In 1953, Roald Dahl published “The Great Automatic Grammatizator,” a short story about an electrical engineer who secretly desires to be a writer. One day, after completing construction of the world’s fastest calculating machine, the engineer realizes that “English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness.”
For most of advertising history, “red” or “blue” as partisan loyalty signaled more your taste for Coke or Pepsi than your identity as Republican or Democrat. Mass markets, by definition, necessitated selling to both sides of the aisle.
In the darkness, they rose. More than 150 men and women advanced warily through the ice, grasping lines that had been anchored into the mountainside just hours before. Some had waited months for this ascent. They had a small window: Winds had finally calmed on the morning of July 26, giving teams their first chance to summit K2, the King of Mountains, in the Pakistani-administered area of the Kashmir.
There’s a three-story, three-bedroom town house at 514 Broome Street in Manhattan with an expansive ivy-laden terrace. Entry is through a dining room swathed in exposed brick. A dramatic wooden staircase services the second floor. Venture to the basement and you’ll find a wine cellar big enough for 2,500 bottles.
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Those aren’t just lyrics from the Queen song “Bohemian Rhapsody.” They’re also the questions that the brain must constantly answer while processing streams of visual signals from the eyes and purely mental pictures bubbling out of the imagination.
DESCRIBED as a rising star, French photographer Robin Galiegue is fairly new to the fashion scene, despite having worked behind the scenes for many years. The photographer took his first picture when he was just 14 years old...
THE CURRENT popularity of tennis wear has ushered in a resurgence of the tenniscore street style trend. It's athleisure's latest incarnation, but with a preppy spin. Tenniscore is the intermingling of modern streetwear with a bit of nostalgia, today's athliesure looks with a vintage country club aesthetic...
YOU CAN ALWAYS tell when the tennis is on, because all the supermarkets run out of cream for everyone’s strawberries and cream. You can also tell because tennis fashion comes around again, with everyone rushing order tennis dresses and skirts (skorts?).
AFTER WEEKS of dismal weather, it has finally become summery and we've been spending all our days in the sun. Since we've been wearing jackets and trench coats during this time, now it's time to change up our wardrobes once again and switch to cooler things. From fancy little white dresses with mary janes to oversize white shirts over bicycle shorts and kitten heels, here are a few images we've put together to inspire your summer style...
Porches’ Aaron Maine released a new album, Ricky Music, at the beginning of the year right as lockdown started. This summer, he’s remixed Girlpool and helped out his bud Dev Hynes to remix Tame Impala, and today he’s back with a new song of his own, “I Miss That.”
Denver duo (and real life husband and wife) Tennis are releasing a new album, Swimmer, on February 14 via their own Mutually Detrimental label. Now they have shared another song from it, “Need Your Love,” via a video for it ...
Alex Cameron – Candy May
A while back, after having caught Australian musician Alex Cameron as an opener for Angel Olsen, I was pretty enamored of his performance, and the assuredness of its shtickyness (and yes, it is shticky). If you can appreciate Lana Del Rey for her mellifluous lists of hollowed signifiers and decoupaged images of millennial-imagined withering Americana, you might likewise find it easy to appreciate elements of Cameron’s aesthetic (though perhaps there’s some withering Austral..iana there, too).
Current Events & Things of Note Vol. 01, No. 01 The first instalment in our new series — this feature will...
It’s a Spring Bank Holiday Monday here, and a quite relaxing one, must confess, for even though there was work, holiday Mondays...
. . . because Becks and Baby Harper are adorable, and oh the new collection is quite lovely as well . . .
