Alesis’s Protrack allows you to record stereo audio directly to your iPod. The Protrack’s pair of cardioid condenser microphones captures 16-bit digital audio in either 44.1kHz or 22kHz. The built in switchable limiter ensures your recordings are distortion free. Files are automatically dated and stamped while recording ensuring accurate organization of your recordings. A pair of 1/4 XLR jacks make the Protrack studio ready by providing connections for professional mixing devices. An illuminated LED-level enables the user to keep an eye on metering even in dark surroundings. You can check out your own recordings through the 1/8 inch headphone jack.

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Built atop a stacked stone base embedded into a hillside, the Deepstone House is the latest project from Simon Winstanley Architects. Overlooking the Solway Firth in southwest Scotland, the Deepston House foregoes the traditional architectural style of neighboring structures, instead choosing a dramatic juxtaposition of a glazed pavilion perched on a solid base. The stone utilized on the base is recycled from the quarry that previously occupied the site. Evidence of the quarry can still be seen in the rocky face of the hillside.

The lower level of the home contains a garage and bedrooms, while the upper pavilion houses living, dining, and kitchen spaces. Energy efficiency was a top priority for the homeowners, and the home incorporates a number of technologies to meet their demands. They include triple glazed windows filled with inert glass and termally-broken frames, roof-mounted photovoltaic panels, a whole-house heat recovery ventilation system, and geothermal heating.

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The Rig Out is a small publication that is produced alongside the folks at Oi Polloi. With its second issue coming out soon, expect some great editorials and photos by the likes of Daiki Suzuki and more. Considered as “A Guid to Style in Life,” the men’s magazine brings about a different angle on men’s style. We’ve just received some previews that are definitely worth the look, and could be a signal of better things to come from an aspiring small magazine.

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With photographs by Daiki Suzuki, the upcoming second issue of The Rig Out

It looks as though a second issue of The Rig Out is just around the corner. The small mag, published in conjunction with Oi Polloi, gives some general editorial on the men’s market with a very British angle. Photos from Daiki Suzuki and styled looks from Kitson and Crook Esq fill the previews. If you want your own copy, be sure to mail them up.

More looks from the forthcoming The Rig Out “A Guide to Style in Life” after the click.

Netherlands-based photographer Hotze Eisma has been working for nearly two decades to “chronicle inspirational one-of-a-kind homes, people, and places for the world`s finest lifestyle magazines.” Eisma’s portfolio has been developed through professional commissions and his own personal travels. They include a variety of different styles, locales, and subject matter. Carefully considered lighting and a candid tendency allow Eisma to truly capture the mood of his subjects, whether live or inanimate.

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In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the launch of the self-winding chronograph movement, Breitling is releasing two limited edition Chrono-Matic timepieces, dubbed the QP and 1461. The QP, which will be limited to just 125 models produced, is a meticulously assembled piece that displays the date, day, week, season, and moon phase in addition to time. 2000 examples of the 1461 will be produced, and its most notable feature is a chronograph complication that requires adjustment once every four years, resulting in a memory of 1461 days.

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Project Origins comes from the collective known as Make Ink. Make Ink specializes in arts based branding projects such as recent works they’ve done with Levi’s and Adidas. Their newest work is a spoof Adidas campaign highlighting the heritage and history of the ‘brand with three stripes.’ According to Nick Hussey, Director of Make Ink: ‘Project Origins’ is a concept created by us at Make Ink to test the online environment. We specialise in the subversion of branding through art… and like everybody else, we love dinosaurs”

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By relating established messages to these aesthetically pleasing
terrestrial vertebrates we add wit and strengthen the brand in the
mind of consumers.

The campaign instills, and plays on the heritage of the brand whilst
adding an interesting angle. This is sure to attract attention from
existing market segments as well as attracting a new, more visually
aware, creative audience.

As well as standard online advertising utilising social networking
routes by inviting users to befriend these extinct animals adds
another avenue for promotion… It creates an element of fun and
interaction with this subversion of the Adidas brand through art.

An intensely-inked new editorial in GQ Italia titled Flexible Men features a boardroom’s worth of slim-cut suits, smoking jackets, and topcoats. The tailoring is tight, the shoulders sharpened but through choice of material and attention to fit, looks that could be trapped in a rigid stiffness are rendered almost loose and liquid.

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Belgian designer Tim Van Steenbergen has a thing for buttons. Whether hiding them, toggle-ing them, or snaking them playfully up an overcoat in his Fall 2009 line, their use is not merely functional but a carefully considered element of a garment’s design. Steenbergen applies this particular yet playful approach throughout the collection, constructing his pieces not merely as two-dimensional slabs that hang down in one gravity-dictated direction, but experimenting with arcing, bowing, bunching and pleating of fabrics to form robust and romantic menswear with a rich and sculptural strength.

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Boston based sneaker manufacturer New Balance has teamed up with Massachusetts venerable sneaker shop, Concepts to create The Freedom Trail Collection. The collection will re-introduce the NB 1500 sneaker in special colorways and the first ever 875 boot. The collection is inspired by the celebrated Boston landmark and will drop on Black Friday.

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The runway presentation for the Brothers Spring Summer 2010 collection paraded a series of proper, prepped out looks with just enough of mixed-up and unmatched mischief to keep things real and risky. Cape Cod standards like navy yachting jackets striped D-ring belts were brought into more seductive waters with 1970s Milan playboy scarves printed in sleazy paisley and sockless buckled slip-ons in cognac colored leather.

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