Whether you side with Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny these pieces are appropriate for your hunting season. For the record, I am on Bugs’ side.
Glen Denny
Photographer Glen Denny released a book in ’07 of his work documenting Yosemite in the 60’s while hanging around what turned out to be pioneers of contemporary mountain climbing. While I’m not really that interested in photographs of guys climbing mountains as impressive as it may be his candid shots are what are really special to me. They give off a certain care-free vibe that I’m sure is important to someone who’s not afraid of scaling rock faces with the underdeveloped equipment that they had. Buy the book here.
Filed under outside, photography
Bertelli
A gentleman that goes by the name of Francesco in New York City builds up these bikes and sells them to customers who don’t have the time to source pretty shiny rare parts and put it all together into a tasteful package. Much like buying a car that’s already been perfected by a car tuner? His aesthetic as a “bike tuner” is classic, no frame decals, threadless steams, or futuristic saddles. Just straight leather, metal, and rubber. Prices? Not as bad as they could be I suppose. Bertelli Biciclette Assemblate
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Flat Track Racing
Going flat out and sliding at it’s finest. A motor sport that requires a hefty pair and the technical know-how. I’d like to see one of these races in person as the sport seems to be making mainstream comeback. Maybe finally the world is tired of throwing around (drifting) Japanese cars on tarmac with the horrible screeching and smoke, in opposition to the beautiful custom bikes of flat track and the flying dirt that ensues.
Here’s a clip from 1971 On Any Sunday directed by Bruce Brown, the same man who brought the world Endless Summer. Check out the angle of the front wheel that’s counter-steering the slide, all at 80mph.
If you’re lucky enough to live in UK or the rest of Europe you should check out The Complete Book of Flat Track Racing which is being distributed by Sideburn Magazine.
Scott Pommier
Some work from a photographer making photographs out of skate and custom culture.
These are just some of my favorites from his website…
Filed under motor, photography
Blue Note Style
Ah, the ultimate cool style. What’s more classic than a Blue Note musician in a perfect suit? Such raw sounds coming out of a modern dressed man. Here’s a great read, an essay on the style of these guys from Blue Note: Album Cover Art The Ultimate Collection by Graham Marsh, a really great little book filled with the best Blue Note LP’s.
on the clothes…
NO ROOM FOR SQUARES
“Consider the irony – the button-down shirt, which came to symbolize all that was hip about the Blue Note musician, was originally English. Polo players at the turn of the century were seen by John Brooks, of Brooks Brothers, to fasten their collars with buttons to keep them from snapping up in their faces.
This piece of sartorial history was of no concern to us, however; the mere fact that Hank Mobley, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, and other Blue Note luminaries were photographed wearing these shirts, on their respective album covers, was endorsement enough. Now I’m sure to those musicians it was just another clean shirt, but in the early 60’s , unless your taste was for homegrown, the importance of being imported applied to the clothes as much as to the records. It was an obsession; a friend of mine was not a happy person until he owned a striped button-down identical to the shirt Big John Patton wore on the sleeve of The Way I Feel.
cork grips 