D I X O N F O M A

Break ton Neck

2011-11-25T00:15:00.001-05:00

John Steinbeck

2011-11-03T22:23:00.001-04:00

I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate.

John Steinbeck
East of Eden
1952

Arbor Day

2011-10-30T23:40:00.002-04:00

Michael Haney & Brooke Cundiff

2011-10-23T23:12:00.003-04:00

Someday I'd like to have a home like this and a tweed jacket like that.

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inbook Charging Stations

2011-10-15T14:42:00.001-04:00

Why not charge your smart phone on the antiquated technology it aims to replace? The inBook Charging Station available on Etsy.

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Sperry Seamate Chukka

2011-10-15T14:08:00.001-04:00

One glowing piece to the Sperry Fall 2011 offering is this handsome Seamate Chukka. This topsider with a little more top has a genuine leather hand-sewn upper and the typical 360 lacing system & rustproof eyelets. Another one to file under #pumpedupkicks.

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Frank Sinatra & JFK

2011-10-12T17:39:00.000-04:00

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Five of the Best Brogues

2011-10-12T10:10:00.002-04:00

Here's to hoping one day I'll smarten up and take Esquire UKs advice on the purchase of a good, solid pair of brogue shoes. Which says something like 'smart, but not too smart.' My eyes are set on #3, the Tan Archie Brogues by Grenson.

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Steve Jobs

2011-10-05T22:17:00.002-04:00

Olga Fonda

2011-10-03T19:57:00.000-04:00

Russian-born & American-bred actress and model Olga Fonda as shot by MeInMyPlace for my best pal Esquire Magazine. File this one under #pumpedupkicks

Bamboo Electrical Bike

2011-10-03T19:46:00.000-04:00

Good design is never without real world implications. The T20 Bamboo Electrical Bike is apart of an ongoing series of explorations by French designer Antoine Fritsch into the changing behaviours related to sustainable development. The bamboo body of the bike features cork, steel, aluminum & rubber elements as well as a small motor under the footboard which can cruise up to thirty five kilometers an hour. Brilliant design perhaps best suited to doing wheelies around the island in your IKEA kitchen.

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Concrete Tower House

2011-10-03T19:35:00.001-04:00

This remarkable concrete tower house is fit for a king. Or a king, queen and three heirs to the throne. One tower for the parents and a single tower for each of the three children are connected by a common base. Each volume features a main floor dressing area and a bedroom & bath on the upper level. The parent's structure is crowned by an open air terrace so they might have their cake and eat it too.

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Easy Rider

2011-10-02T21:44:00.004-04:00

Lake Huron Floating House

2011-09-30T18:33:00.000-04:00

The architects responsible describe this floating home on Lake Huron as the intersection of vernacular house typology and the shifting site specific conditions of the unique place; an island on Lake Huron. Which in this instance means the intersection of cottage country and Canada's four seasons. This looks everything and nothing like the Lake Huron cottage country I know. Just without the Busch-lattes.

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A Journey Through Vietnam

2011-09-29T21:20:00.003-04:00

Four Gents

2011-09-29T19:12:00.001-04:00

Sidney Poitier, Tony Curtis, Sammy Davis Jr., & Jack Lemon hanging out together. Goodluck finding four gents with more style. #swag

The New York Trilogy

2011-09-29T16:52:00.002-04:00

'The detective is one who looks, who listens, who moves through this morass of objects and events in search of the thought, the idea that will pull all these things together and make sense of them. In effect, the writer and the detective are interchangeable. The reader sees the world through the detective's eyes, experiencing the proliferation of its details as if for the for first time. He has become awake to the things around him, as if they might speak to him, as if, because of their attentiveness he now brings to them, they might begin to carry a meaning other than the simple fact of their existence. Private eye. The term held a triple meaning for Quinn. Not only was it the letter "i," standing for "investigator," it was "I" in the upper case, the tiny life-bud buried in the body of the breathing self. At the same time, it was also the physical eye of the writer, the eye of the man who looks out from himself into the world and demands that the world reveal itself to him. For five years now, Quinn had been living in the grip of this pun.'

From Paul Auster's seminal novel City of Glass and the first instalment of his terrific The New York Trilogy. A book and a trilogy which, in part, set off my love for the sardonic voice of American post modern American literature. Auster and the prolific Don DeLillo provided me a voice of covertly clever realism and a hard-done-by perspective I would never have cultivated had I not been introduced to their work. The gentleman who handed me these dogeared paperbacks remains my most treasured mentor.

Vans California Chukka Boot Nordic Pack

2011-09-28T21:06:00.000-04:00

Vans used to be nothing more than a Jeff Spicoli cultural touchstone for me. I got my first pair late in life. Then another. And another. An OTW here. A surfrider there. Set to release their California collection, these Chukka Boots have a distinct Nordic pattern, leather laces and the gripped soles and orange tags we've come to expect from the good folks at Vans. That's why these pumped up kicks are described as 'dope' by nearly every Hypebeast reader. When you hang a pair over a clothesline, and photograph them like they've always been there, you've made a dope kick. Well done, Vans.

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Embroidered Portraits

2011-09-28T19:52:00.000-04:00

My mom used to work at a small embroidery shop in a large shopping center which included a miniature golf course and boasted the Canadian mainstays of yesteryear retailing. The Bay. Zellers. Sears. It seems laughable now to think of her little shop with a single stitching machine and non-fiction sweaters in monochromatic colour swatches rubbing elbows with the mega retailers and exorbitant rent that now fills those square feet. Forever-21 is spending millions in renovations just a retail block from that same spot. Right down the west promenade.

The work of American artist Cayce Zavaglia is on another plateau than the simple stitched letters and landscapes scenes with loons in the foreground that I remember as the specialty of my mother's shop. These are works of art. Zavaglia considers herself a painter yet has trouble considering her masterpieces paintings. They don't involve a drop of paint. They are a complex set of stitches using a strand of crewel embroidery wool that create a particular tone or colour. The further she delves into her technique the tighter and more precise her stitches become. A far cry from the personalized stitch crew necks that filled my bureau drawers as a child.

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Terry Richardson Tee

2011-09-27T15:49:00.000-04:00

Terry Richardson's new Diesel tee to coincide with the release of his book Mom & Dad.

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Kidrobot for Swatch

2011-09-27T12:35:00.000-04:00

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Twisted Pencil

2011-09-27T11:34:00.001-04:00

The Twisted Pencil vase - by Korean designer Giha Woo - ironically isn't meant to hold many pencils. What it aims to do is encourage us to reconsider the objects arounds us and the new aesthetics they make take on. Anything for a good set of Staedtler sketching points.

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Lucy and Emma Chadwick

2011-09-27T11:14:00.000-04:00

A compelling story of two friends on the streets of Brooklyn comes through in the latest series of images from photographer Backyard Bill. Emma's personal soundtrack of Bob Marley, Paul Simon & Blackstar sounds like my cup of chai tea.

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Local Bike

2011-09-26T20:37:00.000-04:00

lo∙cal∙ism ⎟ noun ⎟
preference for locality, particularly for one's own area or region.

In a modern age wherein locally produced food and carbon footprints are part of the public lexicon, San Francisco designer Yves Behar has been working towards developing the quintessential mode of local transportation. Considered the perfect neighbourhood bike, the 'local' is the pick-up truck mainfest in a bicycle. Strike that, a tricycle.
Anyone for a round of Paperboy?

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Andy Warhol & Bob Dylan

2011-09-26T13:40:00.001-04:00

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