Random Announcements
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Levis anniversary..
May 20 1873 , first patent for fastening pocket openings issued
We can do anything
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Sidney Lo Book Release Party - New York
After an extremely successful book launch at our San Francisco store two weeks ago, Sidney Lo will be joining us at Self Edge NY this Saturday (5/22) for the east coast release party. We'll be serving up free beer to those of age.
Sidney will be on hand to sign books, answer questions and pose next to his framed 3001's for your picture-taking pleasure.
The party will begin at 6pm and run until 9pm.There'll be raffle giveaways during the party including a pair of 3sixteen jeans, Quoddy shoes, SENY gift cards, Flat Head bandanas, and Iron Heart lighters. Each purchase during the party yields one raffle ticket.
anybody heading over???
taken from:
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i want to go to japan for my honeymoon!
Check this out http://www.city.kurashiki.okayama.jp/dd.aspx?menuid=9934
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Finally back in NYC after a long weekend in North Carolina for a wedding! I brought my computer with me out there but honestly wanted to make the trip as authentic and relaxing as possible so I decided to take a break from my life on the computer. After serious withdraws I am back! Glad to see tons of new members, more updates, and PICTURES!!! Hope everyone is well.
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Lando - excellent decision..sometimes you just have to live the moment…
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I have been re-reading Pattern Recognition by William Gibson (a fine book about a great many things), and I thought you might enjoy the following excerpt.
Cayce Pollard (the protagonist) has just arrived in London for a meeting at an ad agency (Dorotea is an unlikeable employee of said agency):
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"Dorotea may have attempted to out-minimalize her this morning, Cayce decides. If so, it hasn't worked. Dorotea's black dress, for all its apparent simplicity, is still trying to say several things at once, probably in at least three languages. Cayce has hung her Buzz Rickson's over the back of her chair, and now she catches Dorotea looking at it.
The Rickson's is a fanatical museum-grade replica of a U.S. MA-1 flying jacket, as purely functional and iconic a garment as the previous century produced. Dorotea's slow burn is being accelerated, Cayce suspects, by her perception that Cayce's MA-1 trumps any attempt at minimalism, the Rickson's having been created by Japanese obsessives driven by passions having nothing at all to do with anything remotely like fashion.
Cayce knows, for instance, that the characteristically wrinkled seams down either arm were originally the result of sewing with pre-war industrial machines that rebelled against the slippery new material, nylon. The makers of the Rickson's have exaggerated this, but only very slightly, and done a hundred other things, tiny things, as well, so that their product has become, in some very Japanese way, the result of an act of worship. It is an imitation more real somehow than that which it emulates. It is easily the most expensive garment Cayce owns, and would be virtually impossible to replace."
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Sorry i've been completely absent recently, i've literally been glued to the television and my playstation 3 controller. Anyways, that said, just wanted to tell everyone while i've been gone i've missed you all…but Red Dead Redemption really can keep me distracted enough to make that painful missing of you guys less painful
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Sorry i've been completely absent recently, i've literally been glued to the television and my playstation 3 controller. Anyways, that said, just wanted to tell everyone while i've been gone i've missed you all…but Red Dead Redemption really can keep me distracted enough to make that painful missing of you guys less painful
::) Glad to hear it. Now I need to get offa my lazy ass and pick it up!
I have been re-reading Pattern Recognition by William Gibson (a fine book about a great many things), and I thought you might enjoy the following excerpt.
Cayce Pollard (the protagonist) has just arrived in London for a meeting at an ad agency (Dorotea is an unlikeable employee of said agency):
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"Dorotea may have attempted to out-minimalize her this morning, Cayce decides. If so, it hasn't worked. Dorotea's black dress, for all its apparent simplicity, is still trying to say several things at once, probably in at least three languages. Cayce has hung her Buzz Rickson's over the back of her chair, and now she catches Dorotea looking at it.
The Rickson's is a fanatical museum-grade replica of a U.S. MA-1 flying jacket, as purely functional and iconic a garment as the previous century produced. Dorotea's slow burn is being accelerated, Cayce suspects, by her perception that Cayce's MA-1 trumps any attempt at minimalism, the Rickson's having been created by Japanese obsessives driven by passions having nothing at all to do with anything remotely like fashion.
Cayce knows, for instance, that the characteristically wrinkled seams down either arm were originally the result of sewing with pre-war industrial machines that rebelled against the slippery new material, nylon. The makers of the Rickson's have exaggerated this, but only very slightly, and done a hundred other things, tiny things, as well, so that their product has become, in some very Japanese way, the result of an act of worship. It is an imitation more real somehow than that which it emulates. It is easily the most expensive garment Cayce owns, and would be virtually impossible to replace."
First time I'd encountered Buzz Rickson. Great read.
