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Crate and Barrel Grip Bookend

We've said it before: there's a soft spot in our hearts for a cool product that ingeniously repurposes a mundane object to serve a new function. We're not talking about MacGuyvering an AM Radio out of a paper clip, a Q-tip, and 9 volt battery either. Take these old classic…

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Icon Land Cruiser FJ Models

We don't know if everyone that designs trucks at Toyota just got old or they're all too busy sucking on the government's green teet to design a manly truck, but we do know we don't like it. The 2010 Land Cruiser looks like a soccer mom's daily driver and the…

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To A Tee: Carhartt

For over 120 years Carhartt has been known for providing excellent apparel for the active worker. What many people may not know, is that today Carhartt is dedicated to supporting upcoming artists, musicians, skateboarders and BMX riders. Their F/W 2010 collection of tees for men includes dozens of typography-rich, boldly…

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Grayson Castro

Grayson Castro is our kind of artist.  He takes iconic images of, well, icons... and zombifies them.  As zombies hit a sort of renaissance in today's pop culture (along with, unfortunately, vampires), Castro saw fit to take it into the high-brow world of art. Each painting is of a famous figure--Audrey Heburn,…

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SeaVees 12/62 Desert Boots

Desert Modernism is something you're probably completely unfamiliar with and might not care about it. While we're not completely sold on the importance of the movement sparked by Richard Neutra in December of 1962 with the creation of the Maslon Home, we're going to pay attention because it's the namesake…

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