intense emotions that the young subjects subsequently displayed. While some people have described her deliberate provocation of [...]
Over the course of history, men with facial hair have been ascribed various attributes such as wisdom, sexual virility, masculinity, or a higher status. Beard growth is linked to testosterone, so men with beards are often regarded as the manliest of men. Charles Darwin, pictured below with an impressive beard himself, first hypothesized that the [...]
Holy moly, we’re mesmerized by this video showing the method and process behind Apparatu‘s Extrusion Bowls. Back in 2010, Apparatu opened its doors to host Frágil, a workshop for creativity, design, and crafts. It was not as much an introduction to the ceramic work process but more of an experimental workshop and a reflection on objects and their fragility. The process begins with the [...]
James Wilson spends his time between Nashville, Tennessee and New York City, where he crafts furniture, prepares sets, assists artists, and blogs over at Secret Forts. He looks at fashion and the rest of the world with observant, discerning eyes, and will be sharing his interests and ideas with us as June’s contributing guest blogger. [...]
I just completed one of the greatest adventures of my life, with two of my best girl friends by my side. It’s not everyday you get to drive across the country, so I knew going in that I wanted to do everything possible to make the most of it. All 2,022 miles of it, from [...]
Music is an important part of any journey, as it can instantly take you back to a specific moment in time. While in the car for what felt like forever, our song selections – as you can imagine – ended up a little all over the place. Classics for blaring with the windows down, guilty [...]
After one too many margaritas, pounds upon pounds of queso, a few burritos and a whole lot of animal crackers (not to mention the countless hours sitting in the car), my body is screaming for good wholesome food and some serious outdoor activity. On one of our gas station stops in the middle of nowhere [...]
After 25+ hours spent driving last week (more to come on this!), you’d think a road trip would be the last thing on my mind. But after recently perusing Kate Miss’s gorgeous photos from Joshua Tree National Park, I find myself dreaming of a weekend adventure in the beautiful California desert, spent climbing, basking, hiking [...]
We wish it were possible to loop Vimeo videos, cause if you could, we would definitely employ the feature on these little ditties by Shishi Yamazaki. In this particular one entitled YA-NE-SEN a Go Go, Yamazaki can be seen dancing through Tokyo in her own lovely illustrations which she creates out of a mixture of watercolors, crayons, and [...]
I have been a fan of 91-year-old Iris Apfel for quite some time now, and her outlandish “more-is-more” fashion and crazy sense of humor is always entertaining and inspiring. In this new short film from NOWNESS, she visits the London zoo with her friend and designer Duro Olowu. Not only will she inevitably make you [...]
Joan Didion’s novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos, of individual and social fragmentation. Much of her work is permeated by a sense of anxiety or dread, and some of her best writing has come in the midst of breakdown or tragedy; the novel widely considered her masterpiece was written [...]
Diner Journal is a quarterly magazine with original art, literature and recipes, published by Brooklyn restaurateur Andrew Tarlow of Diner, Marlow & Sons, and Roman’s, Reynard and butcher shop Marlow & Daughters. The journal is produced by a group of people from the community of restaurants, with Diner’s bartender Anna Dunn as editor in chief. Ad-free and three hole-punched since 2006. [...]
Stella Berkofsky is a multi-talented photographer and model based out of Los Angeles, California, and she can now add designer to the long list of things she’s good at. Her brand new line of intimates and loungewear, LHOOQ, is now available, and is the epitome of understated luxury. See a bit of Stella’s own style [...]
Anushka Blommers and Niels Schumm are a Dutch fashion photographic duo working under the team name, Blommers and Schumm. Both born in 1969, they have been active for fifteen years and their photographs have appeared in a variety of publications (Interview, The New York Times, Visionaire, several editions of Vogue, AnOther, Self Service, The Gentlewoman and [...]
We’re happy to say it’s getting a little warmer every day. Some of summer’s best moments happen with good friends and good drinks, and we’re looking forward to backyards and barbecues, crushed ice and green garnishes. We rounded up some drool-inducing season-appropriate drink recipes from around the internet – just add sandals and sunglasses. If [...]
With all the hubbub recently about the new divisive Baz Luhrmann film, The Great Gatsby, it got us thinking about not the novel itself, but the man behind it and his own paramour. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tempestuous relationship with Zelda Fitzgerald has fascinated many through the decades.Today we thought we’d take a look at The [...]
Reach back in your memory bank as far as you can and search for the moment when you first bit into a bagel with cream cheese. Hold onto that moment as long as you can and enjoy it. Since that bite, you have never been the same. There’s just something about that combination of foods, [...]
Surprise. The first long weekend of summer just snuck up on you like a watery squirt of ketchup on your hot dog. You’ve got a lot of options on your plate: days full of beach traffic, and soggy cole slaw, and burnt hot dogs, and pools that are too cold to swim in, and awkward, [...]
We’re big, big fans of good clean design. We love type and we love just about anything that showcases type well. Typeverything is a beautiful, simple site by Andrei Robu, Darren Booth, Dominic Le-Hair, Jeff Rogers, Jeremy Pruitt, Luke Lucas, Maia Then, Mary Kate McDevitt, Neuarmy, Ryan Hamrick, Sawdust, and Simon Alander, who also all [...]
Need a new time suck? We’ve FOUND it for you (pun intended). FOUND is a new Tumblr page created by National Geographic offering their curated collection of photography from the NatGeo archives, each photo with a short description underneath. In honor of their 125th anniversary, they established the Tumblr account to showcase photographs that reveal [...]
Rhubarbs are perennials with large leaves and long, fleshy stems known as petioles. Though you probably know them for their thick crimson red stalks, they can actually vary in color from deep red to light speckled pink and light green, but every color stalk is both edible and delicious. Rhubarb stalks are crisp, similarly to [...]
Whoopi Goldberg can do anything. The actress, comedian, singer-songwriter and media personality is one of only a handful of people to have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards and was only the second African American female to win an Academy Award. Not to mention, she almost always look totally cool, and stays true to [...]
Launched in 2007, London’s Monocle came right when the world was getting rough. It arrived at a time when the economy had seen better days yet emerged with a spotlight on quality, craftsmanship, education, knowhow, international affairs, business, and culture. All elements that succeed past any economical speed bump. For their first ever book, The The [...]
